Technology Roadmap Job Trends in the North West

Technology Roadmaps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Technology Roadmap skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 147 145
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +38
Permanent jobs citing Technology Roadmap 26 58 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.42% 1.12% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.24% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 12 40 26
10th Percentile £57,500 £44,525 £46,875
25th Percentile £59,620 £56,590 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,750
Median % change year-on-year - -1.06% +8.85%
75th Percentile £84,688 £77,813 £96,539
90th Percentile £89,750 £98,000 £123,937
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% -12.12% +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,116 4,694 3,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.01% 90.27% 89.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,462 2,311 2,675
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,320 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Technology Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Technology Roadmap job vacancy trend in the North West

Technology Roadmap
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technology Roadmap.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technology Roadmap

Technology Roadmap
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technology Roadmap in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technology Roadmap in the North West

Technology Roadmap
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Roadmap within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +1 18 £72,500 - 12
Merseyside -6 4 - - 1
Lancashire +3 1 £60,326 +4.31% 6
Cheshire -13 1 £70,000 -48.15% 1
Technology Roadmap
England

Technology 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 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Azure
3 6 (23.08%) GCP
4 5 (19.23%) SaaS
5 2 (7.69%) OCI
6 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) NoSQL
2 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 4 (15.38%) MySQL
3 3 (11.54%) Big Data
3 3 (11.54%) Hadoop
4 2 (7.69%) Neo4j
4 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Law
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
4 2 (7.69%) Games
4 2 (7.69%) General Ledger
4 2 (7.69%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Lead
2 5 (19.23%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.54%) AWS Architect
3 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) AWS Solution Architect
3 3 (11.54%) DevOps Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Software Developer
3 3 (11.54%) TOGAF Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Python Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 2 (7.69%) CSS
2 2 (7.69%) HTML
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.85%) Pyramid
3 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 8 (30.77%) Cyber Threat
1 8 (30.77%) Operational Technology
1 8 (30.77%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.69%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (7.69%) Online Games
5 1 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 12 (46.15%) Mentoring
2 12 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (42.31%) Business Strategy
4 9 (34.62%) Coaching
4 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
5 8 (30.77%) AI
5 8 (30.77%) Change Advisory Board
5 8 (30.77%) Cyber Intelligence
5 8 (30.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 8 (30.77%) ITIL
5 8 (30.77%) Microservices
5 8 (30.77%) Risk Management
5 8 (30.77%) SABSA
5 8 (30.77%) Security Operations
5 8 (30.77%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 8 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
5 8 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management
6 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
6 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) SQL
3 7 (26.92%) C#
4 4 (15.38%) Java
5 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) C
6 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) NIST
2 9 (34.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 3 (11.54%) GDPR
4 3 (11.54%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) HDFS
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft