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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 276 285
Rank change year-on-year +22 +9 +79
Contract jobs citing Line Management 369 532 829
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.93% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.04% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 400 559
10th Percentile £163 £246 £224
25th Percentile £281 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.45% +5.08%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £625
90th Percentile £888 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -40.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 21 30
10th Percentile £13.50 - £11.88
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.25 £19.83
Median hourly rate £24.30 £35.00 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year -30.58% +29.68% +45.89%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £75.77 £66.00 £60.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.74 £39.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +14.73% +44.54% +45.84%

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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +30 341 £560 +6.67% 965
UK excluding London -2 206 £300 -40.00% 759
Work from Home +56 145 £600 +14.34% 351
London +53 143 £690 +20.00% 273
South East +20 55 £375 -23.08% 168
South West +10 52 £173 -57.28% 98
North of England -11 37 £475 -5.00% 252
East of England +10 28 £300 -1.64% 76
North West -5 26 £350 -30.00% 142
Midlands +3 19 £500 -20.00% 126
West Midlands +14 17 £500 -27.27% 75
Scotland +16 15 £281 -43.87% 27
Yorkshire +1 15 £720 +30.91% 89
North East - 4 £720 - 23
East Midlands +3 2 £310 -31.49% 51

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 44 (11.92%) Apache
1 44 (11.92%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.81%) Confluence
4 2 (0.54%) IIS
4 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (8.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (7.86%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.36%) Simulink
4 5 (1.36%) Stateflow
4 5 (1.36%) TargetLink
5 4 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.27%) Revit
6 1 (0.27%) Stata
Business Applications
1 12 (3.25%) Workday HCM
2 4 (1.08%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.81%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.54%) iTrent
4 2 (0.54%) Primavera
4 2 (0.54%) SAP EHS
4 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 52 (14.09%) AWS
2 47 (12.74%) GCP
3 44 (11.92%) dbt
3 44 (11.92%) Snowflake
4 22 (5.96%) Power Platform
5 20 (5.42%) Azure
6 18 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (1.36%) Google Sheets
9 5 (1.36%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.54%) Asana
11 2 (0.54%) GitHub
11 2 (0.54%) IaaS
12 1 (0.27%) SaaS
12 1 (0.27%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.15%) Firewall
1 19 (5.15%) Structured Cabling
2 14 (3.79%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (2.71%) WAN
4 7 (1.90%) LAN
5 6 (1.63%) 5G
5 6 (1.63%) DNS
5 6 (1.63%) Intranet
6 5 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.08%) BGP
7 4 (1.08%) DHCP
8 3 (0.81%) VPN
8 3 (0.81%) Wireless
9 2 (0.54%) Broadband
9 2 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.54%) MPLS
9 2 (0.54%) Network Security
9 2 (0.54%) OSPF
9 2 (0.54%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.92%) Amazon Athena
1 44 (11.92%) Apache Arrow
1 44 (11.92%) Apache Ignite
1 44 (11.92%) Data Lake
1 44 (11.92%) Dremio
2 22 (5.96%) Power BI
3 13 (3.52%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.71%) GIS
5 3 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.81%) QlikView
5 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.54%) KDB
6 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.54%) Tableau
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (3.79%) Git
2 8 (2.17%) JIRA
3 6 (1.63%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (1.36%) Subversion
5 4 (1.08%) Selenium
6 3 (0.81%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.81%) NUnit
6 3 (0.81%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.27%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 151 (40.92%) Finance
2 97 (26.29%) Social Skills
3 56 (15.18%) Banking
4 50 (13.55%) Public Sector
5 47 (12.74%) Front Office
5 47 (12.74%) Investment Banking
6 39 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (6.50%) Legal
8 23 (6.23%) Telecoms
9 15 (4.07%) Marketing
9 15 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (3.79%) Local Government
10 14 (3.79%) Police
11 13 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (3.25%) Law
12 12 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.98%) Manufacturing
14 10 (2.71%) Retail
15 7 (1.90%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (13.55%) Senior
2 49 (13.28%) Lead
3 46 (12.47%) Developer
4 45 (12.20%) Analyst
5 41 (11.11%) Project Manager
6 29 (7.86%) Architect
7 27 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
8 24 (6.50%) Team Leader
9 23 (6.23%) Software Team Leader
10 22 (5.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 22 (5.96%) Lead Developer
10 22 (5.96%) Lead Software Developer
10 22 (5.96%) Lead Software Engineer
10 22 (5.96%) Software Developer
10 22 (5.96%) Software Engineer
11 18 (4.88%) Consultant
11 18 (4.88%) Senior Manager
11 18 (4.88%) Service Analyst
12 17 (4.61%) Service Desk Analyst
13 16 (4.34%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (11.92%) gRPC
1 44 (11.92%) NumPy
1 44 (11.92%) Pandas
1 44 (11.92%) Protocol Buffers
1 44 (11.92%) SciPy
2 15 (4.07%) .NET
3 11 (2.98%) .NET Core
4 8 (2.17%) YAML
5 5 (1.36%) JSON
6 4 (1.08%) XML
7 3 (0.81%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.81%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.81%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (0.81%) Entity Framework
7 3 (0.81%) jQuery
7 3 (0.81%) KnockoutJS
7 3 (0.81%) Spring
7 3 (0.81%) WCF
8 2 (0.54%) Node.js
8 2 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 66 (17.89%) Management Information System
2 44 (11.92%) Derivative
2 44 (11.92%) Equities
2 44 (11.92%) Fixed Income
2 44 (11.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 44 (11.92%) Hedge funds
3 7 (1.90%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.36%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.36%) Freedom of Information
5 5 (1.36%) Freedom of Information Act
5 5 (1.36%) NHS
5 5 (1.36%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.08%) CMDB
6 4 (1.08%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.23%) Windows
2 12 (3.25%) Linux
3 8 (2.17%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.90%) Unix
5 6 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.36%) Mac OS X
7 4 (1.08%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (24.66%) Agile
2 87 (23.58%) Project Management
3 71 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (14.63%) Asset Management
5 50 (13.55%) Software Engineering
6 46 (12.47%) ITIL
7 44 (11.92%) Change Management
8 38 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (10.30%) PRINCE2
8 38 (10.30%) Risk Management
8 38 (10.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (8.94%) Customer Service
10 32 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
10 32 (8.67%) Roadmaps
11 29 (7.86%) Coaching
12 28 (7.59%) Investment Management
13 26 (7.05%) People Management
13 26 (7.05%) Project Delivery
14 25 (6.78%) Incident Management
15 22 (5.96%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 49 (13.28%) Java
2 48 (13.01%) Python
3 47 (12.74%) JavaScript
4 44 (11.92%) TypeScript
5 13 (3.52%) C#
5 13 (3.52%) SQL
6 9 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.17%) Bicep
8 6 (1.63%) C
9 5 (1.36%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.81%) C++
11 3 (0.81%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.27%) R
12 1 (0.27%) VBA
12 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 56 (15.18%) Security Cleared
2 45 (12.20%) Degree
3 41 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.07%) ITIL Certification
5 13 (3.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 12 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.98%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.63%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.36%) HNC
12 4 (1.08%) CCNA
12 4 (1.08%) MCSE
12 4 (1.08%) PMP
13 3 (0.81%) CCNP
13 3 (0.81%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.81%) HND
13 3 (0.81%) NVQ Level 4
14 2 (0.54%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.78%) SLA
2 18 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.25%) GDPR
3 12 (3.25%) PMO
4 9 (2.44%) NIST
5 5 (1.36%) AUTOSAR
5 5 (1.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.36%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.36%) ISO 26262
5 5 (1.36%) MISRA
5 5 (1.36%) MISRA C
5 5 (1.36%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.36%) QA
6 4 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.81%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 22 (5.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.08%) Firmware
4 3 (0.81%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.81%) vSphere
5 2 (0.54%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.27%) Cronacle
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 7 (1.90%) SCCM
2 3 (0.81%) WSUS
3 2 (0.54%) Ansible
3 2 (0.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (0.54%) Kibana
3 2 (0.54%) logstash
3 2 (0.54%) Packer
3 2 (0.54%) Terraform
4 1 (0.27%) Control-M
4 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.27%) Nessus
Vendors
1 52 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.88%) ServiceNow
3 17 (4.61%) Workday
4 14 (3.79%) Cisco
5 10 (2.71%) SAP
6 8 (2.17%) BT
6 8 (2.17%) Juniper
6 8 (2.17%) Oracle
7 7 (1.90%) MicroStrategy
7 7 (1.90%) VMware
8 6 (1.63%) Google
9 4 (1.08%) Citrix
9 4 (1.08%) Sage
10 3 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.54%) Hyperion
11 2 (0.54%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.54%) NEC
11 2 (0.54%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.54%) Pegasus
11 2 (0.54%) Remedy