Strategic Roadmap Contracts in the North West

Strategic Roadmaps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Strategic Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 90 144
Rank change year-on-year -18 +54 +18
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 20 44 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.96% 1.59% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.88% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 26 8
10th Percentile - £531 £398
25th Percentile £463 £560 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £625 £556
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +12.36% -11.00%
75th Percentile £591 £834 £697
90th Percentile £638 £850 £725
England median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £70.16 £83.55 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% - -
England median hourly rate £61.33 £64.28 £90.00
% change year-on-year -4.59% -28.58% +151.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,853 2,337 2,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.70% 84.34% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,225 1,425 1,902
10th Percentile £300 £303 £313
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.04%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £670 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 265 154
10th Percentile £12.96 £11.00 £15.83
25th Percentile £19.00 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year - -1.77% +26.72%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.18 £44.92
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.61 £61.16
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Roadmap 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 Strategic Roadmap in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Roadmap in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in the North West over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap 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 Strategic Roadmap in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Roadmap 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 Strategic Roadmap within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Cheshire -14 7 £475 -16.67% 20
Manchester -10 6 £513 -31.21% 65
Lancashire 0 4 - - 23
Merseyside - 3 - - 12
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England

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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:

Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Magento
1 3 (15.00%) Sage 200
2 1 (5.00%) Maximo
2 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
1 4 (20.00%) GCP
2 3 (15.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) Network Security
2 4 (20.00%) BGP
2 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 4 (20.00%) LAN
2 4 (20.00%) MPLS
2 4 (20.00%) OSPF
2 4 (20.00%) VLAN
2 4 (20.00%) VPN
3 3 (15.00%) SAN
3 3 (15.00%) WLAN
4 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Automotive
3 1 (5.00%) Aviation
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Designer
3 4 (20.00%) Network Designer
3 4 (20.00%) Solutions Designer
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Industrial Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) .NET Architect
5 2 (10.00%) .NET Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Head of Architecture
6 1 (5.00%) Head of Digital
6 1 (5.00%) Head of Networks
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Integration Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Planning Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Product Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
1 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
1 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (30.00%) Service Design
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 5 (25.00%) ITSM
3 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 5 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 4 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 4 (20.00%) High Availability
4 4 (20.00%) ITIL
4 4 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 4 (20.00%) Network Design
4 4 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (20.00%) Use Case
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) C#
1 3 (15.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) CCIE
2 4 (20.00%) CCNP
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (20.00%) JNCIE
2 4 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Backup Exec
1 3 (15.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Cisco
2 4 (20.00%) F5
2 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 4 (20.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) Symantec
3 3 (15.00%) Veeam
4 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) SAP