Line Management Contracts in the South East

Line Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 135 143 146
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +24
Contract jobs citing Line Management 17 55 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.99% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.17% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 35 60
10th Percentile £220 £114 £235
25th Percentile £333 £237 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £650
90th Percentile £748 £745 £662
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +0.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile - - £49.70
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.35 £55.81
Median hourly rate £22.00 £73.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.07% +11.36% +5.60%
75th Percentile £23.00 £76.99 -
90th Percentile - £90.40 -
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 4,707 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.81% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,740 3,571
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 221
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.26 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.79
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Line Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Line Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Line Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Line Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Line Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Line Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Surrey +14 6 £613 +22.50% 25
Thames Valley +4 5 £425 +44.07% 55
Hampshire +22 4 £423 -6.11% 19
Berkshire -1 4 £460 +22.67% 31
Buckinghamshire +16 1 £425 +51.79% 14
West Sussex +13 1 £220 -56.00% 5
Kent +9 1 £500 - 16
Line Management
England

Line Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) IIS
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (5.88%) TestRail
General
1 11 (64.71%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Korean Language
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Cabling Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Technical Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Technical Support
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Support Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Technical Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Technical Support
2 2 (11.76%) Technical Support Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Product Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Project Controller
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior QA Tester
3 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cyberattack
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Coaching
2 4 (23.53%) ITIL
2 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) Change Management
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) Adaptive Web Design
4 2 (11.76%) Budget Responsibility
4 2 (11.76%) Business Case
4 2 (11.76%) Business Forecasting
4 2 (11.76%) Data Science
4 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Management
4 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (11.76%) Product Backlog
4 2 (11.76%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) ACCA
3 1 (5.88%) APMP
3 1 (5.88%) CCAB
3 1 (5.88%) CIMA
3 1 (5.88%) CIPFA
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) PMO
2 1 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Computacenter
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle