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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 371 445
Rank change year-on-year +30 +74 +43
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 215 203 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.52% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.61% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 143 167
10th Percentile £313 £363 £298
25th Percentile £406 £450 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £626 £615 £688
90th Percentile £713 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £20.59 - £24.04
25th Percentile £23.89 £18.35 £28.15
Median hourly rate £31.64 £20.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.20% -42.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £30.87 £36.88
90th Percentile £32.70 £51.16 £38.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £20.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +58.20% -42.86% +7.69%

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 29,988 33,146 46,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.50% 85.48% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,666 21,203 31,824
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,727 1,822 1,504
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.25 £18.55
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% -1.35% +56.60%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.54 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.92 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.07% +13.33% +70.45%

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 16 August 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 16 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Resource Management in the UK

Resource Management
Top 15 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 16 August 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 +12 180 £520 -1.00% 167
UK excluding London +18 116 £500 -4.76% 109
Work from Home +26 71 £475 -8.65% 76
London +5 70 £575 +15.00% 87
South East +34 33 £550 -5.29% 30
Midlands -4 30 £506 -15.63% 18
North of England -1 27 £413 -22.17% 21
West Midlands +2 26 £520 -13.38% 12
Yorkshire 0 20 £413 -27.47% 7
Scotland -8 11 £447 +5.18% 13
East of England +14 8 £575 +170.59% 10
South West +4 7 £525 +3.45% 7
North West -4 7 £438 -17.45% 11
East Midlands -1 4 £450 -7.69% 6
Wales +3 2 £525 -4.55% 7

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 15 (6.98%) Confluence
2 6 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 21 (9.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (9.77%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (5.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.79%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.93%) Actimize
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.93%) Primavera
2 2 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) iTrent
3 1 (0.47%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.47%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.63%) Azure
2 20 (9.30%) AWS
3 13 (6.05%) Power Platform
4 10 (4.65%) GCP
5 6 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.33%) SaaS
6 5 (2.33%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (1.86%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.86%) Serverless
7 4 (1.86%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.40%) GitHub
8 3 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.40%) IaaS
8 3 (1.40%) PaaS
9 2 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.93%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.44%) Firewall
2 6 (2.79%) DNS
2 6 (2.79%) VPN
3 4 (1.86%) DHCP
3 4 (1.86%) Network Security
3 4 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.40%) SSL
5 1 (0.47%) HTTP
5 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.58%) Power BI
2 6 (2.79%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.40%) ClickHouse
5 3 (1.40%) Tableau
6 2 (0.93%) Big Data
6 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.47%) DTS
7 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.47%) MS Access
7 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.47%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 20 (9.30%) JIRA
2 6 (2.79%) Git
3 5 (2.33%) GitLab
4 4 (1.86%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.40%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.47%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.47%) Locust
6 1 (0.47%) Postman
6 1 (0.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 91 (42.33%) Social Skills
2 90 (41.86%) Finance
3 37 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.56%) Banking
5 21 (9.77%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.65%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.72%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.26%) Law
9 7 (3.26%) Legal
9 7 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.79%) Front Office
10 6 (2.79%) Retail
11 4 (1.86%) Back Office
12 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.93%) Billing
13 2 (0.93%) German Language
13 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (20.47%) Project Manager
2 31 (14.42%) Analyst
3 25 (11.63%) Lead
4 20 (9.30%) Senior
5 15 (6.98%) Delivery Manager
6 12 (5.58%) Test Manager
7 10 (4.65%) Business Analyst
8 8 (3.72%) Developer
8 8 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.72%) Infrastructure Manager
8 8 (3.72%) Infrastructure Test Manager
8 8 (3.72%) PMO Analyst
9 7 (3.26%) IT Manager
9 7 (3.26%) Senior Manager
10 6 (2.79%) Administrator
10 6 (2.79%) Engagement Manager
10 6 (2.79%) PMO Manager
10 6 (2.79%) Project Analyst
11 5 (2.33%) Service Delivery Manager
11 5 (2.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.19%) RFC 2544
2 6 (2.79%) .NET
3 5 (2.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 4 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.40%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.40%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.40%) React
6 2 (0.93%) CSS
6 2 (0.93%) Dapper ORM
6 2 (0.93%) FHIR
6 2 (0.93%) HTML
6 2 (0.93%) HTML5
6 2 (0.93%) LESS
6 2 (0.93%) Node.js
6 2 (0.93%) REST
6 2 (0.93%) Sass
6 2 (0.93%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (0.47%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.47%) OAuth
7 1 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.37%) Management Information System
2 16 (7.44%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.33%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.86%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.86%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.93%) CMDB
8 2 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.93%) Life Science
8 2 (0.93%) PKI
8 2 (0.93%) PMI
9 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.65%) Windows
2 5 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.86%) Linux
4 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (39.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 69 (32.09%) Project Management
3 57 (26.51%) Agile
4 52 (24.19%) Project Delivery
4 52 (24.19%) Risk Management
5 50 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (18.60%) Waterfall
7 38 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (17.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 36 (16.74%) Budget Management
9 34 (15.81%) Decision-Making
10 28 (13.02%) Change Management
11 25 (11.63%) DevOps
11 25 (11.63%) PRINCE2
11 25 (11.63%) Resource Allocation
12 24 (11.16%) Project Governance
13 21 (9.77%) Project Planning
14 19 (8.84%) Programme Management
14 19 (8.84%) Service Management
15 18 (8.37%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.91%) Python
2 15 (6.98%) SQL
3 9 (4.19%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.26%) C#
5 3 (1.40%) Bash
5 3 (1.40%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.40%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.40%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.93%) Bicep
7 1 (0.47%) Groovy
7 1 (0.47%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 52 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.21%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.70%) Degree
4 21 (9.77%) PMI Certification
5 20 (9.30%) PMP
6 12 (5.58%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.33%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.40%) APMP
9 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.40%) ISEB
9 3 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.93%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.93%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.42%) PMO
2 25 (11.63%) QA
3 13 (6.05%) SLA
4 6 (2.79%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.79%) GDPR
4 6 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.33%) NIST
6 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.40%) P3O
6 3 (1.40%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.93%) GxP
7 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.93%) HL7
7 2 (0.93%) MiFID
7 2 (0.93%) NCSC
7 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.33%) Docker
3 4 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.47%) DRBD
Systems Management
1 12 (5.58%) Terraform
2 8 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.86%) Ansible
3 4 (1.86%) Grafana
4 2 (0.93%) Kustomize
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.93%) NetApp OnCommand
4 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.93%) Puppet
4 2 (0.93%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.93%) vMotion
4 2 (0.93%) WSUS
5 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.47%) Rsyslog
5 1 (0.47%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.05%) SAP
3 11 (5.12%) Oracle
4 9 (4.19%) Cisco
5 5 (2.33%) Google
6 4 (1.86%) Ariba
6 4 (1.86%) Splunk
7 3 (1.40%) Databricks
7 3 (1.40%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.93%) Planview
8 2 (0.93%) Spotify
8 2 (0.93%) VMware
8 2 (0.93%) Workday
9 1 (0.47%) Citrix
9 1 (0.47%) Informatica
9 1 (0.47%) NEC
9 1 (0.47%) Niku