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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 106 92
Rank change year-on-year -42 -14 +50
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 17 20 45
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.47% 0.98% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.10% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 27
10th Percentile £403 - £535
25th Percentile £423 £463 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £494 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.39% -17.71% +7.87%
75th Percentile £625 £591 £819
90th Percentile £700 £638 £850
England median daily rate £575 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.56% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £72.87
25th Percentile - - £76.88
Median hourly rate £85.00 £70.16 £83.55
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% -16.03% -
75th Percentile - - £84.67
90th Percentile - - £85.33
England median hourly rate £85.00 £61.33 £64.28
% change year-on-year +38.59% -4.59% -28.58%

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 2,994 1,819 2,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.61% 88.73% 84.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 1,208 1,425
10th Percentile £300 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -8.08% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £585
90th Percentile £675 £666 £675
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 111 265
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.13 £14.22
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.76 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.43% +5.87% -1.77%
75th Percentile £76.00 £61.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.00 £66.61
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%

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 1 July 2026.

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 1 July 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 -30 12 £550 +7.32% 14
Merseyside -15 4 £550 - 1
Cheshire -15 1 - - 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 (5.88%) CICS
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) GCP
2 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Retail
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Advertising
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
1 7 (41.18%) Product Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Lead Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Contracts Manager
4 2 (11.76%) CRM Architect
4 2 (11.76%) CRM Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Product Manager
5 1 (5.88%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (5.88%) E-Commerce Product Manager
5 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.88%) ITIL Problem Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Problem Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) BYOD
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) AIX
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Solaris
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 11 (64.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Product Strategy
3 5 (29.41%) Product Vision
3 5 (29.41%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (23.53%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 4 (23.53%) Product Management
4 4 (23.53%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (17.65%) B2C
5 3 (17.65%) Business Strategy
5 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
5 3 (17.65%) Product Backlog
6 2 (11.76%) API Integration
6 2 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
6 2 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (11.76%) IT Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) VMware