Roadmaps Contracts in the North West

Roadmaps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 36 32
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 106 119 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.41% 4.46% 5.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.01% 5.19% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 78 128
10th Percentile £361 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £525 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £698 £650
90th Percentile £675 £741 £725
England median daily rate £600 £600 £605
% change year-on-year - -0.83% +0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile £40.22 £23.36 -
25th Percentile £50.45 £35.89 £37.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +35.80% -46.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £82.07 £43.39
90th Percentile - £84.44 £56.95
England median hourly rate £53.50 £67.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year -20.74% +5.47% +45.62%

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 1,765 2,294 2,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.01% 85.95% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,459 1,950
10th Percentile £300 £311 £313
25th Percentile £389 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £663 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 253 139
10th Percentile £15.34 £10.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £13.50 £22.47
Median hourly rate £32.00 £24.19 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -30.94% +52.12%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £49.08
90th Percentile £84.95 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Roadmaps in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Roadmaps in the North West

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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Roadmaps in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the North West

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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 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
Manchester +4 39 £450 -25.00% 230
Cheshire -2 28 £550 -3.51% 54
Lancashire +2 27 £620 -0.16% 98
Merseyside +10 11 £649 +54.52% 38
Roadmaps
England

Roadmaps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (4.72%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.89%) Confluence
2 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.94%) CMS
3 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.94%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.94%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.83%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.94%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.83%) Magento
2 3 (2.83%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.94%) Maximo
3 1 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.09%) SuccessFactors
2 8 (7.55%) Azure
3 7 (6.60%) AWS
4 4 (3.77%) GCP
4 4 (3.77%) SaaS
5 3 (2.83%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.89%) IaaS
6 2 (1.89%) PaaS
7 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.94%) dbt
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.66%) Network Security
2 3 (2.83%) BGP
2 3 (2.83%) Firewall
2 3 (2.83%) LAN
2 3 (2.83%) MPLS
2 3 (2.83%) OSPF
2 3 (2.83%) SAN
2 3 (2.83%) VPN
2 3 (2.83%) WLAN
3 2 (1.89%) SSL
3 2 (1.89%) VLAN
4 1 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.94%) DMZ
4 1 (0.94%) DNS
4 1 (0.94%) DWDM
4 1 (0.94%) Internet
4 1 (0.94%) L2TP
4 1 (0.94%) WAN
4 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.89%) Power BI
3 1 (0.94%) Big Data
3 1 (0.94%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.94%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.94%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.77%) JIRA
General
1 25 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.98%) Finance
3 13 (12.26%) Banking
4 11 (10.38%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.55%) Marketing
6 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.66%) Military
7 5 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.77%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.83%) Legal
9 3 (2.83%) Retail
10 2 (1.89%) Automotive
10 2 (1.89%) Aviation
11 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (34.91%) Architect
2 22 (20.75%) Solutions Architect
3 19 (17.92%) Consultant
4 11 (10.38%) Lead
5 9 (8.49%) Lead Consultant
5 9 (8.49%) SAP Consultant
6 8 (7.55%) Enterprise Architect
6 8 (7.55%) Product Manager
6 8 (7.55%) Project Manager
7 7 (6.60%) Analyst
7 7 (6.60%) Technical Manager
8 6 (5.66%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.72%) Change Manager
9 5 (4.72%) Recruitment Consultant
10 4 (3.77%) Change and Release Manager
10 4 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.77%) Release Manager
10 4 (3.77%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.77%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.72%) .NET
2 4 (3.77%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.89%) Middleware
3 2 (1.89%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.94%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.94%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.94%) Kafka
4 1 (0.94%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.43%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.72%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.94%) Blog
5 1 (0.94%) BYOD
5 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.94%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.94%) PMI
5 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.94%) Replication
5 1 (0.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.72%) Windows
2 4 (3.77%) Linux
2 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.94%) HPUX
4 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.94%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (30.19%) Agile
2 26 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (18.87%) Strategic Roadmap
4 18 (16.98%) Change Management
5 16 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (15.09%) Product Roadmap
6 12 (11.32%) Requirements Gathering
7 11 (10.38%) Business Case
7 11 (10.38%) DevOps
7 11 (10.38%) Migration
7 11 (10.38%) Project Management
7 11 (10.38%) Technology Roadmap
7 11 (10.38%) Waterfall
8 10 (9.43%) IT Strategy
9 9 (8.49%) Enterprise Architecture
9 9 (8.49%) TOGAF
10 8 (7.55%) Architecture Roadmap
11 7 (6.60%) Architectural Design
11 7 (6.60%) Data Analysis
11 7 (6.60%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.83%) C#
1 3 (2.83%) PHP
2 2 (1.89%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.89%) Python
2 2 (1.89%) SQL
3 1 (0.94%) Perl
3 1 (0.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (16.04%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.49%) Degree
4 8 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 4 (3.77%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.83%) CCIE
6 3 (2.83%) CCNP
6 3 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.83%) CISM
6 3 (2.83%) CISSP
6 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.89%) JNCIE
7 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.89%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.94%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.94%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.83%) GDPR
2 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.89%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.89%) NIST
2 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.89%) SEPA
3 1 (0.94%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.94%) PMO
3 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.83%) Backup Exec
1 3 (2.83%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (20.75%) SAP
2 8 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.66%) Cisco
4 5 (4.72%) Oracle
5 4 (3.77%) VMware
6 3 (2.83%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.83%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.83%) Symantec
6 3 (2.83%) Veeam
7 2 (1.89%) F5
7 2 (1.89%) IBM
7 2 (1.89%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.89%) TOWER Software
7 2 (1.89%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.94%) Arista
8 1 (0.94%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.94%) ESRI
8 1 (0.94%) McAfee
8 1 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud