Technology Roadmap Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Technology Roadmaps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Technology Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 80 93
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +25
Contract jobs citing Technology Roadmap 11 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.86% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.53% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £379 - £419
25th Percentile £403 £525 £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £550 £688
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -20.00% +14.58%
75th Percentile £511 £600 £700
90th Percentile £584 £615 -
North West median daily rate £418 £550 £688
% change year-on-year -24.00% -20.00% +83.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Technology 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 1,127 938 1,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.25% 90.98% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 775 589 985
10th Percentile £306 £294 £306
25th Percentile £375 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £571 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £676 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 31 67
10th Percentile £17.27 £15.90 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.08 £20.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £23.45
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +38.59% -42.80%
75th Percentile £61.25 £33.75 £48.50
90th Percentile £76.30 £60.00 £73.00
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £31.51 £30.00
% change year-on-year +33.10% +5.03% -19.57%

Technology Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Technology Roadmap job vacancy trend in Manchester

Technology Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Technology Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Roadmap in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Roadmap in Manchester

Technology 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 (9.09%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon EMR
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon EventBridge
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (36.36%) Apigee
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Fargate
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Step Functions
2 4 (36.36%) Datadog
2 4 (36.36%) GCP
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
2 4 (36.36%) Loggly
2 4 (36.36%) PaaS
2 4 (36.36%) Route 53
2 4 (36.36%) SaaS
2 4 (36.36%) Serverless
3 3 (27.27%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MySQL
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (36.36%) BigQuery
2 4 (36.36%) DynamoDB
2 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
2 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (36.36%) RDBMS
2 4 (36.36%) Redis
2 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (9.09%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
1 4 (36.36%) Gradle
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
1 4 (36.36%) Maven
1 4 (36.36%) SonarLint
1 4 (36.36%) SonarQube
2 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
1 6 (54.55%) Technical Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Java Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Java Technical Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Network Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Network Technical Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Product Owner
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) GIS Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) GIS Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
2 4 (36.36%) Dropwizard
2 4 (36.36%) J2EE
2 4 (36.36%) JWT
2 4 (36.36%) Micronaut
2 4 (36.36%) RESTful
3 3 (27.27%) Celery
4 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
4 2 (18.18%) REST
4 2 (18.18%) Spring
5 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 1 (9.09%) Kafka
5 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
1 6 (54.55%) Product Ownership
2 4 (36.36%) N-Tier
3 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Microservices
3 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (45.45%) BDD
4 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
4 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
4 5 (45.45%) TDD
4 5 (45.45%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (36.36%) AI
5 4 (36.36%) CQRS
5 4 (36.36%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (36.36%) MVC
5 4 (36.36%) OOP
5 4 (36.36%) OWASP
5 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
5 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
5 4 (36.36%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Gigya