Technology Roadmap Contracts

Technology Roadmaps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Technology Roadmap skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technology Roadmap over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 387 435
Rank change year-on-year -65 +48 +9
Contract jobs citing Technology Roadmap 119 325 483
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.57% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.64% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 259 305
10th Percentile £432 £461 £421
25th Percentile £550 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £700 £743 £713
90th Percentile £822 £803 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £650 £520
% change year-on-year -7.69% +25.00% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £33.57 - -
25th Percentile £33.61 - £33.00
Median hourly rate £35.13 - £96.00
75th Percentile £52.72 - £96.23
90th Percentile £82.81 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £102.87 - £96.23
% change year-on-year - - +196.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Technology Roadmap 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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
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% -4.99%

Technology Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Roadmap in the UK

Technology Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Roadmap in the UK

Technology Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Roadmap over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Roadmap in the UK

Technology Roadmap
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technology Roadmap in the UK

Technology Roadmap
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technology Roadmap over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Technology Roadmap in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Roadmap within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 -59 107 £610 -6.37% 188
London -13 60 £620 -8.15% 62
Work from Home +22 52 £650 +0.62% 97
UK excluding London -13 47 £600 -7.69% 138
East of England -6 14 £625 -10.71% 9
South East +17 12 £650 +8.33% 42
North of England +13 8 £568 -5.42% 34
South West +5 8 £588 -16.07% 12
North West +13 6 £568 -3.40% 13
Scotland +39 3 - - 10
Yorkshire +4 2 £525 -19.23% 18
Midlands +3 2 £600 -2.04% 30
West Midlands +10 1 - - 19
East Midlands +7 1 £600 -6.80% 11

Technology Roadmap
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 7 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (1.68%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.84%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (0.84%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.84%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 29 (24.37%) Azure
2 10 (8.40%) AWS
2 10 (8.40%) SaaS
3 7 (5.88%) PaaS
4 5 (4.20%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.36%) GitHub
5 4 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.52%) IaaS
7 2 (1.68%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.68%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.68%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.68%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Serverless
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.84%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.56%) Firewall
2 8 (6.72%) VPN
3 5 (4.20%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (4.20%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (4.20%) OSPF
4 3 (2.52%) Spanning Tree
4 3 (2.52%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.52%) VLAN
4 3 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.68%) BGP
5 2 (1.68%) LAN
5 2 (1.68%) SAN
5 2 (1.68%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.68%) WAN
6 1 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.84%) Skype
6 1 (0.84%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.36%) Power BI
3 3 (2.52%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.68%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.84%) Adabas
5 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.84%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (4.20%) JIRA
2 2 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (26.89%) Finance
2 29 (24.37%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (15.13%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.40%) Banking
6 8 (6.72%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.20%) Legal
7 5 (4.20%) Police
8 4 (3.36%) Local Government
8 4 (3.36%) Retail
9 3 (2.52%) Billing
9 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.68%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.68%) Back Office
10 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.84%) Electronics
11 1 (0.84%) Marketing
11 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (46.22%) Architect
2 17 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 12 (10.08%) Solutions Architect
4 10 (8.40%) Lead
5 8 (6.72%) Enterprise Architect
6 7 (5.88%) Applications Architect
7 6 (5.04%) Development Manager
7 6 (5.04%) Lead Architect
7 6 (5.04%) Security Architect
7 6 (5.04%) Senior
8 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Senior Architect
8 5 (4.20%) Technical Leader
9 4 (3.36%) Azure Architect
9 4 (3.36%) Chief Technology Officer
9 4 (3.36%) Network Engineer
10 3 (2.52%) Head of Infrastructure
10 3 (2.52%) IT Engineer
10 3 (2.52%) Product Owner
10 3 (2.52%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.20%) .NET
2 2 (1.68%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (1.68%) J2EE
2 2 (1.68%) Node.js
2 2 (1.68%) Web Services
3 1 (0.84%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.84%) Ajax
3 1 (0.84%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.84%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.84%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.84%) EntireX
3 1 (0.84%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.84%) HTML5
3 1 (0.84%) OpenID
3 1 (0.84%) React
3 1 (0.84%) RESTful
3 1 (0.84%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.84%) SAML
3 1 (0.84%) Spring
3 1 (0.84%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.92%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.56%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.04%) PKI
4 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.04%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.52%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.68%) Derivative
6 2 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.84%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.84%) FMCG
7 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.84%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.84%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.61%) Linux
2 8 (6.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (6.72%) Windows
3 5 (4.20%) Android
3 5 (4.20%) Apple iOS
3 5 (4.20%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (4.20%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.84%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.84%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 32 (26.89%) Agile
3 21 (17.65%) Business Strategy
4 20 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (15.97%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (13.45%) Migration
7 15 (12.61%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (12.61%) DevOps
8 14 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
9 13 (10.92%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (10.08%) IT Strategy
10 12 (10.08%) Technical Architecture
11 11 (9.24%) Security Architecture
11 11 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (8.40%) Computer Science
12 10 (8.40%) Strategic Roadmap
13 9 (7.56%) Performance Optimisation
14 8 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 8 (6.72%) Project Delivery
14 8 (6.72%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.24%) Java
2 7 (5.88%) Python
3 5 (4.20%) C#
3 5 (4.20%) C++
3 5 (4.20%) SQL
4 3 (2.52%) Bash
4 3 (2.52%) PHP
5 2 (1.68%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.84%) Bicep
6 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.84%) Natural
6 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.76%) Degree
4 10 (8.40%) DV Cleared
5 9 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (7.56%) Master's Degree
6 5 (4.20%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (2.52%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (2.52%) CITP
8 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.68%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.68%) PhD
9 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.04%) GDPR
2 4 (3.36%) QA
3 2 (1.68%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.84%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (9.24%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.84%) Docker
4 1 (0.84%) Firmware
4 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (4.20%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (3.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.68%) Terraform
4 1 (0.84%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.84%) Matomo
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.40%) Red Hat
2 10 (8.40%) VMware
3 9 (7.56%) Cisco
4 5 (4.20%) F5
4 5 (4.20%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.36%) Oracle
5 4 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.52%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.52%) SAP
7 2 (1.68%) Sparx
7 2 (1.68%) Splunk
7 2 (1.68%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.84%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.84%) Aruba
8 1 (0.84%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.84%) Databricks
8 1 (0.84%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.84%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow