Resource Allocation Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Resource Allocation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 292 401
Rank change year-on-year +36 +109 +120
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 63 49 53
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.61% 0.36% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.42% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 34 37
10th Percentile £225 £355 £380
25th Percentile £359 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% -
75th Percentile £659 £569 £625
90th Percentile £683 £646 £700
UK median daily rate £463 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -11.06% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £22.03 -
25th Percentile £20.45 £25.08 -
Median hourly rate £22.04 £30.16 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% - -
75th Percentile £23.63 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £24.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +19.05% -49.16% +3.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,410 11,795 20,536
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.80% 87.25% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,340 7,953 14,463
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 432 494
10th Percentile £12.62 £16.63 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.77 £30.16 £25.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.66 £75.00 £78.93
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

Resource Allocation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Resource Allocation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Resource Allocation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Resource Allocation.

Resource Allocation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Resource Allocation over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Resource Allocation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Resource Allocation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Resource Allocation.

Resource Allocation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Resource Allocation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (3.17%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) MS Project Server
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (17.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (15.87%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (7.94%) Trello
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Teamcenter
1 1 (1.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.94%) AWS
1 5 (7.94%) Azure
2 4 (6.35%) Asana
2 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
2 4 (6.35%) SaaS
3 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.59%) GCP
4 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) Firewall
2 2 (3.17%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.59%) DNS
3 1 (1.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) Power BI
1 4 (6.35%) Tableau
2 1 (1.59%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.59%) Selenium
General
1 35 (55.56%) Finance
2 34 (53.97%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Banking
3 10 (15.87%) Legal
4 9 (14.29%) Back Office
5 4 (6.35%) Local Government
6 3 (4.76%) General Ledger
6 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.59%) Billing
8 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.59%) Front Office
8 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (38.10%) Project Manager
2 7 (11.11%) Analyst
2 7 (11.11%) Lead
3 4 (6.35%) Coordinator
3 4 (6.35%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (6.35%) Project Coordinator
3 4 (6.35%) Senior
3 4 (6.35%) Senior Manager
4 3 (4.76%) Change Manager
4 3 (4.76%) Programme Manager
4 3 (4.76%) Project Change Manager
4 3 (4.76%) Senior Project Manager
4 3 (4.76%) Support Officer
5 2 (3.17%) Banking Project Manager
5 2 (3.17%) Business Analyst
5 2 (3.17%) Delivery Project Manager
5 2 (3.17%) IT Manager
5 2 (3.17%) QA Manager
5 2 (3.17%) Test Leader
5 2 (3.17%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) .NET
2 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.59%) React
2 1 (1.59%) REST
2 1 (1.59%) RFC 2544
2 1 (1.59%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) PMI
2 5 (7.94%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.76%) Mainframe
3 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.76%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.17%) Life Science
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.59%) AS400
5 1 (1.59%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.59%) iSeries
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) NHS
5 1 (1.59%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (57.14%) Project Management
2 24 (38.10%) Project Delivery
3 22 (34.92%) Risk Management
4 20 (31.75%) Agile
4 20 (31.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (20.63%) Budget Management
7 11 (17.46%) Decision-Making
7 11 (17.46%) Waterfall
8 10 (15.87%) Change Management
8 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (15.87%) Scrum
9 9 (14.29%) Resource Management
10 8 (12.70%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
10 8 (12.70%) Demand Management
10 8 (12.70%) PRINCE2
10 8 (12.70%) Programme Management
11 7 (11.11%) Analytics
11 7 (11.11%) Business Case
11 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.17%) Java
2 1 (1.59%) C++
2 1 (1.59%) COBOL
2 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.59%) Python
2 1 (1.59%) RPG
2 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (28.57%) PMI Certification
2 15 (23.81%) PMP
3 13 (20.63%) Degree
4 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.17%) BC Cleared
6 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.59%) APMG
7 1 (1.59%) CFA
7 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.59%) PCI QSA
7 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.59%) VCAP
7 1 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.46%) QA
2 10 (15.87%) PMO
3 2 (3.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (3.17%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.59%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) PowerCLI
1 1 (1.59%) Terraform
1 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.11%) SAP
3 3 (4.76%) Ariba
3 3 (4.76%) Cisco
3 3 (4.76%) F5
4 2 (3.17%) Aruba
4 2 (3.17%) Imperva
4 2 (3.17%) Pega
4 2 (3.17%) Workday
5 1 (1.59%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.59%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.59%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.59%) Databricks
5 1 (1.59%) FNZ
5 1 (1.59%) IBM
5 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.59%) Siemens
5 1 (1.59%) VMware