Hybrid/Remote Line Management Job Trends

Line Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Line Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 58 95
Rank change year-on-year -60 +37 +13
Permanent jobs citing Line Management 527 855 711
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.22% 5.28% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 5.68% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 304 160 524
10th Percentile £40,500 £30,455 £31,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,584 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £73,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £87,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £62,150 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.09% -11.54% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,480 15,052 20,418
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.91% 92.98% 87.54%
Number of salaries quoted 14,035 8,660 12,878
10th Percentile £34,750 £29,838 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Line Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Line Management and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Line Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Line Management
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Line Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Line Management

Line Management
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Line Management over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Line Management salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Line Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 35 (6.64%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.38%) Apache
3 2 (0.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.19%) CMS
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.19%) Moodle
4 1 (0.19%) SAS
4 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.85%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.95%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (0.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.95%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.95%) DaVinci Resolve
5 5 (0.95%) InDesign
5 5 (0.95%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.57%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.57%) Lightworks
7 3 (0.57%) Simulink
8 2 (0.38%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.38%) Sketch
8 2 (0.38%) Weka
9 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.71%) NetSuite
1 9 (1.71%) Oracle Applications
1 9 (1.71%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.76%) Raiser’s Edge
3 3 (0.57%) Misys Midas
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.38%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.19%) FastStats
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 118 (22.39%) Azure
2 79 (14.99%) AWS
3 57 (10.82%) Azure AI
3 57 (10.82%) Snowflake
4 55 (10.44%) Azure Machine Learning
4 55 (10.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 33 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (5.31%) Power Platform
7 26 (4.93%) SaaS
8 23 (4.36%) GCP
9 13 (2.47%) Power Automate
9 13 (2.47%) PowerApps
10 12 (2.28%) PaaS
11 11 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (2.09%) OCI
11 11 (2.09%) Serverless
12 8 (1.52%) Slack
13 7 (1.33%) GitHub
14 6 (1.14%) OneDrive
15 5 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.28%) Broadband
2 8 (1.52%) 5G
3 5 (0.95%) Internet
3 5 (0.95%) SNMP
3 5 (0.95%) WPA
4 4 (0.76%) DHCP
4 4 (0.76%) DNS
4 4 (0.76%) Network Security
4 4 (0.76%) VPN
5 3 (0.57%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.57%) Firewall
5 3 (0.57%) LAN
5 3 (0.57%) LTE
5 3 (0.57%) MQTT
5 3 (0.57%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.57%) WAN
5 3 (0.57%) Wireless
6 2 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.38%) NGFW
6 2 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (11.95%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.85%) Power BI
3 11 (2.09%) Metadata
4 10 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.14%) Big Data
6 3 (0.57%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.57%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.57%) Tableau
7 2 (0.38%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.38%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.38%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (0.38%) MySQL
7 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.19%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (0.19%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (1.71%) Git
2 7 (1.33%) JIRA
3 3 (0.57%) PetaLinux
4 1 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 178 (33.78%) Finance
2 170 (32.26%) Social Skills
3 95 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 75 (14.23%) Law
6 49 (9.30%) Marketing
7 45 (8.54%) Public Sector
8 44 (8.35%) Legal
9 28 (5.31%) Games
9 28 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (4.74%) Banking
11 23 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (3.04%) Publishing
12 16 (3.04%) Telecoms
13 12 (2.28%) Local Government
14 10 (1.90%) Billing
14 10 (1.90%) French Language
15 9 (1.71%) Retail
16 8 (1.52%) Aerospace
17 7 (1.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 105 (19.92%) Senior
2 54 (10.25%) Lead
3 52 (9.87%) Architect
4 47 (8.92%) Engineering Manager
5 38 (7.21%) Analyst
5 38 (7.21%) Finance Manager
6 34 (6.45%) Data Manager
7 30 (5.69%) Software Engineer
8 23 (4.36%) Senior Manager
9 21 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
10 19 (3.61%) Business Analyst
11 17 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.04%) Data Architect
12 16 (3.04%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (2.85%) Data Engineer
13 15 (2.85%) Senior Business Analyst
14 14 (2.66%) IT Manager
15 13 (2.47%) Head of Finance
15 13 (2.47%) IT Support
15 13 (2.47%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.98%) React
2 16 (3.04%) .NET
3 14 (2.66%) Next.js
4 12 (2.28%) React Native
5 10 (1.90%) Django
5 10 (1.90%) Terraform
6 9 (1.71%) PySpark
7 8 (1.52%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.95%) HTML
8 5 (0.95%) Kafka
8 5 (0.95%) RESTful
9 4 (0.76%) CSS
9 4 (0.76%) Node.js
10 3 (0.57%) EDI
10 3 (0.57%) Godot
10 3 (0.57%) HEVC
10 3 (0.57%) Playwright
10 3 (0.57%) Unreal Engine
10 3 (0.57%) Yocto
11 2 (0.38%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.92%) Onboarding
2 31 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 28 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 27 (5.12%) Management Information System
5 26 (4.93%) Cyberattack
6 21 (3.98%) Social Media
7 19 (3.61%) Cloud Native
7 19 (3.61%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.47%) Blog
8 13 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
9 12 (2.28%) AI Agents
10 11 (2.09%) Driving Licence
11 10 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.90%) NHS
12 9 (1.71%) IoT
12 9 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 8 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.52%) PMI
13 8 (1.52%) Security Posture
14 7 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.74%) Windows
2 11 (2.09%) Linux
3 7 (1.33%) Windows 10
3 7 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.95%) Unix
5 3 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.57%) VME
5 3 (0.57%) VMS
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (30.17%) Agile
2 142 (26.94%) AI
3 129 (24.48%) Mentoring
4 106 (20.11%) Roadmaps
5 99 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 93 (17.65%) Coaching
7 89 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (14.80%) Decision-Making
9 74 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 70 (13.28%) Machine Learning
10 70 (13.28%) Software Engineering
11 69 (13.09%) Data Engineering
12 66 (12.52%) Data Governance
12 66 (12.52%) Migration
13 62 (11.76%) Project Management
14 61 (11.57%) Data Architecture
15 58 (11.01%) Data Development
15 58 (11.01%) Regulatory Compliance
16 56 (10.63%) Analytics
17 54 (10.25%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 77 (14.61%) SQL
2 42 (7.97%) Python
3 11 (2.09%) C#
3 11 (2.09%) JavaScript
4 10 (1.90%) C
4 10 (1.90%) Java
4 10 (1.90%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.14%) C++
6 5 (0.95%) Bash
6 5 (0.95%) R
7 4 (0.76%) Rust
8 3 (0.57%) COBOL
8 3 (0.57%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.57%) Ruby
9 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.19%) Go
10 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.19%) VB
10 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (14.04%) Degree
2 42 (7.97%) Security Cleared
3 34 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 29 (5.50%) DBS Check
5 15 (2.85%) ACCA
5 15 (2.85%) CIMA
6 9 (1.71%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.71%) PMP
7 8 (1.52%) APMP
7 8 (1.52%) CAPM
7 8 (1.52%) PgMP
8 7 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.33%) ICAEW
9 6 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.76%) CIPFA
10 4 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.57%) CIPD
11 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (13.66%) Accessibility
2 40 (7.59%) GDPR
3 25 (4.74%) QA
4 19 (3.61%) PMO
5 14 (2.66%) NIST
6 13 (2.47%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.28%) SLA
8 9 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.57%) ECSS
10 3 (0.57%) NCSC
11 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.38%) PERC
11 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.19%) COBIT
12 1 (0.19%) GAAP
12 1 (0.19%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 55 (10.44%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.09%) Docker
4 7 (1.33%) Firmware
5 2 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) vSphere
6 1 (0.19%) GPFS
6 1 (0.19%) Lustre
6 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.57%) Ansible
2 3 (0.57%) Check_MK
2 3 (0.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (0.38%) Argo
3 2 (0.38%) Istio
3 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
4 1 (0.19%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.19%) Packer
4 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 138 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 61 (11.57%) Databricks
3 27 (5.12%) Adobe
4 15 (2.85%) Oracle
5 14 (2.66%) Apple
6 13 (2.47%) SAP
7 11 (2.09%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.71%) FIS
8 9 (1.71%) ION Trading
9 8 (1.52%) Informatica
10 7 (1.33%) YouTube
11 6 (1.14%) Acronis
11 6 (1.14%) Datto
12 5 (0.95%) Avid
12 5 (0.95%) Google
12 5 (0.95%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.95%) Splunk
12 5 (0.95%) VMware
13 4 (0.76%) Cisco
13 4 (0.76%) ServiceNow