Time Management Contracts

Time Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Time Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Time Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 199 238
Rank change year-on-year +34 +39 -5
Contract jobs citing Time Management 643 788 1,079
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.49% 1.36% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.51% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 519 716
10th Percentile £168 £202 £185
25th Percentile £256 £356 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £460 £425
% change year-on-year -9.78% +8.24% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 60 68
10th Percentile - £14.38 £9.92
25th Percentile £10.95 £20.22 £10.77
Median hourly rate £13.00 £51.25 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.63% +294.23% +4.00%
75th Percentile £16.09 £69.06 £21.69
90th Percentile £27.91 £77.50 £51.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.57 £58.59 £13.00
% change year-on-year -78.55% +350.69% +10.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Time 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 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Time Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Time Management in the UK

Time Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Time Management in the UK

Time Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Time Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Time Management in the UK

Time Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Time Management in the UK

Time Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Time Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Time Management in the UK

Time Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Time Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +55 572 £431 -13.90% 1,054
UK excluding London +32 390 £415 -9.78% 837
London +13 197 £440 -22.81% 278
Work from Home +5 155 £475 -5.00% 361
South East +3 99 £488 +7.44% 213
North of England +56 98 £493 -10.36% 201
North West +54 81 £493 -24.15% 120
Midlands +60 74 £255 -40.00% 162
East Midlands +58 54 £254 -46.53% 62
South West +14 49 £475 -5.00% 115
East of England +28 43 £260 +9.24% 100
Scotland -1 29 £438 +3.06% 48
West Midlands +10 19 £298 -19.89% 100
Yorkshire -1 14 £445 -24.26% 66
North East +5 2 - - 23

Time 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 22 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.56%) Confluence
4 5 (0.78%) IIS
5 4 (0.62%) Apache
5 4 (0.62%) govService
6 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.31%) CMS
7 2 (0.31%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 129 (20.06%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (11.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (8.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.02%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.87%) Adobe Illustrator
5 12 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (1.87%) Photoshop
6 11 (1.71%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (1.24%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.62%) InDesign
9 3 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.16%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.16%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.16%) Sketch
11 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (2.49%) Shopify
2 5 (0.78%) SAP HCM
3 4 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.62%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.47%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.47%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.47%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.31%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.31%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.16%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 57 (8.86%) Azure
2 49 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (6.22%) AWS
4 16 (2.49%) BigCommerce
4 16 (2.49%) GitHub
5 14 (2.18%) IaaS
6 12 (1.87%) GCP
7 10 (1.56%) Entra ID
7 10 (1.56%) OpenShift
8 9 (1.40%) SaaS
9 8 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.09%) OneDrive
10 7 (1.09%) Power Platform
11 6 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (0.93%) PaaS
11 6 (0.93%) Serverless
11 6 (0.93%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.60%) Firewall
2 22 (3.42%) DNS
3 13 (2.02%) LAN
4 12 (1.87%) VPN
5 10 (1.56%) DHCP
5 10 (1.56%) Network Security
5 10 (1.56%) WAN
6 9 (1.40%) Internet
6 9 (1.40%) MPLS
6 9 (1.40%) Structured Cabling
6 9 (1.40%) VSAN
7 8 (1.24%) Cisco ISE
7 8 (1.24%) Wireless
8 7 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.93%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.47%) FTP
12 2 (0.31%) HTTP
12 2 (0.31%) VoIP
12 2 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.40%) Relational Database
3 8 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (0.78%) Power BI
4 5 (0.78%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.62%) MySQL
5 4 (0.62%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.62%) Tableau
6 3 (0.47%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.47%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.47%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.31%) Big Data
7 2 (0.31%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.16%) HBase
8 1 (0.16%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 26 (4.04%) JIRA
2 21 (3.27%) Git
3 11 (1.71%) Bitbucket
4 10 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.40%) Selenium
6 6 (0.93%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.93%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.93%) Dreamweaver
6 6 (0.93%) JUnit
7 5 (0.78%) Gradle
7 5 (0.78%) Maven
8 4 (0.62%) Appium
8 4 (0.62%) Sourcetree
9 3 (0.47%) GitLab
9 3 (0.47%) Postman
10 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.31%) TestNG
10 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 340 (52.88%) Social Skills
2 178 (27.68%) Organisational Skills
3 106 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (15.24%) Presentation Skills
5 96 (14.93%) Finance
6 60 (9.33%) Marketing
7 47 (7.31%) Public Sector
7 47 (7.31%) Retail
8 20 (3.11%) Mandarin Language
9 19 (2.95%) Banking
10 18 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (2.80%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.49%) Legal
12 8 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.24%) German Language
13 7 (1.09%) Electronics
13 7 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.93%) French Language
15 5 (0.78%) Advertising
15 5 (0.78%) Billing
Job Titles
1 77 (11.98%) Analyst
2 59 (9.18%) Project Manager
3 33 (5.13%) Administrator
3 33 (5.13%) Architect
4 28 (4.35%) Consultant
4 28 (4.35%) Coordinator
4 28 (4.35%) Senior
5 24 (3.73%) Lead
6 22 (3.42%) Developer
6 22 (3.42%) Support Engineer
7 20 (3.11%) Project Coordinator
8 18 (2.80%) Desktop Engineer
9 17 (2.64%) 1st Line Engineer
9 17 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (2.64%) Test Engineer
10 16 (2.49%) Desktop Support
10 16 (2.49%) SOC Analyst
11 15 (2.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 15 (2.33%) Service Analyst
11 15 (2.33%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.11%) REST
2 14 (2.18%) CSS
2 14 (2.18%) HTML
3 11 (1.71%) VML
4 9 (1.40%) .NET
5 8 (1.24%) AngularJS
5 8 (1.24%) Web Services
6 6 (0.93%) GraphQL
6 6 (0.93%) Middleware
6 6 (0.93%) React
6 6 (0.93%) Sass
7 5 (0.78%) HTML5
7 5 (0.78%) RAML
7 5 (0.78%) SAML
7 5 (0.78%) SOAP
8 4 (0.62%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.62%) OpenID
8 4 (0.62%) RESTful
8 4 (0.62%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.75%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (6.38%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.42%) CSOC
4 21 (3.27%) Security Operations Centre
5 17 (2.64%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.71%) Animation
7 10 (1.56%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.56%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.24%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.09%) Graphic Design
9 7 (1.09%) Replication
10 6 (0.93%) CMDB
10 6 (0.93%) Legacy Code
10 6 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
11 5 (0.78%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.78%) iPad
11 5 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.78%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.78%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 109 (16.95%) Windows
2 49 (7.62%) Windows 10
3 30 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 27 (4.20%) Linux
5 15 (2.33%) Unix
6 12 (1.87%) Android
7 9 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (0.93%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.62%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.62%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.16%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.16%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (31.57%) Problem-Solving
2 161 (25.04%) Decision-Making
3 116 (18.04%) Project Management
4 103 (16.02%) Agile
5 96 (14.93%) Customer Service
6 67 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 63 (9.80%) Project Delivery
8 53 (8.24%) Conflict Management
9 51 (7.93%) Analytics
10 44 (6.84%) Migration
11 40 (6.22%) Cybersecurity
11 40 (6.22%) ITIL
11 40 (6.22%) Risk Management
12 36 (5.60%) Collaborative Working
12 36 (5.60%) Service Management
13 34 (5.29%) DevOps
13 34 (5.29%) PRINCE2
14 32 (4.98%) Mentoring
15 31 (4.82%) Stakeholder Management
16 28 (4.35%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (4.82%) SQL
2 20 (3.11%) Java
3 18 (2.80%) Python
4 12 (1.87%) PowerShell
5 10 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.09%) C#
7 4 (0.62%) Bicep
7 4 (0.62%) Kotlin
7 4 (0.62%) Perl
7 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.62%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.47%) Bash
9 2 (0.31%) ABAP
9 2 (0.31%) VBScript
10 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.16%) Groovy
10 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.16%) VB
10 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 156 (24.26%) Degree
2 142 (22.08%) Security Cleared
3 96 (14.93%) SC Cleared
4 41 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 28 (4.35%) NVQ Level 3
6 26 (4.04%) SANS
7 19 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.95%) HNC
7 19 (2.95%) HND
8 14 (2.18%) PMP
9 12 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.71%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.40%) CISM
11 9 (1.40%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.24%) CCNP
12 8 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (1.09%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.93%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.62%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.47%) SLA
2 40 (6.22%) PMO
3 38 (5.91%) QA
4 28 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 12 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.87%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.24%) GDPR
6 8 (1.24%) NIST
7 6 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.31%) HL7
9 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.16%) Basel III
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) FINREP
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) GxP
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 58 (9.02%) Active Directory
2 36 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (2.64%) Docker
4 15 (2.33%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.09%) vCloud
6 6 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.93%) vSphere
7 5 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.47%) HDFS
8 3 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.31%) Firmware
9 2 (0.31%) NFS
10 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.16%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 22 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (3.27%) SCCM
3 20 (3.11%) Terraform
4 19 (2.95%) Kubernetes
5 13 (2.02%) vCenter Server
6 10 (1.56%) VxRail
7 8 (1.24%) Nessus
8 7 (1.09%) Istio
8 7 (1.09%) Rancher
9 6 (0.93%) Ansible
10 5 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.62%) MOM
12 2 (0.31%) Kibana
12 2 (0.31%) logstash
12 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.31%) Packer
13 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
13 1 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 162 (25.19%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.62%) SAP
3 44 (6.84%) VMware
4 26 (4.04%) Adobe
5 25 (3.89%) Oracle
6 24 (3.73%) Salesforce
7 22 (3.42%) Dell
7 22 (3.42%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.95%) Google
9 18 (2.80%) Cisco
10 15 (2.33%) Sitecore
11 14 (2.18%) Citrix
12 10 (1.56%) Apple
13 8 (1.24%) Juniper
13 8 (1.24%) Okta
14 7 (1.09%) Intel
14 7 (1.09%) Palo Alto
14 7 (1.09%) ScienceLogic
15 6 (0.93%) dotdigital
16 5 (0.78%) CyberArk