Line Management Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Line Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Line Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 149 89
Rank change year-on-year +3 -60 +36
Permanent jobs citing Line Management 24 36 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.59% 1.05% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.15% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 28
10th Percentile £25,125 £39,000 £38,130
25th Percentile £27,250 £44,375 £54,915
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £67,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% -5.26% +16.72%
75th Percentile £68,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 - £141,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £43,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +55.17% -35.56% +8.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,262 3,137 3,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.70% 91.73% 89.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,754 1,414 2,352
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,007 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.37% -4.45%

Line Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Line Management job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Line Management
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Line Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Line Management

Line Management
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Line Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Line Management in the Thames Valley

Line Management
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Line Management within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Berkshire -7 11 £30,500 -54.81% 23
Oxfordshire +25 7 £47,500 - 11
Buckinghamshire 0 7 £49,000 - 13
Line Management
South East

Line Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (12.50%) InDesign
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 4 (16.67%) SaaS
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Marketing
2 4 (16.67%) Multimedia
2 4 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Lead
1 5 (20.83%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Administrator
2 4 (16.67%) Coordinator
2 4 (16.67%) Customer Service Administrator
2 4 (16.67%) Trainee
3 3 (12.50%) Marketing Executive
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Marketing Executive
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Development Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Development Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Development Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Support
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Support Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Head of Business Development
5 1 (4.17%) Head of IT Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (12.50%) Social Media
2 3 (12.50%) Web Conferencing
3 2 (8.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Mentoring
2 6 (25.00%) Analytics
2 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 5 (20.83%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
3 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 4 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
4 4 (16.67%) Preventative Maintenance
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) Time Management
4 4 (16.67%) Workflow
5 3 (12.50%) Business Analytics
5 3 (12.50%) Commercial Awareness
5 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (12.50%) CRM
5 3 (12.50%) Demand Generation
5 3 (12.50%) Lead Generation
5 3 (12.50%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) A+ Certification
1 4 (16.67%) CEH
1 4 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 4 (16.67%) SLA
2 3 (12.50%) ISO 9001
2 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Adobe
1 3 (12.50%) Cisco
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.50%) Zoho
2 2 (8.33%) Cognos
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle