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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 109 149
Rank change year-on-year -24 +40 +26
Contract jobs citing Time Management 242 396 378
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.87% 1.91% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.29% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 215 256
10th Percentile £140 £163 £158
25th Percentile £168 £250 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £550
90th Percentile £575 £654 £664
UK median daily rate £408 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 62 34
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £14.20 £10.95 £20.22
Median hourly rate £15.12 £12.78 £56.80
Median % change year-on-year +18.29% -77.49% +336.88%
75th Percentile £32.05 £16.07 £72.17
90th Percentile £75.00 £33.41 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £15.84 £13.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +21.85% -60.00% +146.21%

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 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +37 75 £205 -56.84% 920
North of England -32 51 £424 -14.10% 687
Scotland +16 42 £350 -17.16% 133
North West -35 33 £424 -14.70% 350
South West +23 26 £220 -53.68% 362
East of England +11 25 £215 -17.31% 435
Midlands -32 24 £175 -31.37% 592
West Midlands +18 20 £388 -3.13% 334
Yorkshire +22 16 £414 -10.97% 266
East Midlands -35 4 £168 -33.86% 221
Wales - 3 £155 - 77
North East 0 2 £440 - 71
Northern Ireland -10 2 £206 - 46
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 20 (8.26%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.65%) Confluence
3 3 (1.24%) CMS
3 3 (1.24%) IIS
3 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.41%) CICS
Applications
1 47 (19.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (16.53%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (3.31%) MS Visio
4 8 (3.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.72%) SAP HR
2 9 (3.72%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 8 (3.31%) SAP Payroll
4 5 (2.07%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.41%) Primavera
5 1 (0.41%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 17 (7.02%) Azure
2 13 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (4.13%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.24%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.24%) GCP
4 3 (1.24%) SaaS
5 2 (0.83%) AWS
5 2 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.83%) Lucidchart
5 2 (0.83%) OneDrive
5 2 (0.83%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.41%) Apigee
6 1 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.41%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.41%) OCI
6 1 (0.41%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.41%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.41%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.33%) VPN
2 13 (5.37%) Internet
3 10 (4.13%) LAN
4 9 (3.72%) Firewall
5 7 (2.89%) Wireless
6 5 (2.07%) Unified Communications
7 4 (1.65%) 2G
7 4 (1.65%) 3G
7 4 (1.65%) 4G
7 4 (1.65%) 5G
7 4 (1.65%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (1.65%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.65%) WAN
8 3 (1.24%) Network Security
9 2 (0.83%) BGP
9 2 (0.83%) Intranet
9 2 (0.83%) MPLS
9 2 (0.83%) OSPF
9 2 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.31%) Power BI
2 7 (2.89%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (2.48%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.65%) Tableau
5 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.41%) DB2
6 1 (0.41%) GIS
6 1 (0.41%) IDMS
6 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.41%) MySQL
6 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.13%) JIRA
2 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.41%) CA Gen
3 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.41%) Git
3 1 (0.41%) GitLab
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.41%) Selenium
3 1 (0.41%) Toad
3 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 185 (76.45%) Social Skills
2 102 (42.15%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (24.38%) Finance
4 36 (14.88%) Organisational Skills
5 22 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 18 (7.44%) Public Sector
7 16 (6.61%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.89%) Banking
8 7 (2.89%) Legal
9 6 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.48%) German Language
9 6 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.07%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.65%) Billing
11 4 (1.65%) Marketing
11 4 (1.65%) Retail
12 3 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.24%) Automotive
12 3 (1.24%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (12.81%) Support Engineer
2 30 (12.40%) Analyst
3 28 (11.57%) Desktop Engineer
4 22 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 18 (7.44%) Desktop Support
5 18 (7.44%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 16 (6.61%) Consultant
7 14 (5.79%) Windows Engineer
8 13 (5.37%) SAP Consultant
9 12 (4.96%) Help Desk Support
10 10 (4.13%) Capacity Manager
11 9 (3.72%) Availability Manager
11 9 (3.72%) Capacity and Availability Manager
11 9 (3.72%) Service Analyst
12 8 (3.31%) Lead
12 8 (3.31%) Payroll Consultant
12 8 (3.31%) SAP Payroll Consultant
12 8 (3.31%) Service Desk Analyst
12 8 (3.31%) Technical Manager
12 8 (3.31%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.24%) SAP Fiori
1 3 (1.24%) SAPUI5
2 2 (0.83%) .NET
2 2 (0.83%) .NET Framework
2 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET
2 2 (0.83%) MSMQ
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.41%) HTML
3 1 (0.41%) Kafka
3 1 (0.41%) Middleware
3 1 (0.41%) OAuth
3 1 (0.41%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.41%) RESTful
3 1 (0.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.88%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (9.92%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.37%) CMDB
4 11 (4.55%) iPad
4 11 (4.55%) iPhone
4 11 (4.55%) Life Science
4 11 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
5 7 (2.89%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.07%) IoT
7 5 (2.07%) Smartphone
8 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.65%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.65%) NHS
8 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.24%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.24%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 62 (25.62%) Windows
2 34 (14.05%) Windows 10
3 12 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.72%) Android
5 7 (2.89%) Linux
6 6 (2.48%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.48%) Unix
7 5 (2.07%) Windows 8
7 5 (2.07%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (2.07%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (2.07%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (2.07%) Windows XP
8 3 (1.24%) Solaris
9 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (55.79%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (20.25%) ITIL
3 47 (19.42%) Agile
4 46 (19.01%) Customer Service
5 42 (17.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (12.81%) Project Management
7 30 (12.40%) Service Management
8 27 (11.16%) Asset Management
9 20 (8.26%) Inventory Management
9 20 (8.26%) PRINCE2
9 20 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (7.85%) ITSM
11 18 (7.44%) Mentoring
12 17 (7.02%) Change Management
12 17 (7.02%) Critical Thinking
12 17 (7.02%) Project Delivery
13 15 (6.20%) ERP
13 15 (6.20%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (6.20%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 15 (6.20%) SQL
2 8 (3.31%) ABAP
3 7 (2.89%) Python
4 5 (2.07%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.83%) COBOL
5 2 (0.83%) Java
5 2 (0.83%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.41%) JCL
6 1 (0.41%) Korn
6 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (24.38%) Security Cleared
2 53 (21.90%) SC Cleared
3 37 (15.29%) Degree
4 23 (9.50%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (4.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.31%) A+ Certification
7 8 (3.31%) PMP
8 4 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.24%) CCNP
9 3 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.83%) CCIE
10 2 (0.83%) CISM
10 2 (0.83%) CISSP
10 2 (0.83%) JNCIE
10 2 (0.83%) JNCIP
10 2 (0.83%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.05%) QA
2 13 (5.37%) PMO
3 11 (4.55%) SLA
4 7 (2.89%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.89%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.65%) PMBOK
6 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.83%) GDPR
8 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (13.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.65%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.83%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.13%) SCCM
3 4 (1.65%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.83%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.83%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.41%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (28.93%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.22%) SAP
3 16 (6.61%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.96%) Oracle
5 11 (4.55%) McAfee
6 9 (3.72%) Apple
7 7 (2.89%) Cisco
7 7 (2.89%) Dell
8 5 (2.07%) Canon
8 5 (2.07%) Citrix
8 5 (2.07%) HP
9 4 (1.65%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.65%) Google
9 4 (1.65%) IBM
9 4 (1.65%) VMware
10 3 (1.24%) Juniper
10 3 (1.24%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.83%) Nexthink
11 2 (0.83%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.83%) SOTI