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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 430 476
Rank change year-on-year +67 +46 +38
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 224 261 419
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.46% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.52% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 195 291
10th Percentile £363 £280 £363
25th Percentile £435 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £650
90th Percentile £730 £790 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +12.68%
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% -21.42%
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% +19.57%

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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +70 187 £525 - 134
UK excluding London +14 130 £513 -2.38% 94
Work from Home +95 72 £508 -3.33% 55
London +101 70 £525 +3.96% 45
South West +28 31 £525 - 8
South East -35 29 £463 -12.74% 27
Midlands +33 28 £500 -2.44% 15
West Midlands +23 27 £500 -2.44% 8
North of England +16 18 £550 - 27
Scotland +35 15 £400 -11.11% 11
Yorkshire +16 9 £700 +16.67% 10
North West +11 9 £513 -6.82% 13
Wales +23 6 £413 - 1
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East Midlands +10 1 - - 7
East of England +3 1 £213 -67.31% 8

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 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.23%) CMS
2 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.79%) Confluence
3 4 (1.79%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.34%) SAP HR
2 3 (1.34%) SAP MRS
2 3 (1.34%) SAP PS
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.89%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.89%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.45%) Endur
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.45%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 16 (7.14%) Azure
2 15 (6.70%) GCP
3 11 (4.91%) AWS
3 11 (4.91%) Google Compute Engine
3 11 (4.91%) Vertex AI
4 9 (4.02%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.23%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.79%) Azure Storage
7 4 (1.79%) SaaS
8 3 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.34%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.45%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.45%) Commercetools
9 1 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.27%) Firewall
2 10 (4.46%) VPN
3 7 (3.13%) LAN
3 7 (3.13%) Network Security
3 7 (3.13%) WAN
4 6 (2.68%) MPLS
4 6 (2.68%) PBX
4 6 (2.68%) SD-WAN
4 6 (2.68%) VoIP
4 6 (2.68%) WLAN
5 5 (2.23%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (2.23%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (2.23%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (2.23%) DHCP
5 5 (2.23%) DNS
5 5 (2.23%) Internet
6 4 (1.79%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (1.79%) Skype
7 2 (0.89%) 4G
7 2 (0.89%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.36%) BigQuery
2 9 (4.02%) Power BI
3 4 (1.79%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.79%) Redis
4 2 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (0.89%) GIS
4 2 (0.89%) Metadata
5 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.45%) Flink
5 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (3.57%) JIRA
2 5 (2.23%) GitLab
3 4 (1.79%) Selenium
4 3 (1.34%) Git
5 2 (0.89%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.45%) GoCD
6 1 (0.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (37.95%) Finance
2 70 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 12 (5.36%) Banking
7 9 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.57%) Military
9 7 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.13%) Marketing
10 6 (2.68%) Legal
10 6 (2.68%) Local Government
11 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.79%) Back Office
12 4 (1.79%) Retail
13 3 (1.34%) Billing
14 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (28.13%) Project Manager
2 28 (12.50%) Analyst
3 22 (9.82%) Senior
4 18 (8.04%) Architect
5 17 (7.59%) Network Engineer
6 16 (7.14%) PMO Analyst
7 15 (6.70%) Lead
8 12 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (5.36%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (4.91%) Senior Manager
10 10 (4.46%) Consultant
10 10 (4.46%) Programme Manager
11 9 (4.02%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Senior Project Manager
12 7 (3.13%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (3.13%) IT Manager
12 7 (3.13%) IT Project Manager
12 7 (3.13%) SOC Manager
13 6 (2.68%) Coordinator
13 6 (2.68%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.13%) Web Services
2 4 (1.79%) pytest
2 4 (1.79%) YAML
3 3 (1.34%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (0.89%) Kafka
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.45%) Google JAX
5 1 (0.45%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.45%) JSON
5 1 (0.45%) JSON Schema
5 1 (0.45%) Middleware
5 1 (0.45%) Node.js
5 1 (0.45%) PySpark
5 1 (0.45%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.45%) RESTful
5 1 (0.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.61%) Data Centre
2 18 (8.04%) Private Cloud
3 11 (4.91%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 7 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.79%) Blackberry
7 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.89%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (0.89%) IoT
8 2 (0.89%) NB-IoT
8 2 (0.89%) PMI
8 2 (0.89%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.89%) SCADA
9 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.68%) Linux
2 4 (1.79%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (26.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 59 (26.34%) Project Management
3 51 (22.77%) Risk Management
4 44 (19.64%) Agile
5 39 (17.41%) Project Delivery
6 31 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (13.39%) Budget Management
8 29 (12.95%) Programme Management
9 26 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (10.27%) Analytics
11 22 (9.82%) Service Delivery
12 21 (9.38%) Migration
13 19 (8.48%) Change Management
13 19 (8.48%) Mentoring
14 18 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 18 (8.04%) ITIL
14 18 (8.04%) PRINCE2
15 17 (7.59%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.93%) Python
2 13 (5.80%) Bash
3 3 (1.34%) ABAP
4 2 (0.89%) SQL
5 1 (0.45%) Java
5 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.45%) Julia
5 1 (0.45%) PHP
5 1 (0.45%) Scala
5 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.29%) Degree
3 25 (11.16%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.80%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.80%) PMI Certification
5 13 (5.80%) PMP
6 6 (2.68%) CCIE
6 6 (2.68%) CCIE Data Center
6 6 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.68%) CISM
6 6 (2.68%) CISSP
7 5 (2.23%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 3 (1.34%) APMG
9 3 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.34%) NVQ Level 4
9 3 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.45%) CCNP
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.63%) PMO
2 23 (10.27%) QA
3 9 (4.02%) SLA
4 7 (3.13%) NIST
4 7 (3.13%) NIST 800
5 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.34%) COBIT
6 3 (1.34%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.89%) GDPR
7 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 23 (10.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (8.48%) vSphere
3 5 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.79%) Docker
5 3 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.34%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.45%) Ceph
6 1 (0.45%) NFS
Systems Management
1 19 (8.48%) Terraform
2 13 (5.80%) vCenter Server
3 7 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.79%) Grafana
4 4 (1.79%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) Ansible
5 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.45%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.45%) Mesos
5 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.27%) VMware
3 14 (6.25%) SAP
4 9 (4.02%) Cisco
4 9 (4.02%) Oracle
5 7 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.23%) Cadence
6 5 (2.23%) CheckPoint
6 5 (2.23%) Infoblox
6 5 (2.23%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.23%) Symantec
6 5 (2.23%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.79%) Becrypt
7 4 (1.79%) Citrix
8 3 (1.34%) Dell
9 2 (0.89%) Sparx
10 1 (0.45%) Ariba
10 1 (0.45%) Capita
10 1 (0.45%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.45%) Salesforce