People Management Contracts in England

People Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring People Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited People Management over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 390 445
Rank change year-on-year -22 +55 +21
Contract jobs citing People Management 63 153 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.42% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.48% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 115 140
10th Percentile £310 £269 £374
25th Percentile £406 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £700 £625 £625
90th Percentile £810 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 8
10th Percentile £59.36 - £35.00
25th Percentile - - £48.48
Median hourly rate £75.00 £18.35 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +308.72% -72.30% +66.77%
75th Percentile - £20.45 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £24.22 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £22.54 £65.00
% change year-on-year +232.74% -65.32% +63.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,017 31,802 44,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.19% 86.49% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,406 20,831 31,133
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,249 1,562
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.91 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.18 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.18 £37.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -0.38% +49.28%
75th Percentile £63.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing People Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for People Management in England

People Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for People Management in England

People Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing People Management in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for People Management in England

People Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for People Management in England

People Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing People Management in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for People Management in England

People 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 People Management within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London -9 30 £538 -10.51% 301
South East +43 13 £775 +47.62% 141
North of England +14 9 £650 +13.04% 92
North West +11 6 £675 +17.39% 62
Midlands -4 6 £550 +104.46% 62
West Midlands +18 5 £550 -27.87% 35
South West +41 3 £575 +4.55% 39
Yorkshire +15 2 £450 +5.88% 22
East of England +18 1 £700 +34.94% 69
East Midlands -14 1 £500 +85.87% 23
North East - 1 £325 - 8
People Management
UK

People Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.59%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.59%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Acrobat
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.59%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.70%) AWS
2 6 (9.52%) Azure
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.76%) SaaS
4 2 (3.17%) OCI
4 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.59%) GCP
5 1 (1.59%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.59%) 5G
2 1 (1.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) Power BI
2 1 (1.59%) Big Data
2 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.59%) Looker
2 1 (1.59%) Mixpanel
2 1 (1.59%) Neo4j
2 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) GitLab
2 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (52.38%) Finance
2 27 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Banking
4 8 (12.70%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (7.94%) Legal
7 4 (6.35%) Manufacturing
8 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (4.76%) Marketing
8 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.17%) Aerospace
9 2 (3.17%) Aviation
9 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.59%) Local Government
10 1 (1.59%) Military
10 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (15.87%) Programme Manager
2 6 (9.52%) Consultant
2 6 (9.52%) ERP Implementation Manager
2 6 (9.52%) ERP Manager
2 6 (9.52%) Implementation Manager
3 4 (6.35%) Head of Design
3 4 (6.35%) Head of IT
3 4 (6.35%) Head of IT Services
3 4 (6.35%) IT Consultant
3 4 (6.35%) Lead
3 4 (6.35%) Senior
3 4 (6.35%) Service Design Consultant
4 3 (4.76%) Head of Information
4 3 (4.76%) Marketing Manager
4 3 (4.76%) Operations Manager
4 3 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 2 (3.17%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (3.17%) Head of Knowledge Management
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.59%) Plotly
1 1 (1.59%) PySpark
1 1 (1.59%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.76%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.17%) IoT
3 2 (3.17%) NHS
3 2 (3.17%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.59%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.59%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.59%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.59%) SCADA
4 1 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.59%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Windows
1 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (26.98%) Agile
3 13 (20.63%) Project Management
4 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (17.46%) PRINCE2
6 10 (15.87%) ITIL
6 10 (15.87%) Risk Management
7 9 (14.29%) Coaching
8 8 (12.70%) Mentoring
8 8 (12.70%) Process Improvement
8 8 (12.70%) Time Management
9 7 (11.11%) Budget Management
9 7 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (11.11%) ERP
9 7 (11.11%) Incident Management
10 6 (9.52%) Change Management
10 6 (9.52%) DevOps
10 6 (9.52%) Impact Analysis
10 6 (9.52%) Migration
10 6 (9.52%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.59%) Python
1 1 (1.59%) R
1 1 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (15.87%) Degree
1 10 (15.87%) PMP
2 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (3.17%) CCNA
5 2 (3.17%) CISA
5 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.17%) CISM
5 2 (3.17%) CISSP
5 2 (3.17%) MCP
5 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.59%) CCAB
6 1 (1.59%) CGEIT
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) CRISC
6 1 (1.59%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.59%) MAPM
6 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) SLA
2 2 (3.17%) GRC
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.17%) NIST
2 2 (3.17%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) COBIT
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.59%) PMO
3 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (6.35%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.17%) Cisco
2 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
2 2 (3.17%) SAP
2 2 (3.17%) VMware
3 1 (1.59%) Adobe
3 1 (1.59%) Amplitude
3 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
3 1 (1.59%) Databricks
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle