Strategic Roadmap Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Strategic Roadmaps
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Strategic Roadmap skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 62 59
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +33
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 18 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.29% 1.02% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 1.23% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 7
10th Percentile £381 £408 £250
25th Percentile £447 £430 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £445 £613
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -27.35% -
75th Percentile £523 - £719
90th Percentile £531 £450 £881
England median daily rate £551 £620 £625
% change year-on-year -11.13% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.05
25th Percentile - - £17.62
Median hourly rate - - £19.23
75th Percentile - - £20.19
90th Percentile - - £20.38
England median hourly rate £70.16 £60.83 £71.25
% change year-on-year +15.34% -14.62% +103.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Strategic 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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 672 648 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.61% 82.65% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 402 541
10th Percentile £223 £267 £213
25th Percentile £341 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 34 48
10th Percentile £15.71 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Strategic Roadmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Roadmap in the East Midlands

Strategic Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Strategic Roadmap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Strategic Roadmap

Strategic Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the East Midlands

Strategic Roadmap
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Strategic Roadmap.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Strategic Roadmap

Strategic Roadmap
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Roadmap within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Northamptonshire -8 14 £460 +3.37% 4
Derbyshire - 4 £515 -
Strategic Roadmap
England

Strategic Roadmap
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Product Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Programme Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Payments Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Product Owner
6 1 (5.56%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Mac OS
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 9 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (44.44%) IT Strategy
3 8 (44.44%) Technology Strategy
4 6 (33.33%) Data Transformation
4 6 (33.33%) ETL
4 6 (33.33%) High Availability
4 6 (33.33%) Microservices
4 6 (33.33%) Technical Debt
5 5 (27.78%) Business Strategy
5 5 (27.78%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (22.22%) Budgeting
6 4 (22.22%) Business Transformation
6 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
6 4 (22.22%) Programme Delivery
6 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
6 4 (22.22%) User Experience
6 4 (22.22%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Bash
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (22.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Citrix
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) SAP