Line Management Job Trends in Manchester

Line Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Line Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 99 75
Rank change year-on-year -5 -24 +11
Permanent jobs citing Line Management 30 60 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.09% 2.18% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 2.34% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 28 33 58
10th Percentile - £44,000 £42,125
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £61,206 £65,175
Median % change year-on-year -42.82% -6.09% +0.27%
75th Percentile £62,875 £82,000 £74,688
90th Percentile £78,125 £95,000 £96,539
North West median annual salary £35,000 £57,554 £58,210
% change year-on-year -39.19% -1.13% -4.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,245 2,564 2,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 81.49% 93.10% 92.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 1,201 1,656
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £34,483
25th Percentile £35,111 £40,000 £43,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,250 £86,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

Line Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Line Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

Line Management
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Line Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Line Management

Line Management
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Line Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Line Management in Manchester

Line Management
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Line Management within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Heywood - 5 £35,000 -
Bolton +16 2 £24,375 - 7
Line Management
North West

Line Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (3.33%) LiveLink
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) LAN
1 2 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (36.67%) Multimedia
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Legal
5 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.33%) Agriculture
6 1 (3.33%) Electronics
6 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Trainee
2 5 (16.67%) IT Support
3 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) 1st Line Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Deskside Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Head of Procurement
5 1 (3.33%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Product Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Sales Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Software Engineering Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Software Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.67%) Social Media
3 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) IoT
3 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 12 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (36.67%) Ethical Hacking
4 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.00%) AI
5 3 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (10.00%) ITIL
5 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.67%) Agile
6 2 (6.67%) Analytics
6 2 (6.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (6.67%) Data Analytics
6 2 (6.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (6.67%) Process Improvement
6 2 (6.67%) Project Management
6 2 (6.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (3.33%) DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) Python
1 2 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) Java
2 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) A+ Certification
1 11 (36.67%) CEH
1 11 (36.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 11 (36.67%) Network+ Certification
2 4 (13.33%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.67%) SmoothWall
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Cisco
2 2 (6.67%) Meraki
3 1 (3.33%) F5
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow