People Management Contracts

People Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring People Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited People Management over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 410 470
Rank change year-on-year -32 +60 +11
Contract jobs citing People Management 75 183 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.42% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.49% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 134 153
10th Percentile £311 £271 £370
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £700 £625 £604
90th Percentile £778 £779 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 9
10th Percentile £59.36 - £35.00
25th Percentile - £18.35 £52.97
Median hourly rate £75.00 £22.54 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +232.74% -65.32% +63.62%
75th Percentile - £72.53 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £87.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £22.54 £72.50
% change year-on-year +232.74% -68.91% +82.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

People 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 26,532 37,140 52,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.94% 86.25% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,079 23,924 36,124
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,080 2,439 1,724
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.34 £16.00 £16.17
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% +1.39% +42.97%
75th Percentile £60.84 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.06 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.78% +8.57% +75.00%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing People Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for People Management in the UK

People Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing People Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for People Management in the UK

People 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 People Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 -22 63 £550 - 669
UK excluding London +2 37 £575 +21.05% 428
London +20 30 £538 -10.51% 327
Work from Home -2 25 £527 -11.14% 296
South East +36 13 £775 +47.62% 140
North of England +10 9 £650 +13.04% 82
North West +5 6 £675 +17.39% 56
Midlands -13 6 £550 +104.46% 62
West Midlands +15 5 £550 -27.87% 38
Scotland +9 4 £619 +30.32% 39
South West +33 3 £575 +4.55% 40
Yorkshire +11 2 £450 +5.88% 20
East of England +29 1 £700 +34.94% 71
Northern Ireland -7 1 - - 4
East Midlands -14 1 £500 +85.87% 21
North East - 1 £325 - 7

People 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 4 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.33%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Acrobat
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.33%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.33%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.00%) AWS
2 6 (8.00%) Azure
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.33%) OneDrive
4 3 (4.00%) SaaS
5 2 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.67%) OCI
5 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.33%) 5G
2 1 (1.33%) Internet
2 1 (1.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.67%) Power BI
2 1 (1.33%) Big Data
2 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.33%) Looker
2 1 (1.33%) Mixpanel
2 1 (1.33%) Neo4j
2 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) GitLab
2 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (52.00%) Finance
2 29 (38.67%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.33%) Banking
4 8 (10.67%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (6.67%) Legal
7 4 (5.33%) Manufacturing
8 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (4.00%) Marketing
8 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.67%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.67%) Aviation
9 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.33%) Local Government
10 1 (1.33%) Military
10 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (13.33%) Programme Manager
2 7 (9.33%) Consultant
2 7 (9.33%) Lead
3 6 (8.00%) ERP Implementation Manager
3 6 (8.00%) ERP Manager
3 6 (8.00%) Implementation Manager
4 5 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 4 (5.33%) Developer
5 4 (5.33%) Head of Design
5 4 (5.33%) Head of IT
5 4 (5.33%) Head of IT Services
5 4 (5.33%) IT Consultant
5 4 (5.33%) Senior
5 4 (5.33%) Service Design Consultant
5 4 (5.33%) Support Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Head of Information
6 3 (4.00%) Marketing Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Operations Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Project Manager
7 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.67%) React
2 1 (1.33%) CSS
2 1 (1.33%) CSS3
2 1 (1.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.33%) Flask
2 1 (1.33%) HTML
2 1 (1.33%) HTML5
2 1 (1.33%) Plotly
2 1 (1.33%) PySpark
2 1 (1.33%) RESTful
2 1 (1.33%) Spring
2 1 (1.33%) Spring Batch
2 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.67%) IoT
3 2 (2.67%) NHS
3 2 (2.67%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.33%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.33%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.33%) SCADA
4 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Windows
1 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (24.00%) Agile
3 13 (17.33%) Project Management
4 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (14.67%) PRINCE2
6 10 (13.33%) ITIL
6 10 (13.33%) Risk Management
7 9 (12.00%) Coaching
7 9 (12.00%) Process Improvement
8 8 (10.67%) Incident Management
8 8 (10.67%) Mentoring
8 8 (10.67%) Time Management
9 7 (9.33%) Budget Management
9 7 (9.33%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (9.33%) ERP
10 6 (8.00%) Change Management
10 6 (8.00%) Impact Analysis
10 6 (8.00%) Matrix Organization
10 6 (8.00%) Migration
10 6 (8.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.00%) Go
2 2 (2.67%) Python
3 1 (1.33%) Java
3 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.33%) R
3 1 (1.33%) SQL
3 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Degree
1 10 (13.33%) PMP
2 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.67%) CCNA
5 2 (2.67%) CISA
5 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.67%) CISM
5 2 (2.67%) CISSP
5 2 (2.67%) MCP
5 2 (2.67%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.33%) CCAB
6 1 (1.33%) CGEIT
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.33%) CRISC
6 1 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) MAPM
6 1 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) SLA
2 3 (4.00%) QA
3 2 (2.67%) GRC
3 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.67%) NIST
4 1 (1.33%) COBIT
4 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.33%) PMO
4 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (1.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (5.33%) Adobe
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.67%) Cisco
2 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.67%) SAP
2 2 (2.67%) VMware
3 1 (1.33%) Amplitude
3 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (1.33%) Databricks
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle
3 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow