Human Resource Management Contracts

Human Resource Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Human Resource Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Human Resource Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 561 676
Rank change year-on-year +47 +115 +164
Contract jobs citing Human Resource Management 20 24 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.056% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.065% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 7
10th Percentile £425 £350 £329
25th Percentile £449 £505 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £614 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +19.85% +57.69%
75th Percentile £510 £625 £538
90th Percentile £738 - £563
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +122.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.11 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Human 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,864 36,803 49,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.90% 85.25% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,568 23,445 34,342
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,367 2,552 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.40 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.91 £61.30 £64.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Human Resource Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Human Resource Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Human Resource Management in the UK

Human Resource Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Human Resource Management.

Daily rate trend for Human Resource Management in the UK

Human Resource Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Human Resource Management over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Human Resource Management in the UK

Human Resource Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Human Resource Management.

Hourly rate trend for Human Resource Management in the UK

Human Resource Management
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Human Resource Management within the UK over the 6 months to 30 June 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
England +47 13 £608 -1.96% 68
UK excluding London +43 12 £495 -1.00% 36
Work from Home +36 10 £505 -19.20% 15
London +44 8 £725 +16.00% 34
Scotland +10 7 £500 +145.10%
South East +55 3 £490 - 5
West Midlands - 2 £538 - 9
Midlands - 2 £538 - 11

Human Resource Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (30.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (5.00%) SAP CRM
2 1 (5.00%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) OCI
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle CX
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Google Sheets
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Analyst
1 8 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) PMO Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analytics Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) HR Officer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Procurement Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Programme Director
5 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Middleware
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) CRM
1 7 (35.00%) Logistics
1 7 (35.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (30.00%) Business Case
2 6 (30.00%) ERP
2 6 (30.00%) SOA
3 5 (25.00%) Analytics
3 5 (25.00%) Information Management
4 4 (20.00%) Business Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) Programme Governance
4 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) Budgeting
5 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.00%) Business Process Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Business Process Modelling
5 3 (15.00%) Cost Management
5 3 (15.00%) Resource Management
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) CIPD
4 1 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) MAPM
4 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) SAP
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) Google