Resource Allocation Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Resource Allocation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Resource Allocation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 60 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 11 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.41% 0.77% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 0.93% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £269 £203 -
25th Percentile £309 £205 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £283 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.73% - -
75th Percentile £447 £355 -
90th Percentile £488 £415 -
England median daily rate £500 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 666 645 752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.49% 82.38% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 400 545
10th Percentile £221 £267 £213
25th Percentile £340 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £628 £625 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Allocation in the East Midlands

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Resource Allocation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Resource Allocation

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in the East Midlands

Resource Allocation
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Northamptonshire -12 6 £358 +0.85% 2
Derbyshire +6 3 £300 -36.84% 2
Nottinghamshire - 2 £450 -
Resource Allocation
England

Resource Allocation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (9.09%) InDesign
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (9.09%) Photoshop
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Sprinklr
2 1 (9.09%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Change Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Lead
1 3 (27.27%) Project Change Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Banking Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Change Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Configuration Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) Flash
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Blog
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Project Delivery
1 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
4 3 (27.27%) Budget Management
4 3 (27.27%) Business Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) Change Management
4 3 (27.27%) ITIL
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Project Management
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Sprint Retrospective
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) CRM
5 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
5 2 (18.18%) RBAC
5 2 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Avaya
1 2 (18.18%) Genesys
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Facebook
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Instagram
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Siemens
2 1 (9.09%) Twitter
2 1 (9.09%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) YouTube