Roadmaps Contracts

Roadmaps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Roadmaps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Roadmaps over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 33 44
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 1,688 3,208 4,614
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.93% 5.54% 5.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 6.17% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 2,292 3,219
10th Percentile £408 £425 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £589
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +1.87% +7.09%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £683
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £563 £550
% change year-on-year - +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 44 46
10th Percentile £33.00 £16.25 £25.44
25th Percentile £35.41 £28.10 £33.31
Median hourly rate £66.25 £56.89 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year +16.46% +29.43% +0.46%
75th Percentile £86.34 £80.06 £63.75
90th Percentile £91.80 £90.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.47 £56.89 £60.93
% change year-on-year +20.36% -6.63% +76.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Roadmaps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Roadmaps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Roadmaps.

Daily rate trend for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Roadmaps.

Hourly rate trend for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Roadmaps within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -13 1,422 £600 - 1,335
London -15 753 £600 -4.00% 584
UK excluding London -12 749 £563 - 771
Work from Home -10 595 £570 -5.00% 658
South East -18 186 £510 -11.30% 200
North of England -11 172 £570 +3.64% 214
Scotland -7 140 £500 -1.57% 48
North West -10 110 £585 +6.36% 126
South West +22 104 £531 -7.61% 88
Midlands -9 104 £675 +8.00% 136
West Midlands 0 91 £675 +3.85% 84
Yorkshire -11 58 £500 -9.09% 59
East of England -31 41 £630 -3.08% 78
North East +8 11 £760 +26.67% 29
East Midlands -26 10 £550 -15.38% 51
Northern Ireland +5 3 £640 +16.36% 3
Wales -14 3 £625 +13.64% 20

Roadmaps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 50 (2.96%) Confluence
2 31 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.18%) CMS
5 10 (0.59%) SAS
6 8 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.30%) Apache
7 5 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.30%) IIS
8 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.24%) Drupal
8 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.18%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) WordPress
11 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.059%) GeoServer
Applications
1 40 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.71%) Chatbot
4 12 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.059%) Blender
9 1 (0.059%) Houdini
9 1 (0.059%) Maya
9 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 48 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.83%) Aladdin
4 12 (0.71%) SAP FI
5 11 (0.65%) SAP CO
5 11 (0.65%) SAP FI/CO
6 10 (0.59%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.47%) SAP SD
8 7 (0.41%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.36%) Shopify
10 4 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
10 4 (0.24%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 3 (0.18%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.18%) OpenText VIM for SAP
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.18%) SAP HCM
11 3 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
11 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 245 (14.51%) Azure
2 197 (11.67%) AWS
3 70 (4.15%) SaaS
4 65 (3.85%) GCP
4 65 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 63 (3.73%) Power Platform
6 54 (3.20%) PaaS
7 37 (2.19%) IaaS
8 32 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (1.42%) GitHub
10 23 (1.36%) Entra ID
10 23 (1.36%) Serverless
11 22 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
14 15 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (0.77%) OpenShift
16 12 (0.71%) Google Analytics
17 11 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 85 (5.04%) Firewall
2 42 (2.49%) VPN
3 34 (2.01%) Network Security
4 31 (1.84%) DNS
5 30 (1.78%) WAN
6 27 (1.60%) VoIP
7 21 (1.24%) 5G
8 19 (1.13%) LAN
9 16 (0.95%) 4G
10 15 (0.89%) BGP
10 15 (0.89%) MPLS
10 15 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
10 15 (0.89%) TCP/IP
11 13 (0.77%) Intranet
12 12 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (0.71%) DHCP
12 12 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
15 9 (0.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.08%) Power BI
2 35 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (1.30%) Big Data
3 22 (1.30%) NoSQL
3 22 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.24%) Metadata
4 21 (1.24%) Tableau
5 20 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 19 (1.13%) SQL Server
7 17 (1.01%) MongoDB
8 13 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (0.71%) Oracle Database
10 10 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.59%) OLAP
10 10 (0.59%) OLTP
11 8 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (0.47%) GIS
11 8 (0.47%) SAP BW
12 7 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.36%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 115 (6.81%) JIRA
2 37 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 32 (1.90%) Git
4 18 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
5 11 (0.65%) Artifactory
6 9 (0.53%) GitLab
7 8 (0.47%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.41%) LoadRunner
8 7 (0.41%) Selenium
8 7 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.36%) NeoLoad
10 5 (0.30%) Subversion
10 5 (0.30%) webpack
10 5 (0.30%) XCUITest
11 4 (0.24%) JMeter
12 3 (0.18%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.18%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 2 (0.12%) git-flow
13 2 (0.12%) kappa
General
1 455 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 375 (22.22%) Finance
3 225 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 210 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
5 115 (6.81%) Banking
6 85 (5.04%) Telecoms
7 73 (4.32%) Marketing
7 73 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
8 66 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
9 62 (3.67%) Retail
10 57 (3.38%) Legal
11 56 (3.32%) Manufacturing
12 34 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 31 (1.84%) Front Office
14 26 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
15 23 (1.36%) Law
16 21 (1.24%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.07%) Electronics
17 18 (1.07%) Military
18 17 (1.01%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 480 (28.44%) Architect
2 182 (10.78%) Lead
3 174 (10.31%) Senior
4 166 (9.83%) Analyst
5 137 (8.12%) Solutions Architect
6 112 (6.64%) Consultant
7 107 (6.34%) Product Manager
8 93 (5.51%) Business Analyst
9 92 (5.45%) Product Owner
10 86 (5.09%) Enterprise Architect
11 77 (4.56%) Technical Architect
12 70 (4.15%) Developer
13 51 (3.02%) Project Manager
14 47 (2.78%) Data Architect
15 38 (2.25%) Lead Architect
15 38 (2.25%) Network Engineer
16 37 (2.19%) Security Architect
17 34 (2.01%) Delivery Manager
18 32 (1.90%) Senior Architect
19 31 (1.84%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.01%) Node.js
2 32 (1.90%) REST
3 31 (1.84%) .NET
4 25 (1.48%) React
5 24 (1.42%) Web Services
6 23 (1.36%) HTML
7 19 (1.13%) CSS
7 19 (1.13%) JSON
8 17 (1.01%) XML
9 16 (0.95%) SAML
10 15 (0.89%) AngularJS
11 14 (0.83%) Middleware
11 14 (0.83%) SOAP
12 13 (0.77%) RESTful
13 12 (0.71%) Spring
14 11 (0.65%) AWS CDK
14 11 (0.65%) Kafka
14 11 (0.65%) LDAP
14 11 (0.65%) OAuth
15 10 (0.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 221 (13.09%) Product Ownership
2 100 (5.92%) Management Information System
3 38 (2.25%) Public Cloud
4 35 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (1.95%) Data Centre
6 32 (1.90%) Security Posture
7 28 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.60%) Fixed Income
9 26 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 26 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 24 (1.42%) Hedge funds
10 24 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.30%) CMDB
12 21 (1.24%) Derivative
13 20 (1.18%) Equities
14 19 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.13%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
16 16 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 75 (4.44%) Linux
2 66 (3.91%) Windows
3 42 (2.49%) Apple iOS
4 30 (1.78%) Android
5 26 (1.54%) Unix
5 26 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.41%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.18%) Solaris
13 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.059%) CentOS
14 1 (0.059%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.059%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (32.58%) Agile
2 264 (15.64%) Strategic Roadmap
3 228 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
4 227 (13.45%) Product Roadmap
5 206 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 197 (11.67%) DevOps
7 184 (10.90%) Project Management
8 166 (9.83%) Analytics
9 163 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 161 (9.54%) Scrum
11 142 (8.41%) Business Strategy
11 142 (8.41%) Migration
12 138 (8.18%) IT Strategy
13 134 (7.94%) Decision-Making
14 128 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
15 120 (7.11%) Enterprise Architecture
15 120 (7.11%) Technology Roadmap
16 115 (6.81%) Product Management
17 114 (6.75%) Risk Management
18 109 (6.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 124 (7.35%) Python
2 98 (5.81%) SQL
3 79 (4.68%) Java
4 45 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 40 (2.37%) PowerShell
6 28 (1.66%) TypeScript
7 25 (1.48%) Bash
8 23 (1.36%) C#
8 23 (1.36%) C++
9 12 (0.71%) Perl
10 10 (0.59%) VB.NET
11 9 (0.53%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.47%) C
12 8 (0.47%) VBA
13 7 (0.41%) Go
14 5 (0.30%) PHP
14 5 (0.30%) Ruby
14 5 (0.30%) Scala
14 5 (0.30%) Swift
14 5 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 266 (15.76%) Security Cleared
2 229 (13.57%) Degree
3 188 (11.14%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 56 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.37%) Master's Degree
7 37 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (1.84%) CISSP
9 24 (1.42%) PMP
10 22 (1.30%) CISM
10 22 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
11 19 (1.13%) CCNP
12 17 (1.01%) PMI Certification
13 16 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (0.89%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.65%) HND
17 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
18 9 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 9 (0.53%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (3.73%) QA
2 57 (3.38%) NIST
3 41 (2.43%) PMO
4 39 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 34 (2.01%) GDPR
6 28 (1.66%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.48%) SLA
8 20 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
9 16 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 14 (0.83%) GRC
11 13 (0.77%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.59%) COBIT
13 6 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.30%) ITGC
15 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.24%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 55 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.84%) Docker
3 28 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.41%) vSphere
6 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.24%) XenApp
8 2 (0.12%) Ceph
8 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.059%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (3.55%) Terraform
2 46 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 44 (2.61%) Ansible
4 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.65%) FortiGate
5 11 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.53%) Red Hat Satellite
7 8 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.47%) SCCM
8 7 (0.41%) Grafana
9 5 (0.30%) Puppet
10 4 (0.24%) Kibana
10 4 (0.24%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.24%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.24%) WSUS
11 3 (0.18%) SolarWinds Orion
12 2 (0.12%) Argo
12 2 (0.12%) Nagios
12 2 (0.12%) OpenView
12 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 225 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.69%) SAP
3 71 (4.21%) ServiceNow
4 61 (3.61%) Google
5 55 (3.26%) Cisco
6 42 (2.49%) VMware
7 39 (2.31%) Oracle
8 32 (1.90%) Nokia
9 29 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 26 (1.54%) IBM
11 23 (1.36%) Juniper
12 21 (1.24%) Red Hat
13 19 (1.13%) Atlassian
13 19 (1.13%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.07%) Workday
15 17 (1.01%) F5
16 16 (0.95%) Bloomberg
16 16 (0.95%) Databricks
17 15 (0.89%) Adobe
18 14 (0.83%) Informatica