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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 89 85
Rank change year-on-year -56 -4 +38
Contract jobs citing Asset Management 706 708 931
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 2.89% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 3.17% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 527 749
10th Percentile £194 £250 £223
25th Percentile £325 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +9.17%
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 45
10th Percentile £15.38 - £14.41
25th Percentile £16.25 - £16.02
Median hourly rate £19.03 £18.51 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% +2.10% -19.37%
75th Percentile £24.29 £20.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £38.00 £31.13 £40.00
UK median hourly rate £18.95 £18.51 £18.13
% change year-on-year +2.38% +2.10% -15.62%

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 34,677 22,323 31,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 91.22% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,105 14,603 20,624
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,142 946 2,251
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.41 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £15.97
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%
75th Percentile £67.96 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -70 366 £575 -17.86% 135
North of England -23 110 £380 -5.00% 26
South East -44 68 £338 -27.03% 63
Midlands -39 63 £330 +96.43% 33
North West -17 59 £429 +7.32% 14
South West -10 49 £418 +48.44% 14
Yorkshire -25 48 £365 -30.48% 10
East of England -7 41 £600 +200.00% 8
West Midlands -52 41 £419 +149.26% 22
East Midlands -8 22 £200 - 11
North East -20 3 £500 - 2
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 (3.12%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.98%) Confluence
3 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.28%) CMS
6 2 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Appian
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 38 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.71%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.57%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.28%) InDesign
8 2 (0.28%) Maya
8 2 (0.28%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 35 (4.96%) Aladdin
2 26 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (2.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 17 (2.41%) SAP PM
5 16 (2.27%) Oracle Payables
5 16 (2.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (1.84%) Maximo
7 7 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.42%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.42%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.42%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.28%) Global One
9 2 (0.28%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.28%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 87 (12.32%) Azure
2 66 (9.35%) AWS
3 48 (6.80%) Power Platform
4 43 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (4.39%) GCP
6 30 (4.25%) Snowflake
7 15 (2.12%) OCI
8 14 (1.98%) SaaS
9 11 (1.56%) Entra ID
9 11 (1.56%) GitHub
10 10 (1.42%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.42%) Serverless
11 7 (0.99%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.71%) dbt
13 5 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.12%) VPN
1 22 (3.12%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (1.27%) LAN
2 9 (1.27%) Wireless
3 8 (1.13%) Firewall
4 7 (0.99%) SAN
4 7 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.85%) DNS
5 6 (0.85%) MPLS
6 5 (0.71%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.71%) InfiniBand
6 5 (0.71%) NetScaler
6 5 (0.71%) Network Security
6 5 (0.71%) WAN
7 4 (0.57%) DHCP
7 4 (0.57%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.28%) VoIP
9 2 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.09%) Power BI
2 25 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.70%) Tableau
4 11 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 7 (0.99%) DynamoDB
7 6 (0.85%) DB2
7 6 (0.85%) Metadata
7 6 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.71%) Star Schema
9 4 (0.57%) Delta Lake
9 4 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.42%) Big Data
10 3 (0.42%) GIS
10 3 (0.42%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.42%) Power Query
10 3 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 49 (6.94%) JIRA
2 11 (1.56%) SpecFlow
3 8 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.99%) Git
5 6 (0.85%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.57%) GitLab
6 4 (0.57%) Selenium
7 3 (0.42%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.28%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.28%) git-flow
8 2 (0.28%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.28%) JMeter
8 2 (0.28%) MSI
8 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.14%) Appium
9 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) WinAutomation
9 1 (0.14%) XCUITest
General
1 293 (41.50%) Finance
2 218 (30.88%) Social Skills
3 76 (10.76%) Banking
4 68 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.66%) Front Office
6 43 (6.09%) Investment Banking
7 39 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (3.97%) Legal
8 28 (3.97%) Public Sector
9 27 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (2.83%) Back Office
11 20 (2.83%) Law
12 18 (2.55%) Manufacturing
13 17 (2.41%) Marketing
14 13 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.84%) Retail Banking
15 12 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (1.56%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 119 (16.86%) Analyst
2 72 (10.20%) Lead
3 56 (7.93%) Business Analyst
4 51 (7.22%) Developer
5 38 (5.38%) Architect
6 36 (5.10%) Senior
7 34 (4.82%) Support Engineer
8 32 (4.53%) Project Manager
9 31 (4.39%) IT Support
10 28 (3.97%) Asset Management Analyst
11 27 (3.82%) Consultant
11 27 (3.82%) IT Engineer
12 24 (3.40%) Data Analyst
13 20 (2.83%) Data Engineer
13 20 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (2.69%) Desktop Support
15 16 (2.27%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.12%) Software Engineer
17 14 (1.98%) IT Support Engineer
17 14 (1.98%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.12%) React
2 21 (2.97%) Node.js
3 18 (2.55%) Playwright
3 18 (2.55%) REST
4 16 (2.27%) Redux
5 11 (1.56%) AngularJS
6 9 (1.27%) Middleware
7 8 (1.13%) CSS
7 8 (1.13%) HTML
7 8 (1.13%) Redfish
8 7 (0.99%) Kafka
8 7 (0.99%) RESTful
8 7 (0.99%) Spring
8 7 (0.99%) Spring Boot
9 6 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (0.85%) SOAP
9 6 (0.85%) XML
10 5 (0.71%) HTML5
10 5 (0.71%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (0.71%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.08%) Onboarding
2 43 (6.09%) CMDB
3 32 (4.53%) Equities
4 31 (4.39%) Fixed Income
5 29 (4.11%) Derivative
6 24 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
6 24 (3.40%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.26%) Data Structures
8 21 (2.97%) Cloud Native
9 17 (2.41%) Data Centre
10 15 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.98%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.56%) Driving Licence
12 11 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.99%) Operational Technology
15 6 (0.85%) Hedge funds
15 6 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 80 (11.33%) Windows
2 36 (5.10%) Linux
3 34 (4.82%) Windows 10
4 17 (2.41%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.12%) Mac OS
5 15 (2.12%) Unix
6 6 (0.85%) AIX
6 6 (0.85%) Android
7 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.71%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.57%) Windows 8
9 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (16.15%) Agile
2 96 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
3 86 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 81 (11.47%) ITIL
5 72 (10.20%) IT Asset Management
6 70 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 70 (9.92%) Migration
7 68 (9.63%) User Acceptance Testing
8 62 (8.78%) Investment Management
9 59 (8.36%) ITSM
10 55 (7.79%) Validation
11 52 (7.37%) Data Modelling
12 51 (7.22%) Customer Service
13 50 (7.08%) Analytics
14 49 (6.94%) Service Management
15 48 (6.80%) AI
15 48 (6.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 48 (6.80%) Workflow
16 47 (6.66%) Decision-Making
17 46 (6.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 85 (12.04%) SQL
2 76 (10.76%) Python
3 40 (5.67%) JavaScript
4 37 (5.24%) TypeScript
5 24 (3.40%) Java
6 17 (2.41%) C#
6 17 (2.41%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.42%) Bash
8 8 (1.13%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.71%) Scala
10 2 (0.28%) ABAP
10 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.28%) Perl
10 2 (0.28%) R
10 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.28%) Swift
10 2 (0.28%) VB
11 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (12.32%) Security Cleared
2 70 (9.92%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.94%) Degree
4 12 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.85%) PMI Certification
6 5 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 5 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (0.71%) RIBA
7 4 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.42%) PMP
9 2 (0.28%) CCNP
9 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) ISEB
10 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.25%) SLA
3 16 (2.27%) QA
4 10 (1.42%) GDPR
5 5 (0.71%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.71%) PMO
6 4 (0.57%) GMP
6 4 (0.57%) GRC
7 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.42%) IFRS
7 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.28%) Basel III
8 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.28%) EMIR
8 2 (0.28%) GAAP
8 2 (0.28%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) UCITS
System Software
1 52 (7.37%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.27%) Firmware
3 6 (0.85%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.85%) KVM
3 6 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.42%) Docker
5 3 (0.42%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.28%) 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 (4.25%) SCCM
2 20 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (1.98%) Terraform
4 10 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (1.27%) Dell DRAC
6 8 (1.13%) Grafana
6 8 (1.13%) IBM BigFix
6 8 (1.13%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.99%) Ansible
8 6 (0.85%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.57%) Control-M
9 4 (0.57%) Salt
10 3 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.42%) Kubernetes
11 2 (0.28%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.28%) Nessus
11 2 (0.28%) Puppet
12 1 (0.14%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.14%) SCOM
12 1 (0.14%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 122 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 97 (13.74%) ServiceNow
3 52 (7.37%) SAP
4 24 (3.40%) HP
4 24 (3.40%) Oracle
5 19 (2.69%) Databricks
6 18 (2.55%) IBM
7 15 (2.12%) Charles River
8 13 (1.84%) Adobe
8 13 (1.84%) Cisco
8 13 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.42%) Dell
10 9 (1.27%) Snow
10 9 (1.27%) Splunk
11 8 (1.13%) Computacenter
11 8 (1.13%) IFS
12 7 (0.99%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.99%) Google
12 7 (0.99%) Palo Alto
12 7 (0.99%) VMware