Resource Management Contracts

Resource Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 348 446
Rank change year-on-year -7 +98 +20
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 171 242 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.56% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.64% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 146 190
10th Percentile £325 £319 £286
25th Percentile £414 £433 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £510 £516
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -1.16% -0.77%
75th Percentile £636 £616 £624
90th Percentile £690 £719 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -6.39% -2.38% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 3
10th Percentile £21.90 - £17.36
25th Percentile £29.00 £18.35 £18.84
Median hourly rate £31.64 £26.66 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% +25.16% -34.46%
75th Percentile £33.75 £26.73 £43.15
90th Percentile - £35.00 £56.26
UK excluding London 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

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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Resource Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Management in the UK

Resource Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Resource Management in the UK

Resource Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Management in the UK

Resource Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Resource Management in the UK

Resource Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Resource Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Resource Management in the UK

Resource Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +14 151 £507 -3.38% 319
UK excluding London -4 78 £480 -6.39% 241
London +40 72 £525 +2.44% 108
Work from Home +13 54 £500 +8.11% 179
North of England +19 22 £417 -24.14% 68
Midlands +9 20 £507 +6.79% 34
South East +32 18 £500 -4.76% 64
West Midlands -1 18 £513 +7.89% 14
North West +21 15 £449 -12.49% 40
East of England +37 8 £430 +102.35% 32
Yorkshire +4 7 £379 -43.89% 20
Scotland -1 7 £480 +19.94% 15
South West +20 3 £525 -0.94% 33
East Midlands - 2 £234 - 15

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 4 (2.34%) Confluence
1 4 (2.34%) IIS
1 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.75%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.58%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.58%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 24 (14.04%) Microsoft Project
2 23 (13.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (8.77%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (7.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.17%) Open Workbench
5 2 (1.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.58%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Primavera
1 2 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.58%) iTrent
2 1 (0.58%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.37%) Azure
2 21 (12.28%) Power Platform
3 18 (10.53%) AWS
4 12 (7.02%) GCP
5 11 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.51%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.92%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.75%) IaaS
8 3 (1.75%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.75%) SaaS
9 2 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.17%) PaaS
9 2 (1.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Asana
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.58%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.51%) DHCP
1 6 (3.51%) DNS
1 6 (3.51%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.92%) Firewall
3 4 (2.34%) LAN
3 4 (2.34%) NAS
3 4 (2.34%) SAN
3 4 (2.34%) WAN
4 3 (1.75%) VPN
5 1 (0.58%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.28%) Power BI
2 7 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.92%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (2.92%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.75%) ClickHouse
5 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.17%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.58%) Big Data
6 1 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.58%) IDMS
6 1 (0.58%) Ingres
6 1 (0.58%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 17 (9.94%) JIRA
2 6 (3.51%) Git
3 5 (2.92%) GitLab
4 4 (2.34%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.75%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.58%) Locust
6 1 (0.58%) Postman
6 1 (0.58%) Subversion
6 1 (0.58%) Terragrunt
General
1 74 (43.27%) Social Skills
2 61 (35.67%) Finance
3 34 (19.88%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.87%) Banking
5 14 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.43%) Financial Institution
6 11 (6.43%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.68%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.68%) Legal
7 8 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (4.09%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.51%) Back Office
9 6 (3.51%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.92%) Law
10 5 (2.92%) Local Government
10 5 (2.92%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.92%) Retail
11 4 (2.34%) Billing
11 4 (2.34%) Marketing
12 3 (1.75%) German Language
Job Titles
1 27 (15.79%) Project Manager
2 24 (14.04%) Analyst
3 19 (11.11%) Senior
4 18 (10.53%) Lead
5 10 (5.85%) PMO Analyst
6 8 (4.68%) Administrator
6 8 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (4.09%) Architect
7 7 (4.09%) Delivery Manager
7 7 (4.09%) Developer
7 7 (4.09%) PMO Manager
8 6 (3.51%) Business Manager
8 6 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (3.51%) Resource Management Analyst
9 5 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (2.92%) C# Developer
9 5 (2.92%) Facilities Manager
9 5 (2.92%) Facilities Project Manager
9 5 (2.92%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 5 (2.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.92%) .NET
1 5 (2.92%) ASP.NET Web API
2 4 (2.34%) LDAP
3 3 (1.75%) ASP.NET
3 3 (1.75%) CSS
3 3 (1.75%) HTML
3 3 (1.75%) REST
4 2 (1.17%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.17%) Dapper ORM
4 2 (1.17%) HTML5
4 2 (1.17%) LESS
4 2 (1.17%) Node.js
4 2 (1.17%) React
4 2 (1.17%) RFC 2544
4 2 (1.17%) Sass
4 2 (1.17%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.58%) ADO
5 1 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.36%) Onboarding
2 13 (7.60%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.43%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.92%) NHS
6 4 (2.34%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.34%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.34%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.75%) BYOD
7 3 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.75%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.75%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.17%) CMDB
8 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.17%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.17%) PKI
8 2 (1.17%) PMI
8 2 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.19%) Windows
2 10 (5.85%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.68%) Linux
4 4 (2.34%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
5 1 (0.58%) VyOS
5 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (29.82%) Project Management
4 40 (23.39%) Risk Management
5 36 (21.05%) Agile
6 33 (19.30%) Budget Management
7 31 (18.13%) Project Delivery
8 27 (15.79%) Decision-Making
9 26 (15.20%) DevOps
10 25 (14.62%) Change Management
10 25 (14.62%) Roadmaps
11 24 (14.04%) Business Case
12 22 (12.87%) Project Governance
13 20 (11.70%) Waterfall
14 19 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (11.11%) PRINCE2
15 17 (9.94%) Infrastructure as Code
16 16 (9.36%) Project Planning
17 15 (8.77%) Programme Management
17 15 (8.77%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.77%) Python
2 14 (8.19%) SQL
3 7 (4.09%) C#
4 6 (3.51%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.92%) Bash
6 4 (2.34%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.75%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.17%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.58%) Groovy
9 1 (0.58%) Java
Qualifications
1 29 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.79%) Degree
3 22 (12.87%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.43%) PMI Certification
4 11 (6.43%) PMP
5 7 (4.09%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.92%) HNC
8 3 (1.75%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.75%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.17%) APMP
9 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.17%) ISEB
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.58%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.54%) PMO
2 15 (8.77%) QA
3 8 (4.68%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.09%) SLA
5 3 (1.75%) GDPR
5 3 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.75%) P3O
5 3 (1.75%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.17%) GRC
6 2 (1.17%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.17%) NCSC
6 2 (1.17%) NIST
7 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.58%) GxP
7 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.51%) Docker
2 6 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.34%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (8.77%) Terraform
2 10 (5.85%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.09%) Ansible
4 5 (2.92%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (2.34%) NetApp OnCommand
5 4 (2.34%) vMotion
5 4 (2.34%) WSUS
6 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.17%) Puppet
7 1 (0.58%) Cloudify
7 1 (0.58%) Grafana
Vendors
1 45 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.68%) Oracle
2 8 (4.68%) Red Hat
2 8 (4.68%) SAP
2 8 (4.68%) VMware
3 7 (4.09%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.51%) Databricks
4 6 (3.51%) Google
5 5 (2.92%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.34%) NetApp
7 3 (1.75%) Cisco
8 2 (1.17%) Adobe
8 2 (1.17%) Genesys
9 1 (0.58%) Ariba
9 1 (0.58%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.58%) Citrix
9 1 (0.58%) Juniper
9 1 (0.58%) NEC
9 1 (0.58%) Planview