Resource Management Contracts in England

Resource Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Resource Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Resource Management over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 356 436
Rank change year-on-year +26 +80 +15
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 150 189 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 0.52% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.60% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 119 163
10th Percentile £325 £363 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £663
90th Percentile £687 £740 £791
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 2
10th Percentile £22.62 - £25.67
25th Percentile £25.66 £18.35 £32.23
Median hourly rate £31.64 £26.66 £43.15
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% -38.22% +32.77%
75th Percentile - £26.73 £54.08
90th Percentile £32.70 £35.00 £60.63
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £26.66 £43.15
% change year-on-year +18.68% -38.22% +32.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Resource Management 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

Resource Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Resource Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Resource Management in England

Resource Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Resource Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Resource Management in England

Resource Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Management in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Management in England

Resource Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Resource Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Resource Management in England

Resource Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Resource Management within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
London +55 68 £528 +0.48% 152
North of England +16 21 £447 -18.73% 187
Midlands +10 21 £513 +7.89% 145
South East +41 19 £469 +1.35% 227
West Midlands +4 19 £516 +8.66% 83
North West +8 11 £447 -12.78% 93
Yorkshire +16 10 £444 -36.61% 76
East of England +38 9 £430 +102.35% 106
South West +12 5 £453 -13.76% 83
East Midlands +12 2 £234 - 53
Resource Management
UK

Resource Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (3.33%) Confluence
1 5 (3.33%) IIS
2 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.33%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.67%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.67%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 18 (12.00%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.33%) Open Workbench
5 2 (1.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.67%) iTrent
2 1 (0.67%) Primavera
2 1 (0.67%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.67%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (16.67%) Azure
2 16 (10.67%) AWS
2 16 (10.67%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.00%) GCP
4 8 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.00%) GitHub
8 3 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.00%) IaaS
8 3 (2.00%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.33%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.33%) SaaS
9 2 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.00%) DNS
2 8 (5.33%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.67%) DHCP
4 6 (4.00%) Firewall
4 6 (4.00%) VPN
5 4 (2.67%) LAN
5 4 (2.67%) NAS
5 4 (2.67%) Network Security
5 4 (2.67%) SAN
5 4 (2.67%) WAN
6 2 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.67%) Power BI
2 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (2.00%) ClickHouse
4 3 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.33%) Big Data
5 2 (1.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.67%) IDMS
6 1 (0.67%) Ingres
6 1 (0.67%) MS Access
6 1 (0.67%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 12 (8.00%) JIRA
2 8 (5.33%) Git
3 6 (4.00%) GitLab
4 5 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.67%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.00%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.67%) Locust
7 1 (0.67%) Postman
7 1 (0.67%) Subversion
7 1 (0.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 60 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 51 (34.00%) Finance
3 26 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.67%) Public Sector
5 18 (12.00%) Banking
6 13 (8.67%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (6.00%) Investment Banking
8 8 (5.33%) Financial Institution
9 6 (4.00%) Telecoms
10 5 (3.33%) Law
10 5 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.33%) Retail
11 4 (2.67%) Front Office
11 4 (2.67%) Legal
11 4 (2.67%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.33%) Back Office
12 2 (1.33%) Electronics
12 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.33%) Marketing
13 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (15.33%) Project Manager
2 21 (14.00%) Analyst
2 21 (14.00%) Senior
3 19 (12.67%) Lead
4 11 (7.33%) Administrator
5 10 (6.67%) PMO Analyst
6 9 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) Developer
9 5 (3.33%) C# Developer
9 5 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (3.33%) Engagement Manager
9 5 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) VMWare Administrator
9 5 (3.33%) Wintel Administrator
10 4 (2.67%) Consultant
10 4 (2.67%) DevOps Administrator
10 4 (2.67%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.33%) .NET
1 5 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 4 (2.67%) LDAP
3 3 (2.00%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (2.00%) CSS
3 3 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.00%) HTML
3 3 (2.00%) REST
4 2 (1.33%) Dapper ORM
4 2 (1.33%) HTML5
4 2 (1.33%) LESS
4 2 (1.33%) Node.js
4 2 (1.33%) React
4 2 (1.33%) Sass
4 2 (1.33%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.67%) ADO
5 1 (0.67%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.33%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.67%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.00%) BYOD
6 3 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.33%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.33%) CMDB
7 2 (1.33%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.33%) DataPower
7 2 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.33%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.33%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.33%) PKI
7 2 (1.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.67%) Windows
2 11 (7.33%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.00%) Linux
4 5 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (32.67%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (31.33%) Project Management
3 44 (29.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (20.67%) Project Delivery
5 29 (19.33%) Agile
5 29 (19.33%) Risk Management
6 28 (18.67%) Change Management
7 26 (17.33%) DevOps
8 24 (16.00%) Decision-Making
9 22 (14.67%) Budget Management
10 20 (13.33%) Business Case
11 19 (12.67%) PRINCE2
11 19 (12.67%) Project Planning
12 18 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (12.00%) Programme Management
12 18 (12.00%) Project Governance
13 17 (11.33%) Waterfall
14 16 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (10.00%) Roadmaps
16 14 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.33%) Python
2 11 (7.33%) SQL
3 7 (4.67%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.00%) C#
5 4 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.67%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.00%) Bash
7 2 (1.33%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.67%) Bicep
8 1 (0.67%) Groovy
8 1 (0.67%) HiveQL
8 1 (0.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 34 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.33%) Degree
4 9 (6.00%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.00%) PMP
5 8 (5.33%) PMI Certification
6 7 (4.67%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.67%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.33%) APMP
9 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.33%) ISEB
9 2 (1.33%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.00%) PMO
2 13 (8.67%) QA
3 8 (5.33%) SLA
4 5 (3.33%) GDPR
4 5 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.67%) NIST
6 3 (2.00%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.00%) P3O
6 3 (2.00%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.33%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.33%) NCSC
7 2 (1.33%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.67%) Docker
2 7 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (8.67%) Terraform
2 10 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.00%) Ansible
4 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (3.33%) NetApp OnCommand
4 5 (3.33%) vCenter Server
4 5 (3.33%) vMotion
4 5 (3.33%) WSUS
5 3 (2.00%) Grafana
5 3 (2.00%) Puppet
6 2 (1.33%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.33%) Oracle
3 7 (4.67%) Red Hat
3 7 (4.67%) SAP
3 7 (4.67%) VMware
4 5 (3.33%) Google
5 4 (2.67%) Databricks
5 4 (2.67%) NetApp
5 4 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.00%) Splunk
7 2 (1.33%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.67%) Adobe
8 1 (0.67%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.67%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.67%) Citrix
8 1 (0.67%) Genesys
8 1 (0.67%) Informatica
8 1 (0.67%) NEC
8 1 (0.67%) Planview