Strategic Roadmap Contract Job Trends in the North West

Strategic Roadmaps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Strategic Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 86 126
Rank change year-on-year -29 +40 +22
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 23 33 16
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.94% 1.42% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.68% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 11
10th Percentile £418 £513 £500
25th Percentile £456 £550 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £717
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -5.86% +12.43%
75th Percentile £519 £699 £723
90th Percentile £681 £788 £756
England median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £70.16 £75.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £66.72 £71.25
% change year-on-year -25.06% -6.36% +103.57%

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 2,143 1,962 2,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.04% 84.50% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 1,056 1,650
10th Percentile £213 £294 £270
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £651 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 119 155
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.21 £16.10
25th Percentile £19.12 £22.94 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% - +45.83%
75th Percentile £46.71 £51.89 £46.53
90th Percentile £70.81 £69.98 £64.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Strategic Roadmap job vacancy trend in the North West

Strategic Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Strategic Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in the North West over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the North West

Strategic Roadmap
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Strategic Roadmap
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 25 November 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 -21 14 £500 -28.57% 1
Manchester -12 7 £481 -12.50% 6
Lancashire -15 1 - - 5
Merseyside - 1 £792 - 1
Strategic Roadmap
England

Strategic Roadmap
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 1 (4.35%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (4.35%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (47.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.35%) ENOVIA
2 1 (4.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) AWS
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
1 2 (8.70%) GCP
1 2 (8.70%) SaaS
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (4.35%) Google Analytics
2 1 (4.35%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) BGP
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
2 1 (4.35%) MPLS
2 1 (4.35%) OSPF
2 1 (4.35%) VLAN
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.35%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (4.35%) GIS
1 1 (4.35%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) Pylint
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Product Manager
2 3 (13.04%) Consultant
2 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Lean Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Process Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Process Mapping Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Product Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Six Sigma Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) GIS Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Head of Digital
4 1 (4.35%) Head of Networks
4 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) SAP Business Process Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) LangChain
1 1 (4.35%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) FMCG
2 1 (4.35%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 14 (60.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (52.17%) Business Process Mapping
3 12 (52.17%) ERP
3 12 (52.17%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (47.83%) Lean Six Sigma
4 11 (47.83%) Process Improvement
4 11 (47.83%) Six Sigma
5 10 (43.48%) Coaching
5 10 (43.48%) Workshop Facilitation
6 6 (26.09%) Product Strategy
6 6 (26.09%) SAP Implementation
7 5 (21.74%) Agile
7 5 (21.74%) Migration
7 5 (21.74%) Product Management
7 5 (21.74%) Supply Chain Planning
8 4 (17.39%) Proactive Monitoring
8 4 (17.39%) Process Management
8 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (13.04%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.35%) CCIE
3 1 (4.35%) CCNP
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) JNCIE
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) SOC 1
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) SAP
2 1 (4.35%) Ariba
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco
2 1 (4.35%) F5
2 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) PTC
2 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.35%) Siemens
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk