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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 98 114
Rank change year-on-year -32 +16 +27
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 21 27 26
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.80% 1.28% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.45% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 19
10th Percentile £418 £495 -
25th Percentile £484 £600 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £695 £570
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% +21.93% -10.62%
75th Percentile £588 £744 £717
90th Percentile £688 £788 £727
England median daily rate £575 £623 £650
% change year-on-year -7.63% -4.23% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £75.40 -
England median hourly rate £40.75 £63.95 £44.01
% change year-on-year -36.28% +45.32% +26.49%

All Process & 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 2,285 1,864 2,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.11% 88.34% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 1,087 1,674
10th Percentile £213 £275 £306
25th Percentile £358 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £551 £570 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 101 204
10th Percentile £16.28 £16.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.85 £22.72 £16.19
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.40 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +37.96% -5.34% -14.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.85 £74.75 £55.11
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

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

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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 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the North West

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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

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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 1 February 2026. 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 -18 11 £500 -28.57% 1
Manchester -15 9 £538 -4.44% 9
Merseyside - 1 £792 - 2
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 (4.76%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (4.76%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (42.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) ENOVIA
2 1 (4.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) Google Analytics
2 2 (9.52%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
1 2 (9.52%) Looker
2 1 (4.76%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (4.76%) GIS
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Pylint
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Publishing
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Product Manager
1 4 (19.05%) Senior
2 3 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Lean Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Process Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Process Mapping Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Product Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Six Sigma Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (4.76%) E-Commerce Product Manager
4 1 (4.76%) GIS Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Performance Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) LangChain
1 1 (4.76%) LangGraph
1 1 (4.76%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) CMDB
2 1 (4.76%) FMCG
2 1 (4.76%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (4.76%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 10 (47.62%) Business Process Mapping
2 10 (47.62%) ERP
3 9 (42.86%) Coaching
3 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (42.86%) Lean Six Sigma
3 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (42.86%) Process Improvement
3 9 (42.86%) Six Sigma
4 8 (38.10%) Workshop Facilitation
5 5 (23.81%) Migration
5 5 (23.81%) Product Strategy
5 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (23.81%) Supply Chain Planning
6 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (19.05%) SAP Implementation
7 3 (14.29%) Analytics
7 3 (14.29%) Product Management
8 2 (9.52%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Python
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) PERC
2 1 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) SOC 1
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) SAP
2 2 (9.52%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Facebook
3 1 (4.76%) PTC
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Siemens
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk