Resource Allocation Contracts in London

Resource Allocation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 336 439
Rank change year-on-year +69 +103 +115
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 86 55 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.69% 0.31% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.35% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 35 41
10th Percentile £419 £265 £369
25th Percentile £459 £400 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +10.64%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £738
90th Percentile £813 £765 £788
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile - £16.80 £27.71
25th Percentile £20.45 £18.19 £34.67
Median hourly rate £22.04 £26.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.04% -44.74% +13.10%
75th Percentile £25.73 £30.16 £50.25
90th Percentile £29.50 - £51.15
England median hourly rate £34.17 £25.00 £37.30
% change year-on-year +36.69% -32.98% -11.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Allocation in London

Resource Allocation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Resource Allocation in London

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in London

Resource Allocation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Resource Allocation in London.

Hourly rate trend for Resource Allocation in London

Resource Allocation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +17 21 £500 -37.50% 9
West London +13 5 - - 4
South London - 2 - - 3
North London - 1 £650 - 1
Resource Allocation
England

Resource Allocation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (2.33%) Confluence
1 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (13.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (9.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.49%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (2.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) SAP ERP
2 2 (2.33%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (2.33%) Misys Midas
2 2 (2.33%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.16%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.30%) Azure
2 7 (8.14%) AWS
3 3 (3.49%) GCP
3 3 (3.49%) Google Workspace
3 3 (3.49%) SuccessFactors
4 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.16%) Apigee
5 1 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.16%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.16%) Google Sheets
5 1 (1.16%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.16%) SaaS
5 1 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) Firewall
1 2 (2.33%) VPN
2 1 (1.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.65%) Big Data
2 2 (2.33%) Power BI
3 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.16%) Looker
3 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (10.47%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) Git
2 1 (1.16%) GitLab
2 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.16%) Subversion
2 1 (1.16%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (55.81%) Finance
2 41 (47.67%) Social Skills
3 27 (31.40%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.79%) Legal
5 9 (10.47%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (9.30%) Banking
6 8 (9.30%) Local Government
7 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.49%) Back Office
8 3 (3.49%) General Ledger
8 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.49%) Retail
9 2 (2.33%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.33%) Law
10 1 (1.16%) Front Office
10 1 (1.16%) Marketing
10 1 (1.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (39.53%) Project Manager
2 15 (17.44%) Lead
3 6 (6.98%) Analyst
4 4 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (4.65%) IT Manager
4 4 (4.65%) Operations Manager
4 4 (4.65%) Programme Manager
4 4 (4.65%) Risk Manager
4 4 (4.65%) Senior
4 4 (4.65%) Senior Manager
4 4 (4.65%) Senior Project Manager
5 3 (3.49%) Business Manager
5 3 (3.49%) Data Manager
5 3 (3.49%) HR Manager
5 3 (3.49%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (3.49%) IT Risk Manager
5 3 (3.49%) Programme Director
5 3 (3.49%) SAP Delivery Manager
5 3 (3.49%) Support Officer
5 3 (3.49%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.16%) ADO
2 1 (1.16%) CSS
2 1 (1.16%) HTML
2 1 (1.16%) PySpark
2 1 (1.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.81%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.49%) Mainframe
3 3 (3.49%) PMI
3 3 (3.49%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.33%) Derivative
4 2 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Windows
1 2 (2.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.16%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (58.14%) Project Management
2 31 (36.05%) Risk Management
3 30 (34.88%) Agile
4 28 (32.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (25.58%) Budget Management
7 19 (22.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (22.09%) Project Delivery
8 16 (18.60%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
9 15 (17.44%) Decision-Making
10 14 (16.28%) PRINCE2
10 14 (16.28%) Programme Management
11 13 (15.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (12.79%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (12.79%) Migration
13 10 (11.63%) Budgeting
13 10 (11.63%) ERP
13 10 (11.63%) Roadmaps
13 10 (11.63%) Strategic Planning
13 10 (11.63%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.65%) SQL
2 1 (1.16%) C++
2 1 (1.16%) Java
2 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.16%) Python
2 1 (1.16%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (22.09%) Degree
2 18 (20.93%) PMI Certification
3 16 (18.60%) PMP
4 6 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (6.98%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.49%) CISA
6 3 (3.49%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.16%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) PMO
2 6 (6.98%) QA
3 5 (5.81%) GDPR
4 4 (4.65%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.49%) COBIT
5 3 (3.49%) COSO
5 3 (3.49%) NIST
5 3 (3.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.16%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.33%) Terraform
2 1 (1.16%) Ansible
2 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.30%) SAP
3 6 (6.98%) Oracle
4 5 (5.81%) Google
5 4 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.33%) Citrix
6 2 (2.33%) Planview
6 2 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.33%) Workday
7 1 (1.16%) Adobe
7 1 (1.16%) Ariba
7 1 (1.16%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.16%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.16%) Splunk
7 1 (1.16%) VMware
7 1 (1.16%) Wallstreet Suite