Line Management Contract Job Trends in the South West

Line Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Line Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 102 100
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +40
Contract jobs citing Line Management 25 25 48
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.05% 1.22% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.40% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 27
10th Percentile £355 £247 -
25th Percentile £400 £356 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £215
Median % change year-on-year - +179.07% -37.23%
75th Percentile £732 £825 £594
90th Percentile £735 £863 £713
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 8
10th Percentile - - £14.93
25th Percentile - £14.41 £15.16
Median hourly rate £12.50 £15.22 £15.31
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% -0.62% -
75th Percentile - £47.41 £15.62
90th Percentile £35.50 £69.00 £22.56
England median hourly rate £41.94 £22.80 £15.62
% change year-on-year +83.95% +45.97% -7.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,980 1,790 2,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.02% 87.62% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,096 1,653
10th Percentile £263 £265 £296
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £731 £724
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 116 269
10th Percentile £15.60 £18.36 £20.20
25th Percentile £20.47 £44.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.22 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

Line Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Line Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Line Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Line Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Line Management

Line Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Line Management in the South West over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Line Management in the South West

Line Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Line Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Line Management

Line Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Line Management in the South West over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Line Management in the South West

Line Management
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Gloucestershire +1 10 £400 +10.34% 12
Bristol 0 7 £725 +13.73% 15
Wiltshire -12 6 - - 8
Somerset -6 2 £721 -11.23% 9
Line Management
England

Line Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (4.00%) Apache
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) DHCP
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.00%) Big Data
1 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Legal
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.00%) Aviation
4 1 (4.00%) Police
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Commercial Manager
1 4 (16.00%) Digital Transformation
1 4 (16.00%) Digital Transformation Manager
1 4 (16.00%) Transformation Manager
2 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) Analyst
3 1 (4.00%) Automation Analyst
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) Data Migration Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (4.00%) Lead
3 1 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (4.00%) Senior
3 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (4.00%) CSS
1 1 (4.00%) HTML
1 1 (4.00%) JSON
1 1 (4.00%) Kafka
1 1 (4.00%) REST
1 1 (4.00%) SOAP
1 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Driving Licence
1 6 (24.00%) Social Media
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Logistics
2 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (12.00%) Agile
3 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.00%) Analytics
4 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (8.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) ITIL
4 2 (8.00%) Project Management
4 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.00%) Business Strategy
5 1 (4.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (4.00%) Data Engineering
5 1 (4.00%) Patch Management
5 1 (4.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (4.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) DBS Check
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (4.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
1 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (4.00%) vMotion
1 1 (4.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.00%) VMware