People Management Contract Job Trends in the East of England

People Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring People Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 84 101
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 +22
Contract jobs citing People Management 5 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.27% 0.28% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.33% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £297 £275
25th Percentile £513 £364 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £478 £388
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% +23.23% -33.05%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £417
90th Percentile - £656 £528
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -0.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

People 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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,479 920 1,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 80.21% 86.71% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 464 821
10th Percentile £196 £243 £250
25th Percentile £351 £393 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +2.51% -2.50%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £695 £701
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 151 500
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.35 £19.63 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.72 £50.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.56% +31.16% +15.69%
75th Percentile £63.11 £71.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
% change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing People Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

People Management job vacancy trend in the East of England

People Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing People Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing People Management

People Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing People Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing People Management

People Management
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing People Management within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire - 2 - - 1
Essex - 2 - - 2
Cambridgeshire +3 1 £525 -25.00%
People Management
England

People Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Services Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (40.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) VB
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (20.00%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cognos
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (20.00%) jetNEXUS