Resource Allocation Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Resource Allocation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Resource Allocation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 111 151
Rank change year-on-year +3 +40 +26
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 7 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.44% 0.38% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.44% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £330 £91 £413
25th Percentile £457 £149 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £250 £475
Median % change year-on-year +112.70% -47.37% +43.94%
75th Percentile £582 £255 £606
90th Percentile £668 - £678
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,447 1,597 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.01% 86.70% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 979 1,547
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £375 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 44 62
10th Percentile £16.73 £12.30 £12.01
25th Percentile £17.87 £13.60 £12.84
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.69 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year +7.02% -1.93% -9.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.94 £57.81
90th Percentile £35.00 £56.75 £66.41
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% +2.41% +43.55%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Resource Allocation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Resource Allocation in Scotland

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in Scotland

Resource Allocation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
Glasgow -15 4 £532 +112.70% 4
Edinburgh - 3 - - 2
Resource Allocation
UK

Resource Allocation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) OCI
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) ADSL
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) PSTN
1 1 (14.29%) SDH
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Electronics
4 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Team Leader
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
1 1 (14.29%) WireMock
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
1 1 (14.29%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) Project Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) Data Management
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Budget Management
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 1 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) HNC
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Pega
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Nokia
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce