Strategic Roadmap Contracts in the Midlands

Strategic Roadmaps
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Strategic Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 121 123
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +87
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 23 11 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.93% 0.42% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.51% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 22
10th Percentile £398 £439 £513
25th Percentile £451 £445 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £631
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -28.71% -9.82%
75th Percentile £546 £500 £747
90th Percentile £701 £592 £750
England median daily rate £600 £620 £613
% change year-on-year -3.23% +1.22% -3.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,178 2,145 2,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.75% 81.04% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,471 1,875
10th Percentile £219 £275 £256
25th Percentile £355 £363 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £600
90th Percentile £644 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 101 81
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.70 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.04 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% -32.73% +46.28%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Roadmap in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Roadmap in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Roadmap in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
West Midlands +2 12 £525 - 10
East Midlands +2 11 £508 +14.04% 9
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 7 (30.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (8.70%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
1 1 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 8 (34.78%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Product Manager
3 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Payments Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Product Management Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) Product Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Digital Product Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.04%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 8 (34.78%) IT Strategy
2 8 (34.78%) Technology Strategy
3 7 (30.43%) Business Strategy
3 7 (30.43%) ETL
4 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 6 (26.09%) Data Transformation
4 6 (26.09%) High Availability
4 6 (26.09%) Microservices
4 6 (26.09%) Product Management
4 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (26.09%) Technical Debt
5 5 (21.74%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (17.39%) DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
7 3 (13.04%) Scrum
7 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.35%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Autodesk
2 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) SAP