Line Management Contracts

Line Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Line Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Line Management over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 290 294
Rank change year-on-year +27 +4 +44
Contract jobs citing Line Management 376 562 839
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.95% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.06% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 416 565
10th Percentile £162 £238 £227
25th Percentile £281 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £522
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +0.19% +5.04%
75th Percentile £729 £650 £625
90th Percentile £888 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £345 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -31.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 34 30
10th Percentile £13.50 - £11.88
25th Percentile £15.57 £16.25 £21.31
Median hourly rate £24.30 £18.17 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.76% -32.72% +45.95%
75th Percentile £58.75 £53.10 £42.27
90th Percentile £75.77 £65.70 £60.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.74 £16.83 £26.99
% change year-on-year +165.83% -37.64% +45.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Line Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Top 16 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 6 May 2024. 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 +18 346 £550 +4.76% 924
UK excluding London -13 212 £345 -31.00% 730
Work from Home +76 144 £614 +17.00% 337
London +67 143 £650 +13.04% 254
South East +6 56 £450 -10.00% 162
South West +28 54 £173 -57.28% 106
North of England -19 38 £488 -2.50% 196
North West -4 27 £350 -26.32% 110
East of England +12 26 £300 -1.64% 91
Midlands 0 22 £500 -20.00% 124
West Midlands +10 19 £469 -31.82% 78
Scotland +15 15 £281 -44.09% 38
Yorkshire +7 15 £720 +30.91% 68
North East - 4 £720 - 19
East Midlands -2 3 £525 +16.02% 46
Wales +10 2 £650 +293.94% 37

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 41 (10.90%) Apache
2 40 (10.64%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.80%) IIS
5 2 (0.53%) Confluence
5 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (8.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (7.71%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.33%) Simulink
4 5 (1.33%) Stateflow
4 5 (1.33%) TargetLink
5 3 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.27%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (3.19%) Workday HCM
2 4 (1.06%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.80%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.53%) iTrent
4 2 (0.53%) Primavera
4 2 (0.53%) SAP EHS
4 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.27%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.56%) AWS
2 41 (10.90%) GCP
3 40 (10.64%) dbt
3 40 (10.64%) Snowflake
4 23 (6.12%) Azure
5 22 (5.85%) Power Platform
6 17 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (2.39%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (1.33%) Google Sheets
9 5 (1.33%) IaaS
9 5 (1.33%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.53%) Asana
11 2 (0.53%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (0.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.59%) Firewall
2 19 (5.05%) Structured Cabling
3 15 (3.99%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (3.72%) WAN
5 9 (2.39%) LAN
6 6 (1.60%) 5G
6 6 (1.60%) DNS
6 6 (1.60%) Wireless
7 5 (1.33%) Intranet
8 4 (1.06%) BGP
8 4 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (1.06%) DHCP
8 4 (1.06%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.06%) VPN
8 4 (1.06%) WLAN
9 2 (0.53%) Broadband
9 2 (0.53%) MPLS
9 2 (0.53%) OSPF
9 2 (0.53%) SAN
9 2 (0.53%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.64%) Amazon Athena
1 40 (10.64%) Apache Arrow
1 40 (10.64%) Apache Ignite
1 40 (10.64%) Data Lake
1 40 (10.64%) Dremio
2 22 (5.85%) Power BI
3 12 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.66%) GIS
5 3 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.80%) QlikView
5 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.53%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.27%) KDB
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (3.99%) Git
2 6 (1.60%) Bitbucket
2 6 (1.60%) JIRA
3 5 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (1.33%) Subversion
4 3 (0.80%) NUnit
4 3 (0.80%) Selenium
4 3 (0.80%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
General
1 147 (39.10%) Finance
2 101 (26.86%) Social Skills
3 57 (15.16%) Public Sector
4 53 (14.10%) Banking
5 45 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (11.44%) Front Office
6 43 (11.44%) Investment Banking
7 25 (6.65%) Legal
8 23 (6.12%) Telecoms
9 18 (4.79%) Marketing
10 17 (4.52%) Local Government
11 15 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (3.72%) Police
12 14 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (3.19%) Law
13 12 (3.19%) Manufacturing
14 10 (2.66%) Retail
15 7 (1.86%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (14.10%) Senior
2 48 (12.77%) Lead
3 47 (12.50%) Analyst
4 44 (11.70%) Developer
5 41 (10.90%) Project Manager
6 28 (7.45%) Architect
7 25 (6.65%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (5.85%) Team Leader
9 21 (5.59%) Software Team Leader
10 20 (5.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 20 (5.32%) Lead Developer
10 20 (5.32%) Lead Software Developer
10 20 (5.32%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (5.32%) Service Analyst
10 20 (5.32%) Software Developer
10 20 (5.32%) Software Engineer
11 19 (5.05%) Service Desk Analyst
12 18 (4.79%) Consultant
12 18 (4.79%) Senior Manager
13 16 (4.26%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.64%) gRPC
1 40 (10.64%) NumPy
1 40 (10.64%) Pandas
1 40 (10.64%) Protocol Buffers
1 40 (10.64%) SciPy
2 15 (3.99%) .NET
3 12 (3.19%) .NET Core
4 9 (2.39%) YAML
5 5 (1.33%) JSON
6 4 (1.06%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.80%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.80%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (0.80%) Entity Framework
7 3 (0.80%) jQuery
7 3 (0.80%) KnockoutJS
7 3 (0.80%) WCF
7 3 (0.80%) XML
8 2 (0.53%) Node.js
8 2 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 66 (17.55%) Management Information System
2 40 (10.64%) Derivative
2 40 (10.64%) Equities
2 40 (10.64%) Fixed Income
2 40 (10.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 40 (10.64%) Hedge funds
3 7 (1.86%) Product Ownership
3 7 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.60%) Data Centre
4 6 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.33%) Freedom of Information
5 5 (1.33%) Freedom of Information Act
5 5 (1.33%) NHS
6 4 (1.06%) CMDB
6 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.06%) Virtual Team
7 3 (0.80%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.65%) Windows
2 13 (3.46%) Linux
3 8 (2.13%) Unix
3 8 (2.13%) Windows 10
3 8 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.60%) Mac OS X
5 5 (1.33%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.06%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.53%) CentOS
7 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (23.67%) Agile
1 89 (23.67%) Project Management
2 75 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (13.56%) Asset Management
4 48 (12.77%) Change Management
5 46 (12.23%) ITIL
5 46 (12.23%) Software Engineering
6 44 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 40 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (10.64%) Risk Management
8 37 (9.84%) Customer Service
8 37 (9.84%) PRINCE2
8 37 (9.84%) Roadmaps
9 32 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
10 31 (8.24%) Project Delivery
11 29 (7.71%) Coaching
12 28 (7.45%) Incident Management
12 28 (7.45%) Investment Management
13 26 (6.91%) People Management
14 25 (6.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 43 (11.44%) Java
1 43 (11.44%) JavaScript
1 43 (11.44%) Python
2 40 (10.64%) TypeScript
3 14 (3.72%) C#
4 12 (3.19%) SQL
5 10 (2.66%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.39%) Bicep
7 6 (1.60%) C
8 5 (1.33%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.80%) C++
10 3 (0.80%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.27%) VBA
11 1 (0.27%) VBScript
11 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 59 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 49 (13.03%) Degree
3 44 (11.70%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.99%) ITIL Certification
5 14 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 12 (3.19%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.66%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.60%) PMI Certification
12 5 (1.33%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.33%) HNC
13 4 (1.06%) CCNA
13 4 (1.06%) MCSE
13 4 (1.06%) PMP
14 3 (0.80%) CCNP
14 3 (0.80%) HND
14 3 (0.80%) NVQ Level 4
15 2 (0.53%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.12%) SLA
2 19 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.46%) GDPR
3 13 (3.46%) PMO
4 10 (2.66%) NIST
5 6 (1.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.60%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.33%) AUTOSAR
6 5 (1.33%) ISO 26262
6 5 (1.33%) MISRA
6 5 (1.33%) MISRA C
6 5 (1.33%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.33%) QA
7 3 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.80%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.53%) GRC
8 2 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (6.91%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.06%) Firmware
3 4 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.80%) vSphere
5 2 (0.53%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.27%) Cronacle
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 8 (2.13%) SCCM
2 6 (1.60%) Terraform
3 4 (1.06%) Ansible
4 3 (0.80%) WSUS
5 2 (0.53%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.53%) Kibana
5 2 (0.53%) logstash
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.53%) Packer
5 2 (0.53%) Puppet
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Nessus
6 1 (0.27%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.27%) SCOM
6 1 (0.27%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
6 1 (0.27%) Simpana
Vendors
1 52 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.32%) ServiceNow
3 16 (4.26%) Cisco
3 16 (4.26%) Workday
4 10 (2.66%) SAP
5 8 (2.13%) Juniper
5 8 (2.13%) VMware
6 7 (1.86%) MicroStrategy
7 6 (1.60%) BT
7 6 (1.60%) Google
7 6 (1.60%) Oracle
8 4 (1.06%) Citrix
8 4 (1.06%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.06%) Sage
9 3 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.53%) Hyperion
10 2 (0.53%) IBM
10 2 (0.53%) NEC
10 2 (0.53%) Pegasus
10 2 (0.53%) Remedy