Roadmaps Contract Job Trends in the North East

Roadmaps
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Roadmaps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +32
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 18 15 12
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 4.34% 5.07% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 5.47% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 6
10th Percentile £349 £460 £593
25th Percentile £404 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £650 £720
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -9.72% +25.22%
75th Percentile £538 £763 -
90th Percentile £548 £815 -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
England median hourly rate £58.56 £52.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +11.53% +13.69% +12.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

Roadmaps 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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 366 274 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 88.19% 92.57% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 130 148
10th Percentile £179 £310 £225
25th Percentile £364 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +10.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £593 £575
90th Percentile £595 £722 £712
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 24 13
10th Percentile £15.17 £14.03 £15.47
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £18.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +159.46% -59.94% +29.17%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 -
90th Percentile £57.00 - £64.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Roadmaps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Roadmaps job vacancy trend in the North East

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Roadmaps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Roadmaps

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps in the North East over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the North East

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Roadmaps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Roadmaps

Roadmaps
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Roadmaps within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear 0 16 £473 -27.31% 24
Durham - 1 - - 2
Roadmaps
England

Roadmaps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) GitHub
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (61.11%) Public Sector
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Product Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Lead
2 2 (11.11%) Lead Product Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Designer
3 1 (5.56%) Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Incident and Problem Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Software Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Service Designer
3 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) User Researcher
3 1 (5.56%) UX Designer
3 1 (5.56%) UX Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (27.78%) Product Management
3 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (22.22%) Product Strategy
4 4 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Product Vision
6 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Service Design
6 2 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (11.11%) TOGAF
6 2 (11.11%) User Research
6 2 (11.11%) Zachman Framework
7 1 (5.56%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Java
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) CISA
4 1 (5.56%) CISM
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (5.56%) Cellebrite
1 1 (5.56%) Databricks
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft