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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 312 378
Rank change year-on-year +43 +66 +58
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 66 73 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.43% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 55 44
10th Percentile £294 £306 £291
25th Percentile £387 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £570 £538 £700
90th Percentile £725 £588 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £39.09 £23.40 -
25th Percentile £43.73 £24.00 -
Median hourly rate £46.30 £25.00 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +85.20% -32.98% -
75th Percentile - £26.00 £48.65
90th Percentile - £26.60 £55.46
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 11,711 17,111 20,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.54% 84.30% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,219 14,183
10th Percentile £235 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 2,064 1,254
10th Percentile £14.02 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 19 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 19 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 +27 21 £522 +19.40% 47
South East +30 15 £500 - 62
North West +20 12 £545 +24.54% 20
Scotland +12 12 £530 +100.19% 14
Midlands +9 9 £425 -10.53% 20
Yorkshire +20 8 £500 - 21
West Midlands -4 6 £463 -5.13% 14
South West +39 5 £325 -35.00% 18
East of England +20 3 £800 +56.10% 17
East Midlands +11 2 £346 -2.68% 6
Wales -1 1 £450 +38.46% 3
North East -5 1 £550 - 6
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 (7.58%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.52%) Confluence
3 1 (1.52%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.55%) Trello
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.03%) Workday HCM
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.52%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.61%) AWS
2 5 (7.58%) GitHub
3 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.55%) Asana
4 3 (4.55%) Azure
4 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (4.55%) Google Workspace
5 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.03%) GCP
5 2 (3.03%) OCI
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) ADSL
1 1 (1.52%) Firewall
1 1 (1.52%) Intranet
1 1 (1.52%) LAN
1 1 (1.52%) PSTN
1 1 (1.52%) SDH
1 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.58%) Data Lake
2 4 (6.06%) Power BI
3 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.52%) GIS
3 1 (1.52%) MS Access
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.52%) QlikView
3 1 (1.52%) Tableau
3 1 (1.52%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 5 (7.58%) GitLab
2 4 (6.06%) JIRA
3 3 (4.55%) Selenium
4 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.52%) JBehave
4 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.52%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.52%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (43.94%) Social Skills
2 20 (30.30%) Finance
3 15 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.61%) Legal
5 5 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.06%) Banking
6 4 (6.06%) Local Government
6 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.55%) Aerospace
7 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.03%) Billing
8 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.03%) Retail Banking
8 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.52%) Automotive
9 1 (1.52%) Electronics
9 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.52%) Marketing
9 1 (1.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (37.88%) Project Manager
2 8 (12.12%) IT Manager
3 7 (10.61%) IT Project Manager
3 7 (10.61%) Programme Manager
4 6 (9.09%) Project Planner
5 4 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Lead
5 4 (6.06%) Technical Manager
6 3 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Data Manager
6 3 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
6 3 (4.55%) Service Manager
6 3 (4.55%) Technical Project Manager
6 3 (4.55%) Test Leader
7 2 (3.03%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.52%) RFC 2544
1 1 (1.52%) SOAP
1 1 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.06%) PMI
2 3 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.55%) NHS
3 2 (3.03%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (63.64%) Project Management
2 31 (46.97%) Risk Management
3 23 (34.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (27.27%) Project Delivery
5 17 (25.76%) Change Management
6 16 (24.24%) Agile
7 15 (22.73%) PRINCE2
8 12 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (18.18%) Project Planning
9 11 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
10 10 (15.15%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
10 10 (15.15%) DevOps
10 10 (15.15%) Performance Metrics
10 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (15.15%) Strategic Thinking
11 9 (13.64%) Budget Management
11 9 (13.64%) Budgeting
11 9 (13.64%) Decision-Making
11 9 (13.64%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.09%) SQL
2 3 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (1.52%) Bash
3 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.52%) Python
3 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 10 (15.15%) Degree
3 9 (13.64%) PMP
4 8 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
5 4 (6.06%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.03%) ISEB
7 1 (1.52%) APMG
7 1 (1.52%) CISM
7 1 (1.52%) CISSP
7 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.52%) HNC
7 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.15%) QA
2 8 (12.12%) PMO
3 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.03%) GDPR
3 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.52%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.52%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.52%) MiFID
4 1 (1.52%) NIST
4 1 (1.52%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Docker
1 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.52%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (6.06%) Google
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
1 4 (6.06%) SAP
2 2 (3.03%) Ariba
2 2 (3.03%) Cisco
2 2 (3.03%) Oracle
2 2 (3.03%) Pega
2 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
2 2 (3.03%) Workday
3 1 (1.52%) Civica
3 1 (1.52%) ESRI
3 1 (1.52%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.52%) Liquidlogic
3 1 (1.52%) NEC
3 1 (1.52%) Nokia
3 1 (1.52%) VMware