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 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 45 34 42
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 +14
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 576 1,437 2,372
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.90% 5.83% 5.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 6.50% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 1,040 1,708
10th Percentile £413 £440 £413
25th Percentile £480 £500 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.76%
75th Percentile £718 £694 £684
90th Percentile £838 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -2.50% +1.69% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 16
10th Percentile £29.71 £35.00 £42.10
25th Percentile £33.61 £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 £77.14 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.22 £84.90 £86.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year +3.85% +47.90% +0.46%

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 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

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 18 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 18 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 29 (5.03%) 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
4 3 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.52%) IIS
4 3 (0.52%) WebLogic
4 3 (0.52%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.17%) LiveLink
Applications
1 18 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.52%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.69%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.52%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.52%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.52%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
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%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle AGIS
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.17%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 85 (14.76%) Azure
2 66 (11.46%) AWS
3 34 (5.90%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (5.56%) GCP
5 26 (4.51%) Power Platform
6 25 (4.34%) SaaS
7 19 (3.30%) PaaS
8 14 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (2.26%) Serverless
10 11 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (1.91%) GitHub
10 11 (1.91%) IaaS
11 10 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.74%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.56%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.56%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
14 6 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.17%) Firewall
2 15 (2.60%) DNS
2 15 (2.60%) Network Security
3 12 (2.08%) 5G
4 11 (1.91%) 4G
4 11 (1.91%) Radio Access Network
4 11 (1.91%) VPN
5 10 (1.74%) WAN
6 9 (1.56%) LAN
7 8 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.39%) VoIP
8 6 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (1.04%) CTI
8 6 (1.04%) DHCP
9 5 (0.87%) 3G
9 5 (0.87%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.87%) VLAN
10 4 (0.69%) 5G NR
10 4 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.82%) Power BI
2 17 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 11 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (1.39%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.22%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
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 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.69%) DB2
10 4 (0.69%) GIS
10 4 (0.69%) Informix
11 3 (0.52%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 44 (7.64%) JIRA
2 19 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.91%) Git
4 8 (1.39%) GitLab
5 7 (1.22%) Artifactory
5 7 (1.22%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.22%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.69%) Selenium
8 3 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.35%) JMeter
10 1 (0.17%) Ant
10 1 (0.17%) Appium
10 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.17%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.17%) Subversion
10 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 173 (30.03%) Social Skills
2 129 (22.40%) Finance
3 92 (15.97%) Public Sector
4 60 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (7.64%) Banking
6 25 (4.34%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (4.17%) Retail
8 23 (3.99%) Telecoms
9 18 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 18 (3.13%) Marketing
10 17 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.43%) Legal
12 8 (1.39%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.39%) Police
13 7 (1.22%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.87%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 180 (31.25%) Architect
2 63 (10.94%) Senior
3 56 (9.72%) Analyst
4 54 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
5 48 (8.33%) Consultant
6 46 (7.99%) Lead
7 36 (6.25%) Business Analyst
8 29 (5.03%) Enterprise Architect
8 29 (5.03%) Product Manager
8 29 (5.03%) Product Owner
9 24 (4.17%) Developer
10 21 (3.65%) Technical Architect
11 18 (3.13%) Security Architect
12 17 (2.95%) Business Architect
12 17 (2.95%) Project Manager
13 16 (2.78%) Senior Architect
14 12 (2.08%) Data Architect
14 12 (2.08%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (2.08%) Programme Manager
15 11 (1.91%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.30%) .NET
2 14 (2.43%) HTML
2 14 (2.43%) React
3 13 (2.26%) REST
4 11 (1.91%) AWS CDK
4 11 (1.91%) Web Services
5 10 (1.74%) CSS
6 8 (1.39%) Node.js
6 8 (1.39%) Spring
6 8 (1.39%) XML
7 7 (1.22%) JSON
8 6 (1.04%) OAuth
8 6 (1.04%) SAML
8 6 (1.04%) SOAP
8 6 (1.04%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.87%) J2EE
9 5 (0.87%) RESTful
10 4 (0.69%) LDAP
10 4 (0.69%) Middleware
10 4 (0.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.59%) Product Ownership
2 22 (3.82%) Management Information System
3 14 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.91%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.39%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.22%) IVR
9 6 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.04%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.04%) Replication
10 5 (0.87%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.87%) Derivative
10 5 (0.87%) Mainframe
10 5 (0.87%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 33 (5.73%) Linux
2 17 (2.95%) Windows
3 14 (2.43%) Unix
4 8 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.04%) Android
6 5 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.35%) Solaris
7 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (32.47%) Agile
2 98 (17.01%) Strategic Roadmap
3 90 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (12.67%) Product Roadmap
5 71 (12.33%) Analytics
6 67 (11.63%) DevOps
7 63 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 58 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (9.90%) Migration
10 52 (9.03%) Technology Roadmap
11 50 (8.68%) Scrum
12 46 (7.99%) Enterprise Architecture
13 45 (7.81%) Business Strategy
14 44 (7.64%) Business Analysis
14 44 (7.64%) Decision-Making
15 43 (7.47%) Project Management
16 42 (7.29%) IT Strategy
17 40 (6.94%) Project Delivery
18 38 (6.60%) Computer Science
18 38 (6.60%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 46 (7.99%) Python
2 42 (7.29%) SQL
3 37 (6.42%) Java
4 24 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 19 (3.30%) PowerShell
6 16 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.60%) Bash
8 14 (2.43%) C#
9 9 (1.56%) C++
10 6 (1.04%) VB.NET
11 5 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.87%) VBA
12 4 (0.69%) Perl
13 3 (0.52%) Go
13 3 (0.52%) PHP
13 3 (0.52%) VBScript
14 2 (0.35%) C
14 2 (0.35%) Ruby
15 1 (0.17%) Groovy
15 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 83 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 72 (12.50%) Degree
3 63 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.60%) CISSP
6 13 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.08%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.39%) CISM
8 8 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.04%) PMP
11 5 (0.87%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.87%) CCNA
11 5 (0.87%) CEH
11 5 (0.87%) CTC Cleared
12 4 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.69%) APMP
12 4 (0.69%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.65%) NIST
1 21 (3.65%) QA
2 15 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.08%) SLA
4 10 (1.74%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.39%) PMO
6 6 (1.04%) GDPR
6 6 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.87%) GRC
7 5 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.35%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.35%) PSD2
11 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.17%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.91%) Docker
3 10 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.69%) vSphere
6 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
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 (3.82%) Terraform
2 20 (3.47%) Ansible
3 18 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.22%) Grafana
5 7 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.69%) Kibana
7 4 (0.69%) 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%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.17%) Istio
10 1 (0.17%) logstash
10 1 (0.17%) Matomo
Vendors
1 76 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.77%) SAP
3 23 (3.99%) Oracle
4 21 (3.65%) Google
5 18 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.78%) Cisco
7 12 (2.08%) Atlassian
7 12 (2.08%) VMware
8 11 (1.91%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.74%) LogRhythm
9 10 (1.74%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.39%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.22%) Splunk
12 6 (1.04%) Adobe
12 6 (1.04%) Cadence
12 6 (1.04%) Genesys
12 6 (1.04%) IBM
12 6 (1.04%) Informatica
12 6 (1.04%) Ping Identity
13 4 (0.69%) Juniper