Line Management Contract Job Trends in England

Line Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Line Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 305 264
Rank change year-on-year -24 -41 +59
Contract jobs citing Line Management 221 201 306
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.72% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.81% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 112 206
10th Percentile £311 £247 £172
25th Percentile £365 £355 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +1.47% -10.41%
75th Percentile £735 £688 £600
90th Percentile £800 £800 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 21
10th Percentile - £14.41 £14.18
25th Percentile £12.50 £20.13 £15.16
Median hourly rate £41.94 £23.60 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +77.71% +51.09% -7.19%
75th Percentile £81.00 £46.50 £35.75
90th Percentile - £69.00 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £19.23 £26.50 £15.62
% change year-on-year -27.43% +69.65% -7.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,064 24,952 32,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.52% 88.77% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,908 15,353 21,703
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,766 818 1,417
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.39
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%

Line Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Line Management job vacancy trend in England

Line Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Line Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Line Management

Line Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Line Management in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Line Management in England

Line Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Line Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Line Management

Line Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Line Management in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Line Management in England

Line Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -15 90 £663 +32.50% 126
South East +3 39 £484 -3.30% 105
Midlands -22 32 £395 -12.22% 57
South West -7 25 £600 - 40
North of England -54 23 £425 -32.86% 89
West Midlands -22 21 £365 -23.00% 29
North West -28 14 £400 -29.08% 47
East Midlands -12 11 £450 +26.40% 28
East of England -25 10 £350 -30.00% 34
Yorkshire -51 6 £445 -36.43% 33
North East -5 4 £450 +5.88% 11
Line Management
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Line Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.90%) Apache
3 2 (0.90%) Confluence
3 2 (0.90%) SAS
3 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) Luigi
4 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (9.50%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (8.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.62%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.45%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (2.26%) Workday HCM
2 4 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.45%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 47 (21.27%) AWS
2 31 (14.03%) Azure
3 11 (4.98%) GCP
3 11 (4.98%) Power Platform
4 10 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.52%) SaaS
5 7 (3.17%) GitHub
5 7 (3.17%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.26%) dbt
7 4 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.81%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.90%) Route 53
9 2 (0.90%) Serverless
9 2 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.43%) Firewall
2 9 (4.07%) Wireless
3 5 (2.26%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.36%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.90%) 2G
5 2 (0.90%) 5G
5 2 (0.90%) BGP
5 2 (0.90%) LTE
5 2 (0.90%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.90%) NGFW
5 2 (0.90%) OSPF
5 2 (0.90%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.90%) SSH
5 2 (0.90%) Telnet
5 2 (0.90%) VoIP
6 1 (0.45%) DHCP
6 1 (0.45%) Intranet
6 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.98%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.52%) Power BI
3 6 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.71%) Oracle Database
4 5 (2.26%) MySQL
4 5 (2.26%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.81%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.36%) Tableau
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.90%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.90%) Metadata
7 2 (0.90%) Redis
8 1 (0.45%) Big Data
8 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.45%) KDB
8 1 (0.45%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.45%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (5.88%) JIRA
2 9 (4.07%) SpecFlow
3 7 (3.17%) Burp Suite
3 7 (3.17%) Git
3 7 (3.17%) Metasploit
4 5 (2.26%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.36%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.90%) Mocha
7 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.45%) GitLab
7 1 (0.45%) JMeter
7 1 (0.45%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.45%) QUnit
7 1 (0.45%) Selenium
7 1 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 80 (36.20%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.27%) Finance
3 42 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.60%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (6.33%) Legal
6 13 (5.88%) Banking
7 12 (5.43%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.07%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.62%) Retail
10 7 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.26%) Military
12 4 (1.81%) Aviation
12 4 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.36%) Law
13 3 (1.36%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.90%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.90%) Front Office
14 2 (0.90%) Local Government
15 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (14.48%) Senior
2 30 (13.57%) Analyst
3 26 (11.76%) Lead
4 13 (5.88%) Developer
4 13 (5.88%) Security Analyst
4 13 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 12 (5.43%) Architect
6 11 (4.98%) Project Manager
7 9 (4.07%) Angular Developer
7 9 (4.07%) IT Manager
8 8 (3.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 8 (3.62%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.17%) C# Developer
9 7 (3.17%) Lead Architect
9 7 (3.17%) Penetration Tester
9 7 (3.17%) Senior Manager
9 7 (3.17%) Senior Security Analyst
9 7 (3.17%) Tester
10 6 (2.71%) Data Centre Manager
10 6 (2.71%) Resource Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.98%) .NET
2 9 (4.07%) .NET Framework
2 9 (4.07%) Entity Framework
2 9 (4.07%) NHibernate
2 9 (4.07%) Playwright
3 6 (2.71%) AngularJS
3 6 (2.71%) Kafka
4 5 (2.26%) CSS
4 5 (2.26%) HTML
4 5 (2.26%) XML
5 4 (1.81%) RESTful
6 3 (1.36%) Node.js
6 3 (1.36%) SOAP
7 2 (0.90%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.90%) ADO
7 2 (0.90%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.90%) Express.js
7 2 (0.90%) Jest
7 2 (0.90%) React
7 2 (0.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.14%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
2 13 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 11 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.07%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.71%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.71%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.71%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.71%) Social Media
7 5 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.81%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.81%) Derivative
8 4 (1.81%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.90%) CMDB
9 2 (0.90%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.03%) Windows
2 7 (3.17%) Linux
3 6 (2.71%) Unix
3 6 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.36%) Android
5 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.90%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.90%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (27.15%) Agile
1 60 (27.15%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (19.00%) Mentoring
3 40 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
4 35 (15.84%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 30 (13.57%) Change Management
6 28 (12.67%) Project Management
7 25 (11.31%) Risk Management
8 23 (10.41%) Coaching
9 21 (9.50%) Roadmaps
9 21 (9.50%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (8.14%) Customer Service
10 18 (8.14%) Decision-Making
10 18 (8.14%) Scrum
11 17 (7.69%) Project Delivery
11 17 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (7.24%) Incident Response
12 16 (7.24%) Information Security
12 16 (7.24%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.86%) SQL
2 22 (9.95%) Python
3 11 (4.98%) C#
4 5 (2.26%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.26%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.36%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.36%) R
6 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.45%) Java
7 1 (0.45%) Korn
7 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 51 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 48 (21.72%) Degree
2 48 (21.72%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.17%) CHECK Team Member
3 7 (3.17%) CREST Certified
3 7 (3.17%) Cyber Scheme
3 7 (3.17%) Postgraduate
4 6 (2.71%) CISSP
4 6 (2.71%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.26%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.26%) PMP
6 4 (1.81%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (1.36%) CISM
7 3 (1.36%) IIBA
7 3 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.45%) ISSMP
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.95%) SLA
2 16 (7.24%) QA
3 13 (5.88%) GDPR
4 11 (4.98%) PMO
5 10 (4.52%) Data Quality
6 9 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (3.62%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.36%) NCSC
9 2 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.90%) NIST
9 2 (0.90%) WCAG
10 1 (0.45%) Basel III
10 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.45%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.45%) MiFID
10 1 (0.45%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.45%) PMBOK
10 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.17%) Firmware
3 3 (1.36%) Docker
4 2 (0.90%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (3.17%) Nmap
1 7 (3.17%) Terraform
2 3 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.90%) SCCM
4 1 (0.45%) Ansible
4 1 (0.45%) Grafana
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.45%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.45%) vMotion
4 1 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.88%) Splunk
3 12 (5.43%) Oracle
4 6 (2.71%) Databricks
5 5 (2.26%) EMC
5 5 (2.26%) Workday
6 4 (1.81%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.81%) SAP
6 4 (1.81%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.36%) Samsung
8 2 (0.90%) Cisco
8 2 (0.90%) Dell
8 2 (0.90%) Draytek
8 2 (0.90%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.90%) McAfee
8 2 (0.90%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.90%) Sophos
8 2 (0.90%) VMware
9 1 (0.45%) Google
9 1 (0.45%) ION Trading