Resource Allocation Contracts

Resource Allocation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Resource Allocation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Resource Allocation over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 562 719
Rank change year-on-year +122 +157 -184
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 153 141 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.26% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 101 87
10th Percentile £302 £369 £308
25th Percentile £361 £450 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +25.63%
75th Percentile £570 £700 £631
90th Percentile £626 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -6.25% +7.53% +47.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 4
10th Percentile £16.80 £18.35 £39.08
25th Percentile £22.34 £30.19 £40.31
Median hourly rate £23.00 £37.30 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.34% -11.19% +46.09%
75th Percentile £30.16 £50.25 £43.00
90th Percentile - £55.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £37.30 -
% change year-on-year -32.98% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Resource Allocation 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 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Resource Allocation in the UK

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in the UK

Resource Allocation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Resource Allocation in the UK

Resource Allocation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Resource Allocation over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Resource Allocation in the UK

Resource Allocation
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Resource Allocation within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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 +136 123 £500 -9.09% 181
UK excluding London +64 74 £469 -6.25% 124
London +98 58 £525 -19.23% 57
Work from Home +133 54 £463 -22.92% 78
South East +16 22 £513 -3.30% 25
Midlands +44 18 £475 +216.67% 39
West Midlands +37 15 £488 +225.00% 24
North of England +19 11 £425 -33.33% 26
Scotland +38 7 £400 -11.11% 8
South West +21 6 £500 -6.98% 18
North West +6 6 £425 -33.33% 12
East of England +15 5 £513 +20.59% 7
Wales +21 4 £325 -16.67% 2
East Midlands - 3 £355 - 15
Yorkshire +18 1 - - 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - - 5

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 4 (2.61%) Confluence
1 4 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.65%) Anypoint
Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (4.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.31%) Primavera
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.65%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.65%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.65%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.65%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.42%) Azure
2 9 (5.88%) WhatsApp
3 5 (3.27%) AWS
4 3 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.96%) SaaS
5 2 (1.31%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.65%) Azure API Management
6 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.65%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.65%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.65%) GCP
6 1 (0.65%) Serverless
6 1 (0.65%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.92%) VPN
2 4 (2.61%) LAN
2 4 (2.61%) Network Security
2 4 (2.61%) WAN
3 2 (1.31%) Firewall
3 2 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.31%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.31%) MS Access
1 2 (1.31%) Power BI
2 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.65%) DB2
2 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) Selenium
General
1 76 (49.67%) Social Skills
2 56 (36.60%) Finance
3 27 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.84%) Manufacturing
5 10 (6.54%) Retail
6 7 (4.58%) Banking
7 6 (3.92%) Local Government
8 5 (3.27%) Legal
8 5 (3.27%) Marketing
8 5 (3.27%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.96%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.31%) Dutch Language
11 2 (1.31%) Front Office
11 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.31%) Law
11 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.65%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 70 (45.75%) Project Manager
2 18 (11.76%) Lead
3 17 (11.11%) IT Manager
4 12 (7.84%) IT Project Manager
5 9 (5.88%) Coordinator
5 9 (5.88%) Project Coordinator
6 8 (5.23%) Analyst
7 7 (4.58%) Technical Manager
8 6 (3.92%) Technical Project Manager
9 5 (3.27%) PMO Lead
9 5 (3.27%) Portfolio Manager
9 5 (3.27%) Programme Manager
9 5 (3.27%) Security Manager
9 5 (3.27%) Senior
10 4 (2.61%) Architect
10 4 (2.61%) Consultant
10 4 (2.61%) ERP Manager
11 3 (1.96%) ERP Project Manager
11 3 (1.96%) Security Project Manager
11 3 (1.96%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.65%) GraphQL
1 1 (0.65%) Middleware
1 1 (0.65%) Node.js
1 1 (0.65%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.65%) SAP PI
1 1 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.61%) Data Centre
1 4 (2.61%) Management Information System
2 3 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (1.96%) Biopharmaceutical
2 3 (1.96%) FMCG
2 3 (1.96%) Robotics
2 3 (1.96%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.31%) CCTV
3 2 (1.31%) Mainframe
3 2 (1.31%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.31%) Replication
3 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.65%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (0.65%) EPoS
4 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.65%) LPAR
4 1 (0.65%) PMI
4 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.65%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.96%) Windows
2 2 (1.31%) Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (58.82%) Project Management
2 51 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (24.84%) Risk Management
4 36 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (22.88%) Project Delivery
6 31 (20.26%) Budget Management
7 30 (19.61%) Agile
7 30 (19.61%) Project Planning
8 28 (18.30%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
9 23 (15.03%) PRINCE2
10 20 (13.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (11.76%) Change Management
12 16 (10.46%) Programme Management
13 13 (8.50%) Scrum
14 12 (7.84%) Resource Management
15 11 (7.19%) Decision-Making
15 11 (7.19%) ERP
15 11 (7.19%) ITIL
15 11 (7.19%) Project Governance
15 11 (7.19%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.96%) Java
1 3 (1.96%) SQL
2 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (15.69%) Degree
1 24 (15.69%) PMP
2 23 (15.03%) PMI Certification
3 11 (7.19%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.23%) CISSP
4 8 (5.23%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.61%) CCNP
6 4 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (1.96%) CCNA
7 3 (1.96%) CISM
7 3 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.65%) CEH
9 1 (0.65%) CIMA
9 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.65%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.73%) QA
2 16 (10.46%) PMO
3 6 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.61%) SLA
5 3 (1.96%) GDPR
6 2 (1.31%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.31%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.65%) COBIT
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.65%) EMIR
7 1 (0.65%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.65%) GRC
7 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.65%) NIST
7 1 (0.65%) P3O
7 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.65%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.84%) SAP
3 7 (4.58%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.92%) VMware
5 3 (1.96%) Oracle
6 2 (1.31%) Ariba
6 2 (1.31%) Facebook
6 2 (1.31%) Google
6 2 (1.31%) Instagram
6 2 (1.31%) Laserfiche
6 2 (1.31%) NEC
7 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.65%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.65%) BT
7 1 (0.65%) Citrix
7 1 (0.65%) Databricks
7 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.65%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.65%) TikTok