People Management Contracts

People Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for People Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited People 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 392 452 472
Rank change year-on-year +60 +20 +79
Contract jobs citing People Management 179 245 421
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.43% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.48% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 153 278
10th Percentile £269 £370 £260
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -0.47% +12.59%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £775 £749 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -7.14% +2.44% +26.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 5
10th Percentile - £35.00 £23.48
25th Percentile £18.35 £52.97 £25.64
Median hourly rate £22.54 £65.00 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year -65.32% +63.62% +114.73%
75th Percentile £72.53 £75.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £87.80 - £54.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.54 £72.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -68.91% +82.50% +114.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

People 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%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing People Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing People Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for People Management in the UK

People Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing People Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for People Management in the UK

People Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing People 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 +58 150 £550 +4.76% 358
UK excluding London +48 89 £488 -7.14% 262
London +60 73 £600 +9.69% 139
Work from Home +66 67 £601 +14.40% 174
Midlands +37 29 £269 -50.19% 45
East Midlands +35 24 £269 -54.21% 16
South East +16 17 £525 +2.94% 71
North of England +24 16 £575 +15.00% 76
North West +18 14 £575 +4.55% 42
Scotland +31 9 £475 -5.00% 21
South West +10 7 £550 +4.76% 23
West Midlands +16 5 £763 +41.20% 29
East of England +7 5 £625 +41.24% 19
Wales +20 3 £450 - 12
Yorkshire +10 2 £425 -10.53% 26
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

People 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 3 (1.68%) Confluence
1 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.12%) Acrobat
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (7.26%) Workday HCM
2 3 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.56%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (9.50%) Azure
2 15 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (7.26%) AWS
3 13 (7.26%) SaaS
4 7 (3.91%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.79%) Power Automate
6 3 (1.68%) GCP
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.56%) Canva
7 1 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.56%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.56%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.56%) IaaS
7 1 (0.56%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.56%) PaaS
7 1 (0.56%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) Firewall
2 3 (1.68%) WAN
3 2 (1.12%) Intranet
3 2 (1.12%) LAN
3 2 (1.12%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.56%) BGP
4 1 (0.56%) DHCP
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) OSPF
4 1 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.56%) VLAN
4 1 (0.56%) VoIP
4 1 (0.56%) VPN
4 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.91%) Power BI
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.56%) Big Data
2 1 (0.56%) Bigtable
2 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.56%) Flink
2 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.56%) HBase
2 1 (0.56%) IDMS
2 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.56%) QlikView
2 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.56%) Sqoop
2 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.35%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.56%) JUnit
2 1 (0.56%) Maven
2 1 (0.56%) Postman
2 1 (0.56%) Selenium
2 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
2 1 (0.56%) TestDirector
2 1 (0.56%) TestNG
2 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
2 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (40.78%) Social Skills
2 71 (39.66%) Finance
3 24 (13.41%) Legal
4 19 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.26%) Local Government
5 13 (7.26%) Marketing
6 11 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (5.03%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.35%) Banking
9 6 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Automotive
12 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Games
12 1 (0.56%) Law
12 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (18.44%) Lead
2 26 (14.53%) Project Manager
3 21 (11.73%) IT Manager
4 19 (10.61%) Senior
5 15 (8.38%) Consultant
5 15 (8.38%) Senior Manager
6 13 (7.26%) Workday Consultant
7 12 (6.70%) Payroll Consultant
7 12 (6.70%) Service Manager
8 11 (6.15%) Delivery Manager
8 11 (6.15%) Senior Project Manager
9 10 (5.59%) Analyst
10 9 (5.03%) Service Delivery Manager
10 9 (5.03%) Test Manager
11 8 (4.47%) IT Services Delivery Manager
11 8 (4.47%) IT Services Manager
12 7 (3.91%) SC Cleared Project Manager
13 6 (3.35%) IT Project Manager
14 5 (2.79%) Architect
14 5 (2.79%) Production Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.12%) .NET
1 2 (1.12%) .NET Core
1 2 (1.12%) ATL
2 1 (0.56%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.56%) Kafka
2 1 (0.56%) Middleware
2 1 (0.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.26%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.91%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.23%) FMCG
4 3 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.12%) IoT
5 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.12%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.12%) PMI
5 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.56%) Blog
6 1 (0.56%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.56%) DataPower
6 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.56%) NHS
6 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.56%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.47%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.79%) Windows
3 3 (1.68%) Unix
4 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (24.02%) Decision-Making
2 43 (24.02%) Project Management
3 38 (21.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (18.44%) Agile
4 33 (18.44%) Service Delivery
5 32 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (14.53%) Line Management
7 25 (13.97%) Change Management
8 20 (11.17%) Business Case
8 20 (11.17%) Coaching
9 19 (10.61%) ERP
9 19 (10.61%) Project Delivery
10 18 (10.06%) Asset Management
10 18 (10.06%) Budget Management
10 18 (10.06%) Service Management
11 17 (9.50%) Critical Thinking
11 17 (9.50%) PRINCE2
11 17 (9.50%) Time Management
12 16 (8.94%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.47%) Swift
2 3 (1.68%) Go
2 3 (1.68%) SQL
3 2 (1.12%) C#
3 2 (1.12%) Java
4 1 (0.56%) Python
4 1 (0.56%) Ruby
4 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (15.08%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.17%) Degree
4 15 (8.38%) HNC
4 15 (8.38%) HND
5 5 (2.79%) PMP
6 4 (2.23%) CIPD
6 4 (2.23%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (1.68%) NVQ Level 4
8 2 (1.12%) APMG
8 2 (1.12%) CCNA
8 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.12%) CISSP
8 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) CCNP
9 1 (0.56%) CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) CISA
9 1 (0.56%) CISM
9 1 (0.56%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.94%) SLA
2 13 (7.26%) PMO
2 13 (7.26%) QA
3 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) COBIT
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.56%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.56%) QRadar
2 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.82%) Workday
3 8 (4.47%) Okta
4 4 (2.23%) SAP
5 3 (1.68%) Google
5 3 (1.68%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.12%) Adobe
6 2 (1.12%) Meraki
6 2 (1.12%) Oracle
7 1 (0.56%) Cadence
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco
7 1 (0.56%) Citrix
7 1 (0.56%) HP
7 1 (0.56%) IFS
7 1 (0.56%) Informatica
7 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.56%) Sophos
7 1 (0.56%) Sparx
7 1 (0.56%) Splunk
7 1 (0.56%) Talend