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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 35 44
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 1,712 3,261 4,670
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.97% 5.52% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 6.14% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 2,325 3,272
10th Percentile £400 £425 £415
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £589
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.95% +7.49%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £680
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 34 51 39
10th Percentile £33.00 - £25.20
25th Percentile £37.28 £16.25 £32.75
Median hourly rate £66.25 £50.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% +20.48% -2.35%
75th Percentile £82.81 £70.00 £56.50
90th Percentile £89.63 £90.00 £64.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £47.50 £43.95
% change year-on-year +42.11% +8.08% +31.12%

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 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
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 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -14 1,436 £588 -2.08% 1,769
London -16 767 £600 -4.00% 871
UK excluding London -10 763 £563 - 954
Work from Home -10 605 £563 -6.25% 836
South East -19 188 £510 -11.30% 290
North of England -12 173 £570 +3.64% 221
Scotland -2 149 £500 -3.29% 71
North West -8 109 £575 +4.55% 127
South West +29 105 £506 -11.96% 105
Midlands -4 104 £675 +8.00% 144
West Midlands -3 91 £675 +3.85% 85
Yorkshire -12 59 £500 -9.09% 71
East of England -31 41 £635 -2.31% 109
North East +9 12 £720 +20.00% 24
East Midlands -31 10 £550 -15.38% 58
Wales -15 4 £638 +14.35% 20
Northern Ireland +6 3 £640 +16.36% 7

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 53 (3.10%) Confluence
2 32 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.29%) CMS
5 10 (0.58%) SAS
6 8 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.41%) IIS
8 5 (0.29%) Apache
8 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.23%) Drupal
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) WordPress
12 1 (0.058%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.058%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 43 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.58%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.058%) Blender
10 1 (0.058%) Houdini
10 1 (0.058%) Maya
10 1 (0.058%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 47 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.82%) Aladdin
4 12 (0.70%) SAP FI
5 11 (0.64%) SAP CO
5 11 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
6 9 (0.53%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.47%) SAP SD
8 7 (0.41%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.35%) Shopify
10 4 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
10 4 (0.23%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.23%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 3 (0.18%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
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
1 249 (14.54%) Azure
2 199 (11.62%) AWS
3 71 (4.15%) SaaS
4 66 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (3.86%) Power Platform
5 64 (3.74%) GCP
6 55 (3.21%) PaaS
7 39 (2.28%) IaaS
8 31 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (1.58%) Serverless
10 25 (1.46%) Entra ID
11 23 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (1.34%) GitHub
12 22 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
14 17 (0.99%) OpenShift
15 16 (0.93%) Amazon S3
16 15 (0.88%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 88 (5.14%) Firewall
2 42 (2.45%) VPN
3 37 (2.16%) Network Security
4 32 (1.87%) DNS
4 32 (1.87%) WAN
5 23 (1.34%) VoIP
6 22 (1.29%) 5G
7 21 (1.23%) LAN
8 20 (1.17%) BGP
8 20 (1.17%) MPLS
9 16 (0.93%) Intranet
10 15 (0.88%) 4G
10 15 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
10 15 (0.88%) TCP/IP
11 13 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
12 12 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (0.70%) DHCP
12 12 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (0.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.15%) Power BI
2 33 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.34%) Tableau
5 21 (1.23%) Big Data
5 21 (1.23%) Metadata
5 21 (1.23%) NoSQL
6 17 (0.99%) MongoDB
6 17 (0.99%) SQL Server
7 15 (0.88%) Data Lake
8 13 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (0.70%) Oracle Database
10 11 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (0.53%) OLAP
11 9 (0.53%) OLTP
12 8 (0.47%) GIS
12 8 (0.47%) SAP BW
13 7 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.35%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 118 (6.89%) JIRA
2 38 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 37 (2.16%) Git
4 18 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
5 10 (0.58%) Artifactory
6 8 (0.47%) GitLab
7 7 (0.41%) Selenium
7 7 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (0.41%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
9 5 (0.29%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.29%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.29%) Subversion
9 5 (0.29%) webpack
10 3 (0.18%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 2 (0.12%) git-flow
11 2 (0.12%) JMeter
11 2 (0.12%) kappa
General
1 454 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 372 (21.73%) Finance
3 239 (13.96%) Public Sector
4 205 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (6.54%) Banking
6 88 (5.14%) Telecoms
7 78 (4.56%) Marketing
8 73 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
9 63 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
10 62 (3.62%) Retail
11 58 (3.39%) Manufacturing
12 56 (3.27%) Legal
13 32 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 30 (1.75%) Front Office
15 22 (1.29%) Law
15 22 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.23%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.17%) Electronics
18 19 (1.11%) Military
19 17 (0.99%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 470 (27.45%) Architect
2 189 (11.04%) Lead
3 177 (10.34%) Senior
4 167 (9.75%) Analyst
5 127 (7.42%) Solutions Architect
6 110 (6.43%) Consultant
6 110 (6.43%) Product Manager
7 94 (5.49%) Business Analyst
8 92 (5.37%) Product Owner
9 86 (5.02%) Enterprise Architect
10 77 (4.50%) Technical Architect
11 75 (4.38%) Developer
12 52 (3.04%) Project Manager
13 47 (2.75%) Data Architect
14 43 (2.51%) Lead Architect
14 43 (2.51%) Network Engineer
15 36 (2.10%) Security Architect
16 35 (2.04%) Delivery Manager
17 33 (1.93%) Technical Leader
18 32 (1.87%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.22%) REST
2 36 (2.10%) Node.js
3 32 (1.87%) HTML
4 31 (1.81%) .NET
5 30 (1.75%) React
6 26 (1.52%) CSS
7 24 (1.40%) JSON
8 23 (1.34%) Web Services
8 23 (1.34%) XML
9 18 (1.05%) SAML
10 15 (0.88%) AngularJS
10 15 (0.88%) AWS CDK
10 15 (0.88%) OAuth
11 13 (0.76%) NETCONF
11 13 (0.76%) SOAP
11 13 (0.76%) Spring
11 13 (0.76%) YANG
12 12 (0.70%) Middleware
12 12 (0.70%) RESTful
13 11 (0.64%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 219 (12.79%) Product Ownership
2 98 (5.72%) Management Information System
3 40 (2.34%) Public Cloud
4 38 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (2.16%) Data Centre
6 33 (1.93%) Security Posture
7 29 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 28 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 26 (1.52%) Fixed Income
9 26 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 23 (1.34%) CMDB
10 23 (1.34%) Hedge funds
11 21 (1.23%) Derivative
12 20 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.17%) Equities
13 19 (1.11%) Virtual Team
14 18 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
15 17 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 76 (4.44%) Linux
2 70 (4.09%) Windows
3 41 (2.39%) Apple iOS
4 30 (1.75%) Android
4 30 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.46%) Unix
6 17 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.41%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.29%) 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 (0.058%) CentOS
14 1 (0.058%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.058%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (32.59%) Agile
2 270 (15.77%) Strategic Roadmap
3 228 (13.32%) Product Roadmap
4 217 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
5 201 (11.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 193 (11.27%) DevOps
7 191 (11.16%) Project Management
8 167 (9.75%) Analytics
9 164 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 160 (9.35%) Scrum
11 147 (8.59%) Business Strategy
12 144 (8.41%) Decision-Making
13 141 (8.24%) IT Strategy
13 141 (8.24%) Migration
14 129 (7.54%) Cybersecurity
15 127 (7.42%) Technology Roadmap
16 122 (7.13%) Enterprise Architecture
17 118 (6.89%) Product Management
18 112 (6.54%) Risk Management
19 111 (6.48%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 132 (7.71%) Python
2 101 (5.90%) SQL
3 81 (4.73%) Java
4 51 (2.98%) JavaScript
5 39 (2.28%) PowerShell
6 31 (1.81%) TypeScript
7 26 (1.52%) Bash
8 25 (1.46%) C#
9 21 (1.23%) C++
10 12 (0.70%) Perl
11 10 (0.58%) VB.NET
12 9 (0.53%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.53%) VBA
13 8 (0.47%) PHP
14 7 (0.41%) C
14 7 (0.41%) Go
14 7 (0.41%) Ruby
15 6 (0.35%) Scala
15 6 (0.35%) Swift
16 5 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 270 (15.77%) Security Cleared
2 224 (13.08%) Degree
3 188 (10.98%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.38%) DV Cleared
5 52 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.81%) CISSP
9 25 (1.46%) PMP
10 24 (1.40%) CCNP
11 22 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
12 21 (1.23%) CISM
13 18 (1.05%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.82%) Azure Certification
17 11 (0.64%) HND
18 10 (0.58%) AWS Certification
18 10 (0.58%) CCNA
19 9 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.91%) QA
2 56 (3.27%) NIST
3 42 (2.45%) PMO
4 37 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 35 (2.04%) GDPR
6 32 (1.87%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.46%) SLA
8 20 (1.17%) Disclosure Scotland
9 18 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 14 (0.82%) GRC
11 13 (0.76%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.58%) COBIT
13 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.29%) ITGC
15 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.23%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 2 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 63 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.81%) Docker
3 28 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.41%) vSphere
7 5 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.29%) XenApp
8 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.18%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.12%) Ceph
9 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.058%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (3.50%) Terraform
2 45 (2.63%) Ansible
3 43 (2.51%) Kubernetes
4 13 (0.76%) FortiGate
4 13 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.64%) Grafana
5 11 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
6 10 (0.58%) SCCM
7 8 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.29%) Puppet
9 4 (0.23%) Kibana
9 4 (0.23%) Opsgenie
9 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.23%) WSUS
10 3 (0.18%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (0.12%) Nagios
11 2 (0.12%) OpenView
11 2 (0.12%) Pacemaker
11 2 (0.12%) vRealize
Vendors
1 232 (13.55%) Microsoft
2 114 (6.66%) SAP
3 74 (4.32%) ServiceNow
4 62 (3.62%) Google
5 58 (3.39%) Cisco
6 44 (2.57%) VMware
7 37 (2.16%) Nokia
8 36 (2.10%) Oracle
9 30 (1.75%) Salesforce
10 26 (1.52%) IBM
11 23 (1.34%) Juniper
12 22 (1.29%) Atlassian
12 22 (1.29%) Red Hat
13 21 (1.23%) F5
13 21 (1.23%) Palo Alto
14 17 (0.99%) Adobe
14 17 (0.99%) Workday
15 16 (0.93%) Databricks
16 15 (0.88%) Bloomberg
17 14 (0.82%) Splunk