Roadmaps Contract Job Trends in the North West

Roadmaps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Roadmaps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 31 32
Rank change year-on-year -15 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 119 116 149
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.75% 5.35% 5.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.38% 6.19% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 57 87
10th Percentile £396 £426 £458
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £719
90th Percentile £639 £720 £730
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 23
10th Percentile £22.49 £39.75 -
25th Percentile £36.75 £43.89 -
Median hourly rate £46.89 £60.79 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -22.87% +31.63% -30.03%
75th Percentile £56.69 £81.89 -
90th Percentile £60.22 £84.22 £53.36
England median hourly rate £56.50 £52.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +7.62% +13.69% +23.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,213 1,874 2,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.38% 86.48% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 1,055 1,596
10th Percentile £213 £265 £295
25th Percentile £358 £390 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £567 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 108 157
10th Percentile £16.41 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.63 £21.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £31.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -11.97% +33.81%
75th Percentile £51.76 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £69.78 £68.65 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Roadmaps job vacancy trend in the North West

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps in the North West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the North West

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Roadmaps in the North West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the North West

Roadmaps
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Manchester -2 60 £525 +5.00% 136
Cheshire -12 38 £500 -14.24% 56
Lancashire -12 17 £550 +2.23% 47
Merseyside -17 3 £734 +19.76% 25
Roadmaps
England

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

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.72%) Confluence
2 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.84%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.84%) Trello
2 1 (0.84%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (10.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.68%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.68%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.68%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.68%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.84%) ENOVIA
3 1 (0.84%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.84%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.84%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.85%) Azure
2 17 (14.29%) AWS
3 13 (10.92%) GCP
4 9 (7.56%) SaaS
5 8 (6.72%) Serverless
6 7 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.04%) Amazon EMR
7 6 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.04%) GitHub
7 6 (5.04%) SuccessFactors
8 5 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.20%) Apigee
9 4 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.36%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (3.36%) Datadog
9 4 (3.36%) Loggly
9 4 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.36%) PaaS
9 4 (3.36%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) ATM
1 4 (3.36%) VoIP
2 2 (1.68%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.68%) WAN
3 1 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.84%) Firewall
3 1 (0.84%) Internet
3 1 (0.84%) Network Security
3 1 (0.84%) WebEx
3 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.04%) BigQuery
2 5 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.20%) MySQL
2 5 (4.20%) Redis
2 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (3.36%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.36%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.36%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.52%) Power BI
5 2 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.68%) Looker
5 2 (1.68%) SAP BW
5 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.68%) Tableau
6 1 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 15 (12.61%) JIRA
2 9 (7.56%) Git
2 9 (7.56%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.88%) Gradle
4 4 (3.36%) Maven
4 4 (3.36%) SonarLint
4 4 (3.36%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.52%) Xcode
6 2 (1.68%) Pylint
7 1 (0.84%) Selenium
7 1 (0.84%) Spinnaker
General
1 40 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.53%) Finance
3 15 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.08%) Banking
5 4 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.36%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.52%) Automotive
6 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.52%) Local Government
6 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.52%) Retail
7 2 (1.68%) Legal
8 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.84%) Military
8 1 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (19.33%) Architect
2 16 (13.45%) Senior
3 15 (12.61%) Consultant
4 13 (10.92%) Product Owner
5 12 (10.08%) Analyst
6 9 (7.56%) Lead
7 7 (5.88%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
7 7 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.04%) Change Manager
8 6 (5.04%) ITIL Change Manager
8 6 (5.04%) ITIL Manager
8 6 (5.04%) Product Manager
9 5 (4.20%) Java Architect
9 5 (4.20%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.36%) Developer
10 4 (3.36%) Java Technical Architect
10 4 (3.36%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.36%) Senior Consultant
11 3 (2.52%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.72%) REST
2 6 (5.04%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.04%) Web Services
3 4 (3.36%) Dropwizard
3 4 (3.36%) HTML
3 4 (3.36%) J2EE
3 4 (3.36%) JWT
3 4 (3.36%) Micronaut
3 4 (3.36%) RESTful
4 3 (2.52%) Celery
4 3 (2.52%) CSS
4 3 (2.52%) Kafka
4 3 (2.52%) XML
5 2 (1.68%) .NET
5 2 (1.68%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.68%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.68%) LangChain
5 2 (1.68%) LangGraph
5 2 (1.68%) Node.js
5 2 (1.68%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.85%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.24%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.04%) CMDB
5 5 (4.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.36%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (3.36%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.36%) PACS
7 3 (2.52%) FMCG
7 3 (2.52%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.68%) PKI
9 1 (0.84%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.84%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.84%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.84%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Windows
2 3 (2.52%) Android
2 3 (2.52%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.52%) Mac OS
2 3 (2.52%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (32.77%) Agile
2 29 (24.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (17.65%) Process Improvement
4 21 (17.65%) Strategic Roadmap
5 19 (15.97%) Change Management
6 16 (13.45%) CI/CD
6 16 (13.45%) ERP
6 16 (13.45%) Migration
7 15 (12.61%) DevOps
7 15 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (12.61%) Technology Roadmap
8 14 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
9 13 (10.92%) Mentoring
9 13 (10.92%) User Experience
10 12 (10.08%) Business Process Mapping
10 12 (10.08%) Coaching
10 12 (10.08%) Decision-Making
10 12 (10.08%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.76%) Python
2 11 (9.24%) Java
3 8 (6.72%) SQL
4 6 (5.04%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.36%) Bash
5 4 (3.36%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.36%) Ruby
6 3 (2.52%) Bicep
6 3 (2.52%) C
6 3 (2.52%) C++
6 3 (2.52%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.52%) Objective-C
6 3 (2.52%) Scala
6 3 (2.52%) Swift
7 2 (1.68%) C#
7 2 (1.68%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.84%) PHP
8 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.72%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 5 (4.20%) Degree
6 2 (1.68%) CBAP
6 2 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.68%) CSPO
6 2 (1.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.84%) CCIE
7 1 (0.84%) CISSP
7 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.84%) GIAC
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.84%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) GDPR
2 5 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.20%) SLA
3 4 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.36%) ISO 8583
3 4 (3.36%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.52%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.52%) QA
5 2 (1.68%) NIST
5 2 (1.68%) SOC 1
6 1 (0.84%) PERC
6 1 (0.84%) PMO
6 1 (0.84%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (7.56%) Docker
2 3 (2.52%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (7.56%) Terraform
2 7 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.52%) SCCM
4 1 (0.84%) Istio
4 1 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (23.53%) SAP
2 14 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 13 (10.92%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.72%) Google
5 4 (3.36%) Gigya
6 3 (2.52%) Citrix
6 3 (2.52%) Oracle
6 3 (2.52%) VMware
7 2 (1.68%) IBM
7 2 (1.68%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (0.84%) Ariba
8 1 (0.84%) Aruba
8 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.84%) Cisco
8 1 (0.84%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.84%) Genesys
8 1 (0.84%) Juniper
8 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.84%) Siemens
8 1 (0.84%) Splunk