Strategic Roadmap Job Trends in the West Midlands

Strategic Roadmaps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Strategic Roadmap skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 147 164
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 +88
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 15 52 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.28% 1.26% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 1.37% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8 28 13
10th Percentile £65,529 £49,236 £55,200
25th Percentile £68,750 £50,136 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% -6.13% +7.11%
75th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,875 £150,000 £121,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £82,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +9.76% +2.97% -3.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Strategic 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,341 3,795 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.12% 91.62% 87.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,264 1,687 2,757
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,938 £41,563 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Strategic Roadmap job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Strategic Roadmap
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Strategic Roadmap.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Strategic Roadmap

Strategic Roadmap
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the West Midlands

Strategic Roadmap
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 Strategic Roadmap within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Birmingham +8 6 £103,750 -1.19% 2
Shropshire -11 5 - - 1
Sutton Coldfield - 3 £72,500 -
Walsall - 1 £72,250 -
Strategic Roadmap
England

Strategic Roadmap
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 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (13.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (20.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (6.67%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) OCI
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (13.33%) VLAN
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 12 (80.00%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Manufacturing
3 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Law
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Games
5 2 (13.33%) Legal
5 2 (13.33%) Marketing
5 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Network Manager
2 5 (33.33%) Network Operations Manager
2 5 (33.33%) Operations Manager
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Production Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Production Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Lead
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) EDI
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
4 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
4 1 (6.67%) IoT
4 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 8 (53.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (46.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (33.33%) Cost Control
4 5 (33.33%) Migration
4 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 5 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (26.67%) Business Strategy
5 4 (26.67%) ERP
5 4 (26.67%) Technical Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) API Development
6 3 (20.00%) CRM
6 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (20.00%) Due Diligence
6 3 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Planon
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow