Time Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Time Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Time Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Time Management over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 122 158
Rank change year-on-year -4 +36 +12
Contract jobs citing Time Management 253 385 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.98% 1.86% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 2.20% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 210 265
10th Percentile £140 £168 £158
25th Percentile £168 £254 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £415 £458
Median % change year-on-year -39.76% -9.29% +8.28%
75th Percentile £507 £500 £575
90th Percentile £585 £670 £675
UK median daily rate £422 £431 £500
% change year-on-year -1.97% -13.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 61 38
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £14.20 £10.95 £20.29
Median hourly rate £16.93 £12.57 £59.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.74% -78.81% +356.12%
75th Percentile £32.05 £16.00 £72.17
90th Percentile £75.00 £28.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £15.84 £13.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +21.85% -76.36% +323.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Time 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 11,553 17,505 21,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.71% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,248 10,459 14,852
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,060 1,308
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Time Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Time Management in the UK excluding London

Time Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Time Management in the UK excluding London

Time Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Time Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Time Management in the UK excluding London

Time Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Time Management in the UK excluding London

Time Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Time Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Time Management in the UK excluding London

Time 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 Time Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +18 76 £205 -59.00% 289
North of England -17 60 £450 -8.72% 230
Scotland +31 45 £350 -20.09% 39
North West -21 41 £475 -3.65% 128
South West +15 26 £220 -53.68% 103
East of England +20 24 £210 -19.23% 73
Midlands -34 23 £388 +51.96% 135
West Midlands +20 21 £396 -10.00% 74
Yorkshire +15 18 £450 +1.12% 71
East Midlands -34 2 £168 -33.86% 54
Wales - 2 £145 - 21
North East -3 1 £188 +25.00% 32
Northern Ireland - 1 £250 - 17
Time Management
UK

Time 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 26 (10.28%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.98%) Confluence
4 3 (1.19%) CMS
4 3 (1.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) CICS
Applications
1 45 (17.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (15.42%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (3.16%) MS Visio
4 8 (3.16%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (7.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.56%) SAP HR
3 8 (3.16%) SAP Payroll
4 7 (2.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 4 (1.58%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.40%) Primavera
6 1 (0.40%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 23 (9.09%) Azure
2 20 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 4 (1.58%) AWS
5 3 (1.19%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.19%) GCP
6 2 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.79%) Lucidchart
6 2 (0.79%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.79%) SaaS
6 2 (0.79%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.40%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.28%) VPN
2 12 (4.74%) Internet
3 11 (4.35%) Firewall
4 10 (3.95%) LAN
5 7 (2.77%) Wireless
6 5 (1.98%) Unified Communications
6 5 (1.98%) WAN
7 4 (1.58%) 2G
7 4 (1.58%) 3G
7 4 (1.58%) 4G
7 4 (1.58%) 5G
7 4 (1.58%) Network Security
7 4 (1.58%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (1.58%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.19%) Intranet
9 2 (0.79%) BGP
9 2 (0.79%) MPLS
9 2 (0.79%) OSPF
9 2 (0.79%) VLAN
9 2 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.56%) Power BI
2 6 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.98%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.58%) Tableau
5 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.79%) IDMS
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.40%) Big Data
7 1 (0.40%) DB2
7 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.40%) HBase
7 1 (0.40%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.40%) Impala
7 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (3.95%) JIRA
2 2 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.79%) CA Gen
2 2 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.40%) Git
3 1 (0.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 187 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 103 (40.71%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (20.55%) Finance
4 37 (14.62%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (7.91%) Manufacturing
6 17 (6.72%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.93%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.16%) Banking
9 7 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.77%) Legal
10 6 (2.37%) Billing
10 6 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.98%) German Language
11 5 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.98%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.58%) Marketing
13 3 (1.19%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.19%) Dutch Language
13 3 (1.19%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (15.02%) Support Engineer
2 26 (10.28%) Analyst
3 25 (9.88%) Desktop Engineer
4 20 (7.91%) Project Manager
5 16 (6.32%) Desktop Support
5 16 (6.32%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 14 (5.53%) Developer
7 13 (5.14%) Consultant
7 13 (5.14%) Lead
8 12 (4.74%) Help Desk Support
8 12 (4.74%) SAP Consultant
9 11 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) ABAP Developer
10 10 (3.95%) Capacity Manager
11 9 (3.56%) Availability Manager
11 9 (3.56%) Capacity and Availability Manager
12 8 (3.16%) Architect
12 8 (3.16%) Payroll Consultant
12 8 (3.16%) SAP Payroll Consultant
12 8 (3.16%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.95%) SAP Fiori
1 10 (3.95%) SAPUI5
2 4 (1.58%) Middleware
3 3 (1.19%) HTML
4 2 (0.79%) Kafka
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.40%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.40%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.40%) OAuth
5 1 (0.40%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.40%) PySpark
5 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.40%) RESTful
5 1 (0.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.83%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (9.88%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.14%) CMDB
4 11 (4.35%) iPad
4 11 (4.35%) iPhone
5 10 (3.95%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.56%) Life Science
6 9 (3.56%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (2.77%) IoT
8 5 (1.98%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.98%) PMI
8 5 (1.98%) Smartphone
9 4 (1.58%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.58%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.58%) NHS
9 4 (1.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 62 (24.51%) Windows
2 34 (13.44%) Windows 10
3 12 (4.74%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.95%) Android
5 8 (3.16%) Linux
6 7 (2.77%) Unix
7 6 (2.37%) Apple iOS
7 6 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.98%) Windows 8
8 5 (1.98%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (1.98%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (1.98%) Windows XP
9 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (56.13%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (19.37%) Customer Service
3 46 (18.18%) ITIL
4 43 (17.00%) Agile
5 36 (14.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (12.25%) Project Management
7 28 (11.07%) Service Management
8 26 (10.28%) Asset Management
9 21 (8.30%) Inventory Management
9 21 (8.30%) PRINCE2
10 19 (7.51%) ITSM
11 18 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (7.11%) Root Cause Analysis
11 18 (7.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (6.72%) Change Management
12 17 (6.72%) Critical Thinking
12 17 (6.72%) Mentoring
13 14 (5.53%) IT Asset Management
13 14 (5.53%) Project Delivery
13 14 (5.53%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (7.51%) SQL
2 14 (5.53%) ABAP
3 8 (3.16%) Python
4 7 (2.77%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.19%) COBOL
5 3 (1.19%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.79%) Java
7 1 (0.40%) C#
7 1 (0.40%) JCL
7 1 (0.40%) Perl
7 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 63 (24.90%) Security Cleared
2 56 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 38 (15.02%) Degree
4 23 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.77%) A+ Certification
8 6 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.37%) PMP
9 5 (1.98%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.58%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.19%) CCNP
11 3 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.79%) CCIE
12 2 (0.79%) CISSP
12 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.79%) ISEB
12 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.83%) QA
2 15 (5.93%) PMO
3 13 (5.14%) SLA
4 8 (3.16%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.37%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.58%) PMBOK
7 3 (1.19%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.79%) GDPR
9 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (13.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.98%) Docker
3 4 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.79%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (3.95%) SCCM
3 5 (1.98%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.79%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.79%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.40%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (28.85%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.23%) SAP
3 15 (5.93%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.35%) McAfee
4 11 (4.35%) Oracle
5 10 (3.95%) Citrix
5 10 (3.95%) Dell
6 9 (3.56%) Apple
6 9 (3.56%) Cisco
7 8 (3.16%) HP
8 7 (2.77%) IBM
9 5 (1.98%) Canon
9 5 (1.98%) Google
9 5 (1.98%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.58%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.58%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.58%) VMware
11 3 (1.19%) Juniper
12 2 (0.79%) SOTI
12 2 (0.79%) Veritas