Resource Management Contracts in the North West

Resource Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 125 154
Rank change year-on-year +18 +29 +8
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 15 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.77% 0.41% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.47% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 6
10th Percentile £313 - £404
25th Percentile £346 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £513 £486
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% +5.45% +1.25%
75th Percentile £469 £550 £684
90th Percentile £498 £590 £831
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,758 2,328 2,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.20% 86.25% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,485 2,043
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £394 £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 £663 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 245 142
10th Percentile £16.03 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.75 £13.31 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £22.11 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +46.99% -39.67% +82.66%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.88 £49.52
90th Percentile £84.51 £57.50 £65.98
England median hourly rate £29.15 £36.33 £36.40
% change year-on-year -19.76% -0.18% +49.47%

Resource Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Management in the North West

Resource Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Resource Management in the North West

Resource Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Management in the North West over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Management in the North West

Resource Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Resource Management in the North West

Resource Management
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 Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Manchester +25 10 £463 -9.76% 28
Cheshire 0 5 £325 -27.78% 6
Resource Management
England

Resource Management
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 3 (20.00%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DHCP
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Local Government
1 5 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (33.33%) Facilities Manager
2 5 (33.33%) Facilities Project Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Administrator
3 3 (20.00%) VMWare Administrator
3 3 (20.00%) Wintel Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ADO
1 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Project Management
2 5 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation
2 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 5 (33.33%) Facilities Management
2 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (13.33%) Budget Management
5 2 (13.33%) Line Management
5 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) Resource Allocation
5 2 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
1 5 (33.33%) HNC
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (20.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 3 (20.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (20.00%) vMotion
1 3 (20.00%) WSUS
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks