Resource Management Contracts in the South East

Resource Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 152 166
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 +56
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Resource Management 30 23 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.85% 0.48% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.58% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 35
10th Percentile £375 £316 £145
25th Percentile £400 £375 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -7.08% +19.05%
75th Percentile £605 £707 £706
90th Percentile £650 £1,025 £780
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £21.43 £18.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.78% - -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £20.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year +58.20% -29.20% -13.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,163 3,935 4,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.63% 82.34% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,973 2,380 3,357
10th Percentile £241 £255 £250
25th Percentile £394 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 312 238
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £21.09
Median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +86.12%
75th Percentile £51.10 £70.05 £64.59
90th Percentile £70.81 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% +2.41% +53.76%

Resource Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Management in the South East

Resource Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Resource Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Resource Management

Resource Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Management in the South East over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Management in the South East

Resource Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Resource Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Resource Management

Resource Management
DemandTrendContract 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 Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +24 12 £475 -22.76% 2
Thames Valley +8 11 £550 -9.47% 14
Berkshire +7 6 £600 -1.84% 8
Surrey +11 4 - - 5
Oxfordshire - 4 £550 - 1
West Sussex - 2 - -
Buckinghamshire +7 1 £225 -47.06% 5
Kent 0 1 - - 3
Resource Management
England

Resource Management
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 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (3.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
1 3 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle CX
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (3.33%) SaaS
3 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) HTTP
1 1 (3.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) DTS
1 1 (3.33%) MS Access
1 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Fiddler
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.33%) Legal
4 4 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office
6 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Senior
2 6 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Contracts Manager
3 4 (13.33%) IT Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Junior
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) PMO Specialist
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Programme Director
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Applications Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Delivery Project Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Project Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Project Coordinator
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Programme Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Team Leader
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.33%) gRPC
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (3.33%) Next.js
1 1 (3.33%) NgRx
1 1 (3.33%) OAuth
1 1 (3.33%) React
1 1 (3.33%) Redux
1 1 (3.33%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.33%) EPoS
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (36.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 10 (33.33%) Project Management
4 7 (23.33%) Agile
4 7 (23.33%) Migration
5 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 5 (16.67%) Budget Management
6 5 (16.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 5 (16.67%) Cost Control
6 5 (16.67%) ITIL
6 5 (16.67%) PRINCE2
6 5 (16.67%) Waterfall
7 4 (13.33%) Budgeting
7 4 (13.33%) Change Management
7 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (13.33%) Line Management
7 4 (13.33%) Programme Management
7 4 (13.33%) Project Governance
7 4 (13.33%) Project Planning
7 4 (13.33%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.33%) SQL
1 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) Degree
3 5 (16.67%) PMI Certification
3 5 (16.67%) PMP
4 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) PMO
2 4 (13.33%) SLA
3 3 (10.00%) P3O
4 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) NEC
3 1 (3.33%) Niku
3 1 (3.33%) OpenAI