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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 39 30
Rank change year-on-year -10 -9 +14
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Roadmaps 194 175 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.85% 4.19% 5.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.44% 5.01% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 107 199
10th Percentile £375 £417 £450
25th Percentile £425 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.39% -2.50% +7.14%
75th Percentile £603 £688 £711
90th Percentile £688 £850 £750
England median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 13
10th Percentile £27.56 £20.00 £37.55
25th Percentile £33.40 £20.37 £37.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% - -36.30%
75th Percentile £72.50 £82.07 -
90th Percentile £77.71 £84.44 -
England median hourly rate £56.50 £59.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year -5.11% +25.36% +5.56%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,569 3,496 4,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.14% 83.68% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,286 2,091 3,053
10th Percentile £268 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 235 198
10th Percentile £12.88 £11.07 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.47 £14.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £27.00 £27.74
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% -2.67% +44.14%
75th Percentile £43.56 £49.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.40 £69.90 £58.85
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £40.85
% change year-on-year -40.82% +4.05% +51.39%

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

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the North of England

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 21 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the North of England

Roadmaps
DemandTrendContract 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 21 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -3 119 £513 -13.87% 276
Yorkshire -1 66 £500 +2.56% 175
North East -2 10 £525 -36.75% 47
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 7 (3.61%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.55%) IIS
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.06%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.58%) Magento
3 3 (1.55%) Sage 200
4 2 (1.03%) Shopify
5 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.52%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.52%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.52%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 34 (17.53%) Azure
2 25 (12.89%) AWS
3 17 (8.76%) GCP
4 11 (5.67%) SuccessFactors
5 9 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (4.64%) SaaS
6 8 (4.12%) Serverless
7 7 (3.61%) GitHub
8 6 (3.09%) Amazon EMR
8 6 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.06%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.06%) Apigee
10 4 (2.06%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (2.06%) Datadog
10 4 (2.06%) Loggly
10 4 (2.06%) PaaS
10 4 (2.06%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.67%) Network Security
2 6 (3.09%) Firewall
3 5 (2.58%) BGP
3 5 (2.58%) Internet
3 5 (2.58%) MPLS
3 5 (2.58%) OSPF
3 5 (2.58%) VPN
4 4 (2.06%) LAN
4 4 (2.06%) VLAN
4 4 (2.06%) VoIP
5 3 (1.55%) ATM
5 3 (1.55%) DNS
5 3 (1.55%) SAN
5 3 (1.55%) WLAN
6 2 (1.03%) WAN
7 1 (0.52%) DMZ
7 1 (0.52%) DWDM
7 1 (0.52%) L2TP
7 1 (0.52%) SSL
7 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.12%) BigQuery
2 7 (3.61%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.09%) RDBMS
3 6 (3.09%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.58%) MySQL
4 5 (2.58%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.58%) Redis
5 4 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.06%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.03%) Bigtable
7 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.03%) Looker
7 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (8.76%) JIRA
2 15 (7.73%) Git
3 13 (6.70%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.67%) Gradle
5 7 (3.61%) Xcode
6 4 (2.06%) Maven
6 4 (2.06%) SonarLint
6 4 (2.06%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.52%) GitLab
7 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 74 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.13%) Finance
3 26 (13.40%) Banking
4 22 (11.34%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.70%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.64%) Marketing
8 8 (4.12%) Retail
9 6 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.06%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (2.06%) Military
11 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.03%) Automotive
12 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Aviation
13 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.52%) Legal
13 1 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (26.29%) Architect
2 22 (11.34%) Solutions Architect
3 19 (9.79%) Analyst
3 19 (9.79%) Consultant
4 15 (7.73%) Senior
5 13 (6.70%) Technical Architect
6 11 (5.67%) Delivery Manager
6 11 (5.67%) Product Manager
7 10 (5.15%) Developer
7 10 (5.15%) Product Owner
8 9 (4.64%) Business Analyst
9 7 (3.61%) Change Manager
9 7 (3.61%) Data Architect
9 7 (3.61%) Lead
9 7 (3.61%) Senior Architect
10 6 (3.09%) Enterprise Architect
10 6 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.09%) iOS Developer
10 6 (3.09%) SAP Consultant
11 5 (2.58%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.15%) .NET
2 9 (4.64%) HTML
3 8 (4.12%) .NET Framework
3 8 (4.12%) CSS
4 5 (2.58%) Kafka
5 4 (2.06%) Dropwizard
5 4 (2.06%) J2EE
5 4 (2.06%) JWT
5 4 (2.06%) Micronaut
5 4 (2.06%) RESTful
5 4 (2.06%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.55%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.55%) Celery
6 3 (1.55%) MSMQ
6 3 (1.55%) REST
6 3 (1.55%) Web Services
7 2 (1.03%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.03%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.03%) XML
8 1 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.46%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.67%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.15%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.61%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.61%) Mobile Banking
4 7 (3.61%) N-Tier
5 5 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.06%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.06%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.55%) IoT
7 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.55%) NHS
7 3 (1.55%) PACS
7 3 (1.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.03%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (1.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.64%) Linux
2 8 (4.12%) Windows
3 7 (3.61%) Android
3 7 (3.61%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.58%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.03%) HPUX
6 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.03%) Solaris
6 2 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.57%) Agile
2 58 (29.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (17.53%) Strategic Roadmap
5 31 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (14.43%) Product Roadmap
7 26 (13.40%) Architecture Roadmap
7 26 (13.40%) DevOps
8 25 (12.89%) Change Management
8 25 (12.89%) CI/CD
9 24 (12.37%) Technology Roadmap
10 21 (10.82%) Migration
10 21 (10.82%) Scrum
11 20 (10.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (9.79%) Analytics
13 18 (9.28%) User Experience
14 17 (8.76%) ITIL
14 17 (8.76%) User Stories
15 16 (8.25%) Project Management
15 16 (8.25%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.28%) Python
2 16 (8.25%) Java
3 13 (6.70%) SQL
4 10 (5.15%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.64%) Kotlin
5 9 (4.64%) Scala
6 7 (3.61%) C
6 7 (3.61%) C++
6 7 (3.61%) Objective-C
6 7 (3.61%) Ruby
6 7 (3.61%) Swift
7 5 (2.58%) PHP
8 3 (1.55%) Bash
8 3 (1.55%) C#
8 3 (1.55%) Perl
8 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.55%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.03%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (1.03%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (6.70%) Degree
4 12 (6.19%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.58%) CCIE
6 5 (2.58%) CCNP
6 5 (2.58%) CISSP
6 5 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.06%) CISM
7 4 (2.06%) JNCIE
7 4 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.06%) PMP
8 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.03%) CBAP
9 2 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.03%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.03%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.52%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.61%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.09%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.09%) GDPR
2 6 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.06%) NIST
3 4 (2.06%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.06%) PMO
4 3 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.55%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.03%) COBIT
5 2 (1.03%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.03%) QA
5 2 (1.03%) SEPA
5 2 (1.03%) SOC 1
6 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) GRC
6 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (3.61%) Docker
2 5 (2.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (5.15%) Terraform
2 8 (4.12%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.06%) Control-M
4 3 (1.55%) Backup Exec
4 3 (1.55%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.52%) Ansible
5 1 (0.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (10.31%) Microsoft
1 20 (10.31%) SAP
2 13 (6.70%) Cisco
3 9 (4.64%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.61%) Google
5 5 (2.58%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.06%) F5
6 4 (2.06%) Gigya
6 4 (2.06%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.06%) Splunk
6 4 (2.06%) VMware
7 3 (1.55%) McAfee
7 3 (1.55%) Symantec
7 3 (1.55%) Veeam
8 2 (1.03%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.03%) Citrix
8 2 (1.03%) IBM
8 2 (1.03%) Oracle
8 2 (1.03%) Sun
8 2 (1.03%) Virgin Media