Resource Allocation Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Resource Allocation
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Resource Allocation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 102 100
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 14 4 17
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.15% 0.25% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.28% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 11
10th Percentile £379 - £238
25th Percentile £413 £486 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £518 £280
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% +84.83% -44.00%
75th Percentile £678 £549 £353
90th Percentile £699 - £650
South East median daily rate £500 £509 £389
% change year-on-year -1.72% +30.87% -25.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £22.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Resource Allocation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,103 1,427 1,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.41% 87.92% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 753 994
10th Percentile £318 £325 £252
25th Percentile £413 £430 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £633
90th Percentile £650 £689 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 61 67
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £23.11
25th Percentile £17.45 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £37.28 £58.49 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -36.26% -5.34% +22.36%
75th Percentile £64.06 £63.41 £73.59
90th Percentile £82.18 £75.24 £76.46
South East median hourly rate £21.02 £58.49 £54.37
% change year-on-year -64.06% +7.58% +55.83%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Resource Allocation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Resource Allocation job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Resource Allocation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Resource Allocation

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in Berkshire

Resource Allocation
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Resource Allocation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Resource Allocation

Resource Allocation
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Resource Allocation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 October 2025. 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
Windsor - 7 £663 -
Wokingham - 5 £425 - 2
Reading +31 2 £360 -30.44% 1
Resource Allocation
South East

Resource Allocation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (50.00%) SAP CO
1 7 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (42.86%) SAP FI
2 6 (42.86%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Billing
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
1 7 (50.00%) SAP Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Principal Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Test Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Testing Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (7.14%) PMO Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Augmented Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Accounts Receivable
1 7 (50.00%) Cost Centre Accounting
1 7 (50.00%) Cost Control
1 7 (50.00%) Cost Management
1 7 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 7 (50.00%) Profit Centre Accounting
1 7 (50.00%) Project Management
2 6 (42.86%) AI
2 6 (42.86%) Business Activity Monitoring
2 6 (42.86%) Cash Management
2 6 (42.86%) Generative AI
2 6 (42.86%) Risk Management
2 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (21.43%) CRM
5 2 (14.29%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CISM
1 4 (28.57%) CISSP
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) PMI Certification
1 4 (28.57%) PMP
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (28.57%) NIST
1 4 (28.57%) PMO
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce