Resource Allocation Contracts in the Midlands

Resource Allocation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 101 115 164
Rank change year-on-year +14 +49 +42
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 10 18 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.52% 0.65% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.79% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 3
10th Percentile £200 £318 £125
25th Percentile £219 £355 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £475 £150
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% +216.67% -68.09%
75th Percentile £514 £538 £155
90th Percentile £658 £580 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Allocation in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Resource Allocation in the Midlands

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Resource Allocation in the Midlands

Resource Allocation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +6 7 £400 -17.95% 17
East Midlands +9 2 £346 -2.68% 6
Resource Allocation
England

Resource Allocation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (30.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Asana
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (10.00%) JBehave
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (40.00%) Legal
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Coordinator
1 3 (30.00%) Project Coordinator
2 2 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Project Management
2 4 (40.00%) Deadline-Driven
2 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Change Control
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Critical Path Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Data Management
5 1 (10.00%) ERP
5 1 (10.00%) Information Management
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) PMI Certification
1 3 (30.00%) PMP
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) MiFID
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Civica
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) VMware