Roadmaps Contracts in Cheshire

Roadmaps
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Roadmaps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Roadmaps over the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 24 49
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 -22
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 34 31 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.05% 5.96% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.28% 7.14% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 8
10th Percentile £360 £485 £420
25th Percentile £393 £560 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £570 £480
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +18.75% -12.73%
75th Percentile £584 £608 £655
90th Percentile £611 £700 £708
North West median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.43% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £33.40 - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +35.80% -46.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Roadmaps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 467 434 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 96.89% 83.46% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 287 314
10th Percentile £313 £304 £302
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -4.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £539 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 33 27
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.00 £14.90
25th Percentile £20.12 £16.79 £22.84
Median hourly rate £35.20 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £81.44 £43.75 £35.02
90th Percentile £86.00 - £40.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.02
% change year-on-year +16.92% -25.75% +53.91%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Roadmaps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Roadmaps in Cheshire

Roadmaps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Roadmaps in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Roadmaps in Cheshire

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps in Cheshire over the 6 months to 25 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in Cheshire

Roadmaps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Roadmaps in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Roadmaps in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Roadmaps within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 May 2025. 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
Knutsford -14 11 £375 -34.21% 7
Warrington - 6 £584 - 219
Chester - 4 £600 - 168
Crewe +7 3 £625 +25.00%
Macclesfield -3 1 - -
Roadmaps
North West

Roadmaps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (14.71%) ArcGIS
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) AWS
2 3 (8.82%) Azure
2 3 (8.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) BGP
1 4 (11.76%) Firewall
1 4 (11.76%) MPLS
1 4 (11.76%) Network Security
1 4 (11.76%) OSPF
1 4 (11.76%) VPN
2 3 (8.82%) VLAN
3 1 (2.94%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.94%) DMZ
3 1 (2.94%) DNS
3 1 (2.94%) DWDM
3 1 (2.94%) Internet
3 1 (2.94%) IPsec
3 1 (2.94%) L2TP
3 1 (2.94%) Multicast
3 1 (2.94%) SSL
3 1 (2.94%) WAN
3 1 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
1 3 (8.82%) Gradle
1 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
1 3 (8.82%) Xcode
2 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 15 (44.12%) Banking
2 9 (26.47%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Corporate Banking
3 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Legal
5 2 (5.88%) Automotive
6 1 (2.94%) Aviation
6 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Publishing
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Architect
2 13 (38.24%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Payments Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Designer
4 3 (8.82%) Developer
4 3 (8.82%) iOS Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Network Designer
4 3 (8.82%) Solutions Designer
5 2 (5.88%) Banking Project Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Geospatial Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Payments Project Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Security Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Lead
6 1 (2.94%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) PMO Lead
6 1 (2.94%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) CSS
1 3 (8.82%) HTML
2 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (8.82%) Mobile App
1 3 (8.82%) Mobile Banking
1 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.94%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Android
1 3 (8.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Agile
2 7 (20.59%) Strategic Roadmap
3 6 (17.65%) Architectural Design
4 5 (14.71%) Data Analysis
4 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (14.71%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (14.71%) Scrum
5 4 (11.76%) Change Management
5 4 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (11.76%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (11.76%) Technology Roadmap
6 3 (8.82%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (8.82%) Front End Development
6 3 (8.82%) High Availability
6 3 (8.82%) iOS Development
6 3 (8.82%) IT Strategy
6 3 (8.82%) Mobile Development
6 3 (8.82%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (8.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) C
2 3 (8.82%) C++
2 3 (8.82%) Java
2 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
2 3 (8.82%) Kotlin
2 3 (8.82%) Objective-C
2 3 (8.82%) Ruby
2 3 (8.82%) Scala
2 3 (8.82%) Swift
3 1 (2.94%) Perl
3 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) CCIE
2 4 (11.76%) CCNP
2 4 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.82%) JNCIE
3 3 (8.82%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.88%) CISM
4 2 (5.88%) CISSP
5 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.94%) CSPO
5 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) GDPR
1 2 (5.88%) ISO 20022
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.88%) NIST
1 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.88%) SEPA
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.94%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Cisco
1 4 (11.76%) Fortinet
2 3 (8.82%) F5
3 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.94%) Arista
4 1 (2.94%) ESRI
4 1 (2.94%) McAfee
4 1 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk