Product Roadmap Contract Job Trends in Chester

Product Roadmaps
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Product Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 2.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £644 - -
90th Percentile £700 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £550 £362 -
% change year-on-year +52.14% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chester

Product Roadmap 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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 106 68 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 79.10% 93.15% 84.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 26 11
10th Percentile £190 £405 £225
25th Percentile £411 £432 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +53.85%
75th Percentile £584 £683 £656
90th Percentile £738 £731 £675
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £474 £500
% change year-on-year -5.65% -5.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 10
10th Percentile £19.27 £19.00 £17.03
25th Percentile £21.73 £20.25 £27.71
Median hourly rate £25.00 £60.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +45.45% +156.69%
75th Percentile £49.56 £86.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.23 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £29.80 £25.14
% change year-on-year -23.32% +18.56% +44.08%

Product Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Roadmap relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Product Roadmap job vacancy trend in Chester

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Product Roadmap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Product Roadmap

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in Chester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Roadmap in Chester over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Roadmap in Chester

Product Roadmap
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Mule
1 1 (33.33%) Mule ESB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle