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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 115 145
Rank change year-on-year +3 +30 +26
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 19 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.87% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.30% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 9
10th Percentile £363 £435 £377
25th Percentile £402 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -26.86% -21.43% +64.71%
75th Percentile £490 - £775
90th Percentile £570 £565 £840
England median daily rate £500 £525 £504
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.22% +0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.30 -
England median hourly rate £28.75 £25.30 £47.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% -46.74% +3.26%

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 1,937 2,002 2,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.49% 84.40% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 1,214 1,807
10th Percentile £280 £308 £300
25th Percentile £375 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £589
90th Percentile £665 £675 £674
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 176 171
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.08
Median hourly rate £28.43 £32.75 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% -0.76% +51.52%
75th Percentile £58.27 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in the North West

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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 8 August 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 9 £454 -17.50% 3
Manchester +8 7 £402 -19.60% 11
Lancashire -2 2 £570 +26.67% 9
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 (26.32%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
1 5 (26.32%) GitHub
2 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) GitLab
General
1 14 (73.68%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Back Office
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Lead
1 5 (26.32%) Project Manager
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) IT Manager
4 2 (10.53%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Change Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Delivery Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Programme Planning Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Strategy Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Project Management
1 9 (47.37%) Risk Management
2 8 (42.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (42.11%) Waterfall
3 7 (36.84%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (31.58%) Agile
4 6 (31.58%) Planning and Forecasting
4 6 (31.58%) Scrum
4 6 (31.58%) Sprint Planning
4 6 (31.58%) Sprint Retrospective
5 5 (26.32%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
5 5 (26.32%) Customer Acquisition
5 5 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (26.32%) DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) High Availability
5 5 (26.32%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (26.32%) Process Improvement
5 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.79%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) BC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft