Roadmaps Job Trends in the West Midlands

Roadmaps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Roadmaps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 75 60
Rank change year-on-year +20 -15 -23
Permanent jobs citing Roadmaps 212 108 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.35% 3.30% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 3.79% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 140 76 131
10th Percentile £43,625 £48,125 £46,713
25th Percentile £51,356 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -5.36% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,305 £85,000
90th Percentile £94,625 £95,625 £112,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,263 2,846 4,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.54% 87.09% 81.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,564 1,741 2,263
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +7.57%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Roadmaps job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Roadmaps
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Roadmaps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Roadmaps

Roadmaps
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Roadmaps in the West Midlands

Roadmaps
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Roadmaps within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Birmingham +14 116 £70,530 +4.49% 159
Staffordshire +7 20 £52,594 -9.71% 20
Coventry -7 17 £62,500 -16.67% 17
Warwickshire -23 13 £42,500 -34.62% 34
Shropshire - 12 £51,356 - 20
Solihull +9 9 £45,000 -33.33% 23
Worcestershire -20 6 £70,000 +36.59% 31
Wolverhampton -4 5 £92,500 - 10
Herefordshire -14 3 £65,000 +1.96% 4
West Bromwich - 1 £47,500 -
Dudley - 1 - - 1
Rowley Regis - 1 £72,500 - 1
Roadmaps
England

Roadmaps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 13 (6.13%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.83%) CICS
4 2 (0.94%) IIS
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (4.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.42%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.94%) Magento
4 2 (0.94%) Shopify
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.47%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.47%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.47%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 69 (32.55%) Azure
2 47 (22.17%) Power Platform
3 23 (10.85%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (9.91%) SaaS
5 20 (9.43%) AWS
6 17 (8.02%) Power Automate
7 16 (7.55%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (6.13%) GCP
10 12 (5.66%) GitHub
11 10 (4.72%) Serverless
12 9 (4.25%) Azure Functions
13 7 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.30%) PaaS
13 7 (3.30%) PowerApps
14 6 (2.83%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.83%) Snowflake
15 4 (1.89%) IaaS
15 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
16 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.42%) SAN
2 2 (0.94%) HTTP
2 2 (0.94%) SMS
3 1 (0.47%) CTI
3 1 (0.47%) Extranet
3 1 (0.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) Internet
3 1 (0.47%) Intranet
3 1 (0.47%) LAN
3 1 (0.47%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.47%) Modbus
3 1 (0.47%) MQTT
3 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.47%) VoIP
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.47%) WAN
3 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.68%) Power BI
2 16 (7.55%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.13%) Data Lake
3 13 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (5.66%) Power Query
5 10 (4.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (4.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (2.83%) Big Data
6 6 (2.83%) Db2
6 6 (2.83%) Tableau
7 5 (2.36%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.36%) Oracle BI EE
7 5 (2.36%) QlikView
8 4 (1.89%) Metadata
8 4 (1.89%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.42%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.47%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (5.19%) Git
2 8 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.94%) Ant
3 2 (0.94%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (0.94%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.94%) JIRA
3 2 (0.94%) Maven
4 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.47%) NUnit
4 1 (0.47%) Yeoman
General
1 62 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 61 (28.77%) Finance
3 45 (21.23%) Public Sector
4 29 (13.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (11.32%) Influencing Skills
6 22 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (7.55%) Legal
8 13 (6.13%) Manufacturing
8 13 (6.13%) Marketing
8 13 (6.13%) Retail
9 11 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (4.72%) Automotive
10 10 (4.72%) Fire and Rescue
11 7 (3.30%) Banking
11 7 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.83%) Advertising
13 4 (1.89%) Digital Economy
14 3 (1.42%) Billing
14 3 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.42%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 56 (26.42%) Architect
2 34 (16.04%) Lead
3 30 (14.15%) Senior
4 23 (10.85%) Enterprise Architect
5 15 (7.08%) Developer
5 15 (7.08%) Senior Architect
6 12 (5.66%) Product Manager
7 11 (5.19%) Data Architect
8 10 (4.72%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 10 (4.72%) Consultant
8 10 (4.72%) Platform Architect
8 10 (4.72%) Product Owner
8 10 (4.72%) Team Leader
9 9 (4.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 9 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.77%) Head of IT
11 7 (3.30%) Analyst
11 7 (3.30%) IT Manager
12 6 (2.83%) Applications Consultant
12 6 (2.83%) Java Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.38%) .NET
2 11 (5.19%) XML
3 9 (4.25%) JSON
4 8 (3.77%) XSLT
5 6 (2.83%) ISPF
5 6 (2.83%) Spring
5 6 (2.83%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.83%) Terraform
6 5 (2.36%) PyTorch
6 5 (2.36%) React
6 5 (2.36%) REST
6 5 (2.36%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.42%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.42%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.42%) Kafka
8 2 (0.94%) Django
8 2 (0.94%) RESTful
8 2 (0.94%) Vue
8 2 (0.94%) Web Services
8 2 (0.94%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.91%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.02%) Management Information System
3 15 (7.08%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.66%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (5.19%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.77%) Taxonomies
7 6 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.83%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.83%) Mainframe
8 5 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.36%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.36%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.89%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.42%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.66%) Windows
2 7 (3.30%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.42%) Android
4 2 (0.94%) Linux
4 2 (0.94%) Solaris
4 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (36.32%) Continuous Improvement
2 63 (29.72%) AI
3 57 (26.89%) Analytics
4 55 (25.94%) Technology Roadmap
5 49 (23.11%) Decision-Making
6 45 (21.23%) Agile
7 42 (19.81%) DevOps
7 42 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (19.34%) Data Governance
9 40 (18.87%) CI/CD
10 39 (18.40%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (16.51%) Business Intelligence
12 32 (15.09%) Data Architecture
12 32 (15.09%) Data Modelling
12 32 (15.09%) IT Strategy
12 32 (15.09%) Mentoring
13 31 (14.62%) Enterprise Architecture
14 27 (12.74%) Strategic Roadmap
14 27 (12.74%) Technology Strategy
15 26 (12.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (11.79%) C#
2 24 (11.32%) Python
2 24 (11.32%) SQL
3 13 (6.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 13 (6.13%) Java
4 11 (5.19%) JavaScript
4 11 (5.19%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.83%) COBOL
5 6 (2.83%) JCL
6 5 (2.36%) R
7 3 (1.42%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.94%) Bicep
8 2 (0.94%) Go
8 2 (0.94%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.47%) Bash
9 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (13.21%) Degree
2 16 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.30%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.36%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.42%) A+ Certification
6 3 (1.42%) CIPD
6 3 (1.42%) CISSP
6 3 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.47%) ACCA
8 1 (0.47%) CCA
8 1 (0.47%) CIMA
8 1 (0.47%) CITP
8 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.15%) Data Quality
2 24 (11.32%) GDPR
3 13 (6.13%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.77%) WCAG
5 5 (2.36%) QA
6 4 (1.89%) SLA
7 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.47%) GxP
9 1 (0.47%) NCSC
9 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.47%) PSD2
9 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.36%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.36%) Docker
1 5 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.94%) vSphere
2 2 (0.94%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.42%) Ansible
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.94%) Bosun
3 2 (0.94%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.94%) Puppet
4 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.47%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.55%) Databricks
3 11 (5.19%) SAP
4 8 (3.77%) YouTube
5 7 (3.30%) VMware
6 6 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.36%) Citrix
7 5 (2.36%) Samsung
8 4 (1.89%) Dell
9 3 (1.42%) Google
10 2 (0.94%) Ariba
10 2 (0.94%) Cisco
10 2 (0.94%) Isilon
10 2 (0.94%) Mitel
10 2 (0.94%) Sophos
10 2 (0.94%) TikTok
10 2 (0.94%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.47%) Avaya
11 1 (0.47%) Botify
11 1 (0.47%) HighQ