Resource Allocation Contracts in the North West

Resource Allocation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 107 131 140
Rank change year-on-year +24 +9 +21
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 13 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.22% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.25% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 14
10th Percentile £384 £236 £500
25th Percentile £402 £375 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £425 £638
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -33.33% +30.77%
75th Percentile £570 £450 £756
90th Percentile £610 £510 £819
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.00 - -
Median hourly rate £37.00 - £37.30
75th Percentile £38.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.17 £25.00 £37.30
% change year-on-year +36.69% -32.98% -11.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Allocation in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Resource Allocation in the North West

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in the North West

Resource Allocation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Resource Allocation in the North West

Resource Allocation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire - 8 £451 - 2
Lancashire +4 3 £570 +30.29% 11
Manchester +14 1 £769 +92.25% 17
Resource Allocation
England

Resource Allocation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (38.46%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (7.69%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
1 5 (38.46%) GitHub
2 3 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) GitLab
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Legal
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.69%) Automotive
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) IT Manager
3 2 (15.38%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Programme Planning Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Project Planner
4 1 (7.69%) Strategy Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (46.15%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
3 5 (38.46%) Customer Acquisition
3 5 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) High Availability
3 5 (38.46%) Performance Metrics
3 5 (38.46%) Process Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Project Planning
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) CRM
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) Business Strategy
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Resource Management
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe