Roadmaps Job Trends in Manchester

Roadmaps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Roadmaps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 27 29
Rank change year-on-year -32 +2 +15
Permanent jobs citing Roadmaps 80 183 185
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.76% 6.90% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 7.35% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 63 91 148
10th Percentile £52,644 £46,713 £50,200
25th Percentile £59,625 £57,155 £56,021
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,991 £66,425
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +8.38% +2.19%
75th Percentile £89,500 £87,500 £84,283
90th Percentile £111,750 £100,000 £96,539
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.29% +3.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Roadmaps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,312 2,490 2,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.67% 93.86% 90.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,396 1,165 1,857
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Roadmaps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Roadmaps job vacancy trend in Manchester

Roadmaps
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Roadmaps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Roadmaps

Roadmaps
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Roadmaps in Manchester

Roadmaps
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Roadmaps within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Altrincham -4 4 £62,500 +25.00% 1
Salford -3 2 £73,300 +23.34% 4
Bolton +13 1 £52,500 +96.26% 8
Roadmaps
North West

Roadmaps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.50%) CMS
2 2 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.50%) Sketch
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (45.00%) Azure
2 29 (36.25%) AWS
3 14 (17.50%) GCP
4 13 (16.25%) SaaS
5 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.00%) GitHub
6 4 (5.00%) OCI
7 3 (3.75%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.50%) dbt
8 2 (2.50%) Figma
8 2 (2.50%) IaaS
8 2 (2.50%) PaaS
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.25%) Collibra
9 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.25%) Google Analytics
9 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) SAN
2 2 (2.50%) OpenVPN
2 2 (2.50%) SSH
3 1 (1.25%) Network Security
3 1 (1.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 9 (11.25%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.00%) MySQL
5 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.50%) Big Data
6 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.25%) DB2
7 1 (1.25%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.25%) Power BI
7 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) JIRA
2 4 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.50%) Git
3 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.00%) Finance
3 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Marketing
5 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.25%) Law
5 5 (6.25%) Retail
6 2 (2.50%) Automotive
6 2 (2.50%) Electronics
6 2 (2.50%) Games
6 2 (2.50%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.50%) Legal
6 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.25%) Back Office
7 1 (1.25%) Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) Lead
2 17 (21.25%) Architect
2 17 (21.25%) Developer
3 10 (12.50%) Senior
3 10 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (11.25%) Product Manager
5 8 (10.00%) .NET Developer
6 7 (8.75%) Lead Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Lead .NET Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Oracle Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Product Owner
9 3 (3.75%) Consultant
9 3 (3.75%) Lead Architect
9 3 (3.75%) Lead Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) .NET
2 6 (7.50%) Hibernate
2 6 (7.50%) Spring
2 6 (7.50%) Spring Boot
3 5 (6.25%) CSS
4 3 (3.75%) HTML
4 3 (3.75%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.75%) React
4 3 (3.75%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.50%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.50%) Blazor
5 2 (2.50%) Framer.js
5 2 (2.50%) Jest
5 2 (2.50%) Kafka
5 2 (2.50%) Next.js
5 2 (2.50%) Node.js
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (2.50%) RESTful
6 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.25%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.50%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.25%) Clustering
3 5 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (5.00%) Low-Code
4 4 (5.00%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.50%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.50%) Animation
6 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.50%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.50%) Online Games
6 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Windows
1 4 (5.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (3.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.25%) Agile
2 27 (33.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (28.75%) DevOps
4 18 (22.50%) AI
4 18 (22.50%) CI/CD
4 18 (22.50%) Microservices
4 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (21.25%) Technology Roadmap
6 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (17.50%) Product Roadmap
8 13 (16.25%) Business Strategy
9 11 (13.75%) Containerisation
9 11 (13.75%) Decision-Making
9 11 (13.75%) Mentoring
9 11 (13.75%) Strategic Roadmap
10 10 (12.50%) Analytics
10 10 (12.50%) Clean Code
11 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (11.25%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (10.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.50%) Python
2 11 (13.75%) C#
3 8 (10.00%) Java
3 8 (10.00%) SQL
4 6 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.00%) Bicep
6 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.50%) C
8 1 (1.25%) Go
8 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (7.50%) Degree
2 5 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.75%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.25%) CISM
6 1 (1.25%) CISSP
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) CRISC
6 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.25%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) NIST
2 6 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.75%) GDPR
5 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.25%) GRC
6 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.25%) NCSC
6 1 (1.25%) PMO
6 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (16.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.00%) Oracle
3 6 (7.50%) Google
4 4 (5.00%) VMware
5 3 (3.75%) SAP
6 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Concur
7 1 (1.25%) Databricks
7 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.25%) Sitecore