Strategic Roadmap Contract Job Trends in the North East

Strategic Roadmaps
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Strategic Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 45 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.72% 0.33% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £420 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £514 - -
90th Percentile £533 - -
England median daily rate £561 £625 £645
% change year-on-year -10.20% -3.10% +3.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 363 282 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 87.47% 92.16% 84.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 138 147
10th Percentile £172 £321 £223
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £525 £610 £575
90th Percentile £585 £725 £636
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 24 18
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.03 £11.79
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.44 £15.47
Median hourly rate £48.00 £18.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +159.46% -10.93% -41.90%
75th Percentile £54.69 £46.18 £48.11
90th Percentile £60.00 - £68.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Strategic Roadmap job vacancy trend in the North East

Strategic Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Strategic Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in the North East over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the North East

Strategic Roadmap
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 Strategic Roadmap within the North East region over the 6 months to 12 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 -9 3 £473 +12.50% 5
Strategic Roadmap
England

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Service Designer
1 1 (33.33%) UX Designer
1 1 (33.33%) UX Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) Design Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Ethnographic Research
2 1 (33.33%) Ethnography
2 1 (33.33%) Human-Centred Design
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) SABSA
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) User Journey Map
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CISA
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes