People Management Contracts in the North of England

People Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 173 189
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 +20
Contract jobs citing People Management 9 16 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.34% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.40% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 17
10th Percentile £308 £313 £370
25th Percentile £450 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £675 £584 £604
90th Percentile £700 £588 £640
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,962 4,038 5,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.98% 85.77% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,902 2,470 3,658
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% -0.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 358 207
10th Percentile £13.79 £11.05 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £16.22
Median hourly rate £29.00 £17.72 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +63.66% -39.52% +58.38%
75th Percentile £58.58 £44.74 £47.25
90th Percentile £84.28 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.90 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -18.08% -1.75% +52.57%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for People Management in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for People Management in the North of England

People Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing People Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for People Management in the North of England

People Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for People Management in the North of England

People Management
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
North West +8 6 £675 +17.39% 52
Yorkshire +15 2 £450 +5.88% 21
North East - 1 £325 - 7
People Management
England

People Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Consultant
1 4 (44.44%) Head of Design
1 4 (44.44%) Head of IT
1 4 (44.44%) Head of IT Services
1 4 (44.44%) IT Consultant
1 4 (44.44%) Service Design Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Head of Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
1 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (11.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Incident Management
1 5 (55.56%) ITIL
1 5 (55.56%) Service Design
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Budget Management
3 1 (11.11%) Chaos Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
3 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) Observability
3 1 (11.11%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCNA
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (11.11%) MCP
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) VMware