Resource Allocation Contracts in the North of England

Resource Allocation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 165 192
Rank change year-on-year +23 +27 +48
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 33 14 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.86% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.35% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 6 15
10th Percentile £250 £400 £440
25th Percentile £365 £431 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.50% -28.57% +55.56%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £763
90th Percentile £575 £563 £813
England median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £23.46 -
25th Percentile £36.00 £24.15 -
Median hourly rate £37.00 £25.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% - -
75th Percentile £38.00 £26.15 -
90th Percentile - £26.66 -
England median hourly rate £34.75 £25.30 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.35% -46.74% +3.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,394 3,971 4,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.66% 84.02% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,192 2,377 3,389
10th Percentile £268 £299 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £495 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -1.98% +1.00%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £600
90th Percentile £650 £665 £688
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 361 212
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.47 £12.55 £16.59
Median hourly rate £24.79 £22.00 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +12.69% -4.97% +15.75%
75th Percentile £47.12 £45.88 £43.41
90th Percentile £74.88 £66.61 £55.23
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.59
% change year-on-year -34.02% -6.09% +56.12%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Allocation in the North of England

Resource Allocation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Resource Allocation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Resource Allocation in the North of England

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in the North of England

Resource Allocation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Resource Allocation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Resource Allocation in the North of England

Resource Allocation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
North West +16 18 £402 -19.60% 11
Yorkshire +12 14 £475 - 14
North East -4 1 £550 - 4
Resource Allocation
England

Resource Allocation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (15.15%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) AWS
1 5 (15.15%) GitHub
2 3 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
1 1 (3.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (3.03%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) GitLab
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Legal
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Back Office
3 3 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.03%) Automotive
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Local Government
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 6 (18.18%) Lead
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Field Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 3 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Coordinator
5 2 (6.06%) Programme Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Business Change Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Integration Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Project Planner
6 1 (3.03%) Service Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) PMI
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.03%) NHS
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Project Management
1 13 (39.39%) Risk Management
2 10 (30.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (27.27%) Agile
4 8 (24.24%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (24.24%) Process Improvement
4 8 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (24.24%) Waterfall
5 6 (18.18%) Planning and Forecasting
5 6 (18.18%) Scrum
5 6 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (18.18%) Sprint Retrospective
6 5 (15.15%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (15.15%) Cloud Security
6 5 (15.15%) Customer Acquisition
6 5 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (15.15%) Decision-Making
6 5 (15.15%) DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) High Availability
6 5 (15.15%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) SQL
2 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) PMI Certification
2 3 (9.09%) PMP
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) APMG
4 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) VCAP
4 1 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
2 4 (12.12%) SLA
3 1 (3.03%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
1 1 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) PowerCLI
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
1 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Broadcom
2 1 (3.03%) ESRI
2 1 (3.03%) F5
2 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
2 1 (3.03%) VMware