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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 88 121
Rank change year-on-year -36 +33 +32
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 21 27 18
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.84% 1.27% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.45% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 12
10th Percentile £417 £608 £560
25th Percentile £469 £669 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £695 £659
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% +5.54% +3.27%
75th Percentile £563 £744 £718
90th Percentile £700 £788 £752
England median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £75.40 -
England median hourly rate £49.25 £75.40 £20.51
% change year-on-year -34.68% +267.60% -41.05%

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 2,207 1,859 2,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.17% 87.15% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,437 1,054 1,611
10th Percentile £213 £265 £306
25th Percentile £358 £390 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 95 156
10th Percentile £16.58 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £21.41 £21.05 £18.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £30.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -20.53% +38.53%
75th Percentile £56.89 £48.59 £46.88
90th Percentile £69.94 £69.12 £64.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

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 2 January 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

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 2 January 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 -11 13 £500 -28.32% 2
Manchester -12 7 £488 -27.78% 6
Merseyside - 1 £792 -
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 11 (52.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) ENOVIA
2 1 (4.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) GCP
1 2 (9.52%) Google Analytics
1 2 (9.52%) Google Tag Manager
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 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 9 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Senior
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Consultant
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%) Product Manager
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%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) GIS Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Process Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Business Process Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) LangChain
1 1 (4.76%) LangGraph
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 12 (57.14%) Business Process Mapping
2 12 (57.14%) ERP
3 11 (52.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (52.38%) Lean Six Sigma
3 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (52.38%) Process Improvement
3 11 (52.38%) Six Sigma
4 10 (47.62%) Coaching
4 10 (47.62%) Workshop Facilitation
5 6 (28.57%) SAP Implementation
6 5 (23.81%) Migration
6 5 (23.81%) Supply Chain Planning
7 4 (19.05%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (19.05%) Process Management
7 4 (19.05%) Product Strategy
8 3 (14.29%) Agile
8 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (9.52%) Analytics
9 2 (9.52%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Python
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) 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%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
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 12 (57.14%) SAP
2 2 (9.52%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Ariba
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