Roadmaps Contracts in the North of England

Roadmaps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Roadmaps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Roadmaps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 46 34
Rank change year-on-year +11 -12 +5
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 174 175 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.28% 3.67% 5.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.87% 4.28% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 108 215
10th Percentile £367 £412 £438
25th Percentile £463 £449 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £678 £653
90th Percentile £695 £756 £745
England median daily rate £600 £589 £600
% change year-on-year +1.87% -1.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 3
10th Percentile £42.35 £20.44 -
25th Percentile £62.17 £23.17 -
Median hourly rate £72.70 £46.18 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.42% +23.15% -61.03%
75th Percentile £88.50 £69.04 £51.75
90th Percentile £97.22 £81.77 £60.30
England median hourly rate £53.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -17.69% +30.00% +13.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Roadmaps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Roadmaps in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Roadmaps in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Roadmaps in the North of England

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the North of England

Roadmaps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Roadmaps in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Roadmaps in the North of England

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Roadmaps in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +12 111 £545 -5.22% 254
Yorkshire -4 47 £550 +10.00% 136
North East +4 16 £625 -13.19% 33
Roadmaps
England

Roadmaps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.45%) Confluence
1 6 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (2.87%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) CMS
5 1 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.57%) Revit
5 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (5.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.72%) Magento
2 3 (1.72%) Sage 200
3 2 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.57%) Maximo
4 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.20%) SuccessFactors
2 15 (8.62%) Azure
3 10 (5.75%) AWS
4 5 (2.87%) GCP
4 5 (2.87%) SaaS
5 4 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.15%) IaaS
7 2 (1.15%) PaaS
7 2 (1.15%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.57%) dbt
8 1 (0.57%) OCI
8 1 (0.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.02%) DNS
1 7 (4.02%) Network Security
2 4 (2.30%) Firewall
3 3 (1.72%) BGP
3 3 (1.72%) LAN
3 3 (1.72%) MPLS
3 3 (1.72%) OSPF
3 3 (1.72%) SAN
3 3 (1.72%) VPN
3 3 (1.72%) WLAN
4 2 (1.15%) Internet
4 2 (1.15%) SSL
4 2 (1.15%) VLAN
4 2 (1.15%) VSAN
5 1 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.57%) DMZ
5 1 (0.57%) DWDM
5 1 (0.57%) Multicast
5 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.60%) Oracle Database
2 3 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.72%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.57%) Big Data
3 1 (0.57%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.57%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.57%) GIS
3 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (4.60%) JIRA
2 4 (2.30%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 59 (33.91%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.24%) Finance
3 19 (10.92%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.20%) Banking
5 15 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (4.60%) Automotive
7 8 (4.60%) Marketing
8 7 (4.02%) Retail
9 6 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.45%) Military
10 5 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.30%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.72%) Legal
12 3 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.15%) Aviation
13 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.57%) Back Office
14 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (29.31%) Architect
2 26 (14.94%) Solutions Architect
3 22 (12.64%) Lead
4 20 (11.49%) Consultant
5 15 (8.62%) Analyst
6 11 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (6.32%) Product Manager
6 11 (6.32%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.17%) Lead Consultant
7 9 (5.17%) SAP Consultant
8 8 (4.60%) Enterprise Architect
9 7 (4.02%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.02%) Technical Architect
9 7 (4.02%) Technical Manager
10 5 (2.87%) Recruitment Consultant
11 4 (2.30%) Change Manager
11 4 (2.30%) Data Architect
11 4 (2.30%) Network Engineer
11 4 (2.30%) Release Manager
11 4 (2.30%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.30%) .NET
2 3 (1.72%) .NET Framework
2 3 (1.72%) Middleware
2 3 (1.72%) Node.js
3 2 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.15%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.57%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.57%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.57%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.57%) CSS
4 1 (0.57%) HTML
4 1 (0.57%) Kafka
4 1 (0.57%) LDAP
4 1 (0.57%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.57%) React
4 1 (0.57%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.92%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.60%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.45%) Industry 4.0
4 6 (3.45%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 6 (3.45%) PMI
5 5 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.15%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.15%) IoT
7 2 (1.15%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.15%) NHS
7 2 (1.15%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.15%) Replication
7 2 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.92%) Windows
2 15 (8.62%) Linux
3 14 (8.05%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.15%) HPUX
5 2 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.15%) Solaris
6 1 (0.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (37.36%) Agile
2 39 (22.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (19.54%) Product Roadmap
5 32 (18.39%) Strategic Roadmap
6 25 (14.37%) Project Management
7 22 (12.64%) Technology Roadmap
8 21 (12.07%) Change Management
8 21 (12.07%) DevOps
9 18 (10.34%) Decision-Making
10 17 (9.77%) Migration
11 14 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (8.05%) Microservices
11 14 (8.05%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (7.47%) Data Modelling
12 13 (7.47%) IT Strategy
12 13 (7.47%) Mentoring
12 13 (7.47%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.17%) PowerShell
1 9 (5.17%) SQL
2 8 (4.60%) Bash
2 8 (4.60%) Perl
3 6 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 6 (3.45%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.87%) Python
5 4 (2.30%) Java
5 4 (2.30%) PHP
6 3 (1.72%) C#
6 3 (1.72%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.15%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.64%) Degree
4 13 (7.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.60%) Master's Degree
8 7 (4.02%) PMI Certification
9 5 (2.87%) CISM
9 5 (2.87%) CISSP
10 4 (2.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.72%) CCIE
11 3 (1.72%) CCNP
11 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.15%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.15%) JNCIE
13 1 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.02%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.45%) QA
3 5 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.30%) GDPR
4 4 (2.30%) PMO
5 3 (1.72%) NIST
5 3 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.15%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.15%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.15%) SEPA
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.57%) NCSC
7 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (3.45%) MOM
2 4 (2.30%) Ansible
2 4 (2.30%) Terraform
3 3 (1.72%) Backup Exec
3 3 (1.72%) Packer
3 3 (1.72%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.15%) Control-M
5 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (16.09%) SAP
2 14 (8.05%) Cisco
3 12 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.90%) Oracle
4 9 (5.17%) VMware
5 8 (4.60%) IBM
6 6 (3.45%) Rockwell
6 6 (3.45%) Siemens
7 5 (2.87%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.30%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.72%) Splunk
9 3 (1.72%) Symantec
9 3 (1.72%) Veeam
10 2 (1.15%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.15%) F5
10 2 (1.15%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.15%) Sun
10 2 (1.15%) TOWER Software
10 2 (1.15%) Virgin Media