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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 269 269
Rank change year-on-year +19 0 +56
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 85 132 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.64% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.77% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 77 122
10th Percentile £344 £320 £225
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -3.33% +6.33%
75th Percentile £525 £606 £684
90th Percentile £600 £760 £790
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.97% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile £20.42 - £25.67
25th Percentile £21.43 £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 - £28.80 £54.08
90th Percentile - £35.00 £60.63
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £26.66 £43.15
% change year-on-year +18.68% -38.22% +32.77%

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +13 23 £430 -21.86% 174
Midlands +3 20 £507 +6.79% 149
South East +33 19 £469 +1.35% 235
West Midlands +5 18 £513 +7.89% 85
Yorkshire +13 12 £413 -41.07% 72
North West +6 11 £447 -12.78% 79
Scotland +5 10 £499 +24.63% 43
East of England +39 9 £430 +102.35% 112
South West +16 4 £453 -13.76% 86
East Midlands +8 2 £234 - 53
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 (5.88%) IIS
2 4 (4.71%) Confluence
2 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (17.65%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (14.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (7.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (3.53%) MS Visio
6 2 (2.35%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Primavera
1 1 (1.18%) SAP HCM
1 1 (1.18%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 7 (8.24%) AWS
3 3 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (3.53%) Azure
3 3 (3.53%) GCP
3 3 (3.53%) Serverless
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.35%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (2.35%) AWS KMS
4 2 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (2.35%) Snowflake
4 2 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) DNS
2 6 (7.06%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.88%) DHCP
4 4 (4.71%) LAN
4 4 (4.71%) NAS
4 4 (4.71%) SAN
4 4 (4.71%) WAN
5 2 (2.35%) Firewall
5 2 (2.35%) Network Security
5 2 (2.35%) SSL
5 2 (2.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.76%) Power BI
2 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.53%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.35%) Big Data
4 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.18%) MS Access
5 1 (1.18%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 7 (8.24%) JIRA
2 4 (4.71%) Git
3 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.35%) GitLab
General
1 30 (35.29%) Finance
1 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.47%) Public Sector
3 12 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.59%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (7.06%) Banking
6 5 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.88%) Law
7 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Retail
9 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.18%) Automotive
10 1 (1.18%) Back Office
10 1 (1.18%) Electronics
10 1 (1.18%) Front Office
10 1 (1.18%) Legal
10 1 (1.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (20.00%) Analyst
1 17 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 10 (11.76%) Administrator
2 10 (11.76%) Lead
3 9 (10.59%) Senior
4 8 (9.41%) PMO Analyst
5 5 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Engagement Manager
5 5 (5.88%) VMWare Administrator
5 5 (5.88%) Wintel Administrator
6 4 (4.71%) Data Analyst
6 4 (4.71%) DevOps Administrator
6 4 (4.71%) Senior Manager
6 4 (4.71%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (3.53%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Junior
7 3 (3.53%) Lead Project Manager
7 3 (3.53%) Resource Management Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (3.53%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) LDAP
2 3 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.18%) ADO
3 1 (1.18%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.71%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.35%) PMI
4 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.18%) EPoS
5 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.76%) Windows
2 9 (10.59%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.88%) Linux
3 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (4.71%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (41.18%) Project Management
2 32 (37.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (24.71%) Decision-Making
4 20 (23.53%) Agile
5 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (22.35%) Project Delivery
6 16 (18.82%) Risk Management
7 14 (16.47%) Change Management
7 14 (16.47%) Waterfall
8 13 (15.29%) Project Planning
9 12 (14.12%) DevOps
9 12 (14.12%) PRINCE2
9 12 (14.12%) Project Governance
10 11 (12.94%) Budget Management
11 10 (11.76%) ITIL
11 10 (11.76%) Programme Management
12 9 (10.59%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (9.41%) Commercial Awareness
13 8 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.24%) SQL
2 5 (5.88%) Python
3 3 (3.53%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.18%) Bash
5 1 (1.18%) Groovy
5 1 (1.18%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 22 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.29%) Degree
2 13 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.41%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.53%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (2.35%) APMP
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.35%) ISEB
5 2 (2.35%) PMP
6 1 (1.18%) CISA
6 1 (1.18%) CISM
6 1 (1.18%) CISSP
6 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.18%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.18%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.65%) PMO
2 5 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.88%) QA
2 5 (5.88%) SLA
3 4 (4.71%) GDPR
3 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.71%) NIST
4 3 (3.53%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (3.53%) P3O
5 2 (2.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.35%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 5 (5.88%) Hyper-V
1 5 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.53%) Docker
3 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
1 5 (5.88%) NetApp OnCommand
1 5 (5.88%) vCenter Server
1 5 (5.88%) vMotion
1 5 (5.88%) WSUS
2 4 (4.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.53%) Ansible
3 3 (3.53%) Grafana
3 3 (3.53%) Terraform
4 2 (2.35%) Kustomize
4 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.88%) Red Hat
2 5 (5.88%) VMware
3 4 (4.71%) NetApp
3 4 (4.71%) Oracle
4 3 (3.53%) SAP
4 3 (3.53%) Splunk
5 2 (2.35%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.35%) Databricks
6 1 (1.18%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.18%) Genesys
6 1 (1.18%) Google
6 1 (1.18%) Informatica
6 1 (1.18%) NEC
6 1 (1.18%) Niku
6 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.18%) Veeam