Line Management Jobs

Line Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Line Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 63 119 116
Rank change year-on-year +56 -3 +40
Permanent jobs citing Line Management 2,014 2,321 3,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.87% 2.36% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 2.74% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 681 1,698 1,514
10th Percentile £25,313 £28,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £47,161
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,396 £65,306
Median % change year-on-year +6.88% -19.77% +8.84%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £99,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -19.17% +12.97%

All Process and 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 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Line Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Line Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Line Management.

Salary trend for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Line Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +59 1,897 £56,000 +2.38% 982
UK excluding London +82 1,653 £55,000 +13.40% 725
North of England +97 951 £56,000 +6.67% 182
North West +96 764 £56,000 +1.82% 94
Work from Home +56 748 £56,121 -0.42% 449
London -63 271 £75,000 +3.45% 374
South East +42 215 £57,500 +21.05% 194
Midlands +47 207 £55,000 +24.73% 112
Yorkshire +66 184 £25,625 -51.19% 67
West Midlands +36 147 £55,000 +18.28% 63
South West +41 146 £52,600 +12.02% 92
East of England -23 77 £62,000 +44.19% 99
East Midlands +41 60 £57,500 +43.75% 43
Scotland +74 53 £55,000 +10.00% 39
Wales 0 8 £60,000 +41.18% 25
North East -2 3 £61,206 +38.81% 23

Line Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.70%) WordPress
4 7 (0.35%) Confluence
5 6 (0.30%) CMS
6 3 (0.15%) OpenEdge
6 3 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.099%) Apache
7 2 (0.099%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.099%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.099%) Drupal
7 2 (0.099%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.050%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.050%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.050%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.050%) IIS
8 1 (0.050%) Luigi
8 1 (0.050%) Tomcat
Applications
1 88 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (1.24%) Simulink
4 16 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.25%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.15%) InDesign
6 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.15%) Trello
7 2 (0.099%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 8 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.25%) Magento
3 5 (0.25%) Shopify
4 3 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.15%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.099%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.050%) Maximo
6 1 (0.050%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.050%) PlanetPress Connect
6 1 (0.050%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.050%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 306 (15.19%) AWS
2 194 (9.63%) Azure
3 94 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
4 50 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
4 50 (2.48%) Power Platform
5 46 (2.28%) SaaS
6 28 (1.39%) Serverless
7 23 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
9 19 (0.94%) Entra ID
10 18 (0.89%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (0.74%) Amazon EventBridge
12 14 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (0.70%) AWS CodeBuild
12 14 (0.70%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 14 (0.70%) AWS CodePipeline
12 14 (0.70%) Boomi
12 14 (0.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 412 (20.46%) VPN
2 411 (20.41%) DNS
3 32 (1.59%) Firewall
4 27 (1.34%) WAN
5 23 (1.14%) Network Security
6 20 (0.99%) Internet
7 16 (0.79%) LAN
8 15 (0.74%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (0.55%) OSPF
11 9 (0.45%) HTTP
12 8 (0.40%) DHCP
12 8 (0.40%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.40%) VoIP
13 7 (0.35%) FTP
13 7 (0.35%) SMTP
13 7 (0.35%) SSH
13 7 (0.35%) VLAN
14 6 (0.30%) RIP
14 6 (0.30%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (1.49%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.44%) Power BI
4 24 (1.19%) Relational Database
5 19 (0.94%) Big Data
6 14 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.60%) NoSQL
8 10 (0.50%) Metadata
8 10 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (0.40%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.25%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.20%) Dremio
12 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.099%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.099%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.099%) GIS
14 2 (0.099%) Power Query
14 2 (0.099%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 21 (1.04%) Jenkins
2 19 (0.94%) JIRA
3 16 (0.79%) Git
4 8 (0.40%) Maven
5 6 (0.30%) GitLab
6 4 (0.20%) Balsamiq
6 4 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.20%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.099%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.099%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.099%) JUnit
7 2 (0.099%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.099%) Subversion
7 2 (0.099%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.099%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.050%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.050%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.050%) Visual Studio
General
1 823 (40.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 701 (34.81%) Finance
3 572 (28.40%) Social Skills
4 538 (26.71%) Analytical Skills
5 352 (17.48%) Law
6 322 (15.99%) Legal
7 231 (11.47%) Presentation Skills
8 102 (5.06%) Banking
9 82 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
10 67 (3.33%) Marketing
11 56 (2.78%) Public Sector
11 56 (2.78%) Retail
12 41 (2.04%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.29%) Local Government
14 25 (1.24%) Aerospace
15 16 (0.79%) Esports
15 16 (0.79%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.70%) Games
16 14 (0.70%) Police
17 13 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 491 (24.38%) Developer
2 455 (22.59%) Software Developer
3 227 (11.27%) Lead
4 219 (10.87%) IT Support
5 183 (9.09%) Senior
6 115 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
7 86 (4.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 74 (3.67%) Team Leader
9 70 (3.48%) Project Manager
10 62 (3.08%) Product Manager
11 48 (2.38%) Lead Systems Engineer
12 45 (2.23%) Senior Manager
13 33 (1.64%) Credit Risk Manager
13 33 (1.64%) Delivery Project Manager
13 33 (1.64%) Risk Manager
14 30 (1.49%) IT Manager
15 27 (1.34%) Software Team Leader
16 26 (1.29%) Architect
17 24 (1.19%) Analyst
18 23 (1.14%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (4.82%) .NET
2 60 (2.98%) Software Packaging
3 57 (2.83%) Node.js
4 49 (2.43%) Pandas
5 27 (1.34%) RESTful
6 26 (1.29%) React
7 25 (1.24%) HTML
8 22 (1.09%) .NET Core
9 21 (1.04%) CSS
10 16 (0.79%) AngularJS
11 15 (0.74%) OAuth
12 14 (0.70%) JWT
13 8 (0.40%) Android Jetpack
13 8 (0.40%) EDI
13 8 (0.40%) Jetpack Compose
14 7 (0.35%) Kafka
14 7 (0.35%) Lambda Expressions
14 7 (0.35%) LDAP
15 6 (0.30%) Spring
15 6 (0.30%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 731 (36.30%) Cyberattack
2 219 (10.87%) Enterprise Software
3 110 (5.46%) Management Information System
4 65 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 62 (3.08%) Social Media
6 33 (1.64%) Credit Risk
7 32 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (1.24%) Virtual Team
9 21 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 20 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (0.94%) FMCG
11 19 (0.94%) PMI
12 15 (0.74%) Mobile App
12 15 (0.74%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.60%) Driving Licence
14 11 (0.55%) Online Banking
15 10 (0.50%) NHS
16 9 (0.45%) Cloud Native
16 9 (0.45%) Data Centre
16 9 (0.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 457 (22.69%) Android
2 455 (22.59%) Linux
3 295 (14.65%) Windows
4 16 (0.79%) Windows Vista
5 15 (0.74%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.099%) Unix
11 1 (0.050%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.050%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 772 (38.33%) Mathematics
2 761 (37.79%) Agile
3 464 (23.04%) Design Patterns
4 456 (22.64%) Android Development
5 449 (22.29%) OOP
6 448 (22.24%) OO
7 388 (19.27%) Cybersecurity
8 332 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
9 302 (15.00%) Creative Thinking
10 221 (10.97%) Software Engineering
11 216 (10.72%) Project Management
12 166 (8.24%) Roadmaps
13 160 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 155 (7.70%) Coaching
15 135 (6.70%) Artificial Intelligence
16 132 (6.55%) Stakeholder Management
17 121 (6.01%) Mentoring
18 116 (5.76%) CI/CD
19 114 (5.66%) Systems Engineering
20 111 (5.51%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 517 (25.67%) Java
2 487 (24.18%) Python
3 459 (22.79%) C++
4 451 (22.39%) Go
5 90 (4.47%) JavaScript
6 76 (3.77%) C#
7 70 (3.48%) Rust
8 61 (3.03%) SQL
9 26 (1.29%) C
10 22 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.94%) PowerShell
12 17 (0.84%) PHP
13 12 (0.60%) Bash
14 10 (0.50%) Ruby
15 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.30%) Perl
17 5 (0.25%) Delphi
17 5 (0.25%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.20%) Bicep
19 3 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 527 (26.17%) Security Cleared
2 487 (24.18%) DV Cleared
3 281 (13.95%) Degree
4 70 (3.48%) DBS Check
5 61 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 42 (2.09%) SC Cleared
7 23 (1.14%) HND
8 19 (0.94%) PMI Certification
9 9 (0.45%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.35%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.35%) CISSP
11 7 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.30%) CISM
12 6 (0.30%) MCSE
13 5 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.20%) CCNA
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.15%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (14.20%) NCSC
2 54 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.94%) QA
4 35 (1.74%) GDPR
5 33 (1.64%) SLA
6 16 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 13 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.50%) WCAG
9 9 (0.45%) NIST
10 8 (0.40%) PMO
11 4 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.099%) GRC
13 2 (0.099%) PERC
14 1 (0.050%) COBIT
14 1 (0.050%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.050%) ECSS
14 1 (0.050%) ITGC
System Software
1 465 (23.09%) Docker
2 75 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.25%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.25%) Firmware
7 4 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.099%) vSphere
9 1 (0.050%) LXC
9 1 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.050%) Samba
9 1 (0.050%) Snort
9 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 455 (22.59%) Ansible
2 77 (3.82%) Terraform
3 73 (3.62%) Kubernetes
4 22 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.60%) SCCM
6 8 (0.40%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.30%) QRadar
8 5 (0.25%) WSUS
9 4 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.20%) Puppet
9 4 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.099%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.050%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.050%) Grafana
11 1 (0.050%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.050%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 251 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.14%) SAP
3 33 (1.64%) Avaloq
4 32 (1.59%) Google
5 25 (1.24%) MathWorks
6 24 (1.19%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.14%) VMware
8 20 (0.99%) ServiceNow
9 17 (0.84%) Adobe
10 16 (0.79%) Cisco
11 15 (0.74%) Informatica
11 15 (0.74%) Splunk
12 14 (0.70%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.65%) Apple
14 10 (0.50%) TikTok
15 9 (0.45%) Oracle
16 8 (0.40%) Databricks
16 8 (0.40%) HP
17 7 (0.35%) Atlassian
17 7 (0.35%) YouTube