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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 55 64
Rank change year-on-year -25 +9 -
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.54% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.40% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £333 £287 -
25th Percentile £334 £304 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £346 £355
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -2.68% -
75th Percentile £352 £375 £412
90th Percentile £379 £384 £446
England median daily rate £511 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -1.80% +4.00% -4.76%

All Process & 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 860 495 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.83% 86.39% 78.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 332 414
10th Percentile £200 £205 £200
25th Percentile £388 £322 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £425 £419
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% +1.55% -9.51%
75th Percentile £545 £520 £550
90th Percentile £619 £588 £625
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 36 55
10th Percentile £13.53 £13.81 £11.24
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.20 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% +18.79% -23.63%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £31.15 £37.99 £35.00
England median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%

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
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 20 May 2026. 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 -9 6 £340 -13.04%
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 6 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
1 6 (100.00%) Corporate Banking
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Banking Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) PMI
1 6 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Change Management
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (100.00%) Fintech
1 6 (100.00%) Kanban
1 6 (100.00%) Lean Six Sigma
1 6 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 6 (100.00%) Project Management
1 6 (100.00%) Regulatory Change
1 6 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) Six Sigma
1 6 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 6 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 6 (100.00%) Wealth Management
2 4 (66.67%) Digital Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 6 (100.00%) MBA
1 6 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 6 (100.00%) PMP
1 6 (100.00%) SAFe Agilist
2 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Basel III
1 6 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft