Line Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Line Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Line Management over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 115 153
Rank change year-on-year +6 +38 +43
Permanent jobs citing Line Management 2,440 2,991 4,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.46% 2.98% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 3.12% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,728 1,434 1,929
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,356 £34,825
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,161 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,396 £65,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.13% +9.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £84,056 £77,530
90th Percentile £111,625 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £60,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -19.17% +12.97% +6.22%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +15 2,156 £54,700 -17.74% 1,006
UK excluding London -26 1,620 £48,500 -19.17% 792
Work from Home +28 946 £58,288 -16.07% 374
London +91 697 £72,500 -3.33% 269
North of England +23 424 £52,500 -10.26% 250
South East -39 354 £47,500 -32.14% 165
South West -43 237 £47,993 -12.12% 108
Midlands -56 236 £44,094 -22.86% 137
North West +36 219 £54,700 -8.83% 140
East of England +22 197 £39,115 +2.93% 88
West Midlands -61 165 £46,500 -2.11% 86
Yorkshire +22 147 £52,500 -14.46% 84
Scotland -90 116 £50,000 -34.54% 33
East Midlands -4 71 £40,000 -37.25% 51
North East +26 58 £44,094 -17.58% 28
Wales +46 53 £42,500 -14.64% 34
Northern Ireland +27 8 £58,800 +17.60% 4

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
1 101 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 90 (3.69%) Apache
3 88 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
4 61 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (1.39%) CMS
6 17 (0.70%) IIS
7 15 (0.61%) Confluence
8 11 (0.45%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.45%) WordPress
9 8 (0.33%) Drupal
10 7 (0.29%) MS Project Server
11 5 (0.20%) Office Communications Server
12 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.082%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.041%) JOnAS
14 1 (0.041%) Moodle
14 1 (0.041%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.041%) SAS
14 1 (0.041%) Skype for Business
14 1 (0.041%) Tomcat
Applications
1 152 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 99 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.74%) Photoshop
5 16 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.20%) Simulink
7 4 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.12%) SPSS
9 2 (0.082%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.082%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.082%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.082%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.041%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.57%) SDL Web 8
2 11 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
5 6 (0.25%) thinkFolio
6 4 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.16%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.16%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.082%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.082%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.082%) Shopify
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.041%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 348 (14.26%) Azure
2 331 (13.57%) AWS
3 246 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
4 199 (8.16%) GCP
5 150 (6.15%) Power Platform
6 101 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (4.06%) dbt
8 93 (3.81%) Snowflake
9 84 (3.44%) SaaS
10 50 (2.05%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.72%) PaaS
12 31 (1.27%) IaaS
13 28 (1.15%) Power Automate
14 26 (1.07%) PowerApps
15 23 (0.94%) OneDrive
16 22 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
17 21 (0.86%) Serverless
18 20 (0.82%) Google Sheets
19 19 (0.78%) GitHub
20 18 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 80 (3.28%) Firewall
2 71 (2.91%) DNS
3 65 (2.66%) DHCP
4 48 (1.97%) WAN
5 44 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.48%) Internet
7 34 (1.39%) Wireless
8 33 (1.35%) LAN
9 32 (1.31%) SAN
10 30 (1.23%) Broadband
11 28 (1.15%) Intranet
12 26 (1.07%) Network Security
13 25 (1.02%) VPN
14 24 (0.98%) SD-WAN
15 19 (0.78%) HTTP
15 19 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
16 16 (0.66%) iSCSI
17 14 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
17 14 (0.57%) VoIP
18 10 (0.41%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (5.20%) Power BI
2 95 (3.89%) Data Lake
3 92 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
4 88 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
4 88 (3.61%) Apache Arrow
4 88 (3.61%) Apache Ignite
4 88 (3.61%) Dremio
5 84 (3.44%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.20%) BigQuery
7 77 (3.16%) Looker
8 45 (1.84%) Relational Database
9 34 (1.39%) GIS
9 34 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (1.11%) MongoDB
11 25 (1.02%) Tableau
12 21 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
13 20 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 17 (0.70%) NoSQL
15 16 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 81 (3.32%) JIRA
2 65 (2.66%) Git
3 58 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.60%) Selenium
5 30 (1.23%) Cucumber
6 29 (1.19%) Postman
7 21 (0.86%) Visual Studio
8 19 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
8 19 (0.78%) Sourcetree
9 17 (0.70%) GitLab
10 14 (0.57%) git-flow
10 14 (0.57%) Moq
10 14 (0.57%) NUnit
10 14 (0.57%) SpecFlow
10 14 (0.57%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
12 11 (0.45%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
14 7 (0.29%) JMeter
14 7 (0.29%) Spinnaker
General
1 831 (34.06%) Social Skills
2 777 (31.84%) Finance
3 320 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 295 (12.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 170 (6.97%) Marketing
6 155 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
7 150 (6.15%) Banking
8 118 (4.84%) Retail
9 115 (4.71%) Legal
10 114 (4.67%) Law
11 107 (4.39%) Manufacturing
12 102 (4.18%) Front Office
13 99 (4.06%) Public Sector
14 91 (3.73%) Billing
15 89 (3.65%) Investment Banking
16 73 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
17 62 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
17 62 (2.54%) Telecoms
18 56 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
19 45 (1.84%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 459 (18.81%) Lead
2 418 (17.13%) Senior
3 175 (7.17%) Developer
4 157 (6.43%) Architect
5 152 (6.23%) Team Leader
6 141 (5.78%) Project Manager
7 134 (5.49%) IT Manager
8 125 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
9 119 (4.88%) Senior Manager
10 103 (4.22%) Data Manager
11 102 (4.18%) Analyst
11 102 (4.18%) Engineering Manager
12 80 (3.28%) Software Engineer
13 73 (2.99%) Service Manager
14 71 (2.91%) Lead Developer
15 66 (2.70%) Software Developer
16 64 (2.62%) Infrastructure Manager
17 62 (2.54%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
18 60 (2.46%) IT Technician
19 58 (2.38%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (3.69%) HTML
2 89 (3.65%) NumPy
3 88 (3.61%) gRPC
3 88 (3.61%) Pandas
3 88 (3.61%) Protocol Buffers
3 88 (3.61%) SciPy
4 82 (3.36%) .NET
5 76 (3.11%) CSS
6 60 (2.46%) React
7 44 (1.80%) RESTful
8 37 (1.52%) REST
9 36 (1.48%) Kafka
10 29 (1.19%) EDI
10 29 (1.19%) Node.js
11 28 (1.15%) ASP.NET
11 28 (1.15%) XML
12 26 (1.07%) .NET Framework
12 26 (1.07%) AngularJS
12 26 (1.07%) Web Services
13 24 (0.98%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 211 (8.65%) Management Information System
2 141 (5.78%) Product Ownership
3 124 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 95 (3.89%) Hedge funds
5 91 (3.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 90 (3.69%) Derivative
7 88 (3.61%) Equities
7 88 (3.61%) Fixed Income
8 72 (2.95%) Social Media
9 66 (2.70%) Driving Licence
10 57 (2.34%) Housing Association
11 53 (2.17%) Data Centre
12 44 (1.80%) PMI
13 37 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
14 32 (1.31%) Cloud Native
15 28 (1.15%) NHS
16 26 (1.07%) Operational Technology
17 24 (0.98%) Cyberattack
18 22 (0.90%) CCTV
18 22 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 212 (8.69%) Windows
2 81 (3.32%) Windows Server
3 78 (3.20%) Linux
4 44 (1.80%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 33 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.61%) Android
9 12 (0.49%) Unix
10 10 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.20%) VMS
12 4 (0.16%) DC/OS
12 4 (0.16%) Windows Vista
13 2 (0.082%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.082%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.041%) Debian
14 1 (0.041%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.041%) Scientific Linux
14 1 (0.041%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (27.95%) Agile
2 506 (20.74%) Mentoring
3 481 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
4 429 (17.58%) Project Management
5 384 (15.74%) Coaching
6 286 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 274 (11.23%) Customer Service
8 241 (9.88%) DevOps
9 228 (9.34%) Project Delivery
10 224 (9.18%) ITIL
11 219 (8.98%) Roadmaps
12 215 (8.81%) Software Engineering
13 206 (8.44%) Scrum
14 193 (7.91%) Decision-Making
15 180 (7.38%) CI/CD
15 180 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
16 164 (6.72%) Business Intelligence
17 150 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
18 140 (5.74%) Service Delivery
19 139 (5.70%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 217 (8.89%) SQL
2 205 (8.40%) JavaScript
3 198 (8.11%) Python
4 194 (7.95%) Java
5 111 (4.55%) C#
6 96 (3.93%) TypeScript
7 38 (1.56%) PowerShell
8 34 (1.39%) C
9 26 (1.07%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.02%) R
11 20 (0.82%) Scala
12 18 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 17 (0.70%) PHP
14 16 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.57%) XPath
16 11 (0.45%) Go
17 10 (0.41%) Ruby
18 9 (0.37%) C++
18 9 (0.37%) PL/SQL
19 7 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 499 (20.45%) Degree
2 155 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 143 (5.86%) DBS Check
4 100 (4.10%) SC Cleared
5 62 (2.54%) PMI Certification
6 51 (2.09%) PMP
7 39 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 38 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 29 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 29 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (1.15%) APMP
12 28 (1.15%) CAPM
12 28 (1.15%) PgMP
13 22 (0.90%) CCNP
13 22 (0.90%) DV Cleared
14 21 (0.86%) CISSP
15 20 (0.82%) AWS Certification
16 17 (0.70%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (9.80%) QA
2 83 (3.40%) SLA
3 68 (2.79%) GDPR
4 60 (2.46%) GMP
5 47 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (1.93%) PMO
6 37 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.48%) ISO 9001
8 30 (1.23%) Data Quality
9 29 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (0.86%) NCSC
11 17 (0.70%) NIST
12 13 (0.53%) GRC
13 12 (0.49%) ISO 14001
14 10 (0.41%) NEBOSH
15 8 (0.33%) COSHH
15 8 (0.33%) Def Stans
15 8 (0.33%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.29%) DO-254
16 7 (0.29%) SOC 1
System Software
1 126 (5.16%) Active Directory
2 103 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (2.38%) Hyper-V
4 45 (1.84%) Docker
5 29 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 24 (0.98%) Firmware
7 13 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.53%) vSphere
8 11 (0.45%) IAG
9 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.16%) pfSense
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.12%) XenApp
11 3 (0.12%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.082%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.082%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.041%) Lustre
13 1 (0.041%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 52 (2.13%) Terraform
2 37 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.15%) Ansible
4 18 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (0.66%) Progress Chef
5 16 (0.66%) SCCM
6 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.49%) Opsgenie
7 12 (0.49%) VxRail
7 12 (0.49%) WSUS
7 12 (0.49%) ZABBIX
8 10 (0.41%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (0.33%) QRadar
11 6 (0.25%) Nagios
12 5 (0.20%) Puppet
13 4 (0.16%) Grafana
14 3 (0.12%) logstash
15 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 452 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 161 (6.60%) Google
3 111 (4.55%) VMware
4 64 (2.62%) Cisco
5 55 (2.25%) SAP
6 45 (1.84%) Salesforce
7 41 (1.68%) Oracle
8 38 (1.56%) Sophos
9 28 (1.15%) Dell
10 27 (1.11%) Adobe
11 25 (1.02%) Veeam
12 22 (0.90%) Citrix
12 22 (0.90%) Fortinet
13 19 (0.78%) ServiceNow
14 18 (0.74%) SolarWinds
15 17 (0.70%) Apple
15 17 (0.70%) HP
15 17 (0.70%) NetApp
16 14 (0.57%) Cognizant
16 14 (0.57%) IBM