Line Management Job Trends in England

Line Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Line Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 126 119
Rank change year-on-year -76 -7 -9
Permanent jobs citing Line Management 614 1,081 1,635
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.04% 2.41% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 2.61% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 457 413 1,155
10th Percentile - £33,150 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,500 £42,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £61,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.39% +2.01% -7.69%
75th Percentile £74,500 £80,100 £80,035
90th Percentile £88,389 £95,000 £107,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £61,206 £57,500
% change year-on-year -22.39% +6.45% -12.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Line Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,835 41,372 58,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.66% 92.23% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 28,643 20,457 46,018
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,702
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Line Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Line Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Line Management job vacancy trend in England

Line Management
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Line Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Line Management

Line Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Line Management in England over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Line Management in England

Line Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Line Management within the England region over the 6 months to 13 February 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -2 206 £67,500 -15.63% 82
North of England -63 152 £30,500 -50.17% 66
South East -8 93 £67,500 +50.00% 96
North West -17 74 £35,000 -41.11% 36
Yorkshire -85 63 £30,500 -51.20% 25
Midlands -95 60 £32,500 -39.53% 62
South West -44 53 £34,406 -38.69% 42
West Midlands -83 35 £30,500 -43.26% 31
East of England +4 33 £40,000 -34.96% 37
East Midlands -37 24 £46,385 -21.05% 31
North East 0 15 £30,500 -48.68% 5
Line Management
UK

Line Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 35 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.47%) CMS
3 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.98%) Confluence
4 6 (0.98%) WordPress
5 4 (0.65%) Apache
6 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.49%) Moodle
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
7 2 (0.33%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.16%) Drupal
8 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) LiveLink
8 1 (0.16%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 46 (7.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (4.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.95%) InDesign
5 3 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.49%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.49%) InVision
5 3 (0.49%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.49%) Sketch
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.33%) Blender
6 2 (0.33%) Maya
7 1 (0.16%) CATIA
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.16%) Navisworks
7 1 (0.16%) ProjectWise
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.49%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.16%) assyst
4 1 (0.16%) Endur
4 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 92 (14.98%) Azure
2 59 (9.61%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (9.28%) Power Platform
4 38 (6.19%) AWS
5 33 (5.37%) SaaS
6 25 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
7 20 (3.26%) PowerApps
8 18 (2.93%) OneDrive
8 18 (2.93%) Power Automate
9 17 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (2.77%) Entra ID
10 15 (2.44%) GCP
11 14 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (1.47%) Snowflake
13 8 (1.30%) ChatGPT
14 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.81%) Figma
15 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
16 3 (0.49%) Zapier
17 2 (0.33%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.95%) LAN
2 10 (1.63%) Broadband
3 9 (1.47%) Unified Communications
4 8 (1.30%) Firewall
4 8 (1.30%) Internet
4 8 (1.30%) Wireless
5 7 (1.14%) WAN
5 7 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.81%) DHCP
6 5 (0.81%) DNS
6 5 (0.81%) Intranet
6 5 (0.81%) VPN
7 4 (0.65%) BGP
7 4 (0.65%) Network Security
7 4 (0.65%) OSPF
7 4 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.65%) VoIP
8 2 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.33%) SSH
8 2 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.70%) Power BI
2 8 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (1.30%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.98%) Oracle Database
3 6 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.65%) Metadata
4 4 (0.65%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.65%) Power Query
4 4 (0.65%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.49%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.33%) GIS
6 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.33%) Tableau
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.16%) Big Data
7 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.16%) Looker
7 1 (0.16%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 19 (3.09%) Git
2 15 (2.44%) GitLab
3 12 (1.95%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.63%) JIRA
5 3 (0.49%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.16%) MLflow
General
1 162 (26.38%) Social Skills
2 159 (25.90%) Multimedia
3 139 (22.64%) Finance
4 54 (8.79%) Marketing
5 48 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (6.35%) Public Sector
8 28 (4.56%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (3.75%) Law
10 22 (3.58%) Games
10 22 (3.58%) Retail
11 21 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (3.26%) Telecoms
13 19 (3.09%) Banking
14 17 (2.77%) Legal
15 15 (2.44%) Local Government
16 13 (2.12%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.63%) Manufacturing
18 9 (1.47%) Back Office
18 9 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (25.41%) Trainee
2 108 (17.59%) Lead
3 66 (10.75%) Senior
4 30 (4.89%) Analyst
5 28 (4.56%) Developer
6 27 (4.40%) IT Support
7 21 (3.42%) Architect
8 19 (3.09%) Head of IT
9 17 (2.77%) Lead Developer
9 17 (2.77%) Senior Manager
9 17 (2.77%) Support Engineer
10 15 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
10 15 (2.44%) Service Manager
11 14 (2.28%) Data Manager
11 14 (2.28%) IT Engineer
11 14 (2.28%) Software Engineer
12 12 (1.95%) IT Manager
12 12 (1.95%) Team Leader
13 10 (1.63%) IT Support Engineer
13 10 (1.63%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.07%) .NET
2 17 (2.77%) REST
3 15 (2.44%) SOAP
4 12 (1.95%) Web Services
5 11 (1.79%) Node.js
5 11 (1.79%) React
6 7 (1.14%) .NET Core
7 6 (0.98%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.98%) ASP.NET
7 6 (0.98%) CSS
8 5 (0.81%) HTML
9 4 (0.65%) EDI
9 4 (0.65%) Redux
10 3 (0.49%) Middleware
10 3 (0.49%) PySpark
10 3 (0.49%) Ruby on Rails
11 2 (0.33%) J2EE
11 2 (0.33%) JSON
11 2 (0.33%) RESTful
11 2 (0.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 58 (9.45%) Management Information System
2 24 (3.91%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.58%) Cloud Native
4 18 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.61%) Social Media
6 15 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.63%) Web Conferencing
11 9 (1.47%) Blog
11 9 (1.47%) Driving Licence
11 9 (1.47%) Fat Client
11 9 (1.47%) Thin Client
12 7 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.98%) e-Learning
13 6 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.65%) Derivative
14 4 (0.65%) Equities
14 4 (0.65%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.86%) Windows
2 15 (2.44%) Linux
2 15 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.47%) Windows 10
4 6 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.65%) Unix
6 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) HPUX
7 1 (0.16%) Solaris
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (38.76%) Mentoring
2 192 (31.27%) Cybersecurity
3 156 (25.41%) Ethical Hacking
4 126 (20.52%) Agile
5 67 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 67 (10.91%) CRM
6 65 (10.59%) Project Management
7 63 (10.26%) Coaching
8 58 (9.45%) Service Delivery
9 54 (8.79%) Decision-Making
9 54 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (8.63%) ITIL
10 53 (8.63%) Roadmaps
11 52 (8.47%) DevOps
12 49 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (7.65%) Analytics
14 46 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
15 44 (7.17%) People Management
15 44 (7.17%) Software Engineering
16 42 (6.84%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 44 (7.17%) Python
2 34 (5.54%) SQL
3 16 (2.61%) C#
4 15 (2.44%) Java
5 14 (2.28%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.47%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.65%) PHP
8 3 (0.49%) C
8 3 (0.49%) C++
8 3 (0.49%) R
8 3 (0.49%) Ruby
9 2 (0.33%) Bash
9 2 (0.33%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.16%) COBOL
10 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 157 (25.57%) CompTIA Security+
2 156 (25.41%) CEH
3 146 (23.78%) A+ Certification
3 146 (23.78%) Network+ Certification
4 113 (18.40%) Degree
5 49 (7.98%) Security Cleared
6 31 (5.05%) Master's Degree
7 27 (4.40%) SC Cleared
8 20 (3.26%) DBS Check
9 18 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (2.44%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.79%) CompTIA CySA+
12 9 (1.47%) PhD
12 9 (1.47%) Postgraduate
13 8 (1.30%) CFA
13 8 (1.30%) CISSP
14 7 (1.14%) ACCA
14 7 (1.14%) CIMA
15 6 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.98%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.09%) Data Quality
2 18 (2.93%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.93%) GDPR
3 14 (2.28%) QA
4 13 (2.12%) SLA
5 12 (1.95%) ISO 9001
5 12 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.95%) PMO
6 9 (1.47%) GRC
7 7 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.49%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.33%) PERC
10 2 (0.33%) WCAG
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.16%) ITGC
11 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (5.37%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.09%) Docker
3 6 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.49%) Firmware
4 3 (0.49%) vSphere
5 2 (0.33%) vCloud
5 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (3.75%) Terraform
2 16 (2.61%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.79%) Ansible
4 10 (1.63%) Grafana
5 9 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.49%) Autotask
7 2 (0.33%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.33%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.16%) SCCM
8 1 (0.16%) SmoothWall
8 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 96 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.09%) Cisco
3 15 (2.44%) Adobe
3 15 (2.44%) Oracle
4 14 (2.28%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.63%) Apple
7 9 (1.47%) Acronis
7 9 (1.47%) Datto
7 9 (1.47%) Zoho
8 8 (1.30%) Informatica
8 8 (1.30%) VMware
9 4 (0.65%) Meraki
9 4 (0.65%) SAP
10 3 (0.49%) Databricks
10 3 (0.49%) Google
10 3 (0.49%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.49%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.49%) Sparx
11 2 (0.33%) Fortinet