Resource Allocation Jobs

Resource Allocation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Resource Allocation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Resource Allocation over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 562 748
Rank change year-on-year +36 +186 +175
Permanent jobs citing Resource Allocation 188 376 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.37% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.44% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 96 287 143
10th Percentile £46,625 £32,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -17.24% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £73,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% -27.59% +26.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Resource Allocation 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Allocation in the UK

Resource Allocation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Resource Allocation.

Salary trend for Resource Allocation in the UK

Resource Allocation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Resource Allocation in the UK

Resource Allocation
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Resource Allocation within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -14 159 £65,000 +8.33% 925
UK excluding London +41 110 £57,500 +9.52% 825
London +100 61 £82,500 +13.79% 197
Work from Home +8 57 £60,000 - 349
North of England +5 29 £55,000 -4.35% 179
South East +76 27 £59,000 -12.59% 240
South West +123 19 £50,000 -28.57% 99
Yorkshire +58 17 £71,250 +26.67% 73
Midlands -39 13 £52,500 +5.00% 145
North West -24 10 £55,000 -10.20% 83
West Midlands +11 9 £50,000 - 80
Scotland +116 6 - - 41
East of England +12 6 £62,500 +25.00% 122
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 10
Wales +49 4 £65,000 -10.34% 17
East Midlands +9 4 £68,500 +44.21% 57
North East +41 2 - - 24
Channel Islands - 1 - - 1

Resource Allocation
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 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.66%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) Apache
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (9.57%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (6.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (3.19%) SAP Business One
2 2 (1.06%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.06%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.53%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.53%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.77%) Azure
2 11 (5.85%) AWS
3 9 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.72%) GCP
5 6 (3.19%) SaaS
6 5 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.66%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.13%) Smartsheet
7 4 (2.13%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.60%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.60%) IaaS
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.06%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.06%) Datadog
9 2 (1.06%) GitHub
9 2 (1.06%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.19%) Network Security
2 3 (1.60%) Firewall
3 2 (1.06%) DNS
3 2 (1.06%) LAN
3 2 (1.06%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.06%) VPN
3 2 (1.06%) WAN
4 1 (0.53%) DHCP
4 1 (0.53%) NAS
4 1 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.19%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.66%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.66%) Power BI
3 4 (2.13%) Hadoop
3 4 (2.13%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.53%) Big Data
4 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.53%) DTS
4 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.53%) Metadata
4 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (10.11%) JIRA
2 3 (1.60%) Git
3 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.53%) Ant
4 1 (0.53%) Postman
General
1 99 (52.66%) Social Skills
2 65 (34.57%) Finance
3 55 (29.26%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.30%) Retail
5 16 (8.51%) Banking
5 16 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (8.51%) Law
5 16 (8.51%) Legal
6 9 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (4.79%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.19%) Automotive
7 6 (3.19%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.19%) Marketing
7 6 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.66%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.13%) Electronics
9 4 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.60%) Avionics
11 2 (1.06%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.06%) Finnish Language
Job Titles
1 55 (29.26%) Project Manager
2 33 (17.55%) Senior
3 25 (13.30%) Lead
4 22 (11.70%) Senior Manager
5 21 (11.17%) IT Manager
5 21 (11.17%) Senior Project Manager
6 11 (5.85%) Analyst
7 9 (4.79%) Programme Manager
7 9 (4.79%) Software Project Manager
7 9 (4.79%) Technical Director
8 8 (4.26%) Portfolio Manager
8 8 (4.26%) Software Manager
9 7 (3.72%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (3.72%) Head of Delivery
9 7 (3.72%) Senior Software Project Manager
10 6 (3.19%) Developer
11 5 (2.66%) Data Manager
11 5 (2.66%) IT Project Manager
11 5 (2.66%) Programmer
11 5 (2.66%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.13%) .NET
1 4 (2.13%) EDI
1 4 (2.13%) REST
1 4 (2.13%) SOAP
2 3 (1.60%) Web Services
3 2 (1.06%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.06%) OAuth
3 2 (1.06%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.53%) MACH
4 1 (0.53%) Middleware
4 1 (0.53%) XML
4 1 (0.53%) XSD
4 1 (0.53%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.04%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (6.91%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.38%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.79%) Renewable Energy
4 9 (4.79%) SCADA
4 9 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.26%) Animation
5 8 (4.26%) Photography
5 8 (4.26%) Podcast
6 7 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.72%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.19%) PMI
8 5 (2.66%) Credit Risk
8 5 (2.66%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (2.13%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.13%) Market Risk
9 4 (2.13%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.13%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.85%) Windows
2 8 (4.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.53%) Linux
3 1 (0.53%) VMS
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (64.89%) Project Management
2 66 (35.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (31.38%) Agile
4 56 (29.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 56 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (28.72%) Project Delivery
6 41 (21.81%) Risk Management
7 36 (19.15%) PRINCE2
8 35 (18.62%) Analytics
9 34 (18.09%) Strategic Planning
10 33 (17.55%) Decision-Making
11 32 (17.02%) Budget Management
12 27 (14.36%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
12 27 (14.36%) Mentoring
13 26 (13.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 24 (12.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 24 (12.77%) Project Planning
14 24 (12.77%) SDLC
15 23 (12.23%) Business Strategy
15 23 (12.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.79%) SQL
2 5 (2.66%) Python
3 4 (2.13%) Java
4 3 (1.60%) C#
4 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.06%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.06%) SOQL
6 1 (0.53%) PHP
6 1 (0.53%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 58 (30.85%) Degree
2 26 (13.83%) PMI Certification
3 21 (11.17%) PMP
4 15 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.72%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.66%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 5 (2.66%) SAP Certification
7 4 (2.13%) ISEB
7 4 (2.13%) MCSA
7 4 (2.13%) MCSE
7 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 4 (2.13%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.60%) CFA
8 3 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.60%) MBA
8 3 (1.60%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.17%) PMO
2 19 (10.11%) QA
3 5 (2.66%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.13%) SLA
5 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.53%) P3O
System Software
1 8 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.53%) Squid
3 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
1 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.53%) HAProxy
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.53%) SCVMM
2 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (20.74%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.45%) SAP
3 12 (6.38%) YouTube
4 9 (4.79%) Facebook
4 9 (4.79%) Oracle
5 7 (3.72%) Google
6 4 (2.13%) Databricks
6 4 (2.13%) Teradata
6 4 (2.13%) VMware
7 3 (1.60%) Murex
7 3 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.06%) FIS
8 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.06%) Splunk
9 1 (0.53%) Adyen
9 1 (0.53%) Foundry
9 1 (0.53%) Palantir
9 1 (0.53%) Planview
9 1 (0.53%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.53%) Veeam