Resource Allocation Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Resource Allocation
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Resource Allocation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -35 - -
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.68% 0.82% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 0.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £477 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £507 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -11.83% +27.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.60 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £23.60 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 351 112 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 84.38% 91.80% 54.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 71 27
10th Percentile £400 £300 £306
25th Percentile £450 £364 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £410
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% +16.34% -24.07%
75th Percentile £537 £530 £500
90th Percentile £560 £567 £535
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £523 £488
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.23% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile - £21.32 £12.65
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £21.59 £24.60
% change year-on-year -5.05% -12.24% +38.90%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Resource Allocation job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Resource Allocation
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. 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
Telford - 7 £496 - 2
Resource Allocation
West Midlands

Resource Allocation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Engagement Manager
2 6 (85.71%) SAP Engagement Manager
2 6 (85.71%) SAP Manager
3 5 (71.43%) Senior
3 5 (71.43%) Senior Engagement Manager
3 5 (71.43%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) AI
1 7 (100.00%) Budget Management
1 7 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 7 (100.00%) Change Management
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (100.00%) Data Management
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 7 (100.00%) Migration
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 7 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 7 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 6 (85.71%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) SAP
1 7 (100.00%) ServiceNow