Conflict Management Contract Job Trends

Conflict Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Conflict 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 566 519 543
Rank change year-on-year -47 +24 +163
Contract jobs citing Conflict Management 27 17 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.051% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.058% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 44
10th Percentile £405 £391 £255
25th Percentile £441 £403 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £525 £436
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +20.34% -8.16%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £691
90th Percentile £600 £620 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £401 £375
% change year-on-year +20.10% +6.80% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Conflict 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,495 29,409 38,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.07% 88.28% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,479 17,921 25,423
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,043 952 1,523
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%
75th Percentile £51.65 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.72 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.78 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.41% -31.60% +43.91%

Conflict Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Conflict Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Conflict Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Conflict Management
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Conflict Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Conflict Management

Conflict Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Conflict Management over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Conflict Management in the UK

Conflict Management
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Conflict Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Conflict Management

Conflict Management
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Conflict Management within the UK 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
England -36 24 £470 -10.48% 12
UK excluding London -35 18 £481 +20.10% 6
Work from Home +5 10 £464 -25.20% 4
West Midlands -22 8 £465 -
Midlands -36 8 £465 -
South East -2 6 £593 +27.01% 4
London -16 6 £463 -11.90% 6
Yorkshire -41 4 £438 +6.71%
North of England -43 4 £438 +6.71%
East of England - 1 - - 2

Conflict Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.70%) AutoCAD
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) AWS
1 2 (7.41%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.70%) GCP
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.70%) SaaS
2 1 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (3.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Broadband
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) Network Security
1 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
1 1 (3.70%) JUnit
1 1 (3.70%) Maven
1 1 (3.70%) Postman
1 1 (3.70%) Selenium
1 1 (3.70%) SoapUI
1 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
1 1 (3.70%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (85.19%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Automotive
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Project Manager
2 5 (18.52%) Test Manager
3 4 (14.81%) Technical Manager
3 4 (14.81%) Technical Project Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (11.11%) Strategy Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Test Strategy Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Data Centre Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Data Centre Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Design Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Environment Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Incident Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Release Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Security Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Security Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) JWT
1 4 (14.81%) OAuth
1 4 (14.81%) SAML
2 1 (3.70%) LDAP
2 1 (3.70%) OpenID
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.41%) PMI
4 2 (7.41%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (3.70%) Digital Signage
5 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.70%) IoT
5 1 (3.70%) Life Science
5 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 11 (40.74%) Time Management
3 8 (29.63%) Agile
3 8 (29.63%) Decision-Making
3 8 (29.63%) Waterfall
4 6 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 6 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
4 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 6 (22.22%) Test Management
4 6 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 6 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Matrix Organization
5 5 (18.52%) Project Delivery
5 5 (18.52%) SDLC
6 4 (14.81%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven
6 4 (14.81%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (14.81%) Microservices
6 4 (14.81%) Static Application Security Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (7.41%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.70%) CCNA
2 1 (3.70%) CCNP
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
1 1 (3.70%) RACF
1 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) SAP
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco
3 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Planview
4 1 (3.70%) VMware