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

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 119 141
Rank change year-on-year +6 +22 +22
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 7 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.35% 0.32% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.38% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile - £450 £482
25th Percentile £313 £472 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.78% -10.87% +15.58%
75th Percentile £475 £541 £628
90th Percentile £502 £590 £766
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 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 1,788 2,353 2,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.44% 83.77% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,435 1,884
10th Percentile £303 £306 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% -1.00% +2.62%
75th Percentile £561 £585 £588
90th Percentile £665 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 267 140
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.18 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.89% +27.72%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.17 £66.61 £57.68
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Management in the North West over the 6 months to 24 June 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

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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 24 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
Cheshire -4 4 £325 -27.78% 3
Manchester +16 3 £475 -8.87% 11
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 2 (28.57%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) VMWare Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) Wintel Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
3 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (28.57%) NetApp OnCommand
1 2 (28.57%) vCenter Server
1 2 (28.57%) vMotion
1 2 (28.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) VMware