Resource Management Contract Job Trends in the South West

Resource Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Resource Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 116 145
Rank change year-on-year +3 +29 +13
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 9 24 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.46% 0.91% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.08% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 5
10th Percentile £320 £460 £427
25th Percentile £353 £463 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £546
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -7.05% -5.70%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £592
90th Percentile £624 £538 £624
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.57% -4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +50.00% -3.45% +11.54%

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 1,787 2,221 2,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.53% 83.81% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 1,324 1,946
10th Percentile £220 £281 £310
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £705 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 214 256
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.20 £20.38
25th Percentile £18.51 £48.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.57
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +4.53% +11.43%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £74.06
90th Percentile £68.53 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Resource Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Management in the South West over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Management in the South West

Resource Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Resource Management
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 19 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
Gloucestershire +20 3 £325 +31.52% 7
Bristol +6 2 £381 -15.44% 7
Wiltshire -4 2 £563 +10.84% 2
Devon - 2 £525 - 5
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 2 (22.22%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Electronics
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
1 2 (22.22%) PMO Lead
2 1 (11.11%) ERP Implementation Manager
2 1 (11.11%) ERP Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Governance Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Data Encryption
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) PMO
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (22.22%) NetApp OnCommand
1 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
1 2 (22.22%) vMotion
1 2 (22.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) IFS
2 1 (11.11%) SAP