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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 333 432
Rank change year-on-year +69 +99 +138
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 84 60 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.69% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.39% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 37 42
10th Percentile £401 £273 £363
25th Percentile £431 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £650
90th Percentile £798 £803 £768
England median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile - £16.80 £25.40
25th Percentile £20.45 £18.19 £28.87
Median hourly rate £22.04 £26.25 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -16.04% -25.62% -15.98%
75th Percentile £32.02 £30.16 £42.33
90th Percentile £33.06 - £46.18
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £37.30
% change year-on-year +30.00% -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 11,217 15,465 23,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.25% 88.32% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,521 11,089 16,751
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £449 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 320 264
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.18 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -28.59% +10.45%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.35 £68.08 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.30 £37.50 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.55% +0.48% +49.28%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +23 19 £500 -34.43% 14
West London +11 5 - - 29
South London - 3 £650 -
North London - 1 £650 -
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 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (2.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.10%) Azure
2 6 (7.14%) AWS
3 4 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.57%) GCP
4 3 (3.57%) Google Workspace
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.57%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.38%) Google Sheets
5 2 (2.38%) SaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.19%) Apigee
6 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.19%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) Firewall
1 2 (2.38%) Network Security
1 2 (2.38%) VPN
2 1 (1.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) Big Data
1 4 (4.76%) Power BI
2 3 (3.57%) Tableau
3 1 (1.19%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.19%) DB2
3 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.19%) Looker
Development Applications
1 9 (10.71%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) Git
2 1 (1.19%) GitLab
2 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.19%) Subversion
2 1 (1.19%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (57.14%) Finance
2 41 (48.81%) Social Skills
3 24 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.10%) Legal
5 8 (9.52%) Local Government
6 7 (8.33%) Banking
7 6 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.76%) Back Office
8 4 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.57%) General Ledger
9 3 (3.57%) Marketing
9 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.57%) Retail
10 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.19%) Front Office
11 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.19%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (35.71%) Project Manager
2 11 (13.10%) Lead
3 7 (8.33%) Analyst
4 6 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
4 6 (7.14%) Programme Manager
5 5 (5.95%) Business Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Operations Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Business Operations Manager
7 3 (3.57%) ERP Manager
7 3 (3.57%) HR Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Programme Director
7 3 (3.57%) SAP Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.57%) SAP Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Senior
7 3 (3.57%) Senior Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Support Officer
7 3 (3.57%) Technical Project Manager
8 2 (2.38%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.19%) .NET
1 1 (1.19%) ADO
1 1 (1.19%) CSS
1 1 (1.19%) HTML
1 1 (1.19%) PySpark
1 1 (1.19%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (5.95%) Management Information System
1 5 (5.95%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.57%) Mainframe
3 3 (3.57%) PMI
3 3 (3.57%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (2.38%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.19%) FMCG
5 1 (1.19%) iSeries
5 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.76%) Windows
1 4 (4.76%) Windows Server
2 3 (3.57%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (51.19%) Project Management
2 28 (33.33%) Agile
3 27 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (29.76%) Risk Management
5 23 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (20.24%) Budget Management
6 17 (20.24%) Project Delivery
7 16 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (19.05%) PRINCE2
7 16 (19.05%) Programme Management
8 15 (17.86%) Decision-Making
9 14 (16.67%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
9 14 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (15.48%) Strategic Planning
11 11 (13.10%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 10 (11.90%) Budgeting
12 10 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (11.90%) Migration
12 10 (11.90%) Waterfall
13 9 (10.71%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.57%) SQL
2 1 (1.19%) C++
2 1 (1.19%) COBOL
2 1 (1.19%) Java
2 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.19%) Python
2 1 (1.19%) R
2 1 (1.19%) RPG
Qualifications
1 19 (22.62%) PMI Certification
2 17 (20.24%) Degree
2 17 (20.24%) PMP
3 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (2.38%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) CFA
6 1 (1.19%) CISA
6 1 (1.19%) CISM
6 1 (1.19%) CRISC
6 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.19%) PCI QSA
6 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) PMO
2 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.57%) GDPR
4 2 (2.38%) NIST
4 2 (2.38%) QA
5 1 (1.19%) COBIT
5 1 (1.19%) COSO
5 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.19%) EMIR
5 1 (1.19%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.38%) Terraform
3 1 (1.19%) Ansible
3 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) SAP
3 6 (7.14%) Google
4 4 (4.76%) Citrix
5 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.57%) VMware
6 2 (2.38%) Oracle
6 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.38%) Workday
7 1 (1.19%) Adobe
7 1 (1.19%) Ariba
7 1 (1.19%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.19%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.19%) Cisco
7 1 (1.19%) IBM
7 1 (1.19%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.19%) Meraki
7 1 (1.19%) Okta
7 1 (1.19%) Splunk
7 1 (1.19%) Zscaler