Resource Management Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Resource Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Resource Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 76 104
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 +31
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 5 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.50% 0.51% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.59% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £318 £374 £570
25th Percentile £328 £400 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £341 £446 £750
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -40.50% +56.25%
75th Percentile £377 £490 £831
90th Percentile £436 £514 £880
North West median daily rate £338 £450 £623
% change year-on-year -25.00% -27.71% +20.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £32.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +123.08% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £33.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £72.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +123.08% -7.14% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 895 1,022 1,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.68% 87.13% 87.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 589 1,062
10th Percentile £302 £313 £270
25th Percentile £395 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £594
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 35 61
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.95 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.97 £23.68 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +84.21% -5.61%
75th Percentile £35.50 £63.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £64.25 £85.60 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +50.21%

Resource Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Resource Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

Resource Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Resource Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Management in Manchester

Resource Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Resource Management
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 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) dbt
1 3 (60.00%) Prefect
1 3 (60.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (20.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (60.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Life Science
2 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) Data Science
1 3 (60.00%) Data Transformation
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Demand Management
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) PMBOK
2 1 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft