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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 174 178
Rank change year-on-year +25 +4 +32
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 22 16 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.63% 0.33% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.39% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 24
10th Percentile £313 £450 £408
25th Percentile £365 £494 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £638 £659
90th Percentile £600 £800 £746
England median daily rate £507 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.38% -0.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.66 -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £24.50 £43.15
% change year-on-year +29.14% -43.22% +32.77%

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 3,158 4,069 4,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.00% 83.69% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,047 2,422 3,347
10th Percentile £277 £300 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - -
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £649 £665 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 387 209
10th Percentile £12.80 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.44 £12.55 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -6.79% +18.02%
75th Percentile £52.13 £46.18 £43.25
90th Percentile £77.88 £63.75 £55.88
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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
Yorkshire +15 15 £413 -41.07% 27
North West +1 7 £447 -12.78% 36
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 5 (22.73%) Confluence
2 2 (9.09%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (22.73%) MS Visio
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon Macie
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (9.09%) AWS
1 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (9.09%) AWS KMS
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (9.09%) GitHub
1 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (9.09%) Serverless
1 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) DHCP
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) Network Security
2 2 (9.09%) SSL
2 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Banking
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 3 (13.64%) Retail
6 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.55%) Legal
7 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Project Manager
2 7 (31.82%) Lead
3 6 (27.27%) Analyst
4 5 (22.73%) Business Analyst
4 5 (22.73%) Business Manager
4 5 (22.73%) Business Project Manager
4 5 (22.73%) Project Analyst
5 4 (18.18%) Lead Business Analyst
5 4 (18.18%) Lead Project Manager
6 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Administrator
7 2 (9.09%) IT Manager
7 2 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) VMWare Administrator
7 2 (9.09%) Wintel Administrator
8 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
1 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
1 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Project Management
1 11 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
3 6 (27.27%) Agile
3 6 (27.27%) DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) Project Delivery
4 5 (22.73%) Business Strategy
4 5 (22.73%) Waterfall
5 4 (18.18%) Budget Management
5 4 (18.18%) Business Analysis
5 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) Project Governance
5 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.64%) High Availability
6 3 (13.64%) Programme Management
6 3 (13.64%) Project Planning
6 3 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
2 2 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
1 2 (9.09%) PMO
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
1 2 (9.09%) SOC 2
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
1 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Grafana
2 2 (9.09%) Kustomize
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (9.09%) NetApp OnCommand
2 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.09%) Puppet
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) vCenter Server
2 2 (9.09%) vMotion
2 2 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Veeam