Asset Management Contract Job Trends in England

Asset Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Asset Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 90 84
Rank change year-on-year -57 -6 +33
Contract jobs citing Asset Management 733 671 940
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 2.79% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 3.06% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 492 758
10th Percentile £193 £231 £225
25th Percentile £320 £444 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £825 £800
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 43 46
10th Percentile £15.38 - £14.41
25th Percentile £17.09 - £16.01
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.51 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% +2.10% -19.37%
75th Percentile £24.29 £21.01 £28.75
90th Percentile £29.61 £31.13 £40.00
UK median hourly rate £19.03 £18.51 £18.13
% change year-on-year +2.81% +2.10% -19.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Asset Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,705 21,941 31,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.32% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,665 14,273 20,637
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,224 953 2,305
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%

Asset Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Asset Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Asset Management job vacancy trend in England

Asset Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Asset Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Asset Management

Asset Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Asset Management in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Asset Management in England

Asset Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Asset Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Asset Management

Asset Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Asset Management in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Asset Management in England

Asset 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 Asset Management within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -59 391 £575 -17.86% 123
North of England -21 111 £375 -9.09% 26
South East -43 71 £375 -18.92% 41
Midlands -36 66 £313 +86.19% 32
North West -30 54 £429 +7.32% 16
Yorkshire -25 53 £365 -30.48% 7
South West -22 47 £418 +67.00% 20
West Midlands -61 45 £370 +120.24% 17
East of England -11 39 £600 +100.00% 4
East Midlands -6 21 £200 - 15
North East -23 4 £500 - 3
Asset Management
UK

Asset Management
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 22 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.91%) Confluence
3 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.41%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.27%) CMS
6 2 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Appian
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 42 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.68%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.55%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.27%) InDesign
8 2 (0.27%) Maya
8 2 (0.27%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 36 (4.91%) Aladdin
2 27 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (2.59%) SAP PM
4 18 (2.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (2.18%) Oracle Payables
5 16 (2.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 15 (2.05%) Maximo
7 8 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.55%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.55%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.41%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.27%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.27%) Global One
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 95 (12.96%) Azure
2 72 (9.82%) AWS
3 54 (7.37%) Power Platform
4 43 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (4.64%) GCP
6 31 (4.23%) Snowflake
7 19 (2.59%) Entra ID
8 18 (2.46%) SaaS
9 15 (2.05%) OCI
10 12 (1.64%) GitHub
11 8 (1.09%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.09%) Serverless
12 7 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (0.82%) dbt
14 5 (0.68%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.68%) Wi-Fi
2 26 (3.55%) VPN
3 10 (1.36%) LAN
4 9 (1.23%) Firewall
4 9 (1.23%) Wireless
5 8 (1.09%) SAN
5 8 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.95%) DNS
6 7 (0.95%) Network Security
7 6 (0.82%) MPLS
8 5 (0.68%) DHCP
8 5 (0.68%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.68%) InfiniBand
8 5 (0.68%) NetScaler
8 5 (0.68%) WAN
9 4 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (0.55%) Internet
9 4 (0.55%) VoIP
10 3 (0.41%) DMZ
10 3 (0.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.96%) Power BI
2 25 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.64%) Tableau
4 11 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.36%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.23%) Metadata
7 6 (0.82%) DB2
7 6 (0.82%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.68%) Star Schema
9 4 (0.55%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.55%) Delta Lake
9 4 (0.55%) GIS
9 4 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.41%) Big Data
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.41%) Power Query
10 3 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 53 (7.23%) JIRA
2 9 (1.23%) SpecFlow
3 8 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.95%) Git
5 6 (0.82%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.55%) GitLab
6 4 (0.55%) JMeter
7 3 (0.41%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.41%) Selenium
8 2 (0.27%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.27%) git-flow
8 2 (0.27%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.27%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.27%) MSI
8 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.14%) Appium
9 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.14%) Hudson
9 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.14%) WinAutomation
General
1 306 (41.75%) Finance
2 225 (30.70%) Social Skills
3 83 (11.32%) Banking
4 67 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.41%) Front Office
6 46 (6.28%) Investment Banking
7 39 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
8 27 (3.68%) Legal
9 26 (3.55%) Public Sector
10 25 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (3.00%) Law
12 21 (2.86%) Manufacturing
13 20 (2.73%) Back Office
14 18 (2.46%) Marketing
15 13 (1.77%) Retail Banking
16 12 (1.64%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.64%) Military
16 12 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (17.33%) Analyst
2 77 (10.50%) Lead
3 61 (8.32%) Business Analyst
4 51 (6.96%) Developer
5 44 (6.00%) Architect
5 44 (6.00%) Senior
6 34 (4.64%) Support Engineer
7 33 (4.50%) Asset Management Analyst
8 30 (4.09%) Project Manager
9 27 (3.68%) Consultant
9 27 (3.68%) IT Support
10 24 (3.27%) Data Analyst
10 24 (3.27%) IT Engineer
11 22 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
12 21 (2.86%) Desktop Support
13 20 (2.73%) Data Engineer
14 17 (2.32%) IT Analyst
15 16 (2.18%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.05%) Software Engineer
17 14 (1.91%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.14%) React
2 20 (2.73%) Node.js
3 16 (2.18%) Redux
3 16 (2.18%) REST
4 15 (2.05%) Playwright
5 9 (1.23%) AngularJS
5 9 (1.23%) Redfish
6 8 (1.09%) Middleware
7 7 (0.95%) Kafka
7 7 (0.95%) XML
8 6 (0.82%) CSS
8 6 (0.82%) HTML
9 5 (0.68%) .NET
9 5 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.68%) RESTful
9 5 (0.68%) SOAP
9 5 (0.68%) Spring
9 5 (0.68%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.55%) ADO
10 4 (0.55%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.78%) Onboarding
2 50 (6.82%) CMDB
3 38 (5.18%) Equities
4 34 (4.64%) Fixed Income
5 32 (4.37%) Derivative
6 30 (4.09%) Management Information System
7 25 (3.41%) Cloud Native
7 25 (3.41%) Data Structures
8 22 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.59%) Data Centre
10 18 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.46%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.50%) Operational Technology
12 10 (1.36%) Driving Licence
13 9 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.09%) Hedge funds
15 7 (0.95%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 89 (12.14%) Windows
2 41 (5.59%) Linux
3 38 (5.18%) Windows 10
4 23 (3.14%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.05%) Unix
6 14 (1.91%) Mac OS
7 8 (1.09%) Android
8 7 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.95%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.82%) AIX
10 5 (0.68%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.68%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.55%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.55%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.14%) CentOS
13 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (14.73%) Agile
2 90 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 89 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (11.46%) ITIL
5 79 (10.78%) Migration
6 72 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 72 (9.82%) IT Asset Management
7 66 (9.00%) ITSM
7 66 (9.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 61 (8.32%) Investment Management
8 61 (8.32%) Validation
9 58 (7.91%) Analytics
10 56 (7.64%) AI
11 55 (7.50%) Data Modelling
11 55 (7.50%) Roadmaps
12 53 (7.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 51 (6.96%) Workflow
14 50 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
14 50 (6.82%) Customer Service
15 49 (6.68%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 82 (11.19%) Python
1 82 (11.19%) SQL
2 38 (5.18%) JavaScript
3 33 (4.50%) TypeScript
4 23 (3.14%) Java
5 20 (2.73%) PowerShell
6 15 (2.05%) C#
7 10 (1.36%) Bash
8 8 (1.09%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.68%) Scala
10 4 (0.55%) Bicep
11 2 (0.27%) ABAP
11 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.27%) Perl
11 2 (0.27%) R
11 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.27%) Swift
11 2 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 94 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 77 (10.50%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.09%) Degree
4 10 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (0.68%) CISSP
6 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.68%) RIBA
7 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.27%) CCNP
9 2 (0.27%) CISM
9 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.27%) ISSAP
9 2 (0.27%) PMP
9 2 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.37%) SLA
3 17 (2.32%) QA
4 13 (1.77%) GDPR
5 5 (0.68%) PMO
6 4 (0.55%) GMP
6 4 (0.55%) GRC
6 4 (0.55%) IFRS
6 4 (0.55%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.41%) EMIR
7 3 (0.41%) GAAP
7 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.27%) Basel III
8 2 (0.27%) COBIT
8 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.27%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 54 (7.37%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.36%) Firmware
3 6 (0.82%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.82%) KVM
3 6 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.41%) Docker
6 2 (0.27%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (4.09%) SCCM
2 24 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (2.46%) Terraform
4 11 (1.50%) Ansible
5 10 (1.36%) Dell DRAC
6 8 (1.09%) Grafana
6 8 (1.09%) IBM BigFix
6 8 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (1.09%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.55%) Control-M
8 4 (0.55%) Salt
9 3 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.41%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.27%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.27%) Nessus
10 2 (0.27%) Puppet
11 1 (0.14%) MOM
11 1 (0.14%) SCOM
11 1 (0.14%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 134 (18.28%) Microsoft
2 104 (14.19%) ServiceNow
3 54 (7.37%) SAP
4 23 (3.14%) HP
5 21 (2.86%) Oracle
6 18 (2.46%) IBM
7 17 (2.32%) Databricks
8 15 (2.05%) Cisco
9 14 (1.91%) Charles River
10 12 (1.64%) Adobe
10 12 (1.64%) Google
10 12 (1.64%) Splunk
11 11 (1.50%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.36%) Dell
13 9 (1.23%) Snow
14 8 (1.09%) Computacenter
14 8 (1.09%) IFS
14 8 (1.09%) VMware
15 7 (0.95%) Palo Alto
16 6 (0.82%) Workday