Line Management Contracts

Line Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Line Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Line Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 284 292
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +63
Contract jobs citing Line Management 368 563 844
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 0.94% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.05% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 417 567
10th Percentile £166 £238 £234
25th Percentile £295 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.45% +5.61%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £625
90th Percentile £888 £775 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £365 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -27.00% +6.38% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 35 36
10th Percentile £13.50 - £11.38
25th Percentile £15.46 £16.25 £18.58
Median hourly rate £23.32 £16.83 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +38.56% -37.64% +45.89%
75th Percentile £58.75 £52.86 £41.77
90th Percentile £68.00 £65.60 £51.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.62 £16.83 £26.98
% change year-on-year +159.18% -37.62% +45.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Line Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Line Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Line Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Line Management.

Daily rate trend for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Line Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Line Management.

Hourly rate trend for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Line Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Line Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +33 339 £550 +3.53% 743
UK excluding London -7 209 £365 -27.00% 583
Work from Home +68 136 £600 +11.63% 275
London +46 136 £625 +8.70% 216
South East +9 55 £450 -10.00% 141
South West +26 53 £173 -56.75% 98
North of England -11 40 £523 +4.50% 142
North West -10 29 £558 +11.50% 80
East of England +17 24 £300 -4.00% 56
Midlands -9 22 £438 -30.00% 101
West Midlands +20 19 £438 -36.36% 66
Yorkshire +5 15 £641 +16.59% 51
Scotland +5 13 £375 -25.45% 40
North East - 4 £720 - 13
Wales +11 3 £650 +293.94% 23
East Midlands -4 3 £525 +16.02% 35

Line Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (8.97%) Apache
2 32 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.82%) IIS
5 2 (0.54%) Confluence
5 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (8.15%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.36%) Simulink
5 5 (1.36%) Stateflow
5 5 (1.36%) TargetLink
6 3 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.27%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (3.26%) Workday HCM
2 4 (1.09%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.82%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.54%) iTrent
4 2 (0.54%) Primavera
4 2 (0.54%) SAP EHS
4 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.27%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 48 (13.04%) AWS
2 36 (9.78%) GCP
3 32 (8.70%) dbt
3 32 (8.70%) Snowflake
4 26 (7.07%) Azure
5 22 (5.98%) Power Platform
6 15 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (1.36%) Google Sheets
10 5 (1.36%) IaaS
10 5 (1.36%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.54%) Asana
12 2 (0.54%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (0.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.43%) Firewall
2 19 (5.16%) Structured Cabling
3 15 (4.08%) WAN
3 15 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (2.45%) LAN
5 7 (1.90%) Wireless
6 6 (1.63%) 5G
6 6 (1.63%) DNS
7 4 (1.09%) BGP
7 4 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.09%) DHCP
7 4 (1.09%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.09%) VPN
7 4 (1.09%) WLAN
8 3 (0.82%) Intranet
9 2 (0.54%) Broadband
9 2 (0.54%) MPLS
9 2 (0.54%) OSPF
9 2 (0.54%) SAN
9 2 (0.54%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
1 32 (8.70%) Apache Arrow
1 32 (8.70%) Apache Ignite
1 32 (8.70%) Data Lake
1 32 (8.70%) Dremio
2 22 (5.98%) Power BI
3 12 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.72%) GIS
5 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.82%) QlikView
7 2 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (3.80%) Git
2 6 (1.63%) Bitbucket
2 6 (1.63%) JIRA
2 6 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (1.36%) Subversion
4 4 (1.09%) NUnit
4 4 (1.09%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.82%) Selenium
6 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
General
1 136 (36.96%) Finance
2 98 (26.63%) Social Skills
3 55 (14.95%) Public Sector
4 46 (12.50%) Banking
5 45 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (9.51%) Front Office
6 35 (9.51%) Investment Banking
7 24 (6.52%) Legal
8 22 (5.98%) Telecoms
9 18 (4.89%) Local Government
9 18 (4.89%) Marketing
10 14 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (3.80%) Police
10 14 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (3.26%) Law
11 12 (3.26%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (2.72%) Retail
14 7 (1.90%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (14.95%) Senior
2 46 (12.50%) Analyst
3 41 (11.14%) Lead
3 41 (11.14%) Project Manager
4 40 (10.87%) Developer
5 22 (5.98%) Architect
6 19 (5.16%) Service Analyst
6 19 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
7 18 (4.89%) Consultant
7 18 (4.89%) Senior Manager
7 18 (4.89%) Service Desk Analyst
8 17 (4.62%) Software Team Leader
8 17 (4.62%) Team Leader
9 16 (4.35%) Administrator
9 16 (4.35%) Lead Developer
9 16 (4.35%) Lead Software Developer
9 16 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
9 16 (4.35%) Software Developer
9 16 (4.35%) Software Engineer
9 16 (4.35%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.70%) gRPC
1 32 (8.70%) NumPy
1 32 (8.70%) Pandas
1 32 (8.70%) Protocol Buffers
1 32 (8.70%) SciPy
2 15 (4.08%) .NET
3 12 (3.26%) .NET Core
4 8 (2.17%) YAML
5 6 (1.63%) JSON
6 5 (1.36%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.09%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.09%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (1.09%) Entity Framework
7 4 (1.09%) jQuery
7 4 (1.09%) WCF
8 3 (0.82%) KnockoutJS
8 3 (0.82%) XML
9 2 (0.54%) Node.js
9 2 (0.54%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 63 (17.12%) Management Information System
2 32 (8.70%) Derivative
2 32 (8.70%) Equities
2 32 (8.70%) Fixed Income
2 32 (8.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 32 (8.70%) Hedge funds
3 8 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.63%) Freedom of Information
5 6 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (1.63%) NHS
6 5 (1.36%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.36%) Freedom of Information Act
6 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.09%) CMDB
7 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.09%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.82%) PMI
8 3 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.79%) Windows
2 11 (2.99%) Linux
3 8 (2.17%) Unix
3 8 (2.17%) Windows 10
3 8 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.36%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.36%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.09%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.54%) CentOS
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (24.73%) Project Management
2 84 (22.83%) Agile
3 74 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (13.32%) ITIL
5 47 (12.77%) Change Management
6 43 (11.68%) Asset Management
6 43 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (11.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 39 (10.60%) PRINCE2
8 39 (10.60%) Risk Management
8 39 (10.60%) Roadmaps
8 39 (10.60%) Software Engineering
9 36 (9.78%) Project Delivery
10 35 (9.51%) Customer Service
11 32 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (7.61%) Decision-Making
12 28 (7.61%) Investment Management
13 27 (7.34%) Coaching
14 26 (7.07%) Incident Management
15 25 (6.79%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (10.05%) JavaScript
2 35 (9.51%) Python
3 34 (9.24%) Java
4 32 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 14 (3.80%) C#
6 13 (3.53%) SQL
7 10 (2.72%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.17%) Bicep
9 6 (1.63%) C
10 5 (1.36%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.36%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.82%) C++
11 3 (0.82%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.27%) VBA
12 1 (0.27%) VBScript
12 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 55 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 48 (13.04%) Degree
3 40 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
5 14 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 12 (3.26%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.17%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.63%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.36%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.36%) HNC
12 4 (1.09%) CCNA
12 4 (1.09%) MCSE
12 4 (1.09%) PMP
13 3 (0.82%) CCNP
13 3 (0.82%) HND
13 3 (0.82%) NVQ Level 4
14 2 (0.54%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.25%) SLA
2 21 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.53%) PMO
4 12 (3.26%) GDPR
5 9 (2.45%) NIST
6 6 (1.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 5 (1.36%) AUTOSAR
7 5 (1.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.36%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.36%) ISO 26262
7 5 (1.36%) MISRA
7 5 (1.36%) MISRA C
7 5 (1.36%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.36%) QA
8 3 (0.82%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.54%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 25 (6.79%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.09%) Firmware
3 4 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.82%) vSphere
5 2 (0.54%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.27%) Cronacle
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 10 (2.72%) Terraform
2 8 (2.17%) SCCM
3 4 (1.09%) Ansible
4 3 (0.82%) WSUS
5 2 (0.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (0.54%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.54%) Kibana
5 2 (0.54%) logstash
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.54%) Packer
5 2 (0.54%) Puppet
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Nessus
6 1 (0.27%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.27%) SCOM
6 1 (0.27%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
6 1 (0.27%) Simpana
Vendors
1 54 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.43%) ServiceNow
3 16 (4.35%) Workday
4 15 (4.08%) Cisco
5 10 (2.72%) SAP
6 9 (2.45%) Google
7 8 (2.17%) Juniper
7 8 (2.17%) VMware
8 7 (1.90%) MicroStrategy
8 7 (1.90%) Oracle
9 6 (1.63%) BT
10 4 (1.09%) Citrix
10 4 (1.09%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.09%) Sage
11 3 (0.82%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.54%) Hyperion
12 2 (0.54%) IBM
12 2 (0.54%) Pegasus
12 2 (0.54%) Remedy