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 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 123 102
Rank change year-on-year +14 -21 +60
Permanent jobs citing Line Management 1,525 1,991 3,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.70% 2.43% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.76% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 697 1,427 1,770
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,772 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,500 £100,000 £97,311
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year +12.00% -19.94% +13.55%

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 53,030 72,159 106,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.89% 88.20% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 25,155 53,246 63,311
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,440 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,442 £40,000 £45,639
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.59% -9.09% +5.77%

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 6 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Top 17 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 6 March 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 +6 1,280 £57,836 +5.16% 625
UK excluding London +20 1,148 £56,000 +12.00% 409
Work from Home +37 662 £59,430 -4.91% 282
North of England +43 449 £56,000 +1.82% 120
London -48 294 £78,750 +5.13% 254
North West +35 258 £56,000 +1.82% 67
Midlands +27 204 £55,000 +24.73% 73
Yorkshire +54 183 £52,500 -1.87% 42
Scotland +107 182 £66,367 +32.73% 22
West Midlands +30 162 £52,500 +19.07% 42
South West +6 126 £52,600 +3.76% 78
South East -62 122 £45,000 -6.74% 85
East of England -53 52 £61,500 +26.80% 32
East Midlands +24 42 £67,500 +58.82% 30
Wales +6 17 £59,430 +14.07% 9
North East -5 8 £59,430 +16.53% 16
Northern Ireland +26 3 £59,430 -18.69% 2

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 34 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.72%) CMS
4 10 (0.66%) Confluence
5 9 (0.59%) WordPress
6 3 (0.20%) OpenEdge
6 3 (0.20%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.13%) Apache
7 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.13%) Drupal
7 2 (0.13%) IIS
7 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.066%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.066%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.066%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.066%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.066%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.066%) Strapi
Applications
1 73 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.70%) Simulink
4 17 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.39%) InDesign
6 5 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.20%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.066%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.066%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.20%) PlanetPress Connect
2 3 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
2 3 (0.20%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
3 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.066%) Academy Housing
4 1 (0.066%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.066%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.066%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.066%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.066%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 261 (17.11%) AWS
2 187 (12.26%) Azure
3 110 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
4 99 (6.49%) Power Platform
5 34 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
6 31 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
7 28 (1.84%) SaaS
8 20 (1.31%) dbt
8 20 (1.31%) PowerApps
9 18 (1.18%) Entra ID
10 15 (0.98%) GCP
10 15 (0.98%) Serverless
11 13 (0.85%) Mimecast
12 12 (0.79%) GitHub
13 10 (0.66%) Amazon S3
13 10 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (0.66%) IaaS
14 9 (0.59%) OneDrive
15 8 (0.52%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 172 (11.28%) Broadband
2 46 (3.02%) Firewall
3 37 (2.43%) DNS
4 34 (2.23%) DHCP
5 31 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
6 28 (1.84%) WAN
7 24 (1.57%) Internet
8 22 (1.44%) Network Security
9 20 (1.31%) Unified Communications
10 19 (1.25%) Structured Cabling
11 18 (1.18%) LAN
12 17 (1.11%) TCP/IP
13 15 (0.98%) VPN
14 14 (0.92%) VoIP
15 11 (0.72%) Wireless
16 10 (0.66%) OSPF
16 10 (0.66%) SAN
17 8 (0.52%) MPLS
17 8 (0.52%) SD-WAN
17 8 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (3.80%) Power BI
2 51 (3.34%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.84%) Tableau
4 26 (1.70%) Qlik Sense
5 21 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (0.98%) NoSQL
8 13 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.52%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.46%) Metadata
13 6 (0.39%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (0.33%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.33%) Dremio
15 4 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (0.26%) GIS
15 4 (0.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (1.51%) Jenkins
2 21 (1.38%) JIRA
3 14 (0.92%) Git
4 8 (0.52%) Maven
5 6 (0.39%) GitLab
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.20%) Bugzilla
7 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.20%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.13%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.13%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.13%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.13%) JUnit
8 2 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 753 (49.38%) Social Skills
2 332 (21.77%) Finance
3 263 (17.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 233 (15.28%) Presentation Skills
5 170 (11.15%) Telecoms
6 160 (10.49%) Games
7 95 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
8 74 (4.85%) Legal
9 73 (4.79%) Banking
10 65 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
11 51 (3.34%) Marketing
12 49 (3.21%) Retail
13 46 (3.02%) Public Sector
14 28 (1.84%) Law
15 26 (1.70%) Aerospace
15 26 (1.70%) Publishing
16 25 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
17 22 (1.44%) Tech for Good
18 21 (1.38%) Local Government
19 16 (1.05%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 218 (14.30%) IT Support
2 212 (13.90%) Lead
3 175 (11.48%) Senior
4 162 (10.62%) Architect
5 155 (10.16%) Project Manager
6 144 (9.44%) Principal Architect
6 144 (9.44%) Systems Architect
7 93 (6.10%) Systems Engineer
8 76 (4.98%) Delivery Project Manager
9 68 (4.46%) Team Leader
10 64 (4.20%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 62 (4.07%) Product Manager
12 55 (3.61%) Analyst
13 50 (3.28%) Lead Systems Engineer
14 49 (3.21%) Senior Manager
15 46 (3.02%) IT Manager
16 40 (2.62%) Developer
17 34 (2.23%) Development Manager
18 29 (1.90%) Programme Manager
19 28 (1.84%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.87%) .NET
2 46 (3.02%) HTML
3 40 (2.62%) Software Packaging
4 26 (1.70%) React
5 22 (1.44%) CSS
6 20 (1.31%) Web Services
7 19 (1.25%) .NET Core
7 19 (1.25%) AngularJS
8 18 (1.18%) RESTful
9 12 (0.79%) REST
10 9 (0.59%) Kafka
11 8 (0.52%) Android Jetpack
11 8 (0.52%) Jetpack Compose
12 7 (0.46%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.46%) EDI
12 7 (0.46%) Node.js
12 7 (0.46%) SailPoint
13 6 (0.39%) Django
13 6 (0.39%) Spring
13 6 (0.39%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 218 (14.30%) Enterprise Software
2 118 (7.74%) Management Information System
3 61 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 52 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 35 (2.30%) Social Media
6 34 (2.23%) Virtual Team
7 26 (1.70%) Cyberattack
8 25 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.51%) Driving Licence
10 22 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
11 20 (1.31%) Data Centre
12 17 (1.11%) Public Cloud
13 14 (0.92%) Credit Risk
13 14 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
13 14 (0.92%) Mobile App
14 13 (0.85%) FMCG
15 12 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
16 11 (0.72%) CMDB
17 10 (0.66%) Digital Media
17 10 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 297 (19.48%) Windows
2 25 (1.64%) Windows Server
3 22 (1.44%) Linux
4 14 (0.92%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.79%) Android
5 12 (0.79%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.26%) Unix
8 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.13%) Debian
10 2 (0.13%) SUSE
11 1 (0.066%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (30.16%) Agile
2 376 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
3 318 (20.85%) Roadmaps
4 306 (20.07%) Project Management
5 299 (19.61%) Mathematics
6 234 (15.34%) Mentoring
7 196 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 188 (12.33%) Technology Roadmap
9 187 (12.26%) Project Delivery
10 184 (12.07%) Coaching
11 173 (11.34%) IT Strategy
12 172 (11.28%) Software Engineering
13 157 (10.30%) Technology Strategy
14 153 (10.03%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 148 (9.70%) Cybersecurity
16 147 (9.64%) Enterprise Architecture
17 145 (9.51%) TOGAF
18 144 (9.44%) Architecture Governance
18 144 (9.44%) Release Train
19 123 (8.07%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (7.15%) SQL
2 53 (3.48%) Python
3 47 (3.08%) C#
3 47 (3.08%) Java
4 46 (3.02%) JavaScript
5 29 (1.90%) C
6 27 (1.77%) TypeScript
6 27 (1.77%) VBA
7 22 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.18%) PHP
9 16 (1.05%) C++
10 11 (0.72%) Bash
11 9 (0.59%) Ruby
12 8 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.46%) Scala
13 7 (0.46%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.33%) Bicep
14 5 (0.33%) Go
15 4 (0.26%) Perl
15 4 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 286 (18.75%) Degree
2 106 (6.95%) Security Cleared
3 54 (3.54%) SC Cleared
4 53 (3.48%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.89%) DBS Check
6 41 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (2.10%) CISA
8 26 (1.70%) CCAB
8 26 (1.70%) HND
9 19 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.25%) RIBA
10 15 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.92%) CISSP
12 12 (0.79%) CISM
13 10 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (0.39%) MCSA
15 6 (0.39%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.92%) QA
2 56 (3.67%) Accessibility
3 37 (2.43%) GDPR
4 26 (1.70%) ITGC
5 24 (1.57%) SLA
6 18 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.05%) NIST
8 11 (0.72%) WCAG
9 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.46%) PMO
10 5 (0.33%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.26%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.26%) IEC 61508
11 4 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.26%) PERC
12 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.13%) GRC
13 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.066%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 73 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (1.38%) Docker
4 17 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.66%) Firmware
7 6 (0.39%) vSphere
8 4 (0.26%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.066%) LXC
10 1 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.066%) Samba
10 1 (0.066%) Snort
10 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (1.70%) Terraform
2 23 (1.51%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.85%) SCCM
5 12 (0.79%) Ansible
6 8 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (0.52%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.46%) WSUS
8 5 (0.33%) Puppet
8 5 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.26%) QRadar
10 2 (0.13%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.066%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.066%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.066%) Statseeker
11 1 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 234 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 34 (2.23%) VMware
3 30 (1.97%) Cisco
4 25 (1.64%) MathWorks
5 21 (1.38%) Google
6 16 (1.05%) Adobe
6 16 (1.05%) Meraki
6 16 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 15 (0.98%) SAP
8 14 (0.92%) Avaloq
9 11 (0.72%) Apple
9 11 (0.72%) Atlassian
9 11 (0.72%) Oracle
10 10 (0.66%) Splunk
11 9 (0.59%) HP
12 7 (0.46%) CheckPoint
12 7 (0.46%) Veeam
12 7 (0.46%) YouTube
13 6 (0.39%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.39%) TikTok