Resource Management Contracts

Resource Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Resource Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Resource Management over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 439 471
Rank change year-on-year +90 +32 +17
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 243 274 436
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.46% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.51% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 185 301
10th Percentile £320 £280 £363
25th Percentile £435 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% - +10.27%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £650
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £518 £480
% change year-on-year -0.97% +7.73% +11.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile - £17.36 £22.35
25th Percentile £18.35 £18.84 £28.88
Median hourly rate £26.66 £21.30 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.16% -34.46% -30.11%
75th Percentile £26.73 £43.15 £34.75
90th Percentile £35.00 £56.26 £38.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £43.15 £32.50
% change year-on-year -38.22% +32.77% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Resource Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +83 197 £525 +3.96% 120
UK excluding London +58 148 £513 -0.97% 90
Work from Home +105 82 £463 -11.90% 56
London +99 70 £513 +7.89% 37
South East -13 34 £550 +6.28% 28
West Midlands +44 33 £475 -5.00% 4
Midlands +39 33 £475 -5.00% 10
South West +39 29 £530 +3.41% 14
North of England +25 22 £550 - 16
Scotland +37 21 £400 -11.11% 16
North West +29 11 £513 +36.67% 9
Yorkshire +15 11 £675 +28.57% 5
Wales - 6 £400 - 3
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East of England +8 1 £213 -67.31% 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 9 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.47%) Confluence
2 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.06%) CMS
4 4 (1.65%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.65%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.65%) SAP PS
3 3 (1.23%) SAP HR
3 3 (1.23%) SAP MRS
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.82%) Primavera
4 2 (0.82%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.82%) SAP IS-U
4 2 (0.82%) Shopify
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.41%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.82%) Azure
2 14 (5.76%) GCP
2 14 (5.76%) Power Platform
3 11 (4.53%) Google Compute Engine
3 11 (4.53%) Vertex AI
4 10 (4.12%) AWS
5 7 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.88%) SaaS
6 6 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.06%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.65%) Azure Storage
9 3 (1.23%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.82%) GitHub
10 2 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.82%) OCI
10 2 (0.82%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.41%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.05%) Firewall
2 10 (4.12%) VPN
3 8 (3.29%) Network Security
4 7 (2.88%) LAN
4 7 (2.88%) WAN
5 6 (2.47%) MPLS
5 6 (2.47%) PBX
5 6 (2.47%) SD-WAN
5 6 (2.47%) VoIP
5 6 (2.47%) WLAN
6 5 (2.06%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (2.06%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (2.06%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (2.06%) DHCP
6 5 (2.06%) DNS
6 5 (2.06%) Internet
7 4 (1.65%) Skype
8 2 (0.82%) CTI
8 2 (0.82%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.94%) BigQuery
2 11 (4.53%) Power BI
3 5 (2.06%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.65%) Redis
5 3 (1.23%) Metadata
6 2 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.82%) GIS
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.41%) Parquet
7 1 (0.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (4.12%) JIRA
2 5 (2.06%) GitLab
3 4 (1.65%) Selenium
4 3 (1.23%) Git
5 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.41%) GoCD
6 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 90 (37.04%) Finance
2 76 (31.28%) Social Skills
3 39 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.35%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.53%) Banking
8 9 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.29%) Marketing
9 8 (3.29%) Military
10 7 (2.88%) Legal
10 7 (2.88%) Retail
11 6 (2.47%) Local Government
11 6 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.06%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.65%) Back Office
14 3 (1.23%) Billing
15 2 (0.82%) Automotive
16 1 (0.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (25.93%) Project Manager
2 30 (12.35%) Analyst
3 25 (10.29%) Architect
4 23 (9.47%) Senior
5 17 (7.00%) Network Engineer
5 17 (7.00%) PMO Analyst
6 13 (5.35%) Lead
7 12 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (4.94%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.12%) Consultant
9 9 (3.70%) Programme Manager
9 9 (3.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 9 (3.70%) Senior Manager
9 9 (3.70%) Senior Project Manager
10 7 (2.88%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (2.88%) IT Manager
10 7 (2.88%) IT Project Manager
10 7 (2.88%) PMO Officer
10 7 (2.88%) SOC Manager
11 6 (2.47%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.70%) Web Services
2 5 (2.06%) YAML
3 4 (1.65%) pytest
3 4 (1.65%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.23%) GraphQL
4 3 (1.23%) Kafka
5 2 (0.82%) JSON
5 2 (0.82%) Middleware
5 2 (0.82%) REST
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.41%) ATL
6 1 (0.41%) JSON Schema
6 1 (0.41%) Node.js
6 1 (0.41%) PySpark
6 1 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.88%) Data Centre
2 17 (7.00%) Private Cloud
3 13 (5.35%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 7 (2.88%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (2.88%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (2.47%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.65%) Blackberry
7 4 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.82%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (0.82%) NHS
8 2 (0.82%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.82%) PMI
8 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.82%) SCADA
9 1 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.47%) Linux
2 4 (1.65%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.65%) Windows
3 3 (1.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (28.81%) Project Management
2 64 (26.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 53 (21.81%) Risk Management
4 46 (18.93%) Agile
5 42 (17.28%) Project Delivery
6 37 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (13.17%) Analytics
8 31 (12.76%) Budget Management
9 30 (12.35%) Programme Management
10 25 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
11 24 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (9.47%) Decision-Making
12 23 (9.47%) Waterfall
13 22 (9.05%) Migration
14 20 (8.23%) Change Management
15 19 (7.82%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (7.82%) Mentoring
15 19 (7.82%) Project Planning
16 18 (7.41%) ITIL
17 17 (7.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.23%) Python
2 14 (5.76%) Bash
3 3 (1.23%) ABAP
4 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.82%) SQL
5 1 (0.41%) C
5 1 (0.41%) Java
5 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.41%) PHP
5 1 (0.41%) Scala
5 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.99%) Degree
3 26 (10.70%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.76%) PMI Certification
5 13 (5.35%) PMP
6 9 (3.70%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.47%) CCIE
7 6 (2.47%) CCIE Data Center
7 6 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.47%) CISM
7 6 (2.47%) CISSP
8 5 (2.06%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 3 (1.23%) APMG
10 3 (1.23%) NVQ Level 4
10 3 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.82%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (16.46%) PMO
2 25 (10.29%) QA
3 10 (4.12%) SLA
4 7 (2.88%) NIST
4 7 (2.88%) NIST 800
5 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.23%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.82%) COBIT
7 2 (0.82%) GDPR
7 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.41%) GRC
System Software
1 22 (9.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (7.41%) vSphere
3 5 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.65%) Docker
5 3 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.41%) Ceph
6 1 (0.41%) NFS
Systems Management
1 21 (8.64%) Terraform
2 13 (5.35%) vCenter Server
3 8 (3.29%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.65%) Grafana
4 4 (1.65%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.23%) Ansible
6 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.41%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.41%) Mesos
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.41%) Packer
6 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.05%) VMware
3 18 (7.41%) SAP
4 12 (4.94%) Oracle
5 10 (4.12%) Cisco
6 6 (2.47%) Palo Alto
6 6 (2.47%) Zscaler
7 5 (2.06%) Cadence
7 5 (2.06%) CheckPoint
7 5 (2.06%) Citrix
7 5 (2.06%) Infoblox
7 5 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.06%) Symantec
8 4 (1.65%) Becrypt
9 3 (1.23%) Dell
9 3 (1.23%) Sparx
10 1 (0.41%) Ariba
10 1 (0.41%) EMC
10 1 (0.41%) Planview
10 1 (0.41%) Salesforce