Line Management Contracts

Line Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Line Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Line Management over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 285 291
Rank change year-on-year +26 +6 +48
Contract jobs citing Line Management 376 549 823
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.95% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.06% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 410 552
10th Percentile £161 £240 £221
25th Percentile £281 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +0.39% +4.33%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £625
90th Percentile £888 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -40.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 29 30
10th Percentile £13.50 - £11.88
25th Percentile £15.57 £16.25 £21.31
Median hourly rate £24.30 £29.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% +7.41% +45.95%
75th Percentile £58.75 £61.06 £42.27
90th Percentile £75.77 £66.00 £60.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.74 £16.83 £26.99
% change year-on-year +165.83% -37.64% +45.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Line Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Line Management over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Line Management over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Line Management in the UK

Line Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Line Management within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +20 347 £550 +4.76% 942
UK excluding London -18 212 £300 -40.00% 751
Work from Home +65 144 £600 +14.29% 338
London +55 144 £650 +15.56% 248
South East +7 57 £450 -10.00% 165
South West +21 54 £173 -57.28% 106
North of England -10 39 £481 -3.75% 211
North West -4 27 £350 -30.00% 116
East of England +18 26 £300 -1.64% 88
Midlands -2 20 £500 -20.00% 138
West Midlands +7 18 £500 -27.27% 89
Scotland +17 16 £281 -44.31% 36
Yorkshire +6 16 £641 +16.59% 70
North East - 4 £720 - 26
East Midlands +5 2 £310 -31.49% 49

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 41 (10.90%) Apache
2 40 (10.64%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.80%) Confluence
4 3 (0.80%) IIS
5 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (7.71%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.33%) Simulink
4 5 (1.33%) Stateflow
4 5 (1.33%) TargetLink
5 3 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.27%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (3.19%) Workday HCM
2 4 (1.06%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.80%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.53%) iTrent
4 2 (0.53%) Primavera
4 2 (0.53%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.27%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.56%) AWS
2 42 (11.17%) GCP
3 40 (10.64%) dbt
3 40 (10.64%) Snowflake
4 22 (5.85%) Power Platform
5 21 (5.59%) Azure
6 19 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (1.33%) Google Sheets
9 5 (1.33%) IaaS
9 5 (1.33%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.53%) Asana
11 2 (0.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.32%) Firewall
2 19 (5.05%) Structured Cabling
3 15 (3.99%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (3.46%) WAN
5 9 (2.39%) LAN
6 6 (1.60%) 5G
6 6 (1.60%) DNS
6 6 (1.60%) Intranet
7 5 (1.33%) Wireless
8 4 (1.06%) BGP
8 4 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (1.06%) DHCP
8 4 (1.06%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.06%) VPN
8 4 (1.06%) WLAN
9 2 (0.53%) Broadband
9 2 (0.53%) MPLS
9 2 (0.53%) OSPF
9 2 (0.53%) SAN
9 2 (0.53%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.64%) Amazon Athena
1 40 (10.64%) Apache Arrow
1 40 (10.64%) Apache Ignite
1 40 (10.64%) Data Lake
1 40 (10.64%) Dremio
2 22 (5.85%) Power BI
3 12 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.66%) GIS
5 3 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.80%) QlikView
5 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.53%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.27%) KDB
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (3.72%) Git
2 8 (2.13%) JIRA
3 6 (1.60%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (1.33%) Subversion
5 4 (1.06%) Selenium
6 3 (0.80%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.80%) NUnit
6 3 (0.80%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.27%) SoapUI
General
1 150 (39.89%) Finance
2 101 (26.86%) Social Skills
3 55 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 52 (13.83%) Banking
5 43 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (11.44%) Front Office
5 43 (11.44%) Investment Banking
6 24 (6.38%) Legal
7 23 (6.12%) Telecoms
8 18 (4.79%) Marketing
9 16 (4.26%) Local Government
10 15 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (3.72%) Police
11 14 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (3.19%) Law
13 12 (3.19%) Manufacturing
14 11 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (2.66%) Retail
16 7 (1.86%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (14.10%) Senior
2 47 (12.50%) Lead
3 46 (12.23%) Analyst
4 44 (11.70%) Developer
5 41 (10.90%) Project Manager
6 27 (7.18%) Architect
7 25 (6.65%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (5.85%) Team Leader
9 21 (5.59%) Software Team Leader
10 20 (5.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 20 (5.32%) Lead Developer
10 20 (5.32%) Lead Software Developer
10 20 (5.32%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (5.32%) Service Analyst
10 20 (5.32%) Software Developer
10 20 (5.32%) Software Engineer
11 19 (5.05%) Senior Manager
11 19 (5.05%) Service Desk Analyst
12 18 (4.79%) Consultant
13 16 (4.26%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.64%) gRPC
1 40 (10.64%) NumPy
1 40 (10.64%) Pandas
1 40 (10.64%) Protocol Buffers
1 40 (10.64%) SciPy
2 14 (3.72%) .NET
3 11 (2.93%) .NET Core
4 8 (2.13%) YAML
5 5 (1.33%) JSON
6 4 (1.06%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.80%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.80%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (0.80%) Entity Framework
7 3 (0.80%) jQuery
7 3 (0.80%) KnockoutJS
7 3 (0.80%) WCF
7 3 (0.80%) XML
8 2 (0.53%) Node.js
8 2 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 69 (18.35%) Management Information System
2 40 (10.64%) Derivative
2 40 (10.64%) Equities
2 40 (10.64%) Fixed Income
2 40 (10.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 40 (10.64%) Hedge funds
3 7 (1.86%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.33%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.33%) Freedom of Information
5 5 (1.33%) Freedom of Information Act
5 5 (1.33%) NHS
5 5 (1.33%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.06%) CMDB
6 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.80%) PMI
7 3 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.91%) Windows
2 12 (3.19%) Linux
3 8 (2.13%) Unix
3 8 (2.13%) Windows 10
3 8 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.33%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.33%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.06%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.53%) CentOS
6 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (23.94%) Agile
2 89 (23.67%) Project Management
3 74 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (13.30%) Asset Management
5 48 (12.77%) Change Management
6 47 (12.50%) ITIL
7 46 (12.23%) Software Engineering
8 40 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 39 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (10.37%) Risk Management
10 38 (10.11%) PRINCE2
11 37 (9.84%) Customer Service
12 34 (9.04%) Roadmaps
13 32 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
14 30 (7.98%) Coaching
15 28 (7.45%) Investment Management
16 27 (7.18%) Incident Management
16 27 (7.18%) People Management
16 27 (7.18%) Project Delivery
17 22 (5.85%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 44 (11.70%) Java
2 43 (11.44%) JavaScript
2 43 (11.44%) Python
3 40 (10.64%) TypeScript
4 13 (3.46%) C#
5 12 (3.19%) SQL
6 10 (2.66%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.13%) Bicep
8 6 (1.60%) C
9 5 (1.33%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.80%) C++
11 3 (0.80%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.27%) VBA
12 1 (0.27%) VBScript
12 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 58 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 47 (12.50%) Degree
3 43 (11.44%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.99%) ITIL Certification
5 13 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 12 (3.19%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.66%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.60%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.33%) HNC
12 4 (1.06%) CCNA
12 4 (1.06%) MCSE
12 4 (1.06%) PMP
13 3 (0.80%) CCNP
13 3 (0.80%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.80%) HND
13 3 (0.80%) NVQ Level 4
14 2 (0.53%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.65%) SLA
2 16 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.19%) GDPR
3 12 (3.19%) PMO
4 9 (2.39%) NIST
5 5 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.33%) AUTOSAR
5 5 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.33%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.33%) ISO 26262
5 5 (1.33%) MISRA
5 5 (1.33%) MISRA C
5 5 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.33%) QA
6 3 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.80%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.53%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (6.65%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.06%) Firmware
3 4 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.80%) vSphere
5 2 (0.53%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.27%) Cronacle
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 8 (2.13%) SCCM
2 4 (1.06%) Ansible
2 4 (1.06%) Terraform
3 3 (0.80%) WSUS
4 2 (0.53%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.53%) Kibana
4 2 (0.53%) logstash
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.53%) Packer
4 2 (0.53%) Puppet
5 1 (0.27%) Control-M
5 1 (0.27%) Nessus
5 1 (0.27%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.27%) SCOM
5 1 (0.27%) SCOrch
5 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
5 1 (0.27%) Simpana
Vendors
1 53 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.05%) ServiceNow
3 17 (4.52%) Workday
4 16 (4.26%) Cisco
5 11 (2.93%) SAP
6 8 (2.13%) BT
6 8 (2.13%) Juniper
6 8 (2.13%) Oracle
6 8 (2.13%) VMware
7 7 (1.86%) MicroStrategy
8 6 (1.60%) Google
9 4 (1.06%) Citrix
9 4 (1.06%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.06%) Sage
10 3 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.53%) Hyperion
11 2 (0.53%) IBM
11 2 (0.53%) NEC
11 2 (0.53%) Pegasus
11 2 (0.53%) Remedy