Resource Allocation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Resource Allocation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Resource Allocation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 82 90
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +42
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 13 8 13
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.18% 0.68% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.77% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 7
10th Percentile £363 £404 £473
25th Percentile £364 £439 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% -13.64% +35.38%
75th Percentile £409 £537 -
90th Percentile £434 £575 £555
North West median daily rate £402 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -19.60% -2.44% +26.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £72.50 £25.30 -
% change year-on-year +186.56% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 985 1,038 1,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.46% 87.59% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 599 1,028
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £367 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £585
90th Percentile £676 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 37 57
10th Percentile £17.02 £15.96 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £28.50 £16.85
Median hourly rate £22.41 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.05% +66.67% -3.13%
75th Percentile £31.40 £58.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £60.38 £66.90 £69.25
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.29% +1.03% +55.56%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Resource Allocation job vacancy trend in Manchester

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Resource Allocation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Resource Allocation

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in Manchester

Resource Allocation
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Resource Allocation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Resource Allocation

Resource Allocation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.69%) Lucidchart
3 1 (7.69%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
General
1 12 (92.31%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Back Office
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Life Science
1 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Project Management
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (53.85%) Waterfall
3 6 (46.15%) Planning and Forecasting
3 6 (46.15%) Risk Management
3 6 (46.15%) Scrum
3 6 (46.15%) Sprint Planning
3 6 (46.15%) Sprint Retrospective
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
5 3 (23.08%) Customer Acquisition
5 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (23.08%) High Availability
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Change Management
6 2 (15.38%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
1 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.69%) PMBOK
2 1 (7.69%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft