Resource Allocation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Resource Allocation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 325 399
Rank change year-on-year +68 +74 +39
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 79 74 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.42% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 56 47
10th Percentile £294 £306 £331
25th Percentile £400 £348 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +9.29%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £700
90th Percentile £733 £600 £795
UK median daily rate £520 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +9.47% -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £39.09 £23.40 £19.07
25th Percentile £43.73 £24.00 £30.79
Median hourly rate £46.30 £25.00 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +85.20% -32.98% -
75th Percentile - £26.00 £42.98
90th Percentile - £26.60 £53.19
UK median hourly rate £31.35 £23.00 £37.30
% change year-on-year +36.28% -38.34% -11.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Resource Allocation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Resource Allocation in the UK excluding London

Resource Allocation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Resource Allocation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Resource Allocation in the UK excluding London

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in the UK excluding London

Resource Allocation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Resource Allocation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Resource Allocation in the UK excluding London

Resource Allocation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +33 25 £510 +19.97% 62
South East +41 17 £500 -2.44% 81
Scotland +21 15 £450 +12.50% 23
North West +24 13 £520 +22.29% 35
Midlands +14 10 £396 -16.74% 47
South West +48 8 £388 -22.50% 31
Yorkshire +15 8 £500 - 22
West Midlands +6 7 £400 -17.95% 31
North East +3 4 £650 - 5
East of England +29 3 £800 +39.13% 31
East Midlands +9 2 £346 -2.68% 13
Wales -3 1 £450 +38.46% 8
Resource Allocation
UK

Resource Allocation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (6.33%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) Confluence
3 1 (1.27%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (5.06%) Trello
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.53%) Workday HCM
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.27%) Primavera
3 1 (1.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.86%) AWS
2 6 (7.59%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.33%) Azure
3 5 (6.33%) GitHub
4 4 (5.06%) Asana
4 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.80%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.53%) GCP
6 2 (2.53%) OCI
7 1 (1.27%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) ADSL
1 1 (1.27%) Firewall
1 1 (1.27%) Intranet
1 1 (1.27%) LAN
1 1 (1.27%) PSTN
1 1 (1.27%) SDH
1 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) Power BI
2 5 (6.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.27%) MS Access
4 1 (1.27%) QlikView
4 1 (1.27%) Tableau
4 1 (1.27%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 5 (6.33%) GitLab
2 4 (5.06%) JIRA
3 2 (2.53%) Selenium
4 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.27%) JBehave
4 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.27%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (40.51%) Social Skills
2 26 (32.91%) Finance
3 17 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.13%) Legal
5 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.33%) Banking
6 5 (6.33%) Local Government
6 5 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.53%) Marketing
8 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.53%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.27%) Automotive
9 1 (1.27%) Billing
9 1 (1.27%) Electronics
9 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 28 (35.44%) Project Manager
2 11 (13.92%) IT Manager
3 10 (12.66%) IT Project Manager
4 9 (11.39%) Programme Manager
5 6 (7.59%) Project Planner
6 4 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Lead
6 4 (5.06%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Coordinator
7 3 (3.80%) Data Manager
7 3 (3.80%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.80%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
7 3 (3.80%) PMO Administrator
7 3 (3.80%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (3.80%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.53%) ADO
3 1 (1.27%) RFC 2544
3 1 (1.27%) SOAP
3 1 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.06%) PMI
2 3 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.80%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.80%) NHS
2 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.53%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.27%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.53%) Windows
2 1 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (60.76%) Project Management
2 35 (44.30%) Risk Management
3 27 (34.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (27.85%) Change Management
5 20 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (25.32%) Project Delivery
6 18 (22.78%) PRINCE2
7 16 (20.25%) Agile
8 15 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (16.46%) Project Planning
10 12 (15.19%) DevOps
10 12 (15.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (13.92%) Capacity Planning
11 11 (13.92%) Decision-Making
11 11 (13.92%) Strategic Thinking
12 10 (12.66%) Budgeting
12 10 (12.66%) Performance Metrics
13 9 (11.39%) Budget Management
13 9 (11.39%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
13 9 (11.39%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.59%) SQL
2 2 (2.53%) Java
3 1 (1.27%) Bash
3 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.27%) Python
3 1 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) Degree
2 12 (15.19%) PMI Certification
2 12 (15.19%) PMP
3 8 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.13%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.06%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.53%) ISEB
6 1 (1.27%) APMG
6 1 (1.27%) CISM
6 1 (1.27%) CISSP
6 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.27%) HNC
6 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.92%) QA
2 10 (12.66%) PMO
3 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.53%) GDPR
3 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.27%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.27%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.27%) MiFID
4 1 (1.27%) NIST
4 1 (1.27%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Docker
1 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
1 6 (7.59%) Oracle
2 4 (5.06%) Google
2 4 (5.06%) SAP
3 2 (2.53%) Ariba
3 2 (2.53%) Cisco
3 2 (2.53%) Liquidlogic
3 2 (2.53%) Pega
3 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.53%) Workday
4 1 (1.27%) Adobe
4 1 (1.27%) Civica
4 1 (1.27%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.27%) NEC
4 1 (1.27%) Nokia
4 1 (1.27%) VMware