Resource Allocation Contracts in the South East

Resource Allocation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Resource Allocation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Resource Allocation over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 178 193
Rank change year-on-year +38 +15 +29
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 15 22 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.51% 0.39% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.47% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 11
10th Percentile £284 £343 £413
25th Percentile £360 £371 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £538 £538 £554
90th Percentile £575 £620 £700
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.97% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Median hourly rate £46.30 - £60.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £37.30
% change year-on-year +30.00% -32.98% -11.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,705 4,674 4,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.35% 83.26% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,737 2,697 3,437
10th Percentile £250 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £505
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 448 218
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.30
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% -9.18% +138.27%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Resource Allocation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Resource Allocation in the South East

Resource Allocation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Resource Allocation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Resource Allocation in the South East

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in the South East

Resource Allocation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Resource Allocation in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Resource Allocation in the South East

Resource Allocation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Thames Valley +35 8 £305 -34.05% 10
Berkshire +25 5 £305 -24.60% 3
Surrey +23 3 £525 -19.23% 2
Oxfordshire - 3 - - 1
Hampshire +31 1 £372 +1.64% 9
West Sussex +10 1 £700 +33.33% 10
East Sussex - 1 £500 - 2
Resource Allocation
England

Resource Allocation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (6.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Asana
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) OCI
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) MS Access
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) QlikView
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
1 2 (13.33%) Selenium
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Billing
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Police
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Project Planner
2 4 (26.67%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Test Leader
4 2 (13.33%) Data Manager
4 2 (13.33%) IT Manager
4 2 (13.33%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.67%) PMO Manager
5 1 (6.67%) PMO Planner
5 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Project Owner
5 1 (6.67%) QA Leader
5 1 (6.67%) QA Manager
5 1 (6.67%) QA Test Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (6.67%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Project Management
2 6 (40.00%) Project Planning
2 6 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
4 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Budgeting
5 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (20.00%) Change Control
5 3 (20.00%) Cost Management
5 3 (20.00%) Critical Path Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) CRM
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Gantt Chart
5 3 (20.00%) Test Management
5 3 (20.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
6 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) User Experience
6 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
2 2 (13.33%) PMP
2 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) ISEB
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) PMO
2 3 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) ISO 14001
3 1 (6.67%) ISO 9001
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) NEC
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) SAP