Resource Management Contracts in the North of England

Resource Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Resource Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Resource Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 158 181
Rank change year-on-year +11 +23 +21
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 22 22 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.67% 0.47% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.54% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 19
10th Percentile £313 - £298
25th Percentile £352 £450 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% - +6.28%
75th Percentile £486 £638 £638
90th Percentile £592 £790 £740
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.66 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.91% - -
75th Percentile £33.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.07 £26.66 £21.30
% change year-on-year +20.29% +25.16% -34.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,971 4,053 5,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.98% 85.80% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,909 2,479 3,654
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 358 203
10th Percentile £13.68 £11.05 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.50 £16.22
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £28.70
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -38.26% +54.36%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.74 £46.03
90th Percentile £83.59 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Resource Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Management in the North of England

Resource Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Resource Management in the North of England

Resource Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Management in the North of England

Resource Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Resource Management in the North of England

Resource Management
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 Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 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
North West +14 15 £449 -12.49% 42
Yorkshire +4 7 £379 -43.89% 18
Resource Management
England

Resource Management
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 3 (13.64%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
1 1 (4.55%) GCP
1 1 (4.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) DHCP
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Local Government
2 5 (22.73%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Project Manager
2 5 (22.73%) Facilities Manager
2 5 (22.73%) Facilities Project Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Administrator
3 3 (13.64%) VMWare Administrator
3 3 (13.64%) Wintel Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 2 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Chief Operating Officer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Programme Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Test Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) ADO
1 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) NHS
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2016
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Project Management
2 9 (40.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (36.36%) Decision-Making
4 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Budget Management
5 5 (22.73%) Contract Negotiation
5 5 (22.73%) DevOps
5 5 (22.73%) Facilities Management
6 4 (18.18%) Agile
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) High Availability
6 4 (18.18%) Programme Management
6 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
6 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
7 3 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (13.64%) ITIL
7 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (13.64%) Project Planning
7 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Groovy
1 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
1 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
1 5 (22.73%) HNC
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) SLA
2 2 (9.09%) PMO
3 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
1 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
1 3 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (13.64%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (13.64%) NetApp OnCommand
1 3 (13.64%) vCenter Server
1 3 (13.64%) vMotion
1 3 (13.64%) WSUS
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) VMware
3 2 (9.09%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) SAP
4 1 (4.55%) Veeam