Resource Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Resource Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 260 284
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 +38
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 88 137 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.68% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.80% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 79 119
10th Percentile £344 £313 £225
25th Percentile £413 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -3.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £544 £609 £681
90th Percentile £615 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £505
% change year-on-year -2.44% +1.49% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 2
10th Percentile £21.09 - £25.67
25th Percentile £29.00 £18.35 £32.23
Median hourly rate £31.64 £26.66 £43.15
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% -38.22% +32.77%
75th Percentile £33.75 £28.80 £54.08
90th Percentile - £35.00 £60.63
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £26.66 £21.30
% change year-on-year +18.68% +25.16% -34.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,752 17,125 20,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.40% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,324 10,208 14,216
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,061 1,259
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

Resource Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Management in the UK excluding London

Resource Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Resource Management in the UK excluding London

Resource Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Management in the UK excluding London

Resource Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Resource Management in the UK excluding London

Resource Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Resource Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Resource Management in the UK excluding London

Resource Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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 +21 23 £417 -21.46% 53
South East +37 22 £488 -7.14% 31
Midlands +9 21 £513 +7.89% 29
West Midlands -3 19 £513 +7.89% 19
North West +20 14 £447 -12.78% 34
East of England +36 10 £430 +102.35% 8
Yorkshire +13 9 £388 -35.42% 16
Scotland -2 7 £480 +19.94% 11
South West +18 5 £453 -13.76% 14
East Midlands +12 2 £234 - 9
Resource Management
UK

Resource Management
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 (5.68%) IIS
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (18.18%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.27%) Open Workbench
4 1 (1.14%) CANalyzer
4 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Primavera
1 1 (1.14%) SAP HCM
1 1 (1.14%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.36%) Power Platform
2 8 (9.09%) AWS
3 5 (5.68%) Azure
3 5 (5.68%) GCP
4 4 (4.55%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.27%) Serverless
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.14%) Asana
6 1 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.14%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.14%) GitHub
6 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.14%) OCI
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) DNS
2 5 (5.68%) DHCP
2 5 (5.68%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.55%) LAN
3 4 (4.55%) NAS
3 4 (4.55%) SAN
3 4 (4.55%) WAN
4 1 (1.14%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.14%) Firewall
4 1 (1.14%) Network Security
4 1 (1.14%) SSL
4 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.36%) Power BI
2 5 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.27%) Big Data
4 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.14%) MS Access
5 1 (1.14%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) JIRA
2 3 (3.41%) Git
3 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.14%) GitLab
General
1 31 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.55%) Finance
3 16 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 15 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.23%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.68%) Law
7 4 (4.55%) Banking
7 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.41%) Local Government
8 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.41%) Retail
8 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.27%) Automotive
9 2 (2.27%) Back Office
9 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Electronics
10 1 (1.14%) Legal
10 1 (1.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (19.32%) Project Manager
2 15 (17.05%) Analyst
3 10 (11.36%) Administrator
4 9 (10.23%) Senior
5 8 (9.09%) PMO Analyst
6 7 (7.95%) Lead
7 5 (5.68%) VMWare Administrator
7 5 (5.68%) Wintel Administrator
8 4 (4.55%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) DevOps Administrator
8 4 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Engagement Manager
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (3.41%) Facilities Manager
9 3 (3.41%) Facilities Project Manager
9 3 (3.41%) Junior
9 3 (3.41%) PMO Specialist
9 3 (3.41%) Resource Management Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.55%) LDAP
2 2 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.14%) ADO
3 1 (1.14%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.95%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.41%) NHS
3 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.27%) PMI
4 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.14%) EPoS
5 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.36%) Windows
2 9 (10.23%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.68%) Linux
3 5 (5.68%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (5.68%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (5.68%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (4.55%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (42.05%) Project Management
2 31 (35.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (22.73%) Decision-Making
5 19 (21.59%) Agile
6 18 (20.45%) Risk Management
7 16 (18.18%) Project Delivery
8 14 (15.91%) Change Management
8 14 (15.91%) Project Planning
9 12 (13.64%) PRINCE2
10 11 (12.50%) DevOps
10 11 (12.50%) Project Governance
10 11 (12.50%) Waterfall
11 10 (11.36%) Budget Management
11 10 (11.36%) ITIL
11 10 (11.36%) Programme Management
11 10 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (9.09%) Business Case
12 8 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.95%) SQL
2 4 (4.55%) Python
3 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.14%) Bash
4 1 (1.14%) Groovy
4 1 (1.14%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 22 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.59%) Degree
3 13 (14.77%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.68%) PMI Certification
6 4 (4.55%) PMP
7 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.41%) HNC
7 3 (3.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (2.27%) APMP
8 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.27%) ISEB
9 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.14%) CISA
9 1 (1.14%) CISM
9 1 (1.14%) CISSP
9 1 (1.14%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.14%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.32%) PMO
2 5 (5.68%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.68%) QA
2 5 (5.68%) SLA
3 3 (3.41%) GDPR
3 3 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.41%) NIST
3 3 (3.41%) P3O
4 2 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (5.68%) Active Directory
1 5 (5.68%) Hyper-V
1 5 (5.68%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (5.68%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.27%) Docker
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Clustering
1 5 (5.68%) NetApp OnCommand
1 5 (5.68%) vCenter Server
1 5 (5.68%) vMotion
1 5 (5.68%) WSUS
2 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.27%) Ansible
3 2 (2.27%) Grafana
3 2 (2.27%) Terraform
4 1 (1.14%) Kustomize
4 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.82%) Oracle
3 5 (5.68%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.68%) VMware
4 4 (4.55%) Databricks
4 4 (4.55%) NetApp
5 3 (3.41%) Google
5 3 (3.41%) SAP
6 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.27%) Genesys
6 2 (2.27%) Splunk
7 1 (1.14%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.14%) Informatica
7 1 (1.14%) NEC
7 1 (1.14%) Niku
7 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.14%) Veeam