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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 36 42
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 1,625 2,938 4,791
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.75% 5.29% 5.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 5.90% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 2,116 3,371
10th Percentile £409 £425 £413
25th Percentile £489 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +1.18% +7.82%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £565 £550
% change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 41 45
10th Percentile £33.00 £36.54 £27.50
25th Percentile £43.64 £45.00 £33.00
Median hourly rate £59.55 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% +44.44% -2.70%
75th Percentile £84.11 £81.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £91.00 £90.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.49 £66.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -11.38% +24.53% +24.71%

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 1,377 £600 -0.83% 1,262
London -14 733 £600 -4.00% 575
UK excluding London -12 719 £575 +1.77% 701
Work from Home -11 574 £575 -4.17% 644
South East -22 191 £550 -10.57% 156
North of England -14 175 £570 +3.64% 193
Scotland -9 124 £492 -1.60% 44
North West +1 119 £575 +4.55% 126
Midlands -3 107 £675 +3.85% 150
West Midlands 0 89 £675 +1.89% 103
South West +3 81 £650 +11.44% 84
Yorkshire -22 49 £445 -25.83% 46
East of England -48 37 £625 -3.85% 65
East Midlands -21 16 £445 -34.07% 46
North East -1 7 £850 +61.90% 22
Northern Ireland +3 6 £640 +16.36% 10
Wales -3 3 £625 +4.17% 12

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 47 (2.89%) Confluence
2 33 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.17%) CMS
5 10 (0.62%) SAS
6 7 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.25%) Drupal
9 3 (0.18%) Apache
9 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.12%) IIS
10 2 (0.12%) LiveLink
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.12%) WordPress
11 1 (0.062%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.062%) StreamWeaver
Applications
1 34 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.062%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.062%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 44 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.86%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.62%) SAP FI
4 10 (0.62%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
5 9 (0.55%) SAP CO
5 9 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.31%) Shopify
7 4 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
7 4 (0.25%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.25%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.25%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.25%) Workfront
8 3 (0.18%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
8 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 251 (15.45%) Azure
2 209 (12.86%) AWS
3 76 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (4.18%) SaaS
5 67 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 64 (3.94%) GCP
7 50 (3.08%) PaaS
8 35 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.91%) SuccessFactors
10 30 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (1.85%) IaaS
11 26 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (1.60%) GitHub
12 24 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
12 24 (1.48%) Serverless
13 22 (1.35%) Entra ID
14 17 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (0.98%) OpenShift
15 16 (0.98%) PowerApps
16 15 (0.92%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 82 (5.05%) Firewall
2 42 (2.58%) VPN
3 39 (2.40%) Network Security
4 30 (1.85%) DNS
5 29 (1.78%) VoIP
6 28 (1.72%) WAN
7 20 (1.23%) 5G
8 18 (1.11%) LAN
9 15 (0.92%) 4G
10 14 (0.86%) Radio Access Network
11 13 (0.80%) MPLS
11 13 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.74%) Intranet
13 11 (0.68%) BGP
13 11 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (0.68%) DHCP
13 11 (0.68%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.68%) TCP/IP
14 10 (0.62%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.55%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.63%) Power BI
2 33 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.35%) NoSQL
4 22 (1.35%) Tableau
5 21 (1.29%) Big Data
6 20 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 19 (1.17%) Data Lake
8 18 (1.11%) MongoDB
9 14 (0.86%) Metadata
10 13 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (0.68%) Oracle Database
12 10 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.49%) GIS
13 8 (0.49%) SAP BW
13 8 (0.49%) SAP HANA
14 7 (0.43%) Data Mining
14 7 (0.43%) OLAP
14 7 (0.43%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 112 (6.89%) JIRA
2 35 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 28 (1.72%) Git
4 18 (1.11%) Rational DOORS
5 13 (0.80%) Artifactory
6 12 (0.74%) LoadRunner
7 11 (0.68%) GitLab
8 10 (0.62%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.43%) Selenium
11 6 (0.37%) JMeter
11 6 (0.37%) NeoLoad
12 5 (0.31%) Postman
12 5 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.31%) Subversion
13 4 (0.25%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.25%) JUnit
14 3 (0.18%) Gatling
14 3 (0.18%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 3 (0.18%) XCUITest
General
1 439 (27.02%) Social Skills
2 373 (22.95%) Finance
3 196 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (11.88%) Public Sector
5 129 (7.94%) Banking
6 78 (4.80%) Telecoms
7 70 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
8 68 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
9 65 (4.00%) Legal
10 56 (3.45%) Marketing
10 56 (3.45%) Retail
11 52 (3.20%) Manufacturing
12 40 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 30 (1.85%) Front Office
14 26 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 23 (1.42%) Investment Banking
16 22 (1.35%) Military
17 18 (1.11%) Law
18 17 (1.05%) Back Office
19 16 (0.98%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 485 (29.85%) Architect
2 182 (11.20%) Senior
3 164 (10.09%) Analyst
4 152 (9.35%) Solutions Architect
5 149 (9.17%) Lead
6 112 (6.89%) Consultant
7 108 (6.65%) Product Manager
8 88 (5.42%) Business Analyst
9 84 (5.17%) Product Owner
10 78 (4.80%) Enterprise Architect
11 74 (4.55%) Technical Architect
12 59 (3.63%) Developer
13 49 (3.02%) Project Manager
14 41 (2.52%) Data Architect
15 40 (2.46%) Security Architect
16 38 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
16 38 (2.34%) Network Engineer
17 35 (2.15%) Lead Architect
18 33 (2.03%) Senior Manager
19 30 (1.85%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.28%) REST
2 35 (2.15%) Node.js
3 31 (1.91%) .NET
4 26 (1.60%) React
5 25 (1.54%) HTML
6 23 (1.42%) Web Services
7 20 (1.23%) CSS
7 20 (1.23%) JSON
8 17 (1.05%) Spring Boot
8 17 (1.05%) XML
9 15 (0.92%) Middleware
9 15 (0.92%) SOAP
10 13 (0.80%) AWS CDK
10 13 (0.80%) SAML
10 13 (0.80%) Spring
11 12 (0.74%) AngularJS
11 12 (0.74%) J2EE
12 10 (0.62%) Kafka
12 10 (0.62%) LDAP
13 9 (0.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 220 (13.54%) Product Ownership
2 93 (5.72%) Management Information System
3 40 (2.46%) Data Centre
4 36 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 33 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (1.60%) Fixed Income
7 26 (1.60%) Hedge funds
8 24 (1.48%) Mobile App
9 23 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.23%) Derivative
13 18 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.11%) Equities
13 18 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
14 17 (1.05%) CMDB
14 17 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
14 17 (1.05%) PKI
15 16 (0.98%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 73 (4.49%) Linux
2 68 (4.18%) Windows
3 44 (2.71%) Apple iOS
4 37 (2.28%) Android
5 27 (1.66%) Unix
6 22 (1.35%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) Solaris
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.062%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (33.23%) Agile
2 288 (17.72%) Strategic Roadmap
3 243 (14.95%) Product Roadmap
4 223 (13.72%) DevOps
5 221 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
6 220 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 175 (10.77%) Project Management
8 165 (10.15%) Analytics
9 158 (9.72%) Scrum
10 154 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 150 (9.23%) Business Strategy
12 148 (9.11%) Migration
13 129 (7.94%) IT Strategy
14 126 (7.75%) Technology Roadmap
15 124 (7.63%) Decision-Making
16 119 (7.32%) Enterprise Architecture
17 114 (7.02%) Product Management
18 109 (6.71%) CI/CD
19 105 (6.46%) Computer Science
20 102 (6.28%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 130 (8.00%) Python
2 116 (7.14%) SQL
3 87 (5.35%) Java
4 47 (2.89%) JavaScript
5 41 (2.52%) PowerShell
6 34 (2.09%) TypeScript
7 28 (1.72%) C++
8 24 (1.48%) C#
9 21 (1.29%) Bash
10 12 (0.74%) C
11 10 (0.62%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.62%) VB.NET
11 10 (0.62%) VBA
12 8 (0.49%) Perl
13 7 (0.43%) Go
14 5 (0.31%) PHP
14 5 (0.31%) Scala
14 5 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.31%) VBScript
15 4 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 270 (16.62%) Security Cleared
2 216 (13.29%) Degree
3 185 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 90 (5.54%) DV Cleared
5 64 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (2.89%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (1.42%) CISSP
8 23 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
9 22 (1.35%) PMP
10 18 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.11%) CCNP
11 16 (0.98%) CISM
11 16 (0.98%) PMI Certification
12 14 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.68%) HND
14 8 (0.49%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.49%) CCIE
14 8 (0.49%) CCNA
15 7 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (3.51%) QA
2 56 (3.45%) NIST
3 38 (2.34%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.22%) PMO
5 32 (1.97%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.85%) GDPR
7 24 (1.48%) SLA
8 17 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
9 14 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 13 (0.80%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.68%) COBIT
11 11 (0.68%) GRC
12 5 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.25%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.18%) ITGC
System Software
1 47 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.97%) Docker
3 26 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.37%) vSphere
7 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.18%) XenApp
9 2 (0.12%) Ceph
9 2 (0.12%) Firmware
9 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.062%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 71 (4.37%) Terraform
2 51 (3.14%) Kubernetes
3 49 (3.02%) Ansible
4 11 (0.68%) FortiGate
4 11 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.62%) Grafana
5 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.49%) SCCM
7 7 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.25%) AirWatch
8 4 (0.25%) Kibana
8 4 (0.25%) Opsgenie
8 4 (0.25%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.25%) Puppet
8 4 (0.25%) WSUS
9 3 (0.18%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.12%) Nagios
10 2 (0.12%) OpenView
10 2 (0.12%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 224 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 114 (7.02%) SAP
3 60 (3.69%) Google
4 55 (3.38%) ServiceNow
5 54 (3.32%) Cisco
6 44 (2.71%) Oracle
7 33 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 33 (2.03%) VMware
8 30 (1.85%) Nokia
9 25 (1.54%) IBM
9 25 (1.54%) Juniper
10 22 (1.35%) Palo Alto
11 20 (1.23%) Bloomberg
12 17 (1.05%) Atlassian
12 17 (1.05%) Red Hat
12 17 (1.05%) Workday
13 15 (0.92%) F5
14 14 (0.86%) Databricks
14 14 (0.86%) Informatica
15 13 (0.80%) Adobe