Technology Roadmap Job Trends in Manchester

Technology Roadmaps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Technology Roadmap skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 122 123
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +21
Permanent jobs citing Technology Roadmap 18 37 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.65% 1.37% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.46% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10 25 19
10th Percentile £56,625 £56,809 £55,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.41% +0.53%
75th Percentile £86,563 £78,750 £110,238
90th Percentile £90,125 £91,000 £123,937
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,750
% change year-on-year - -1.06% +8.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Technology Roadmap 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 2,243 2,529 2,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 80.57% 93.42% 92.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 1,178 1,722
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,772
25th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,964
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%

Technology Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Technology Roadmap job vacancy trend in Manchester

Technology Roadmap
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Technology Roadmap.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Technology Roadmap

Technology Roadmap
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technology Roadmap in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technology Roadmap in Manchester

Technology Roadmap
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Roadmap within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 4 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
Bolton +16 1 £52,500 +96.26% 5
Technology Roadmap
North West

Technology Roadmap
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 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 5 (27.78%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) NoSQL
2 4 (22.22%) MySQL
3 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (11.11%) Big Data
4 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
4 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.56%) Neo4j
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Games
3 2 (11.11%) General Ledger
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Lead
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Technology Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Architect
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Games Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.11%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (22.22%) Operational Technology
1 4 (22.22%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (11.11%) Online Games
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 9 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (44.44%) Mentoring
3 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (38.89%) AI
5 6 (33.33%) Business Strategy
5 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 6 (33.33%) Microservices
6 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
6 5 (27.78%) Coaching
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (27.78%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (22.22%) Analytics
7 4 (22.22%) Cyber Intelligence
7 4 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 4 (22.22%) SABSA
7 4 (22.22%) Security Operations
7 4 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
7 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) C#
1 6 (33.33%) Python
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) NIST
2 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 2 (11.11%) GDPR
3 2 (11.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft