Time Management Contracts

Time Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Time Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Time Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 183 237
Rank change year-on-year +20 +54 -3
Contract jobs citing Time Management 632 802 1,086
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.47% 1.43% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.60% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 529 724
10th Percentile £168 £200 £188
25th Percentile £255 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - +17.10%
75th Percentile £513 £619 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 53 74
10th Percentile - £13.53 £10.19
25th Percentile £10.95 £20.22 £10.77
Median hourly rate £13.00 £32.50 £13.20
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +146.21% -4.00%
75th Percentile £16.19 £68.75 £31.72
90th Percentile £32.38 £77.00 £56.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.57 £55.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -77.15% +323.08% +10.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Time 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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Time Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Time Management in the UK

Time Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Time Management in the UK

Time Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Time Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Time Management in the UK

Time Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Time Management in the UK

Time Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Time Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Time Management in the UK

Time Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Time Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +29 562 £425 -15.00% 1,168
UK excluding London +35 392 £400 -15.79% 872
London -2 186 £440 -20.00% 347
Work from Home -11 151 £475 -5.00% 464
North of England +49 99 £493 -6.10% 230
South East -12 97 £475 +2.70% 206
North West +62 84 £493 -9.62% 121
Midlands +44 74 £255 -40.00% 180
East Midlands +46 55 £254 -46.53% 86
East of England +30 47 £260 -2.80% 96
South West +15 47 £475 -5.00% 110
Scotland -4 29 £420 -1.18% 58
West Midlands -3 18 £400 - 94
Yorkshire -3 12 £333 -35.69% 82
North East +7 2 - - 35
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 8

Time 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 25 (3.96%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.74%) Confluence
4 4 (0.63%) govService
4 4 (0.63%) IIS
5 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.47%) Apache
5 3 (0.47%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 123 (19.46%) Microsoft Office
2 80 (12.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (8.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.06%) MS Visio
4 13 (2.06%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (1.90%) Adobe Illustrator
5 12 (1.90%) Photoshop
6 9 (1.42%) Adobe After Effects
6 9 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.63%) InDesign
8 2 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.32%) Sketch
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.16%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.16%) InVision
9 1 (0.16%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.16%) Revit
9 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (2.37%) Shopify
2 4 (0.63%) SAP HCM
2 4 (0.63%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.47%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.32%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.32%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.16%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.16%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.16%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 50 (7.91%) Azure
2 44 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (5.85%) AWS
4 18 (2.85%) GitHub
5 15 (2.37%) BigCommerce
6 12 (1.90%) IaaS
7 11 (1.74%) GCP
7 11 (1.74%) Power Platform
8 10 (1.58%) OpenShift
9 8 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (1.27%) OneDrive
10 7 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (1.11%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.11%) SaaS
11 6 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (0.95%) Serverless
12 5 (0.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.43%) Firewall
2 16 (2.53%) DNS
3 10 (1.58%) LAN
3 10 (1.58%) VPN
4 9 (1.42%) Structured Cabling
4 9 (1.42%) VSAN
5 8 (1.27%) Internet
5 8 (1.27%) WAN
6 7 (1.11%) DHCP
6 7 (1.11%) Network Security
7 6 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
7 6 (0.95%) MPLS
7 6 (0.95%) Wireless
8 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.47%) FTP
10 2 (0.32%) Broadband
10 2 (0.32%) HTTP
10 2 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.27%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (0.95%) Power BI
5 5 (0.79%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.63%) MySQL
6 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.63%) Tableau
7 3 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.32%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.32%) MS Access
8 2 (0.32%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.32%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.16%) Big Data
9 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (3.80%) JIRA
2 17 (2.69%) Git
3 8 (1.27%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.11%) CircleCI
4 7 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.11%) JUnit
4 7 (1.11%) Selenium
5 6 (0.95%) Dreamweaver
5 6 (0.95%) Gradle
6 4 (0.63%) Appium
6 4 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.63%) Sourcetree
7 3 (0.47%) GitLab
7 3 (0.47%) Maven
7 3 (0.47%) Postman
7 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.32%) JMeter
8 2 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 337 (53.32%) Social Skills
2 169 (26.74%) Organisational Skills
3 110 (17.41%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (15.35%) Presentation Skills
5 96 (15.19%) Finance
6 63 (9.97%) Marketing
7 51 (8.07%) Retail
8 47 (7.44%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.16%) Banking
10 19 (3.01%) Mandarin Language
11 18 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (2.53%) Telecoms
13 13 (2.06%) Legal
14 9 (1.42%) German Language
15 8 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.11%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.95%) Advertising
18 5 (0.79%) Electronics
18 5 (0.79%) French Language
18 5 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 78 (12.34%) Analyst
2 55 (8.70%) Project Manager
3 32 (5.06%) Architect
4 31 (4.91%) Administrator
5 30 (4.75%) Senior
6 28 (4.43%) Consultant
7 26 (4.11%) Coordinator
8 23 (3.64%) Developer
9 22 (3.48%) Lead
10 21 (3.32%) Support Engineer
11 19 (3.01%) Desktop Engineer
11 19 (3.01%) Project Coordinator
11 19 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
12 18 (2.85%) Desktop Support
13 17 (2.69%) Test Engineer
14 16 (2.53%) 1st Line Engineer
14 16 (2.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 16 (2.53%) SOC Analyst
15 15 (2.37%) Designer
15 15 (2.37%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.16%) REST
2 14 (2.22%) CSS
2 14 (2.22%) HTML
3 11 (1.74%) VML
4 9 (1.42%) .NET
5 8 (1.27%) AngularJS
6 6 (0.95%) Middleware
6 6 (0.95%) React
6 6 (0.95%) Sass
6 6 (0.95%) Web Services
7 5 (0.79%) Android Jetpack
7 5 (0.79%) Dagger
7 5 (0.79%) GraphQL
7 5 (0.79%) HTML5
7 5 (0.79%) Jetpack Compose
7 5 (0.79%) RAML
8 4 (0.63%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.63%) OkHttp
8 4 (0.63%) RESTful
8 4 (0.63%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 80 (12.66%) Self-Motivation
2 36 (5.70%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.48%) CSOC
3 22 (3.48%) Security Operations Centre
4 16 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.90%) Virtual Team
6 11 (1.74%) Animation
7 10 (1.58%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.42%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.42%) Graphic Design
9 8 (1.27%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.11%) Legacy Code
10 7 (1.11%) Replication
11 6 (0.95%) CMDB
11 6 (0.95%) Mobile App
11 6 (0.95%) Virtual Reality
12 5 (0.79%) Digital Media
12 5 (0.79%) FMCG
12 5 (0.79%) iPad
12 5 (0.79%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 104 (16.46%) Windows
2 48 (7.59%) Windows 10
3 27 (4.27%) Linux
4 25 (3.96%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.37%) Unix
6 9 (1.42%) Android
7 7 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.95%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.63%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.47%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.16%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.16%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (31.49%) Problem-Solving
2 169 (26.74%) Decision-Making
3 114 (18.04%) Project Management
4 95 (15.03%) Agile
5 87 (13.77%) Customer Service
6 71 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 52 (8.23%) Project Delivery
8 51 (8.07%) Conflict Management
9 50 (7.91%) Analytics
10 48 (7.59%) Migration
11 41 (6.49%) Risk Management
12 40 (6.33%) Cybersecurity
13 35 (5.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (5.22%) Collaborative Working
14 33 (5.22%) DevOps
14 33 (5.22%) ITIL
14 33 (5.22%) Mentoring
14 33 (5.22%) Service Management
15 31 (4.91%) PRINCE2
16 30 (4.75%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 30 (4.75%) SQL
2 17 (2.69%) Python
3 16 (2.53%) Java
4 10 (1.58%) PowerShell
5 9 (1.42%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.95%) C#
7 5 (0.79%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.63%) Bicep
8 4 (0.63%) Perl
8 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.47%) Bash
9 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.32%) ABAP
10 2 (0.32%) R
10 2 (0.32%) VBScript
11 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.16%) VB
11 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 157 (24.84%) Degree
2 140 (22.15%) Security Cleared
3 97 (15.35%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.17%) DV Cleared
5 28 (4.43%) NVQ Level 3
6 26 (4.11%) SANS
7 19 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.01%) HNC
7 19 (3.01%) HND
8 15 (2.37%) PMP
9 12 (1.90%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.42%) CISM
12 7 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.95%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.95%) CCNP
13 6 (0.95%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.79%) CISSP
15 4 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.96%) SLA
2 39 (6.17%) PMO
3 37 (5.85%) QA
4 29 (4.59%) Disclosure Scotland
5 14 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.58%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.42%) NIST
8 8 (1.27%) GDPR
9 7 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.32%) HL7
11 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.16%) Basel III
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) FINREP
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) GxP
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 49 (7.75%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.53%) Docker
4 14 (2.22%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.11%) vCloud
6 5 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.79%) vSphere
7 4 (0.63%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.32%) Firmware
9 2 (0.32%) HDFS
9 2 (0.32%) NFS
9 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.16%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 21 (3.32%) Terraform
2 19 (3.01%) SCCM
3 18 (2.85%) Kubernetes
4 16 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (1.90%) vCenter Server
6 9 (1.42%) VxRail
7 7 (1.11%) Istio
7 7 (1.11%) Nessus
7 7 (1.11%) Rancher
8 5 (0.79%) Ansible
9 4 (0.63%) MOM
10 2 (0.32%) Kibana
10 2 (0.32%) logstash
10 2 (0.32%) Packer
10 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 155 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.28%) SAP
3 38 (6.01%) VMware
4 27 (4.27%) Adobe
5 23 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.32%) Oracle
7 20 (3.16%) ServiceNow
8 19 (3.01%) Dell
9 18 (2.85%) Google
10 14 (2.22%) Cisco
10 14 (2.22%) Sitecore
11 11 (1.74%) Citrix
12 7 (1.11%) Apple
12 7 (1.11%) Intel
13 6 (0.95%) dotdigital
13 6 (0.95%) Juniper
13 6 (0.95%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.95%) ScienceLogic
14 5 (0.79%) CyberArk
14 5 (0.79%) Okta