Resource Allocation Job Trends in England

Resource Allocation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Resource Allocation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 455 420
Rank change year-on-year -76 -35 +153
Permanent jobs citing Resource Allocation 220 211 366
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.48% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.55% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 131 93 157
10th Percentile £39,000 £46,800 £31,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +17.39% -7.74%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £103,750 £92,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,769 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.37% +14.38% -7.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71,365 38,632 57,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.35% 88.65% 81.19%
Number of salaries quoted 50,813 22,409 35,446
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,341
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.38% -6.10%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Resource Allocation job vacancy trend in England

Resource Allocation
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Resource Allocation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Resource Allocation

Resource Allocation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation in England over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Resource Allocation in England

Resource Allocation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Resource Allocation within the England region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
South East -25 77 £55,000 -18.52% 37
London -69 70 £80,000 -8.57% 207
North of England -24 40 £50,000 +25.00% 52
Yorkshire -38 25 £50,000 +25.00% 17
North West -5 15 £46,250 -17.78% 30
Midlands -46 14 £40,000 -33.33% 19
East of England -29 9 £45,814 -26.70% 13
South West -83 9 £61,250 +22.50% 27
West Midlands -37 8 £55,000 -8.33% 14
East Midlands -18 6 £40,000 -41.61% 4
Resource Allocation
UK

Resource Allocation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 8 (3.64%) Confluence
2 5 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.36%) CMS
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.91%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (9.55%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.91%) Trello
6 2 (0.91%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Primavera
3 1 (0.45%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG-F
3 1 (0.45%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 39 (17.73%) SaaS
2 37 (16.82%) AWS
3 31 (14.09%) Azure
4 11 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.18%) GCP
8 6 (2.73%) Smartsheet
9 5 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.36%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.91%) Miro
11 2 (0.91%) Slack
11 2 (0.91%) Veeva
12 1 (0.45%) Apigee
12 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.45%) Figma
12 1 (0.45%) IaaS
12 1 (0.45%) Kong
12 1 (0.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.27%) Network Security
2 12 (5.45%) Firewall
3 10 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.73%) Wireless
5 4 (1.82%) VPN
6 1 (0.45%) Broadband
6 1 (0.45%) LAN
6 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.45%) WAN
6 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.00%) Power BI
2 4 (1.82%) Metadata
2 4 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.45%) Db2
3 1 (0.45%) DB2 UDB
3 1 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.45%) QlikView
3 1 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (11.82%) JIRA
2 3 (1.36%) GitLab
2 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.45%) Git
3 1 (0.45%) Postman
3 1 (0.45%) Subversion
3 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 103 (46.82%) Social Skills
2 71 (32.27%) Finance
3 49 (22.27%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (13.64%) Influencing Skills
5 24 (10.91%) Aerospace
6 21 (9.55%) Pharmaceutical
7 17 (7.73%) Military
8 16 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (6.82%) Marketing
9 15 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (6.36%) Manufacturing
10 14 (6.36%) Public Sector
11 11 (5.00%) Banking
12 10 (4.55%) Automotive
12 10 (4.55%) Law
13 9 (4.09%) Legal
14 7 (3.18%) Aviation
14 7 (3.18%) Retail
15 5 (2.27%) Electronics
16 4 (1.82%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 48 (21.82%) Lead
2 25 (11.36%) Developer
2 25 (11.36%) Project Manager
2 25 (11.36%) Software Engineer
3 20 (9.09%) .NET Developer
3 20 (9.09%) .NET Software Developer
3 20 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
3 20 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
3 20 (9.09%) C# Developer
3 20 (9.09%) C# Software Developer
3 20 (9.09%) C# Software Engineer
3 20 (9.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 15 (6.82%) Senior
5 11 (5.00%) Architect
5 11 (5.00%) IT Manager
5 11 (5.00%) Operations Manager
6 9 (4.09%) Lead Architect
6 9 (4.09%) Senior Manager
7 8 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (3.64%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.82%) .NET
2 24 (10.91%) HTML
3 21 (9.55%) CSS
4 20 (9.09%) Vue
5 10 (4.55%) ModSecurity
6 3 (1.36%) Terraform
7 1 (0.45%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.45%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.45%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.45%) JSON
7 1 (0.45%) JWT
7 1 (0.45%) MACH
7 1 (0.45%) REST
7 1 (0.45%) RESTful
7 1 (0.45%) SAML
7 1 (0.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.36%) Management Information System
2 21 (9.55%) Life Science
3 19 (8.64%) Onboarding
4 18 (8.18%) Pharmacovigilance
5 15 (6.82%) Social Media
6 11 (5.00%) PMI
7 10 (4.55%) Data Centre
7 10 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 10 (4.55%) Security Posture
8 9 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (3.18%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.82%) ASIC
10 4 (1.82%) Autonomous Agent
10 4 (1.82%) Blog
10 4 (1.82%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.82%) PropTech
10 4 (1.82%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.36%) NHS
11 3 (1.36%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.27%) Windows
2 3 (1.36%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.91%) Linux
3 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.45%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (59.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 65 (29.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 62 (28.18%) Roadmaps
4 59 (26.82%) Project Management
5 56 (25.45%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
6 55 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (24.55%) Agile
8 45 (20.45%) Change Management
9 43 (19.55%) Decision-Making
10 37 (16.82%) Risk Management
11 35 (15.91%) AI
12 33 (15.00%) Service Delivery
13 32 (14.55%) Project Delivery
13 32 (14.55%) SDLC
13 32 (14.55%) Software Engineering
14 31 (14.09%) PRINCE2
15 30 (13.64%) ITIL
16 27 (12.27%) Service Management
17 24 (10.91%) Customer Engagement
17 24 (10.91%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.82%) C#
2 14 (6.36%) SQL
3 9 (4.09%) Python
4 2 (0.91%) C
4 2 (0.91%) C++
4 2 (0.91%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.45%) Assembly Language
5 1 (0.45%) Bash
5 1 (0.45%) Lua
5 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (33.64%) Degree
2 35 (15.91%) Security Cleared
3 29 (13.18%) PMI Certification
4 23 (10.45%) DV Cleared
5 18 (8.18%) PMP
6 17 (7.73%) SC Cleared
7 13 (5.91%) CISSP
8 11 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (4.55%) CCNP
9 10 (4.55%) Master's Degree
10 7 (3.18%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.27%) MBA
12 4 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.36%) ACCA
13 3 (1.36%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (1.36%) CISA
13 3 (1.36%) CISM
13 3 (1.36%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (18.64%) QA
2 20 (9.09%) SLA
3 18 (8.18%) Good Clinical Practice
3 18 (8.18%) GxP
4 14 (6.36%) Accessibility
5 12 (5.45%) PMO
6 7 (3.18%) GDPR
7 6 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.82%) GRC
8 4 (1.82%) ISO 26262
8 4 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (1.36%) NCSC
9 3 (1.36%) NIST
10 2 (0.91%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.45%) IFRS
11 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.82%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.82%) Docker
2 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.36%) vSphere
3 2 (0.91%) Firmware
3 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (1.82%) Ansible
1 4 (1.82%) Functional Safety
1 4 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.09%) SAP
3 14 (6.36%) Cisco
4 13 (5.91%) Fortinet
5 12 (5.45%) ServiceNow
6 11 (5.00%) Palo Alto
7 10 (4.55%) Oracle
8 6 (2.73%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.82%) VMware
10 3 (1.36%) Pardot
10 3 (1.36%) Sage
11 2 (0.91%) Aruba
11 2 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.91%) Meraki
11 2 (0.91%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.91%) Ruckus Wireless
11 2 (0.91%) Sophos
11 2 (0.91%) Veeam
12 1 (0.45%) Google
12 1 (0.45%) NETGEAR