Line Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Line Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 92 110
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 +31
Contract jobs citing Line Management 13 19 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.97% 0.98% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.16% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 18
10th Percentile £431 £367 £463
25th Percentile £473 £406 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £438 £688
Median % change year-on-year +17.37% -36.36% +44.74%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £694
90th Percentile £800 £878 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +0.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
Median hourly rate £28.18 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.99% - -
England median hourly rate £21.25 £23.32 £16.83
% change year-on-year -8.88% +38.56% -37.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Line Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Line Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Line Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Line Management in the West Midlands

Line Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Line Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Line Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Line Management in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +12 4 £750 +71.43% 23
Warwickshire +2 3 - - 17
Shropshire - 3 £502 - 8
Solihull - 1 £481 - 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £525 - 6
Line Management
England

Line Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (15.38%) Open Workbench
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (7.69%) UniData
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Legal
3 2 (15.38%) Automotive
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Applications Manager
1 3 (23.08%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Application Development Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Applications Development Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Development Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Engagement Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Rig Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Project Leader
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Report Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Service Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL
1 4 (30.77%) Project Planning
1 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
2 3 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Business Case
2 3 (23.08%) Change Management
2 3 (23.08%) Commercial Awareness
2 3 (23.08%) Conflict Management
2 3 (23.08%) Matrix Organization
2 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
2 3 (23.08%) Project Governance
2 3 (23.08%) Resource Management
2 3 (23.08%) Service Management
3 2 (15.38%) Compliance Audit
3 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) COSHH
1 2 (15.38%) ISO 14001
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft