Resource Management Contracts in the South West

Resource Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 117 156
Rank change year-on-year +9 +39 +3
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 4 30 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.24% 0.94% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 1.13% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 21 12
10th Percentile £393 - £406
25th Percentile £413 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.76% +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £498 £538 £584
90th Percentile £522 £606 £646
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £32.07 £26.66 £21.30
% change year-on-year +20.29% +25.16% -34.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,517 2,645 3,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.15% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 1,687 2,378
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 335 331
10th Percentile £18.48 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.27 £28.63 £15.84
Median hourly rate £62.75 £55.00 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +14.09% -9.39% +24.87%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.40
England median hourly rate £29.15 £36.33 £36.40
% change year-on-year -19.76% -0.18% +49.47%

Resource Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Management in the South West

Resource Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Resource Management in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Resource Management in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Management in the South West over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Management in the South West

Resource Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Resource Management in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Resource Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Bristol +26 2 £381 - 6
Gloucestershire +15 1 - - 10
Devon - 1 £525 - 6
Resource Management
England

Resource Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Line Management
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (25.00%) vMotion
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) VMware