People Management Contracts

People Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for People Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited People Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 470 481
Rank change year-on-year +60 +11 +54
Contract jobs citing People Management 183 249 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.43% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.48% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 153 271
10th Percentile £271 £370 £260
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +10.58%
75th Percentile £625 £604 £675
90th Percentile £779 £770 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +18.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 5
10th Percentile - £35.00 £23.48
25th Percentile £18.35 £52.97 £25.64
Median hourly rate £22.54 £65.00 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year -65.32% +63.62% +114.73%
75th Percentile £72.53 £75.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £87.80 - £54.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.54 £72.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -68.91% +82.50% +114.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

People 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 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
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 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 2024.

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 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for People Management in the UK

People 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 People Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +61 152 £550 +4.76% 332
UK excluding London +42 92 £475 -9.52% 240
London +49 74 £601 +14.40% 114
Work from Home +86 68 £593 +12.86% 158
Midlands +49 29 £269 -55.17% 44
East Midlands +45 24 £269 -54.21% 14
South East +9 17 £525 +5.00% 55
North of England +18 16 £575 +9.52% 67
North West +11 14 £575 -4.17% 41
Scotland +33 11 £475 -5.00% 23
South West +18 7 £550 +4.76% 25
East of England +12 6 £519 +17.23% 20
West Midlands +15 5 £763 +27.08% 30
Wales +21 3 £450 - 9
Yorkshire +13 2 £425 -12.82% 20
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5

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 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.09%) nginx
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.09%) Acrobat
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (7.10%) Workday HCM
2 3 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.09%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.55%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (10.38%) Azure
2 18 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (7.10%) AWS
3 13 (7.10%) SaaS
4 7 (3.83%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.73%) Power Automate
6 3 (1.64%) GCP
7 2 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.55%) Canva
8 1 (0.55%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.55%) Contentful
8 1 (0.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.55%) IaaS
8 1 (0.55%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.55%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.55%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.28%) Firewall
2 5 (2.73%) WAN
3 3 (1.64%) Wireless
4 2 (1.09%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.09%) Intranet
4 2 (1.09%) LAN
4 2 (1.09%) SAN
4 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.55%) BGP
5 1 (0.55%) DHCP
5 1 (0.55%) DNS
5 1 (0.55%) Network Security
5 1 (0.55%) OSPF
5 1 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.55%) VLAN
5 1 (0.55%) VoIP
5 1 (0.55%) VPN
5 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.83%) Power BI
2 3 (1.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.09%) MySQL
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.55%) Big Data
4 1 (0.55%) Bigtable
4 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.55%) Flink
4 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.55%) HBase
4 1 (0.55%) IDMS
4 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.55%) QlikView
4 1 (0.55%) Sqoop
4 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.73%) JIRA
2 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.55%) JUnit
2 1 (0.55%) Maven
2 1 (0.55%) Postman
2 1 (0.55%) Selenium
2 1 (0.55%) SoapUI
2 1 (0.55%) TestDirector
2 1 (0.55%) TestNG
2 1 (0.55%) WebDriver
2 1 (0.55%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (42.62%) Social Skills
2 73 (39.89%) Finance
3 24 (13.11%) Legal
4 22 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.84%) Public Sector
6 13 (7.10%) Local Government
6 13 (7.10%) Marketing
7 11 (6.01%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (4.92%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.28%) Banking
11 5 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.19%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.09%) Games
14 1 (0.55%) Advertising
14 1 (0.55%) Automotive
14 1 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.55%) Law
14 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (17.49%) Lead
2 26 (14.21%) Project Manager
3 21 (11.48%) IT Manager
4 19 (10.38%) Senior
5 15 (8.20%) Consultant
6 14 (7.65%) Senior Manager
7 13 (7.10%) Workday Consultant
8 12 (6.56%) Payroll Consultant
8 12 (6.56%) Service Manager
9 11 (6.01%) Delivery Manager
10 10 (5.46%) Analyst
10 10 (5.46%) Senior Project Manager
11 9 (4.92%) Service Delivery Manager
11 9 (4.92%) Test Manager
12 8 (4.37%) IT Services Delivery Manager
12 8 (4.37%) IT Services Manager
13 7 (3.83%) SC Cleared Project Manager
14 6 (3.28%) IT Project Manager
15 5 (2.73%) Architect
15 5 (2.73%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.09%) .NET
1 2 (1.09%) .NET Core
1 2 (1.09%) EDI
2 1 (0.55%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.55%) Kafka
2 1 (0.55%) Middleware
2 1 (0.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.65%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.37%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.19%) FMCG
3 4 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.09%) CCTV
5 2 (1.09%) IoT
5 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.09%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.09%) PMI
5 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.55%) Blog
6 1 (0.55%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.55%) DataPower
6 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.55%) NHS
6 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.55%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.37%) Apple iOS
2 7 (3.83%) Windows
3 3 (1.64%) Linux
3 3 (1.64%) Unix
4 2 (1.09%) Android
4 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.09%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.96%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (26.78%) Project Management
3 43 (23.50%) Decision-Making
4 38 (20.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (19.67%) Agile
6 34 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (18.03%) Service Delivery
8 27 (14.75%) Line Management
9 26 (14.21%) Change Management
10 23 (12.57%) Coaching
10 23 (12.57%) Project Delivery
11 20 (10.93%) Business Case
11 20 (10.93%) ERP
12 19 (10.38%) Waterfall
13 18 (9.84%) Asset Management
13 18 (9.84%) Service Management
14 17 (9.29%) Budget Management
14 17 (9.29%) Critical Thinking
14 17 (9.29%) PRINCE2
14 17 (9.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.37%) Swift
2 5 (2.73%) SQL
3 3 (1.64%) Go
4 2 (1.09%) C#
4 2 (1.09%) Java
5 1 (0.55%) Python
5 1 (0.55%) Ruby
5 1 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (13.66%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.57%) Degree
4 15 (8.20%) HNC
4 15 (8.20%) HND
5 5 (2.73%) PMP
6 4 (2.19%) CIPD
6 4 (2.19%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (1.64%) NVQ Level 4
8 2 (1.09%) APMG
8 2 (1.09%) CCNA
8 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.55%) CISSP
9 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.55%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.74%) SLA
2 14 (7.65%) PMO
3 13 (7.10%) QA
4 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) COBIT
5 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.55%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.55%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.64%) SCCM
3 2 (1.09%) PaperCut
4 1 (0.55%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.55%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.65%) Workday
3 8 (4.37%) Okta
4 3 (1.64%) Cisco
4 3 (1.64%) Google
4 3 (1.64%) HP
4 3 (1.64%) SAP
4 3 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.09%) Adobe
5 2 (1.09%) Aruba
5 2 (1.09%) Meraki
5 2 (1.09%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (1.09%) Oracle
5 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.09%) Sage
5 2 (1.09%) Veeam
5 2 (1.09%) VMware
5 2 (1.09%) WatchGuard
6 1 (0.55%) Splunk
6 1 (0.55%) Talend