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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 403 442
Rank change year-on-year -55 +39 +29
Contract jobs citing People Management 98 159 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.41% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.48% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 99 170
10th Percentile £363 £313 £400
25th Percentile £442 £456 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.53% -1.39%
75th Percentile £706 £650 £638
90th Percentile £878 £775 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £509
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.19% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 12
10th Percentile £39.38 £18.35 £35.00
25th Percentile £70.16 £20.45 £47.38
Median hourly rate £75.00 £71.25 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% +116.10%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £73.13
90th Percentile - £76.28 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £71.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.26% +1.79% +197.87%

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 29,981 33,385 47,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,763 21,485 32,677
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,667 1,871 1,564
10th Percentile £14.17 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +84.42%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -26 85 £575 - 492
London -1 47 £578 -7.81% 251
UK excluding London -43 44 £550 +4.76% 278
Work from Home -16 26 £553 +0.55% 215
North of England -12 13 £605 +5.13% 82
South East -2 10 £775 +112.33% 68
Yorkshire -4 8 £600 +41.18% 26
South West +26 7 £391 -28.86% 23
North West -5 5 £609 +4.64% 49
Midlands -11 5 £500 -4.76% 37
Scotland -12 5 £528 +87.84% 26
East Midlands -3 3 £609 +139.76% 20
West Midlands -8 2 £307 -42.84% 17
Northern Ireland -15 2 - - 8
Wales +9 1 £226 - 6
East of England +1 1 - - 34

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 5 (5.10%) Confluence
2 3 (3.06%) IIS
2 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.02%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Acrobat
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.04%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.02%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.02%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.12%) AWS
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (4.08%) SaaS
3 3 (3.06%) Azure
3 3 (3.06%) Figma
3 3 (3.06%) OneDrive
3 3 (3.06%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.06%) SuccessFactors
4 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.04%) GCP
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.02%) OCI
5 1 (1.02%) Serverless
5 1 (1.02%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) Network Security
2 1 (1.02%) 5G
2 1 (1.02%) Firewall
2 1 (1.02%) Internet
2 1 (1.02%) LAN
2 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.06%) Looker
1 3 (3.06%) Mixpanel
1 3 (3.06%) Power BI
1 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
1 3 (3.06%) Tableau
2 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.04%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.02%) Big Data
3 1 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (15.31%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) JMeter
2 1 (1.02%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.02%) Postman
2 1 (1.02%) Selenium
2 1 (1.02%) SoapUI
General
1 56 (57.14%) Finance
2 51 (52.04%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.24%) Banking
4 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (6.12%) Legal
6 6 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.10%) Marketing
7 5 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.08%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.04%) Aviation
9 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.04%) German Language
9 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.04%) Retail
9 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (12.24%) Project Manager
1 12 (12.24%) Senior
2 9 (9.18%) Lead
2 9 (9.18%) Programme Manager
3 6 (6.12%) Delivery Manager
3 6 (6.12%) ERP Implementation Manager
3 6 (6.12%) ERP Manager
3 6 (6.12%) Implementation Manager
4 5 (5.10%) Engineering Manager
4 5 (5.10%) Operations Manager
4 5 (5.10%) Senior Manager
4 5 (5.10%) Support Manager
5 4 (4.08%) Architect
5 4 (4.08%) Consultant
5 4 (4.08%) Developer
5 4 (4.08%) Senior Project Manager
5 4 (4.08%) Service Delivery Manager
5 4 (4.08%) Service Manager
5 4 (4.08%) Technical Manager
5 4 (4.08%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) .NET
1 4 (4.08%) .NET Framework
2 3 (3.06%) ASP.NET
2 3 (3.06%) MSMQ
3 2 (2.04%) React
3 2 (2.04%) Spring
3 2 (2.04%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.04%) YAML
4 1 (1.02%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.02%) CSS
4 1 (1.02%) CSS3
4 1 (1.02%) D3.js
4 1 (1.02%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.02%) Flask
4 1 (1.02%) HTML5
4 1 (1.02%) Micronaut
4 1 (1.02%) PySpark
4 1 (1.02%) RESTful
4 1 (1.02%) SOAP
4 1 (1.02%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.12%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.08%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.08%) NHS
3 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.06%) N-Tier
3 3 (3.06%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.04%) IoT
4 2 (2.04%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.04%) PMI
4 2 (2.04%) Pricing Data
4 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.02%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.02%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.02%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.02%) Android
1 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (30.61%) Agile
3 29 (29.59%) Project Management
4 24 (24.49%) Change Management
4 24 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (18.37%) Service Delivery
6 15 (15.31%) PRINCE2
6 15 (15.31%) Project Delivery
7 13 (13.27%) Analytics
7 13 (13.27%) Budget Management
7 13 (13.27%) Decision-Making
7 13 (13.27%) Programme Management
7 13 (13.27%) Risk Management
7 13 (13.27%) Roadmaps
8 12 (12.24%) Coaching
8 12 (12.24%) Collaborative Working
8 12 (12.24%) Time Management
9 10 (10.20%) DevOps
9 10 (10.20%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.12%) Python
2 5 (5.10%) SQL
3 3 (3.06%) R
3 3 (3.06%) VB.NET
4 2 (2.04%) Java
4 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.02%) Bicep
5 1 (1.02%) C
5 1 (1.02%) C#
5 1 (1.02%) C++
5 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (18.37%) Degree
2 15 (15.31%) PMP
3 9 (9.18%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.08%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.02%) CCAB
7 1 (1.02%) CIPD
7 1 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.02%) MAPM
7 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.20%) PMO
2 9 (9.18%) QA
3 6 (6.12%) SLA
4 3 (3.06%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.02%) DO-254
6 1 (1.02%) GDPR
6 1 (1.02%) GRC
6 1 (1.02%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.02%) NIST
6 1 (1.02%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (1.02%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (6.12%) SAP
2 5 (5.10%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.06%) Adobe
3 3 (3.06%) Amplitude
3 3 (3.06%) CheckPoint
3 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.04%) Oracle
4 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.04%) Workday
5 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.02%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.02%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.02%) HP