Resource Allocation Contracts in the City of London

Resource Allocation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 124 159
Rank change year-on-year +17 +35 -
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 15 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.83% 0.094% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.10% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £424 £723 £315
25th Percentile £456 £738 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £775 £500
Median % change year-on-year -33.87% +55.00% -
75th Percentile £725 £813 £544
90th Percentile £754 £828 £555
Central London median daily rate £513 £725 £500
% change year-on-year -29.31% +45.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,706 1,950 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.42% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 1,346 2,165
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £551 £554 £600
% change year-on-year -0.45% -7.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Allocation in the City of London

Resource Allocation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Resource Allocation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Resource Allocation in the City of London

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in the City of London

Resource Allocation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (6.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) DB2
1 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (6.67%) Looker
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 13 (86.67%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (40.00%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Back Office
4 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
5 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
6 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Cost Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Development Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Migration Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Migration Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Programme Director
3 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (20.00%) PMI
1 3 (20.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) AS400
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) iSeries
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Project Management
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (26.67%) Data Management
4 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
5 3 (20.00%) Accounts Receivable
5 3 (20.00%) Budget Management
5 3 (20.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
5 3 (20.00%) Project Governance
5 3 (20.00%) Project Planning
5 3 (20.00%) Reference Data Management
5 3 (20.00%) Resource Management
5 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Budgeting
6 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (13.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) COBOL
1 1 (6.67%) RPG
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) PMI Certification
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
3 3 (20.00%) PMP
4 1 (6.67%) CFA
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Avaloq
2 1 (6.67%) Citrix
2 1 (6.67%) FNZ
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) IBM
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle