Resource Allocation Contracts

Resource Allocation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 452 576
Rank change year-on-year +123 +124 +141
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 197 148 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.39% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 102 98
10th Percentile £316 £301 £369
25th Percentile £419 £359 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £672 £567 £700
90th Percentile £758 £600 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 7
10th Percentile - £16.80 £18.35
25th Percentile £20.45 £22.34 £30.19
Median hourly rate £31.35 £23.00 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +36.28% -38.34% -11.19%
75th Percentile £46.30 £30.16 £50.25
90th Percentile - - £55.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.30 £25.00 £37.30
% change year-on-year +85.20% -32.98% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Allocation in the UK

Resource Allocation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Resource Allocation in the UK

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in the UK

Resource Allocation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Resource Allocation in the UK

Resource Allocation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Resource Allocation over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Resource Allocation in the UK

Resource Allocation
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +100 157 £525 +5.00% 258
London +67 87 £550 +4.76% 129
UK excluding London +60 79 £500 +6.67% 146
Work from Home +59 62 £500 +8.11% 125
North of England +42 25 £510 +19.97% 36
South East +39 17 £500 -2.44% 36
Scotland +17 15 £450 +12.50% 14
North West +18 13 £520 +22.29% 23
Midlands +16 10 £396 -16.74% 22
South West +47 8 £388 -22.50% 17
Yorkshire +22 8 £500 - 10
West Midlands +8 7 £400 -17.95% 16
North East +3 4 £650 - 3
East of England +32 3 £800 +39.13% 18
East Midlands +9 2 £346 -2.68% 5
Wales +1 1 £450 +38.46% 5

Resource Allocation
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 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.03%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 26 (13.20%) Microsoft Project
2 18 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (6.09%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (4.57%) Trello
6 3 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.03%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.52%) Workday HCM
4 2 (1.02%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (1.02%) Misys Midas
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.51%) Primavera
5 1 (0.51%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.51%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 17 (8.63%) AWS
2 14 (7.11%) Azure
3 8 (4.06%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.55%) Asana
5 6 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.05%) Google Workspace
5 6 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.54%) GCP
6 5 (2.54%) GitHub
7 4 (2.03%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.02%) OCI
9 2 (1.02%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.51%) Apigee
10 1 (0.51%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.05%) Firewall
2 3 (1.52%) VPN
3 2 (1.02%) BIG-IP
3 2 (1.02%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (1.02%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (1.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (1.02%) LAN
3 2 (1.02%) WAN
4 1 (0.51%) ADSL
4 1 (0.51%) Intranet
4 1 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) PSTN
4 1 (0.51%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.06%) Power BI
2 5 (2.54%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.54%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.03%) Big Data
4 2 (1.02%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.02%) Tableau
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.51%) Looker
5 1 (0.51%) MS Access
5 1 (0.51%) QlikView
5 1 (0.51%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 16 (8.12%) JIRA
2 6 (3.05%) GitLab
3 2 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.02%) Selenium
4 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.51%) Git
4 1 (0.51%) JBehave
4 1 (0.51%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.51%) Subversion
4 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.51%) WebDriver
General
1 94 (47.72%) Social Skills
2 84 (42.64%) Finance
3 46 (23.35%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.17%) Legal
5 14 (7.11%) Banking
5 14 (7.11%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (6.60%) Local Government
7 10 (5.08%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.55%) Back Office
9 6 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.03%) Retail
12 3 (1.52%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.52%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.52%) Marketing
12 3 (1.52%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 75 (38.07%) Project Manager
2 19 (9.64%) IT Manager
2 19 (9.64%) Lead
3 15 (7.61%) IT Project Manager
3 15 (7.61%) Programme Manager
4 11 (5.58%) SAP Manager
5 8 (4.06%) Analyst
5 8 (4.06%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (4.06%) Technical Manager
6 7 (3.55%) Senior
6 7 (3.55%) Senior Manager
7 6 (3.05%) Coordinator
7 6 (3.05%) Data Manager
7 6 (3.05%) Project Coordinator
7 6 (3.05%) Project Planner
7 6 (3.05%) SAP Project Manager
7 6 (3.05%) Senior Project Manager
7 6 (3.05%) Technical Project Manager
8 5 (2.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (2.54%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.52%) ADO
3 1 (0.51%) CSS
3 1 (0.51%) HTML
3 1 (0.51%) PySpark
3 1 (0.51%) REST
3 1 (0.51%) RFC 2544
3 1 (0.51%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.51%) SOAP
3 1 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.12%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.57%) PMI
3 8 (4.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.06%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.06%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.54%) Life Science
5 4 (2.03%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.52%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.52%) NHS
6 3 (1.52%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.02%) Derivative
7 2 (1.02%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.51%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.54%) Windows
2 2 (1.02%) Linux
2 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (58.88%) Project Management
2 75 (38.07%) Risk Management
3 69 (35.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 56 (28.43%) Agile
5 54 (27.41%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (24.87%) Project Delivery
7 41 (20.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (19.29%) Budget Management
9 37 (18.78%) Change Management
9 37 (18.78%) PRINCE2
10 32 (16.24%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
11 31 (15.74%) Decision-Making
12 28 (14.21%) Waterfall
13 27 (13.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (12.69%) Programme Management
15 23 (11.68%) Migration
16 21 (10.66%) Budgeting
17 20 (10.15%) Analytics
17 20 (10.15%) Project Planning
18 19 (9.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.08%) SQL
2 3 (1.52%) Java
3 2 (1.02%) Python
4 1 (0.51%) Bash
4 1 (0.51%) C++
4 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.51%) R
4 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (23.35%) Degree
2 43 (21.83%) PMI Certification
3 41 (20.81%) PMP
4 18 (9.14%) Security Cleared
5 16 (8.12%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.06%) Master's Degree
8 7 (3.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 3 (1.52%) CISA
10 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.02%) ISEB
11 1 (0.51%) APMG
11 1 (0.51%) CISM
11 1 (0.51%) CISSP
11 1 (0.51%) HNC
11 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.51%) PCI QSA
11 1 (0.51%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.66%) QA
2 20 (10.15%) PMO
3 7 (3.55%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.55%) GDPR
4 4 (2.03%) NIST
4 4 (2.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.52%) COBIT
5 3 (1.52%) COSO
5 3 (1.52%) GxP
5 3 (1.52%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.02%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.51%) MiFID
7 1 (0.51%) P3O
7 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.02%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (1.02%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.02%) Terraform
2 1 (0.51%) Ansible
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.51%) Podman
2 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (12.18%) SAP
2 23 (11.68%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.11%) Oracle
4 11 (5.58%) Ariba
5 10 (5.08%) Google
6 6 (3.05%) Workday
7 5 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.03%) Cisco
8 4 (2.03%) F5
8 4 (2.03%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.52%) Adobe
9 3 (1.52%) Liquidlogic
9 3 (1.52%) Pega
10 2 (1.02%) Aruba
10 2 (1.02%) Citrix
10 2 (1.02%) Imperva
10 2 (1.02%) Planview
10 2 (1.02%) VMware
11 1 (0.51%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.51%) Wallstreet Suite