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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 14 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.62% 0.89% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 0
10th Percentile £301 £202 -
25th Percentile £309 £205 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £210 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.48% - -
75th Percentile £399 £215 -
90th Percentile £446 £371 -
England median daily rate £473 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -9.13% +9.47% -13.64%

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 727 579 630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.05% 85.52% 83.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 342 442
10th Percentile £185 £263 £213
25th Percentile £352 £350 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -6.63% +1.06%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £630 £700
England median daily rate £503 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 28 51
10th Percentile £16.16 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.67
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.11 £35.23 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.00%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Resource Allocation job vacancy trend 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 6 December 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 6 December 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 £358 - 4
Derbyshire +4 2 £413 -13.16%
Resource Allocation
England

Resource Allocation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (14.29%) Retail Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Change Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Project Change Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Banking Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Change Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Configuration Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Finance Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Finance Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Junior
5 1 (7.14%) Junior Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) PMO Manager
5 1 (7.14%) PMO Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) PMI
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (50.00%) Scrum
4 6 (42.86%) Decision-Making
5 5 (35.71%) Business Strategy
5 5 (35.71%) Change Management
5 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
6 4 (28.57%) Resource Management
7 3 (21.43%) Budget Management
7 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
7 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (14.29%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
8 2 (14.29%) Dependency Management
8 2 (14.29%) Fintech
8 2 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
8 2 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 2 (14.29%) MBA
2 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 2 (14.29%) PMP
2 2 (14.29%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (7.14%) BC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) Basel III
2 2 (14.29%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Siemens