Roadmaps Contracts with Work from Home Options

Roadmaps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 36 44
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 +12
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 575 1,402 2,373
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.92% 5.74% 5.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 6.40% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 1,017 1,718
10th Percentile £413 £440 £413
25th Percentile £479 £500 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £690 £696 £682
90th Percentile £838 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 16
10th Percentile £30.99 £35.00 £42.10
25th Percentile £33.63 £37.50 £58.19
Median hourly rate £71.93 £66.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% -5.71% +137.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £84.90 £86.75
UK median hourly rate £60.83 £65.00 £46.75
% change year-on-year -6.42% +39.04% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,872 21,899 40,171
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.82% 89.64% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,669 15,509 29,183
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 511 524
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £25.98 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £36.89
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +42.32% +53.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%

Roadmaps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Roadmaps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Roadmaps trend for jobs with a WFH option

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Roadmaps.

Roadmaps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Roadmaps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Roadmaps.

Roadmaps hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Roadmaps hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Roadmaps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 28 (4.87%) Confluence
2 8 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.22%) CMS
3 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.35%) Apache
5 2 (0.35%) IIS
5 2 (0.35%) LiveLink
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.35%) SAS
5 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.17%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) Camunda
6 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
Applications
1 16 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.70%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.52%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.52%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.35%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.35%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.35%) Shopify
6 1 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle AGIS
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.17%) Relativity
6 1 (0.17%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 89 (15.48%) Azure
2 71 (12.35%) AWS
3 36 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (5.74%) GCP
5 25 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 25 (4.35%) SaaS
6 18 (3.13%) PaaS
7 15 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (2.43%) Serverless
9 12 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (2.09%) GitHub
10 10 (1.74%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.74%) OpenShift
11 9 (1.57%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.57%) IaaS
12 7 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
13 6 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.35%) Firewall
2 15 (2.61%) DNS
2 15 (2.61%) Network Security
3 12 (2.09%) 5G
4 11 (1.91%) 4G
4 11 (1.91%) Radio Access Network
4 11 (1.91%) VPN
4 11 (1.91%) WAN
5 10 (1.74%) LAN
6 8 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.39%) VoIP
7 6 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (1.04%) CTI
7 6 (1.04%) DHCP
7 6 (1.04%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.87%) 3G
8 5 (0.87%) VLAN
8 5 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.70%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.70%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.83%) Power BI
2 18 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.09%) MongoDB
4 10 (1.74%) NoSQL
5 9 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (1.39%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.22%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.04%) Big Data
8 6 (1.04%) Metadata
8 6 (1.04%) Tableau
9 5 (0.87%) OLAP
9 5 (0.87%) OLTP
10 4 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.70%) GIS
10 4 (0.70%) Informix
11 3 (0.52%) Apache Arrow
11 3 (0.52%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 43 (7.48%) JIRA
2 19 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.09%) Git
4 8 (1.39%) Artifactory
4 8 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.39%) GitLab
4 8 (1.39%) TeamCity
5 5 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.70%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.70%) Selenium
7 2 (0.35%) JMeter
8 1 (0.17%) Ant
8 1 (0.17%) Appium
8 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.17%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.17%) Subversion
8 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 172 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 129 (22.43%) Finance
3 85 (14.78%) Public Sector
4 61 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (8.00%) Banking
6 25 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (4.00%) Retail
8 20 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.96%) Legal
10 16 (2.78%) Marketing
10 16 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.61%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.39%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.22%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.22%) Police
14 6 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.87%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 177 (30.78%) Architect
2 67 (11.65%) Senior
3 58 (10.09%) Solutions Architect
4 57 (9.91%) Analyst
5 48 (8.35%) Consultant
6 44 (7.65%) Lead
7 37 (6.43%) Business Analyst
8 33 (5.74%) Product Manager
9 29 (5.04%) Product Owner
10 27 (4.70%) Enterprise Architect
11 23 (4.00%) Developer
12 20 (3.48%) Technical Architect
13 17 (2.96%) Business Architect
13 17 (2.96%) Security Architect
14 16 (2.78%) Project Manager
14 16 (2.78%) Senior Architect
15 14 (2.43%) Senior Manager
16 12 (2.09%) Data Architect
16 12 (2.09%) Delivery Manager
16 12 (2.09%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.13%) .NET
2 16 (2.78%) React
3 15 (2.61%) HTML
3 15 (2.61%) REST
4 12 (2.09%) AWS CDK
5 11 (1.91%) CSS
6 10 (1.74%) Web Services
7 9 (1.57%) Node.js
7 9 (1.57%) Spring
8 8 (1.39%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.22%) JSON
9 7 (1.22%) OAuth
9 7 (1.22%) XML
10 6 (1.04%) SAML
10 6 (1.04%) SOAP
11 4 (0.70%) ASP.NET
11 4 (0.70%) J2EE
11 4 (0.70%) Middleware
11 4 (0.70%) RESTful
11 4 (0.70%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.96%) Product Ownership
2 22 (3.83%) Management Information System
3 14 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (2.26%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (1.74%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.39%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.04%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.04%) IVR
10 6 (1.04%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.04%) Replication
11 5 (0.87%) Derivative
11 5 (0.87%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (0.70%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.26%) Linux
2 21 (3.65%) Windows
3 15 (2.61%) Unix
4 9 (1.57%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.22%) Android
5 7 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.35%) Solaris
7 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (32.87%) Agile
2 101 (17.57%) Strategic Roadmap
3 90 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (12.87%) Product Roadmap
5 73 (12.70%) Analytics
6 68 (11.83%) DevOps
7 67 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 59 (10.26%) Migration
9 57 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (9.22%) Technology Roadmap
11 51 (8.87%) Scrum
12 47 (8.17%) Enterprise Architecture
13 45 (7.83%) Business Analysis
13 45 (7.83%) Business Strategy
14 44 (7.65%) Decision-Making
15 43 (7.48%) IT Strategy
15 43 (7.48%) Project Delivery
16 42 (7.30%) Project Management
17 40 (6.96%) User Stories
18 38 (6.61%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (8.35%) Python
2 45 (7.83%) SQL
3 37 (6.43%) Java
4 25 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 19 (3.30%) PowerShell
6 18 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.43%) Bash
7 14 (2.43%) C#
8 9 (1.57%) C++
9 6 (1.04%) VB.NET
10 5 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.87%) VBA
11 4 (0.70%) Perl
12 3 (0.52%) Go
12 3 (0.52%) PHP
12 3 (0.52%) VBScript
13 2 (0.35%) C
13 2 (0.35%) Ruby
14 1 (0.17%) Groovy
14 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 81 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.83%) Degree
3 59 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.43%) CISSP
5 14 (2.43%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.39%) CISM
9 7 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.04%) PMP
11 5 (0.87%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.87%) CCNA
11 5 (0.87%) CCNP
11 5 (0.87%) CEH
11 5 (0.87%) CTC Cleared
12 4 (0.70%) HND
12 4 (0.70%) JNCIA
12 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.65%) QA
2 19 (3.30%) NIST
3 16 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.09%) SLA
5 11 (1.91%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.39%) PMO
7 6 (1.04%) GDPR
7 6 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.70%) GRC
10 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.35%) PSD2
12 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.17%) COBIT
12 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.09%) Docker
3 10 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.70%) vSphere
6 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.35%) Ceph
7 2 (0.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (3.83%) Ansible
1 22 (3.83%) Terraform
2 20 (3.48%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.39%) Grafana
4 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.70%) Kibana
7 4 (0.70%) PingFederate
8 3 (0.52%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.35%) Argo
9 2 (0.35%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.35%) Pacemaker
9 2 (0.35%) Podman
9 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.35%) WSUS
10 1 (0.17%) AppManager
10 1 (0.17%) Istio
10 1 (0.17%) Nagios
10 1 (0.17%) OpenView
Vendors
1 81 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.26%) SAP
3 21 (3.65%) Google
3 21 (3.65%) Oracle
4 17 (2.96%) Cisco
5 16 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.09%) VMware
7 11 (1.91%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.74%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.39%) LogRhythm
9 8 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.22%) Splunk
11 6 (1.04%) Adobe
11 6 (1.04%) Cadence
11 6 (1.04%) IBM
11 6 (1.04%) Informatica
11 6 (1.04%) Ping Identity
12 5 (0.87%) Genesys
12 5 (0.87%) Juniper