Resource Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Resource Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 111 106
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +57
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 14 15 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.83% 0.65% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.77% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 30
10th Percentile £475 £325 £173
25th Percentile £516 £388 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £663
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -8.30% +29.27%
75th Percentile £603 £820 £739
90th Percentile £650 £1,025 £830
South East median daily rate £550 £581 £625
% change year-on-year -5.29% -7.08% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £73.60 -
South East median hourly rate £21.43 £18.35 -
% change year-on-year +16.78% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,546 1,950 2,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.02% 84.64% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 1,110 1,700
10th Percentile £300 £263 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -1.30% +3.45%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £623
90th Percentile £683 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £518 £518
% change year-on-year -3.39% -0.09% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 114 83
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.45
25th Percentile £15.12 £26.00 £22.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £56.34 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.40% +12.69% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £67.38 £66.11
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.65 £75.59
South East median hourly rate £21.50 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.51% +14.70% +100.00%

Resource Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Resource Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Resource Management in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Resource Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Resource Management in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +7 7 £625 +2.25% 6
Oxfordshire - 4 £550 - 3
Buckinghamshire +6 3 £513 +20.59% 7
Resource Management
South East

Resource Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle CX
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.14%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DTS
1 1 (7.14%) MS Access
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Fiddler
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Senior Manager
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Project Manager
4 3 (21.43%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
5 1 (7.14%) Delivery Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (7.14%) Project Leader
5 1 (7.14%) Project Planner
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Programme Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) EPoS
1 1 (7.14%) PMI
1 1 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (57.14%) Project Management
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2
4 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
5 3 (21.43%) Customer Engagement
5 3 (21.43%) Customer Experience
6 2 (14.29%) Budget Management
6 2 (14.29%) Business Case
6 2 (14.29%) Case Management
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Contract Management
6 2 (14.29%) Cost Management
6 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
6 2 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
6 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
6 2 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) APMP
2 2 (14.29%) ISEB
2 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 2 (14.29%) PMP
2 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (7.14%) CISA
3 1 (7.14%) CISM
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
3 1 (7.14%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) NEC
3 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow