People Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

People Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 299 346
Rank change year-on-year -6 +47 -34
Contract jobs citing People Management 36 94 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.46% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.55% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 62 48
10th Percentile £365 £261 £384
25th Percentile £419 £281 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +24.30% -5.14% -
75th Percentile £700 £580 £600
90th Percentile £735 £636 £683
UK median daily rate £619 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +12.55% +4.76% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 6
10th Percentile - - £60.63
25th Percentile - £18.35 £65.63
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.73 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +180.58% -63.13% +314.29%
75th Percentile - £78.90 £75.00
90th Percentile - £87.80 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £26.73 £65.00
% change year-on-year +180.58% -58.88% +147.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,611 17,183 20,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.67% 83.60% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,236 10,256 14,118
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 2,100 1,244
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.38 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.38% +7.86% +75.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.02 £36.40
% change year-on-year -23.66% -1.02% +41.73%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing People Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for People Management in the UK excluding London

People Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing People Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for People Management in the UK excluding London

People Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing People Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for People Management in the UK excluding London

People Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing People Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for People Management in the UK excluding London

People Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East +41 13 £775 +47.62% 143
North of England +7 11 £650 +13.04% 124
North West -5 6 £675 +17.39% 71
Scotland 0 5 £528 +11.21% 31
Yorkshire +11 4 £450 +5.88% 38
South West +42 3 £575 +4.55% 49
Northern Ireland -7 2 - - 5
East of England +25 1 £700 +12.00% 65
Midlands -12 1 £500 +85.87% 74
East Midlands -19 1 £500 +85.87% 30
North East - 1 £325 - 18
People Management
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People Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.56%) IIS
3 1 (2.78%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Acrobat
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) AWS
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (8.33%) OneDrive
3 2 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.78%) GCP
4 1 (2.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
1 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 17 (47.22%) Finance
2 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Legal
4 4 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Aviation
7 1 (2.78%) Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Military
7 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) ERP Implementation Manager
1 6 (16.67%) ERP Manager
1 6 (16.67%) Implementation Manager
2 4 (11.11%) Consultant
2 4 (11.11%) Head of Design
2 4 (11.11%) Head of IT
2 4 (11.11%) Head of IT Services
2 4 (11.11%) IT Consultant
2 4 (11.11%) Service Design Consultant
3 3 (8.33%) Head of Information
3 3 (8.33%) Lead
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 3 (8.33%) Programme Manager
3 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 3 (8.33%) Support Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Head of Information Management
4 2 (5.56%) Head of Knowledge Management
4 2 (5.56%) Software Engineering Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Software Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) .NET
1 2 (5.56%) .NET Framework
1 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET
1 2 (5.56%) MSMQ
2 1 (2.78%) CSS
2 1 (2.78%) CSS3
2 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.78%) Flask
2 1 (2.78%) HTML
2 1 (2.78%) HTML5
2 1 (2.78%) React
2 1 (2.78%) RESTful
2 1 (2.78%) Spring
2 1 (2.78%) Spring Batch
2 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (5.56%) N-Tier
1 2 (5.56%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.78%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (2.78%) IoT
2 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.78%) SCADA
2 1 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.78%) Smartphone
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
1 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (33.33%) Agile
2 12 (33.33%) Project Management
3 11 (30.56%) PRINCE2
4 10 (27.78%) Time Management
5 7 (19.44%) Coaching
6 6 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (16.67%) ERP
6 6 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
6 6 (16.67%) Incident Management
6 6 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.89%) ITIL
7 5 (13.89%) Service Design
8 4 (11.11%) Budgeting
8 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
8 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (11.11%) Project Governance
8 4 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.56%) VB.NET
2 1 (2.78%) Java
2 1 (2.78%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) PMP
2 8 (22.22%) Degree
3 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.78%) CCNA
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.78%) CISSP
5 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.78%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.78%) GRC
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Adobe
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Cisco
2 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.78%) VMware