Resource Management Job Trends in the South East

Resource Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Resource Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 258 274
Rank change year-on-year +17 +16 +91
Permanent jobs citing Resource Management 29 48 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.28% 0.53% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.61% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 23 25 13
10th Percentile £55,200 - £40,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £47,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -38.71% +19.23%
75th Percentile £101,250 £65,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £67,500 £87,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Resource Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,324 7,915 7,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.21% 88.16% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,975 3,773 5,421
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Resource Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Resource Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Resource Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Resource Management
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Resource Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Resource Management

Resource Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Resource Management in the South East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Resource Management in the South East

Resource Management
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Resource Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Surrey +7 10 £100,000 +66.67% 1
Thames Valley +14 9 £75,000 +76.47% 11
Buckinghamshire +12 7 £75,000 - 7
Hampshire +12 4 £55,000 +15.79% 6
East Sussex +8 2 £65,000 - 2
Middlesex - 2 - -
Berkshire - 2 £95,000 - 3
West Sussex - 1 - - 1
Resource Management
England

Resource Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) HCL Domino
1 3 (10.34%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) Azure Key Vault
3 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
3 6 (20.69%) GitHub
3 6 (20.69%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) LAN
1 7 (24.14%) SD-WAN
1 7 (24.14%) Unified Communications
1 7 (24.14%) VoIP
1 7 (24.14%) VPN
1 7 (24.14%) WAN
1 7 (24.14%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.45%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.90%) Power BI
1 2 (6.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Git
1 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Telecoms
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Legal
5 3 (10.34%) Advertising
5 3 (10.34%) Billing
6 1 (3.45%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Lead
2 7 (24.14%) Head of IT
2 7 (24.14%) Head of IT Operations
2 7 (24.14%) Head of Operations
2 7 (24.14%) IT Manager
3 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Contracts Manager
4 4 (13.79%) Service Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (10.34%) IT Operations Manager
5 3 (10.34%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 3 (10.34%) IT Services Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Operations Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Service Delivery Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Software Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Head of Business Systems
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Project Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Business Change Project Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) ARM Templates
2 3 (10.34%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Operational Technology
2 6 (20.69%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (20.69%) Management Information System
2 6 (20.69%) Onboarding
3 4 (13.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) VMS
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (48.28%) ITIL
3 13 (44.83%) DevOps
3 13 (44.83%) Service Delivery
4 12 (41.38%) Budget Management
5 11 (37.93%) Budgeting
6 10 (34.48%) ITSM
6 10 (34.48%) Service Management
7 9 (31.03%) Business Continuity
7 9 (31.03%) Data Protection
8 8 (27.59%) High Availability
8 8 (27.59%) Line Management
8 8 (27.59%) Project Management
9 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (24.14%) ERP
9 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Management
9 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Transformation
9 7 (24.14%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) Bash
2 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.34%) Python
4 2 (6.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Degree
1 11 (37.93%) PMI Certification
1 11 (37.93%) PMP
2 7 (24.14%) AWS Certification
2 7 (24.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Azure Certification
2 7 (24.14%) CCNP
2 7 (24.14%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (24.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) NIST
2 4 (13.79%) SLA
3 3 (10.34%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (10.34%) ISO 9001
3 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (10.34%) QA
4 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
2 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) Ceph
3 1 (3.45%) Lustre
3 1 (3.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Terraform
2 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (62.07%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) IBM
3 3 (10.34%) Lotus
4 1 (3.45%) Planview