Resource Allocation Contract Job Trends in Reading

Resource Allocation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Resource Allocation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 65 89
Rank change year-on-year -22 +24 -3
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.46% 0.34% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.37% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £360 £518
Median % change year-on-year +115.28% -30.44% +111.24%
75th Percentile £788 - £549
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £613 £650 £350
% change year-on-year -5.77% +85.71% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 899 535 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 81.88% 92.24% 86.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 336 508
10th Percentile £375 £350 £356
25th Percentile £458 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £537 £582
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% -7.77% +5.82%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £650
90th Percentile £738 £650 £712
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +8.37% -7.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 21 32
10th Percentile £35.22 - £15.13
25th Percentile £71.00 £14.75 £55.41
Median hourly rate £85.00 £27.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +209.09% -55.36% -6.04%
75th Percentile £101.92 £55.00 £75.40
90th Percentile £105.50 £58.00 £87.46
Berkshire median hourly rate £80.00 £32.31 £61.60
% change year-on-year +147.60% -47.55% +2.67%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Resource Allocation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Resource Allocation job vacancy trend in Reading

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Resource Allocation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Resource Allocation

Resource Allocation
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Resource Allocation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Resource Allocation

Resource Allocation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SMS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Project Assurance Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Assurance Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) A2A Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Rocky
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Budget Management
1 4 (80.00%) Business Case
1 4 (80.00%) Change Management
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) Project Delivery
1 4 (80.00%) Project Management
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (60.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (20.00%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Podman
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) VMware