Line Management Contracts in the North West

Line Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 111 111
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +5
Contract jobs citing Line Management 19 28 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.97% 1.02% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.18% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 37
10th Percentile £274 £270 £200
25th Percentile £362 £282 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.30% -9.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £657 £703 £550
90th Percentile £679 £720 £643
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +0.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £42.30 £30.54
25th Percentile - £43.87 £34.34
Median hourly rate - £44.74 £41.18
Median % change year-on-year - +8.66% +23.41%
75th Percentile - - £47.51
90th Percentile - - £51.02
England median hourly rate £21.25 £23.32 £16.83
% change year-on-year -8.88% +38.56% -37.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,774 2,370 2,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.14% 86.37% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 1,513 2,045
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 246 142
10th Percentile £16.03 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.36 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £21.56 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% -38.41% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.66 £48.56
90th Percentile £84.51 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Line Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Line Management in the North West

Line Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Line Management in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Line Management in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Line Management in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Line Management in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Line Management in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Line Management in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester +17 11 £474 +9.80% 65
Merseyside - 5 £633 - 9
Cheshire -2 2 - - 11
Cumbria -3 1 - - 3
Line Management
England

Line Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) Entra ID
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (36.84%) IaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.26%) OCI
4 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) Firewall
1 7 (36.84%) Intrusion Detection
1 7 (36.84%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) DHCP
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) SAN
2 1 (5.26%) Skype
2 1 (5.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 7 (36.84%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Military
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Project Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Backup Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) IT Technician
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Service Transition Leader
5 1 (5.26%) Storage and Backup Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) VMWare Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Wintel Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) NHS
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Change Management
1 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (47.37%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (36.84%) BCP
4 7 (36.84%) Business Continuity
4 7 (36.84%) Business Continuity Planning
4 7 (36.84%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (36.84%) Information Security
4 7 (36.84%) PRINCE2
4 7 (36.84%) Project Delivery
4 7 (36.84%) Risk Assessment
4 7 (36.84%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 6 (31.58%) Agile
5 6 (31.58%) Analytics
5 6 (31.58%) High Availability
5 6 (31.58%) Project Management
5 6 (31.58%) Web Operations
6 5 (26.32%) Business Case
6 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Azure Certification
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (10.53%) DBS Check
5 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 7 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (36.84%) vSphere
3 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.26%) Firmware
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (5.26%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (5.26%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) NetApp OnCommand
2 1 (5.26%) NetBackup
2 1 (5.26%) PaperCut
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
2 1 (5.26%) vMotion
2 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 8 (42.11%) VMware
3 4 (21.05%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Adobe
4 1 (5.26%) Apple
4 1 (5.26%) Brocade
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (5.26%) EMC
4 1 (5.26%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) Veritas