Line Management Contracts

Line Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Line Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Line Management over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 254 276
Rank change year-on-year -79 +22 +9
Contract jobs citing Line Management 180 369 532
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.87% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.01% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 253 400
10th Percentile £240 £163 £246
25th Percentile £391 £281 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +1.45%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £650
90th Percentile £795 £888 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £300 £500
% change year-on-year +60.33% -40.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 48 21
10th Percentile £14.60 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £17.38 £15.92 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £24.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% -30.58% +29.68%
75th Percentile £34.28 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £61.00 £75.77 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £44.74 £39.00
% change year-on-year -50.83% +14.73% +44.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,620 36,673 51,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.13% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,067 23,631 35,432
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 2,440 1,683
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £16.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

Line Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Line Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Line Management.

Daily rate trend for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Line Management over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Line Management.

Hourly rate trend for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Line Management over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England -82 154 £500 -10.71% 1,274
UK excluding London -33 108 £481 +60.33% 974
London -28 66 £500 -27.54% 446
Work from Home -26 60 £475 -20.87% 488
North of England +1 21 £425 -10.53% 211
Scotland +11 20 £425 +51.13% 53
Midlands +18 19 £502 +0.40% 176
North West +6 18 £564 +61.14% 113
South West +6 18 £900 +420.23% 165
South East -1 17 £425 +13.33% 260
West Midlands +3 15 £514 +2.70% 109
East of England +5 11 £600 +100.00% 105
East Midlands +14 4 £391 +26.13% 54
North East -7 2 £425 -40.97% 37
Yorkshire -1 1 £112 -84.50% 65
Wales - 1 £180 - 27
Northern Ireland - 1 £492 - 13

Line Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.89%) Confluence
4 3 (1.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.11%) Open Workbench
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Eloqua
1 2 (1.11%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.56%) iTrent
2 1 (0.56%) Primavera
2 1 (0.56%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
2 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (11.67%) Azure
2 16 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (7.78%) Entra ID
4 11 (6.11%) AWS
5 7 (3.89%) IaaS
5 7 (3.89%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.78%) GitHub
7 4 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.22%) SaaS
8 3 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.56%) BigCommerce
10 1 (0.56%) Canva
10 1 (0.56%) Datadog
10 1 (0.56%) Figma
10 1 (0.56%) Miro
10 1 (0.56%) OCI
10 1 (0.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.56%) Firewall
2 8 (4.44%) Network Security
3 7 (3.89%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (3.33%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (1.67%) 4G
5 3 (1.67%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.67%) WAN
6 2 (1.11%) DHCP
6 2 (1.11%) DNS
6 2 (1.11%) Intranet
7 1 (0.56%) Skype
7 1 (0.56%) VLAN
7 1 (0.56%) VoIP
7 1 (0.56%) VPN
7 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.89%) Power BI
3 3 (1.67%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.67%) Neo4j
3 3 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.11%) MySQL
4 2 (1.11%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.11%) UniData
5 1 (0.56%) Metadata
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.00%) JIRA
2 4 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (2.22%) Gradle
2 4 (2.22%) IntelliJ
2 4 (2.22%) JUnit
2 4 (2.22%) Maven
2 4 (2.22%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.11%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.11%) LabVIEW
3 2 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.11%) SpecFlow
3 2 (1.11%) TestRail
4 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
General
1 76 (42.22%) Social Skills
2 48 (26.67%) Finance
3 40 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 26 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (5.00%) Military
7 8 (4.44%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.89%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.33%) Marketing
10 5 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.78%) Police
10 5 (2.78%) Retail
11 4 (2.22%) Banking
11 4 (2.22%) Law
11 4 (2.22%) Legal
11 4 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.67%) Local Government
13 2 (1.11%) Automotive
13 2 (1.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 31 (17.22%) Senior
2 23 (12.78%) Project Manager
3 19 (10.56%) Analyst
4 17 (9.44%) Lead
5 8 (4.44%) Administrator
5 8 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (4.44%) Service Manager
6 7 (3.89%) Developer
6 7 (3.89%) Product Manager
6 7 (3.89%) Programme Manager
6 7 (3.89%) Senior Manager
7 6 (3.33%) Business Analyst
7 6 (3.33%) Project Engineer
7 6 (3.33%) Senior Developer
7 6 (3.33%) Service Delivery Manager
8 5 (2.78%) Architect
8 5 (2.78%) Data Scientist
8 5 (2.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 5 (2.78%) IT Manager
9 4 (2.22%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.33%) .NET
2 5 (2.78%) React
3 4 (2.22%) JMS
3 4 (2.22%) JPA
3 4 (2.22%) Plotly
3 4 (2.22%) Spring
4 3 (1.67%) LDAP
4 3 (1.67%) Node.js
4 3 (1.67%) X-Windows
5 2 (1.11%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.11%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.11%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.11%) NHibernate
5 2 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.11%) Playwright
5 2 (1.11%) RESTful
6 1 (0.56%) LAMP
6 1 (0.56%) Middleware
6 1 (0.56%) VML
6 1 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.11%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.89%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.67%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.67%) FMCG
4 3 (1.67%) NHS
4 3 (1.67%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.67%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.11%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.11%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.11%) Derivative
5 2 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.11%) FPGA
5 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.11%) Infotainment
5 2 (1.11%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.78%) Windows
2 12 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.78%) Linux
3 5 (2.78%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.22%) Unix
5 2 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (23.89%) Project Management
3 34 (18.89%) Agile
4 30 (16.67%) Change Management
5 27 (15.00%) ITIL
5 27 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (12.78%) Decision-Making
7 22 (12.22%) Project Delivery
8 19 (10.56%) Risk Management
9 18 (10.00%) Service Delivery
10 17 (9.44%) Mentoring
11 16 (8.89%) Business Case
11 16 (8.89%) PRINCE2
11 16 (8.89%) Roadmaps
12 15 (8.33%) Analytics
12 15 (8.33%) Coaching
13 14 (7.78%) Information Security
14 13 (7.22%) Customer Service
14 13 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.33%) SQL
2 14 (7.78%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.89%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.33%) Python
5 5 (2.78%) Java
6 3 (1.67%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.11%) C
7 2 (1.11%) C#
7 2 (1.11%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.11%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.11%) UniBasic
8 1 (0.56%) C++
8 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.56%) PHP
8 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 36 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.56%) Degree
4 7 (3.89%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.89%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.78%) CISSP
6 5 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (2.22%) CISM
7 4 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.67%) APMG
8 3 (1.67%) CCAB
9 2 (1.11%) ACCA
9 2 (1.11%) CIMA
9 2 (1.11%) CIPFA
9 2 (1.11%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.11%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.56%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.44%) GDPR
3 6 (3.33%) QA
3 6 (3.33%) SLA
4 4 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.11%) COSHH
6 2 (1.11%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.11%) ISO 14001
6 2 (1.11%) NCSC
6 2 (1.11%) NIST
6 2 (1.11%) PMO
6 2 (1.11%) WCAG
7 1 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.56%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.56%) MiFID
7 1 (0.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (12.22%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.89%) vSphere
4 6 (3.33%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.78%) Docker
6 3 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.67%) Terraform
4 2 (1.11%) Grafana
4 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (1.11%) NetApp OnCommand
4 2 (1.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.11%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.11%) vMotion
4 2 (1.11%) WSUS
5 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.56%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 35 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.56%) VMware
3 9 (5.00%) Oracle
4 5 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.78%) Splunk
5 4 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.22%) Databricks
6 3 (1.67%) BT
6 3 (1.67%) SAP
7 2 (1.11%) Adobe
7 2 (1.11%) Apple
7 2 (1.11%) Cisco
7 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.11%) Snow
8 1 (0.56%) Computacenter
8 1 (0.56%) IBM
8 1 (0.56%) McAfee
8 1 (0.56%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.56%) Tenable
8 1 (0.56%) Workday