Resource Allocation Contracts in Central London

Resource Allocation
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Resource Allocation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Resource Allocation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 125 168
Rank change year-on-year +17 +43 +30
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 21 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.05% 0.33% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.36% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 4
10th Percentile - £574 £237
25th Percentile £425 £703 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £800 £400
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +100.00% -37.98%
75th Percentile £588 £828 £534
90th Percentile £693 £834 £551
London median daily rate £550 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +10.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Resource Allocation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Resource Allocation in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Resource Allocation in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Resource Allocation in Central London

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in Central London

Resource Allocation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Resource Allocation in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Resource Allocation in Central London

Resource Allocation
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +15 15 £500 -37.50% 8
Resource Allocation
London

Resource Allocation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
1 1 (4.76%) Looker
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
1 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 15 (71.43%) Finance
2 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 10 (47.62%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Back Office
4 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Legal
4 3 (14.29%) Local Government
4 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
5 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Project Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (19.05%) IT Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Business Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Business Operations Manager
3 3 (14.29%) ERP Manager
3 3 (14.29%) HR Manager
3 3 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (14.29%) IT Risk Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Operations Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Risk Manager
3 3 (14.29%) SAP Delivery Manager
3 3 (14.29%) SAP Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Risk Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Compliance Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Data Centre Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Delivery Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (14.29%) PMI
3 3 (14.29%) Reference Data
4 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Project Management
2 12 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (42.86%) Risk Management
4 8 (38.10%) Agile
4 8 (38.10%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 8 (38.10%) PRINCE2
4 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 7 (33.33%) Programme Management
6 6 (28.57%) Project Governance
6 6 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
7 5 (23.81%) Budget Management
7 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (19.05%) Data Management
8 4 (19.05%) Service Delivery
9 3 (14.29%) ERP
9 3 (14.29%) Information Management
9 3 (14.29%) Process Management
9 3 (14.29%) Resource Management
9 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) PMI Certification
3 3 (14.29%) CISA
4 2 (9.52%) PMP
4 2 (9.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Accessibility
1 4 (19.05%) PMO
2 3 (14.29%) COBIT
2 3 (14.29%) COSO
2 3 (14.29%) GDPR
2 3 (14.29%) NIST
2 3 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 3 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) Citrix
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle