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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 112 112
Rank change year-on-year -40 0 +40
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 12 18 26
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.38% 0.92% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.01% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 17
10th Percentile £408 £456 -
25th Percentile £428 £478 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -3.51% -14.93%
75th Percentile £578 £622 £650
90th Percentile £618 £638 £850
England median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.59 -
England median hourly rate £51.50 £75.40 £67.50
% change year-on-year -31.69% +11.70% -

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 2,637 1,777 2,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.57% 90.80% 86.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,651 1,150 1,579
10th Percentile £240 £290 £313
25th Percentile £375 £390 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 112 257
10th Percentile £19.32 £16.37 £10.98
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.92 £13.50
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.88 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.60% +35.66% -37.00%
75th Percentile £71.50 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £84.13 £80.40 £51.91
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 2 April 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 April 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
Manchester -14 10 £488 +5.41% 12
Cheshire -15 2 £638 +8.51% 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 (8.33%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (8.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) ENOVIA
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (8.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Google Analytics
2 1 (8.33%) Google Tag Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (8.33%) DataStage
1 1 (8.33%) Looker
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Advertising
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (8.33%) Publishing
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Product Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Product Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Business Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Designer
4 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Designer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Process Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Performance Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Six Sigma Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (8.33%) BYOD
2 1 (8.33%) CMDB
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (8.33%) FMCG
2 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) AIX
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Solaris
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (58.33%) Product Strategy
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Product Management
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (16.67%) Business Process Mapping
6 2 (16.67%) Coaching
6 2 (16.67%) ERP
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Product Backlog
6 2 (16.67%) Product Vision
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (8.33%) Change Management
7 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) COBOL
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) PERC
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Facebook
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) PTC
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Siemens
2 1 (8.33%) VMware