Line Management Job Trends

Line Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Line Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 58 106
Rank change year-on-year -119 +48 +6
Permanent jobs citing Line Management 1,057 1,927 2,438
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 4.41% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 4.72% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 681 548 1,725
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,048 £31,438 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £57,000 £52,396
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +8.79% -20.13%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £90,000 £109,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,600 £48,007
% change year-on-year +4.56% +9.57% -19.99%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,794 40,810 82,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,940 22,598 59,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Line Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Line Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Line Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Line Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Line Management

Line Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Line Management over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Line Management within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 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
England -126 898 £60,000 +5.26% 369
UK excluding London -140 614 £55,000 +4.56% 326
Work from Home -51 425 £72,434 +25.97% 174
London +28 330 £72,500 -9.38% 109
North of England -145 172 £42,500 -10.87% 86
South East -42 152 £70,000 +66.67% 79
Midlands -96 102 £41,020 -23.68% 52
North West -136 85 £42,500 -22.44% 37
Yorkshire -94 72 £44,447 +73.45% 42
South West -68 66 £57,591 +6.37% 45
West Midlands -82 65 £47,500 -13.64% 27
East of England -29 60 £59,450 -4.11% 30
Scotland -2 48 £30,500 -44.55% 15
East Midlands -53 37 £38,500 -23.00% 25
Wales -20 16 £68,000 +13.47% 21
North East -26 15 £30,500 -32.22% 8

Line Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 45 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.12%) CMS
3 15 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.14%) Confluence
4 12 (1.14%) WordPress
5 10 (0.95%) Drupal
6 4 (0.38%) Apache
6 4 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.28%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.19%) SAS
9 1 (0.095%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.095%) IIS
9 1 (0.095%) Moodle
9 1 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 45 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.47%) DaVinci Resolve
5 5 (0.47%) Sketch
6 4 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.38%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.38%) InVision
6 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.095%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.095%) CATIA
7 1 (0.095%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.095%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
4 6 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.47%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.19%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.19%) Shopify
8 1 (0.095%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.095%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.095%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.095%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.095%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 208 (19.68%) Azure
2 117 (11.07%) AWS
3 64 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (6.05%) Power Platform
3 64 (6.05%) Snowflake
4 60 (5.68%) GCP
5 57 (5.39%) Azure AI
6 55 (5.20%) Azure Machine Learning
6 55 (5.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 44 (4.16%) SaaS
8 24 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (1.99%) OneDrive
10 17 (1.61%) Power Automate
10 17 (1.61%) PowerApps
11 16 (1.51%) Entra ID
11 16 (1.51%) Figma
12 13 (1.23%) GitHub
13 12 (1.14%) OCI
13 12 (1.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.46%) Broadband
2 23 (2.18%) Firewall
3 19 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.61%) DNS
5 14 (1.32%) DHCP
5 14 (1.32%) Internet
6 11 (1.04%) Network Security
7 10 (0.95%) Multicast
8 9 (0.85%) WAN
9 7 (0.66%) LAN
9 7 (0.66%) LTE
10 6 (0.57%) SNMP
11 5 (0.47%) BGP
11 5 (0.47%) OSPF
11 5 (0.47%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.38%) VLAN
12 4 (0.38%) VPN
12 4 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.28%) Intranet
13 3 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (6.62%) SQL Server
2 37 (3.50%) Power BI
3 17 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (1.14%) MySQL
5 11 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.85%) Metadata
7 7 (0.66%) Tableau
8 4 (0.38%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.28%) GIS
9 3 (0.28%) Looker
9 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.19%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.19%) Metadata Repository
10 2 (0.19%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.095%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.095%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 24 (2.27%) Git
2 22 (2.08%) JIRA
3 21 (1.99%) GitLab
4 17 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.38%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.38%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.38%) Selenium
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.095%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.095%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.095%) JMeter
7 1 (0.095%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.095%) WebDriver
General
1 316 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 291 (27.53%) Finance
3 130 (12.30%) Multimedia
4 105 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
6 91 (8.61%) Law
7 79 (7.47%) Marketing
8 68 (6.43%) Public Sector
9 58 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
10 54 (5.11%) Retail
11 46 (4.35%) Telecoms
12 44 (4.16%) Banking
13 41 (3.88%) Games
13 41 (3.88%) Legal
14 39 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (2.27%) Local Government
16 19 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (1.61%) Front Office
18 15 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
19 13 (1.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 177 (16.75%) Senior
2 145 (13.72%) Lead
3 127 (12.02%) Trainee
4 80 (7.57%) Architect
5 57 (5.39%) Software Engineer
6 54 (5.11%) Engineering Manager
7 53 (5.01%) Analyst
8 51 (4.82%) Senior Manager
9 48 (4.54%) Data Manager
10 46 (4.35%) Developer
11 40 (3.78%) Finance Manager
12 28 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (2.37%) Consultant
13 25 (2.37%) Head of IT
14 24 (2.27%) Lead Developer
15 21 (1.99%) Business Analyst
15 21 (1.99%) IT Engineer
15 21 (1.99%) Team Leader
16 20 (1.89%) Development Manager
16 20 (1.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.65%) .NET
2 27 (2.55%) Node.js
3 25 (2.37%) React
4 18 (1.70%) HTML
5 17 (1.61%) CSS
6 16 (1.51%) Redux
7 8 (0.76%) .NET Core
7 8 (0.76%) .NET Framework
7 8 (0.76%) Ajax
7 8 (0.76%) ASP.NET
8 7 (0.66%) HEVC
8 7 (0.66%) PySpark
9 6 (0.57%) CSS3
9 6 (0.57%) HTML5
9 6 (0.57%) JSON
9 6 (0.57%) Laravel
10 5 (0.47%) EDI
10 5 (0.47%) Spring
10 5 (0.47%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.38%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 99 (9.37%) Management Information System
2 52 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 48 (4.54%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 41 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (2.55%) Driving Licence
7 24 (2.27%) Algorithms
8 23 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.99%) Cyberattack
10 18 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.51%) Derivative
11 16 (1.51%) Equities
11 16 (1.51%) Fixed Income
11 16 (1.51%) NHS
12 14 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (1.23%) Social Media
14 12 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
16 10 (0.95%) Blog
16 10 (0.95%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.11%) Windows
2 36 (3.41%) Linux
3 27 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.76%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.47%) Debian
5 5 (0.47%) Unix
6 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.28%) VME
7 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.095%) Solaris
7 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (26.21%) Agile
2 271 (25.64%) Mentoring
3 190 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 182 (17.22%) Cybersecurity
5 173 (16.37%) Roadmaps
6 146 (13.81%) Coaching
7 145 (13.72%) AI
8 127 (12.02%) Ethical Hacking
9 121 (11.45%) Software Engineering
10 109 (10.31%) Decision-Making
10 109 (10.31%) Problem-Solving
11 108 (10.22%) Project Management
12 106 (10.03%) DevOps
13 96 (9.08%) Migration
13 96 (9.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 94 (8.89%) Data Governance
15 84 (7.95%) CRM
15 84 (7.95%) Machine Learning
16 74 (7.00%) Data Architecture
17 70 (6.62%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 110 (10.41%) SQL
2 96 (9.08%) Python
3 39 (3.69%) C#
4 35 (3.31%) JavaScript
5 34 (3.22%) TypeScript
6 24 (2.27%) Java
7 22 (2.08%) C++
8 9 (0.85%) PHP
9 8 (0.76%) R
10 4 (0.38%) Bash
11 3 (0.28%) C
11 3 (0.28%) COBOL
12 2 (0.19%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.19%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.19%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.095%) Bicep
13 1 (0.095%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.095%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 168 (15.89%) Degree
2 129 (12.20%) CEH
2 129 (12.20%) CompTIA Security+
3 120 (11.35%) A+ Certification
4 117 (11.07%) Network+ Certification
5 88 (8.33%) Security Cleared
6 51 (4.82%) SC Cleared
7 36 (3.41%) DBS Check
8 30 (2.84%) Master's Degree
9 24 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.70%) ACCA
10 18 (1.70%) CIMA
10 18 (1.70%) DV Cleared
11 13 (1.23%) PhD
12 12 (1.14%) Postgraduate
13 10 (0.95%) CISSP
13 10 (0.95%) CompTIA CySA+
14 9 (0.85%) CFA
15 8 (0.76%) CRISC
15 8 (0.76%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (7.85%) Accessibility
2 53 (5.01%) GDPR
3 42 (3.97%) QA
4 24 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.89%) NIST
6 18 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.70%) PMO
7 14 (1.32%) SLA
8 10 (0.95%) GRC
9 9 (0.85%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.76%) WCAG
11 7 (0.66%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.57%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.47%) Automotive SPICE
13 5 (0.47%) ISO 26262
14 4 (0.38%) GAAP
14 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 4 (0.38%) NCSC
14 4 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 56 (5.30%) Virtual Machines
2 38 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.74%) Docker
4 15 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.57%) Firmware
6 4 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 2 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (2.84%) Terraform
2 19 (1.80%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.51%) Ansible
4 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.76%) Grafana
6 7 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.28%) Check_MK
8 2 (0.19%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.095%) Argo
9 1 (0.095%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.095%) Istio
9 1 (0.095%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.095%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.095%) SCCM
9 1 (0.095%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 202 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.77%) Databricks
3 30 (2.84%) Google
4 29 (2.74%) Oracle
5 21 (1.99%) VMware
6 16 (1.51%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.51%) SAP
7 15 (1.42%) Adobe
8 13 (1.23%) Cisco
9 10 (0.95%) Apple
10 8 (0.76%) FIS
10 8 (0.76%) Informatica
10 8 (0.76%) Intapp
10 8 (0.76%) ION Trading
10 8 (0.76%) Sage
10 8 (0.76%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.66%) Acronis
11 7 (0.66%) Datto
11 7 (0.66%) Splunk
12 6 (0.57%) SolarWinds