Resource Management Contracts

Resource Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Resource Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Resource Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 431 461
Rank change year-on-year +85 +30 +48
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 228 269 437
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.47% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.53% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 189 301
10th Percentile £348 £311 £363
25th Percentile £422 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £616 £650 £650
90th Percentile £739 £790 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile - £25.67 £25.25
25th Percentile £18.35 £32.23 -
Median hourly rate £26.66 £43.15 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.22% +32.77% -21.29%
75th Percentile £26.73 £54.08 £39.25
90th Percentile £35.00 £60.63 £42.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £43.15 £32.50
% change year-on-year -38.22% +32.77% +150.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Resource Management 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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Resource Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Resource Management in the UK

Resource Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Resource Management in the UK

Resource Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Management in the UK

Resource Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Resource Management in the UK

Resource Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Resource Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Resource Management in the UK

Resource Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Resource Management within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +79 187 £525 +2.94% 98
UK excluding London +29 136 £510 -2.86% 63
Work from Home +92 75 £500 - 38
London +93 66 £525 +10.53% 45
Midlands +31 30 £475 -7.32% 9
South West +24 30 £525 -2.33% 9
South East -11 30 £525 -0.94% 19
West Midlands +32 29 £475 -7.32% 5
North of England +25 20 £550 +4.76% 11
Scotland +38 17 £400 -11.11% 8
North West +23 11 £513 +5.45% 7
Yorkshire +9 9 £700 +27.27% 4
Wales - 6 £413 - 3
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East Midlands +13 1 - - 4
East of England -1 1 £213 -67.31% 6

Resource Management
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 6 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.19%) CMS
2 5 (2.19%) Confluence
2 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.75%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.75%) SAP PS
3 3 (1.32%) SAP HR
3 3 (1.32%) SAP MRS
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.88%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.88%) SAP IS-U
4 2 (0.88%) Shopify
5 1 (0.44%) Endur
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.44%) Primavera
5 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (6.58%) Azure
2 14 (6.14%) GCP
3 11 (4.82%) Google Compute Engine
3 11 (4.82%) Vertex AI
4 10 (4.39%) AWS
5 9 (3.95%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.19%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.75%) Azure Storage
8 4 (1.75%) SaaS
9 3 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.32%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.88%) GitHub
10 2 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.44%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.44%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.09%) Firewall
2 10 (4.39%) VPN
3 8 (3.51%) Network Security
4 7 (3.07%) LAN
4 7 (3.07%) WAN
5 6 (2.63%) MPLS
5 6 (2.63%) PBX
5 6 (2.63%) SD-WAN
5 6 (2.63%) VoIP
5 6 (2.63%) WLAN
6 5 (2.19%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (2.19%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (2.19%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (2.19%) DHCP
6 5 (2.19%) DNS
6 5 (2.19%) Internet
7 4 (1.75%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (1.75%) Skype
8 2 (0.88%) 4G
8 2 (0.88%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 9 (3.95%) Power BI
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.75%) Redis
4 2 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (0.88%) GIS
4 2 (0.88%) Metadata
5 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.44%) Parquet
5 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (3.51%) JIRA
2 5 (2.19%) GitLab
3 4 (1.75%) Selenium
4 3 (1.32%) Git
5 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.44%) GoCD
6 1 (0.44%) Terragrunt
General
1 83 (36.40%) Finance
2 73 (32.02%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.14%) Telecoms
6 12 (5.26%) Banking
7 11 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.51%) Military
10 7 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.07%) Marketing
11 6 (2.63%) Legal
12 5 (2.19%) Local Government
12 5 (2.19%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.75%) Back Office
13 4 (1.75%) Retail
14 3 (1.32%) Billing
15 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
16 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (26.32%) Project Manager
2 29 (12.72%) Analyst
3 24 (10.53%) Senior
4 20 (8.77%) Architect
5 17 (7.46%) Network Engineer
5 17 (7.46%) PMO Analyst
6 14 (6.14%) Lead
7 12 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.39%) Senior Manager
9 9 (3.95%) Consultant
9 9 (3.95%) Programme Manager
9 9 (3.95%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 9 (3.95%) Senior Project Manager
10 7 (3.07%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (3.07%) SOC Manager
11 6 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.63%) GCP Architect
11 6 (2.63%) IT Project Manager
11 6 (2.63%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.95%) Web Services
2 5 (2.19%) YAML
3 4 (1.75%) pytest
4 3 (1.32%) GraphQL
4 3 (1.32%) Kafka
4 3 (1.32%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.88%) JSON
5 2 (0.88%) Middleware
5 2 (0.88%) REST
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.44%) JSON Schema
6 1 (0.44%) Node.js
6 1 (0.44%) PySpark
6 1 (0.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.40%) Data Centre
2 18 (7.89%) Private Cloud
3 13 (5.70%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 7 (3.07%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (3.07%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (1.75%) Blackberry
6 4 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.32%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (0.88%) IoT
8 2 (0.88%) NB-IoT
8 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.88%) PMI
8 2 (0.88%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.88%) SCADA
9 1 (0.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.63%) Linux
2 4 (1.75%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (26.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 60 (26.32%) Project Management
3 49 (21.49%) Risk Management
4 43 (18.86%) Agile
5 40 (17.54%) Project Delivery
6 30 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (12.72%) Budget Management
7 29 (12.72%) Programme Management
8 27 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (11.40%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (10.53%) Analytics
11 21 (9.21%) Migration
12 19 (8.33%) Change Management
12 19 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (8.33%) Mentoring
12 19 (8.33%) Service Delivery
13 18 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 18 (7.89%) Project Planning
14 17 (7.46%) ITIL
14 17 (7.46%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.77%) Python
2 14 (6.14%) Bash
3 3 (1.32%) ABAP
4 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.88%) SQL
5 1 (0.44%) C
5 1 (0.44%) Java
5 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.44%) PHP
5 1 (0.44%) Scala
5 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 31 (13.60%) Degree
3 27 (11.84%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.26%) PMI Certification
5 12 (5.26%) PMP
6 9 (3.95%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.63%) CCIE
7 6 (2.63%) CCIE Data Center
7 6 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.63%) CISM
7 6 (2.63%) CISSP
8 5 (2.19%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 3 (1.32%) APMG
10 3 (1.32%) NVQ Level 4
10 3 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.44%) APMP
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.23%) PMO
2 23 (10.09%) QA
3 9 (3.95%) SLA
4 7 (3.07%) NIST
4 7 (3.07%) NIST 800
5 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.88%) COBIT
7 2 (0.88%) GDPR
7 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 23 (10.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (8.33%) vSphere
3 5 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.75%) Docker
5 3 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.32%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.44%) Ceph
6 1 (0.44%) NFS
Systems Management
1 21 (9.21%) Terraform
2 13 (5.70%) vCenter Server
3 8 (3.51%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.75%) Grafana
4 4 (1.75%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.32%) Ansible
6 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.44%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.44%) Mesos
6 1 (0.44%) Packer
6 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (11.40%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.09%) VMware
3 16 (7.02%) SAP
4 10 (4.39%) Oracle
5 9 (3.95%) Cisco
6 7 (3.07%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.19%) Cadence
7 5 (2.19%) CheckPoint
7 5 (2.19%) Citrix
7 5 (2.19%) Infoblox
7 5 (2.19%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.19%) Symantec
7 5 (2.19%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.75%) Becrypt
9 3 (1.32%) Dell
10 2 (0.88%) Sparx
11 1 (0.44%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.44%) Capita
11 1 (0.44%) Databricks
11 1 (0.44%) Workday