Line Management Contracts in Cheshire

Line Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Line Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Line Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 52 45
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Line Management 2 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.45% 1.19% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.41% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 10
10th Percentile - £173 -
25th Percentile - £260 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £273 £350
Median % change year-on-year - -22.00% +35.92%
75th Percentile - £276 £596
90th Percentile - £457 £629
North West median daily rate £564 £558 £500
% change year-on-year +1.17% +11.50% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Line Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Line Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Line Management in Cheshire

Line Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Line Management in Cheshire

Line Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Line Management in Cheshire

Line Management
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Warrington -5 2 - - 5
Line Management
North West

Line Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) vMotion
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware