Product Roadmap Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Product Roadmaps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Product Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 64 93
Rank change year-on-year -19 +29 +25
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 8 13 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.66% 1.22% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.36% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £414 £473 £458
25th Percentile £435 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £750 £554
90th Percentile £565 - £579
North West median daily rate £525 £695 £595
% change year-on-year -24.46% +16.81% -6.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,088 957 1,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.69% 89.61% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 569 985
10th Percentile £306 £294 £302
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £650 £684 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 36 50
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.52 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.81 £32.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.74% -0.76% -14.15%
75th Percentile £56.88 £34.56 £60.94
90th Percentile £63.73 £65.00 £75.70
North West median hourly rate £33.75 £30.95 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.05% -22.63% +54.98%

Product Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Product Roadmap job vacancy trend in Manchester

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Roadmap in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Roadmap in Manchester

Product Roadmap
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Roadmap within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Bolton - 1 - - 6
Product Roadmap
North West

Product Roadmap
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
1 1 (12.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Miro
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) WebEx
1 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) DTS
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Product Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) HR Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Design Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Product Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Product Management
4 2 (25.00%) Product Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Service Design
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Backlog Management
5 1 (12.50%) Budgeting
5 1 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (12.50%) Epics
5 1 (12.50%) Event Storming
5 1 (12.50%) GTM Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Objectives and Key Results
5 1 (12.50%) Presales
5 1 (12.50%) Project Roadmap
5 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Aruba
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Ekahau
1 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
1 1 (12.50%) Juniper
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
1 1 (12.50%) Workday