Strategic Roadmap Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Strategic Roadmaps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Strategic Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 67 94
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 +36
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 6 16 6
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.56% 1.37% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.57% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 5
10th Percentile £369 £513 £540
25th Percentile £419 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.79% -14.29% +39.86%
75th Percentile £519 £688 £725
90th Percentile £553 £818 £770
North West median daily rate £500 £695 £700
% change year-on-year -28.06% -0.71% +9.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 952 1,020 1,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.89% 87.03% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 587 1,027
10th Percentile £300 £311 £270
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £678 £675 £674
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 35 55
10th Percentile £17.08 £16.34 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £26.93 £16.27
Median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.42% +69.23% -44.29%
75th Percentile £31.83 £61.25 £45.31
90th Percentile £63.75 £73.30 £70.75
North West median hourly rate £29.27 £40.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.12% +14.75% +44.09%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Strategic Roadmap job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in Manchester

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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 (16.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Google Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
1 1 (16.67%) Looker
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Product Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Product Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) GIS Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) GIS Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Product Management
2 4 (66.67%) Product Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) B2B
3 2 (33.33%) B2C
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Journey Map
3 2 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Innovation
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Journey Map
3 2 (33.33%) Product Discovery
3 2 (33.33%) Service Design
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google