Resource Management Job Trends

Resource Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs 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 523 481 473
Rank change year-on-year -42 -8 +124
Permanent jobs citing Resource Management 131 224 257
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.42% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.46% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 72 131 200
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,775 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% +4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £97,500 £71,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,550 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +35.10% -4.76% -20.75%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Resource Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Resource Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Resource Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Resource Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Resource Management

Resource Management
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Resource Management in the UK

Resource Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Resource Management within the UK 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
England -7 120 £75,000 +25.00% 75
UK excluding London -23 77 £67,550 +35.10% 73
London +50 50 £80,000 +6.67% 11
Work from Home +53 48 £90,000 +50.00% 58
South East +17 29 £75,000 +57.89% 26
North of England -18 20 £55,000 +10.00% 13
Yorkshire -3 11 £78,000 +17.74% 6
Midlands +11 9 £41,500 -17.00% 16
South West +3 8 £41,250 -25.00% 4
Scotland +3 7 £67,550 +12.58% 5
North West -17 7 £50,000 +2.56% 6
West Midlands +10 6 £44,543 -10.91% 12
East Midlands -7 3 £40,750 - 4
East of England +17 2 £80,000 +23.57% 8
North East - 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1

Resource Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (3.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.29%) HCL Domino
2 3 (2.29%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.53%) Confluence
3 2 (1.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.53%) Weka
5 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Primavera
2 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (29.77%) Azure
2 32 (24.43%) AWS
3 13 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (9.92%) Pulumi
4 9 (6.87%) GitHub
4 9 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (6.11%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.34%) GCP
7 6 (4.58%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (4.58%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.82%) SaaS
9 3 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.53%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.53%) Slack
11 1 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.76%) Canva
11 1 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.69%) Broadband
2 7 (5.34%) LAN
2 7 (5.34%) SD-WAN
2 7 (5.34%) Unified Communications
2 7 (5.34%) VoIP
2 7 (5.34%) VPN
2 7 (5.34%) WAN
2 7 (5.34%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (3.05%) Firewall
4 3 (2.29%) DHCP
4 3 (2.29%) DNS
5 2 (1.53%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.76%) Internet
6 1 (0.76%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.45%) RDBMS
1 15 (11.45%) Relational Database
2 13 (9.92%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.34%) Power BI
4 6 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.82%) Star Schema
6 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (9.92%) Jaeger
2 9 (6.87%) Git
3 7 (5.34%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.82%) JIRA
5 4 (3.05%) JUnit
5 4 (3.05%) Maven
5 4 (3.05%) Mockito
6 1 (0.76%) Selenium
6 1 (0.76%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (0.76%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (41.22%) Finance
2 48 (36.64%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (7.63%) Legal
6 9 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (6.87%) Telecoms
7 8 (6.11%) Financial Institution
7 8 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.05%) Retail
9 3 (2.29%) Advertising
9 3 (2.29%) Billing
9 3 (2.29%) Law
9 3 (2.29%) Marketing
10 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.53%) Banking
10 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.53%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.76%) German Language
11 1 (0.76%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (27.48%) Lead
2 14 (10.69%) IT Manager
3 11 (8.40%) Project Manager
4 9 (6.87%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (6.87%) Senior
5 8 (6.11%) Analyst
5 8 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (6.11%) IT Analyst
6 7 (5.34%) Head of Infrastructure
6 7 (5.34%) Head of IT
6 7 (5.34%) Head of IT Operations
6 7 (5.34%) Head of Operations
6 7 (5.34%) IT Support
6 7 (5.34%) IT Support Analyst
6 7 (5.34%) Support Analyst
7 6 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.58%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.58%) Planning Manager
7 6 (4.58%) Project Coordinator
7 6 (4.58%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.92%) Elastic Stack
1 13 (9.92%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (5.34%) ARM Templates
3 5 (3.82%) REST
4 4 (3.05%) EDI
5 2 (1.53%) .NET
6 1 (0.76%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (0.76%) CSS
6 1 (0.76%) HTML
6 1 (0.76%) HTML5
6 1 (0.76%) React
6 1 (0.76%) SPFx
6 1 (0.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.79%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.34%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.34%) Operational Technology
2 7 (5.34%) Renewable Energy
3 6 (4.58%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.53%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.76%) AS400
8 1 (0.76%) Clustering
8 1 (0.76%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.76%) iSeries
8 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.76%) PMI
8 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.50%) Linux
2 13 (9.92%) Unix
3 12 (9.16%) Windows
4 7 (5.34%) VMS
5 4 (3.05%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.29%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.76%) Android
7 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.35%) Agile
2 43 (32.82%) DevOps
3 37 (28.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (25.95%) Project Management
5 33 (25.19%) Budget Management
6 32 (24.43%) Service Delivery
7 30 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (22.90%) High Availability
8 27 (20.61%) Containerisation
9 26 (19.85%) ITIL
10 24 (18.32%) Mentoring
11 23 (17.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (15.27%) Task Automation
13 19 (14.50%) Roadmaps
14 17 (12.98%) Budget Control
14 17 (12.98%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (12.98%) Project Delivery
15 15 (11.45%) Computer Science
15 15 (11.45%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (11.45%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (21.37%) Bash
2 24 (18.32%) Python
3 19 (14.50%) Java
4 15 (11.45%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.92%) Go
5 13 (9.92%) SQL
6 12 (9.16%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.82%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.05%) C
8 4 (3.05%) R
9 2 (1.53%) C#
9 2 (1.53%) COBOL
10 1 (0.76%) Bicep
10 1 (0.76%) C++
10 1 (0.76%) PHP
10 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (25.19%) Degree
2 27 (20.61%) AWS Certification
3 14 (10.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 14 (10.69%) Azure Certification
3 14 (10.69%) PMI Certification
4 13 (9.92%) PMP
5 11 (8.40%) Master's Degree
6 9 (6.87%) Security Cleared
7 8 (6.11%) SC Cleared
8 7 (5.34%) CCNP
8 7 (5.34%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (3.05%) HNC
9 4 (3.05%) HND
10 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.76%) APMG
11 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.74%) PMO
2 10 (7.63%) QA
3 8 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (6.11%) NIST
4 5 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.82%) SLA
5 3 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.29%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.53%) P3O
7 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.76%) COBIT
7 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 27 (20.61%) Docker
2 10 (7.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.29%) vSphere
5 2 (1.53%) Ceph
5 2 (1.53%) Lustre
5 2 (1.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (19.08%) Kubernetes
2 24 (18.32%) Terraform
3 15 (11.45%) Ansible
3 15 (11.45%) Prometheus
4 13 (9.92%) Argo
4 13 (9.92%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.53%) Grafana
6 1 (0.76%) Autotask
6 1 (0.76%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 47 (35.88%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.92%) Google
3 7 (5.34%) Cisco
4 5 (3.82%) Oracle
5 4 (3.05%) VMware
6 3 (2.29%) IBM
6 3 (2.29%) Lotus
6 3 (2.29%) SAP
7 2 (1.53%) NEC
7 2 (1.53%) Planview
7 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.76%) Aderant
8 1 (0.76%) ConnectWise
8 1 (0.76%) Databricks
8 1 (0.76%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.76%) Huawei
8 1 (0.76%) iManage
8 1 (0.76%) Intapp
8 1 (0.76%) RedGate
8 1 (0.76%) Workday