Inventory Management Contracts

Inventory Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 501 684
Rank change year-on-year +66 +183 -95
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 160 216 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.36% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.40% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 133 91
10th Percentile £148 £200 £230
25th Percentile £187 £250 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -3.41% +10.00%
75th Percentile £617 £575 £600
90th Percentile £725 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £418 £425
% change year-on-year +7.78% -1.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 4 8
10th Percentile £11.06 £13.29 £15.87
25th Percentile £14.23 £14.87 £17.42
Median hourly rate £16.70 £16.78 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -16.09% -3.61%
75th Percentile £21.50 £18.62 £31.50
90th Percentile £21.50 £19.75 £38.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.42
% change year-on-year -3.03% -5.28% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inventory Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inventory Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +52 119 £462 +2.67% 155
UK excluding London +51 83 £450 +7.78% 107
Work from Home +84 56 £588 +23.68% 44
London +71 43 £475 +11.76% 54
North of England +29 24 £450 -13.46% 21
East of England +22 15 £180 -14.29% 14
South East +8 15 £525 +0.96% 21
Scotland +40 13 £381 +79.41% 7
North West +18 12 £450 - 13
South West +8 9 £700 +250.00% 16
Yorkshire +21 8 £400 -27.27% 6
Midlands +14 8 £180 -63.08% 28
West Midlands +22 5 £180 -64.00% 17
East Midlands +14 2 £160 -47.11% 11
North East - 1 - - 2

Inventory 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 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (15.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (6.88%) SAP EWM
3 7 (4.38%) SAP MM
4 4 (2.50%) SAP ERP
4 4 (2.50%) SAP FI
4 4 (2.50%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
4 4 (2.50%) SAP Retail
5 3 (1.88%) SAP WM
6 2 (1.25%) SAP IBP
6 2 (1.25%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.63%) Maximo
7 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.63%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.63%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.63%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.63%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.63%) SAP PP-PI
7 1 (0.63%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 15 (9.38%) Azure
2 14 (8.75%) Dynamics 365
3 13 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.75%) OneDrive
5 3 (1.88%) AWS
5 3 (1.88%) Google Workspace
5 3 (1.88%) OCI
5 3 (1.88%) SaaS
5 3 (1.88%) Slack
5 3 (1.88%) Zapier
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.63%) Collibra
6 1 (0.63%) GitHub
6 1 (0.63%) PaaS
6 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.38%) Internet
1 7 (4.38%) Wireless
2 5 (3.13%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.50%) Network Security
3 4 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.88%) BGP
4 3 (1.88%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.88%) DHCP
4 3 (1.88%) Firewall
4 3 (1.88%) IOS XR
4 3 (1.88%) VPN
4 3 (1.88%) WAN
5 2 (1.25%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.25%) LAN
5 2 (1.25%) MPLS
5 2 (1.25%) VLAN
6 1 (0.63%) DWDM
6 1 (0.63%) PBX
6 1 (0.63%) RFID
6 1 (0.63%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.88%) Couchbase
2 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.25%) Metadata
3 2 (1.25%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.25%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.25%) Tableau
4 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.63%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.63%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.63%) Power BI
4 1 (0.63%) Redis
4 1 (0.63%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.75%) JIRA
2 2 (1.25%) Hudson
3 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 73 (45.63%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (13.13%) Retail
4 19 (11.88%) Finance
5 13 (8.13%) Manufacturing
6 12 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (5.63%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.75%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.13%) Marketing
10 5 (3.13%) Spanish Language
11 4 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.50%) French Language
12 2 (1.25%) Automotive
12 2 (1.25%) Cantonese Language
12 2 (1.25%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.25%) Legal
12 2 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.25%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 38 (23.75%) Consultant
2 20 (12.50%) Analyst
3 18 (11.25%) Lead
4 17 (10.63%) Support Engineer
5 14 (8.75%) Senior
6 13 (8.13%) SAP Consultant
7 12 (7.50%) Desktop Support
7 12 (7.50%) IT Engineer
8 10 (6.25%) Architect
9 8 (5.00%) Business Analyst
9 8 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 8 (5.00%) Functional Consultant
10 7 (4.38%) Desktop Engineer
10 7 (4.38%) Project Manager
10 7 (4.38%) SAP EWM Consultant
11 6 (3.75%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 6 (3.75%) Developer
11 6 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.13%) Desktop Support Analyst
12 5 (3.13%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.50%) Kafka
2 3 (1.88%) Django
2 3 (1.88%) JSON
2 3 (1.88%) REST
2 3 (1.88%) RESTful
2 3 (1.88%) YANG
3 2 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.63%) .NET
4 1 (0.63%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.63%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.63%) BAPI
4 1 (0.63%) EDI
4 1 (0.63%) IDoc
4 1 (0.63%) Java EE
4 1 (0.63%) NgRx
4 1 (0.63%) Node.js
4 1 (0.63%) SAP ALE
4 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.63%) Management Information System
1 9 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (3.13%) CMDB
2 5 (3.13%) iPad
2 5 (3.13%) iPhone
3 4 (2.50%) Smartphone
4 3 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.88%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.25%) NHS
5 2 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.63%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.38%) Windows
2 14 (8.75%) Windows 10
3 10 (6.25%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.75%) Linux
4 6 (3.75%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.88%) Android
6 2 (1.25%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.63%) Unix
7 1 (0.63%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.63%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (17.50%) Logistics
3 23 (14.38%) Customer Service
4 20 (12.50%) Migration
4 20 (12.50%) Supply Chain Management
5 18 (11.25%) Asset Management
5 18 (11.25%) Project Management
6 15 (9.38%) Data Migration
6 15 (9.38%) Service Management
7 12 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (6.88%) Agile
8 11 (6.88%) ERP
8 11 (6.88%) Time Management
8 11 (6.88%) User Acceptance Testing
9 10 (6.25%) Break/Fix
9 10 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
9 10 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (5.63%) Analytics
10 9 (5.63%) Workshop Facilitation
11 8 (5.00%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.63%) Java
2 8 (5.00%) Python
3 7 (4.38%) SQL
4 6 (3.75%) Bash
5 4 (2.50%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.88%) ABAP
6 3 (1.88%) C++
6 3 (1.88%) Google Apps Script
6 3 (1.88%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.88%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.25%) VB
8 1 (0.63%) C#
8 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (15.63%) Degree
2 12 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.25%) CSPO
6 2 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.25%) PMP
7 1 (0.63%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.63%) ACCA
7 1 (0.63%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) CIMA
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) MCDST
7 1 (0.63%) MCSE
7 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.00%) SLA
2 4 (2.50%) QA
3 3 (1.88%) GDPR
4 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.25%) PMO
5 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.75%) Firmware
3 1 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 11 (6.88%) SCCM
2 9 (5.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (3.75%) WSUS
4 3 (1.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 48 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 44 (27.50%) SAP
3 16 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 10 (6.25%) Oracle
5 8 (5.00%) Apple
6 4 (2.50%) Ariba
6 4 (2.50%) BT
6 4 (2.50%) Cisco
7 3 (1.88%) Google
7 3 (1.88%) Kofax
7 3 (1.88%) McAfee
7 3 (1.88%) Okta
7 3 (1.88%) ReadSoft
7 3 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.88%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.25%) Dell
8 2 (1.25%) Snow
9 1 (0.63%) HP
9 1 (0.63%) IBM
9 1 (0.63%) Intel