Inventory Management Contracts in England

Inventory Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Inventory Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Inventory Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 423 468 656
Rank change year-on-year +45 +188 -111
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 119 186 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.37% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.41% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 116 72
10th Percentile £159 £200 £231
25th Percentile £210 £260 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +5.88% +17.24%
75th Percentile £616 £581 £600
90th Percentile £725 £731 £680
UK median daily rate £469 £425 £445
% change year-on-year +10.24% -4.49% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 7
10th Percentile £11.06 £13.29 £17.42
25th Percentile £12.00 £14.87 £18.71
Median hourly rate £17.29 £16.78 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -16.09% +5.26%
75th Percentile £21.50 £18.62 £33.25
90th Percentile £21.51 £19.75 £39.55
UK median hourly rate £16.70 £16.78 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.49% -16.09% -3.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Inventory 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,193 45,529 64,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,105 31,969 45,783
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,592 1,771
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Inventory Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Inventory Management in England

Inventory Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Inventory Management in England

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inventory Management in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in England

Inventory Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Inventory Management in England

Inventory Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inventory Management in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Inventory Management in England

Inventory Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Inventory Management within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
London +67 43 £475 +11.76% 48
North of England +32 24 £450 -13.46% 20
East of England +24 15 £180 -14.29% 14
South East +3 15 £525 +0.96% 21
North West +15 12 £450 - 12
South West +3 9 £700 +250.00% 12
Yorkshire +25 8 £400 -27.27% 6
Midlands +21 8 £180 -63.08% 27
West Midlands +19 5 £180 -64.00% 15
East Midlands +14 2 £160 -47.11% 12
North East - 1 - - 2
Inventory Management
UK

Inventory Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.84%) CMS
3 1 (0.84%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (21.01%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (10.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.04%) SAP MM
3 4 (3.36%) SAP ERP
3 4 (3.36%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
3 4 (3.36%) SAP Retail
4 3 (2.52%) SAP EWM
5 2 (1.68%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.84%) Maximo
6 1 (0.84%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.84%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.84%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.84%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.84%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.84%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.84%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.84%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.61%) Azure
2 13 (10.92%) Dynamics 365
2 13 (10.92%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (5.04%) OneDrive
4 3 (2.52%) AWS
4 3 (2.52%) Google Workspace
4 3 (2.52%) SaaS
4 3 (2.52%) Slack
4 3 (2.52%) Zapier
5 1 (0.84%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (0.84%) Collibra
5 1 (0.84%) GitHub
5 1 (0.84%) OCI
5 1 (0.84%) PaaS
5 1 (0.84%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.88%) Internet
1 7 (5.88%) Wireless
2 4 (3.36%) Network Security
2 4 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.52%) BGP
3 3 (2.52%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (2.52%) DHCP
3 3 (2.52%) IOS XR
3 3 (2.52%) VPN
3 3 (2.52%) WAN
4 2 (1.68%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.68%) LAN
4 2 (1.68%) MPLS
4 2 (1.68%) VLAN
5 1 (0.84%) DNS
5 1 (0.84%) DWDM
5 1 (0.84%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.84%) RFID
5 1 (0.84%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.84%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.52%) Couchbase
2 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.68%) Metadata
3 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.68%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.84%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.84%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.84%) Power BI
4 1 (0.84%) Redis
4 1 (0.84%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.36%) JIRA
2 2 (1.68%) Hudson
3 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (56.30%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.97%) Retail
4 17 (14.29%) Finance
5 12 (10.08%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (8.40%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.04%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.20%) Marketing
8 5 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.20%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.36%) French Language
10 2 (1.68%) Automotive
10 2 (1.68%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (1.68%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.68%) Legal
10 2 (1.68%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.68%) Portuguese Language
10 2 (1.68%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (20.17%) Consultant
2 17 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 16 (13.45%) Analyst
3 16 (13.45%) Lead
4 12 (10.08%) Desktop Support
5 8 (6.72%) Architect
5 8 (6.72%) Functional Consultant
5 8 (6.72%) IT Engineer
6 7 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
6 7 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 7 (5.88%) Senior
7 6 (5.04%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) 1st Line Support
8 5 (4.20%) Desktop Analyst
8 5 (4.20%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 5 (4.20%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Project Manager
8 5 (4.20%) SAP Consultant
8 5 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.20%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.36%) Kafka
2 3 (2.52%) Django
2 3 (2.52%) JSON
2 3 (2.52%) REST
2 3 (2.52%) RESTful
2 3 (2.52%) YANG
3 1 (0.84%) .NET
3 1 (0.84%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.84%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.84%) BAPI
3 1 (0.84%) EDI
3 1 (0.84%) IDoc
3 1 (0.84%) NgRx
3 1 (0.84%) Node.js
3 1 (0.84%) SAP ALE
3 1 (0.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.56%) Management Information System
1 9 (7.56%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.20%) CMDB
2 5 (4.20%) iPad
2 5 (4.20%) iPhone
3 4 (3.36%) Smartphone
4 3 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.68%) NHS
5 2 (1.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.84%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.33%) Windows
2 14 (11.76%) Windows 10
3 10 (8.40%) Apple iOS
4 6 (5.04%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.52%) Android
5 3 (2.52%) Linux
6 2 (1.68%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.84%) Unix
7 1 (0.84%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.84%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (19.33%) Customer Service
3 21 (17.65%) Logistics
4 18 (15.13%) Asset Management
4 18 (15.13%) Supply Chain Management
5 15 (12.61%) Service Management
6 14 (11.76%) Migration
7 13 (10.92%) Data Migration
7 13 (10.92%) Project Management
8 12 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (9.24%) Time Management
9 11 (9.24%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (8.40%) ERP
11 9 (7.56%) Analytics
11 9 (7.56%) Requirements Gathering
12 8 (6.72%) Agile
12 8 (6.72%) Data Modelling
12 8 (6.72%) Data Protection
13 7 (5.88%) GAP Analysis
13 7 (5.88%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.72%) Python
2 7 (5.88%) SQL
3 6 (5.04%) Bash
4 5 (4.20%) Java
5 3 (2.52%) C++
5 3 (2.52%) Google Apps Script
5 3 (2.52%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.52%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.68%) ABAP
6 2 (1.68%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.68%) VB
7 1 (0.84%) C#
7 1 (0.84%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (15.97%) Degree
2 12 (10.08%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.52%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.68%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.68%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.68%) PMP
7 1 (0.84%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.84%) ACCA
7 1 (0.84%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.84%) CIMA
7 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.84%) MCDST
7 1 (0.84%) MCSE
7 1 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.72%) SLA
2 3 (2.52%) GDPR
3 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.68%) QA
4 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (13.45%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.04%) Firmware
3 1 (0.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 11 (9.24%) SCCM
2 9 (7.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (5.04%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (5.04%) WSUS
4 3 (2.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 48 (40.34%) Microsoft
2 29 (24.37%) SAP
3 8 (6.72%) Apple
3 8 (6.72%) Oracle
4 7 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.36%) Cisco
6 3 (2.52%) Ariba
6 3 (2.52%) Google
6 3 (2.52%) McAfee
6 3 (2.52%) Okta
6 3 (2.52%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.52%) TOWER Software
7 2 (1.68%) Snow
8 1 (0.84%) Databricks
8 1 (0.84%) IBM
8 1 (0.84%) NetCracker
8 1 (0.84%) Peregrine
8 1 (0.84%) Remedy
8 1 (0.84%) Sage
8 1 (0.84%) TIBCO