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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 115 89
Rank change year-on-year -32 -26 +39
Contract jobs citing Asset Management 867 682 851
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 2.44% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 2.69% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 415 678
10th Percentile £190 £197 £274
25th Percentile £325 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -14.81% +12.50%
75th Percentile £622 £825 £850
90th Percentile £750 £845 £888
UK median daily rate £493 £553 £650
% change year-on-year -10.86% -15.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 128 24
10th Percentile £15.89 £17.35 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.80 £18.87 £18.42
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +2.47% -7.93%
75th Percentile £29.78 - £29.13
90th Percentile £111.25 - £32.05
UK median hourly rate £21.01 £18.87 £18.38
% change year-on-year +11.34% +2.69% -3.59%

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 39,254 25,364 27,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.88% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,668 16,092 16,994
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,012 1,593 1,122
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.81 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.45 £74.40
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -9.60%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -44 411 £555 -20.43% 775
South East -32 115 £450 -18.92% 122
North of England -17 102 £400 +5.26% 118
Midlands +10 100 £400 -30.43% 64
West Midlands +9 78 £419 -29.92% 39
East of England -12 77 £360 -10.00% 51
Yorkshire -4 56 £400 +5.26% 38
North West -17 47 £400 -24.53% 70
South West -45 41 £350 +55.56% 45
East Midlands -2 22 £275 +44.74% 25
North East -40 4 - - 12
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 37 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.61%) Confluence
3 13 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.27%) CMS
5 4 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.12%) CIMPLICITY
8 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) Predix
8 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.92%) Navisworks
4 8 (0.92%) ProjectWise
4 8 (0.92%) Revit
4 8 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.81%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 42 (4.84%) Aladdin
2 27 (3.11%) SAP PM
3 24 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 19 (2.19%) Maximo
5 13 (1.50%) Remedy ITSM
6 12 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
7 9 (1.04%) NEC Housing
8 8 (0.92%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 8 (0.92%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.58%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.58%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.58%) SAP PS
9 5 (0.58%) SAP QM
9 5 (0.58%) SAP SD
10 4 (0.46%) Front Arena
10 4 (0.46%) Summit
11 3 (0.35%) Cloudability
11 3 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
12 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
12 2 (0.23%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 114 (13.15%) Azure
2 102 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 80 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 60 (6.92%) AWS
5 52 (6.00%) Entra ID
6 39 (4.50%) Snowflake
7 30 (3.46%) SaaS
8 27 (3.11%) GCP
9 20 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.73%) Serverless
12 14 (1.61%) GitHub
13 13 (1.50%) OneDrive
14 12 (1.38%) dbt
15 11 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
16 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
17 8 (0.92%) Azure Functions
18 7 (0.81%) Azure Storage
18 7 (0.81%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (2.08%) VPN
3 13 (1.50%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.38%) SAN
5 10 (1.15%) Ethernet
5 10 (1.15%) LAN
5 10 (1.15%) WebEx
6 9 (1.04%) Cisco IOS
7 8 (0.92%) HTTP
8 7 (0.81%) DNS
8 7 (0.81%) Fibre Channel
8 7 (0.81%) Firewall
9 6 (0.69%) DHCP
9 6 (0.69%) Network Security
9 6 (0.69%) SSL
9 6 (0.69%) WAN
10 4 (0.46%) Internet
10 4 (0.46%) Value-Added Service
10 4 (0.46%) VoIP
10 4 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (8.07%) Power BI
2 25 (2.88%) Metadata
3 16 (1.85%) GIS
4 15 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.15%) Tableau
6 9 (1.04%) BigQuery
7 8 (0.92%) Looker
7 8 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.81%) MS Access
8 7 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.81%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.58%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.35%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 42 (4.84%) JIRA
2 10 (1.15%) Git
3 4 (0.46%) JMeter
3 4 (0.46%) LoadRunner
3 4 (0.46%) MSI
4 2 (0.23%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.23%) GitLab
4 2 (0.23%) InstallShield
4 2 (0.23%) Selenium
4 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.23%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.12%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.12%) Mockito
5 1 (0.12%) Postman
5 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
General
1 310 (35.76%) Social Skills
2 290 (33.45%) Finance
3 117 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.73%) Banking
5 51 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 43 (4.96%) Public Sector
7 41 (4.73%) Manufacturing
8 32 (3.69%) Front Office
9 26 (3.00%) Investment Banking
10 25 (2.88%) Legal
10 25 (2.88%) Local Government
11 24 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.96%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.61%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.50%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.50%) Law
15 12 (1.38%) Back Office
15 12 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.38%) Retail
16 11 (1.27%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 163 (18.80%) Analyst
2 77 (8.88%) Architect
3 72 (8.30%) Lead
3 72 (8.30%) Support Engineer
4 67 (7.73%) Business Analyst
5 64 (7.38%) Consultant
6 54 (6.23%) IT Support
7 51 (5.88%) Senior
8 48 (5.54%) IT Engineer
9 45 (5.19%) Asset Management Analyst
10 38 (4.38%) IT Support Engineer
11 33 (3.81%) Data Analyst
12 32 (3.69%) Developer
13 27 (3.11%) Data Engineer
14 26 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.42%) Desktop Support
16 20 (2.31%) Administrator
16 20 (2.31%) IT Analyst
16 20 (2.31%) Project Manager
16 20 (2.31%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.42%) REST
2 18 (2.08%) XML
3 12 (1.38%) .NET
3 12 (1.38%) Terraform
4 11 (1.27%) React
5 8 (0.92%) JSON
5 8 (0.92%) Web Services
6 7 (0.81%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.69%) Node.js
7 6 (0.69%) SOAP
8 5 (0.58%) PySpark
8 5 (0.58%) RESTful
9 4 (0.46%) ASP.NET
9 4 (0.46%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (0.46%) Middleware
9 4 (0.46%) Redfish
10 3 (0.35%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (0.35%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (0.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.50%) CMDB
2 88 (10.15%) Onboarding
3 58 (6.69%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.88%) Cloud Native
5 25 (2.88%) Video Conferencing
6 23 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.65%) Fixed Income
7 20 (2.31%) Data Centre
8 19 (2.19%) Driving Licence
8 19 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.19%) Hedge funds
9 18 (2.08%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.08%) Operational Technology
10 15 (1.73%) Equities
10 15 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.61%) Derivative
12 12 (1.38%) Smartphone
13 11 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
13 11 (1.27%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 142 (16.38%) Windows
2 40 (4.61%) Windows 10
3 23 (2.65%) Linux
3 23 (2.65%) macOS
4 17 (1.96%) Android
5 14 (1.61%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.58%) SUSE
6 5 (0.58%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.58%) Unix
7 4 (0.46%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.35%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (22.26%) Stakeholder Management
2 124 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 113 (13.03%) ITSM
5 109 (12.57%) ITIL
6 105 (12.11%) Validation
7 97 (11.19%) IT Asset Management
8 93 (10.73%) Agile
9 83 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 81 (9.34%) AI
11 80 (9.23%) Migration
12 77 (8.88%) Data Modelling
13 76 (8.77%) Customer Service
14 75 (8.65%) Analytics
14 75 (8.65%) Service Management
15 74 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
16 65 (7.50%) Data Governance
17 64 (7.38%) Decision-Making
18 61 (7.04%) Roadmaps
19 58 (6.69%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (11.07%) SQL
2 76 (8.77%) Python
3 20 (2.31%) PowerShell
4 18 (2.08%) Java
5 15 (1.73%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.50%) C#
7 11 (1.27%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.92%) Korn
9 7 (0.81%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.69%) Bash
11 5 (0.58%) Bicep
11 5 (0.58%) Perl
12 4 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.23%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.23%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.12%) Go
14 1 (0.12%) Swift
14 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 140 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 111 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.61%) Degree
4 24 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (1.15%) A+ Certification
6 10 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.04%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.04%) PMP
8 7 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.58%) CISSP
10 5 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.46%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.46%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.23%) CFA
13 2 (0.23%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (12.80%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.38%) QA
3 31 (3.58%) SLA
4 10 (1.15%) GDPR
5 8 (0.92%) GRC
5 8 (0.92%) ISO 19650
6 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.69%) PMO
8 5 (0.58%) NIST
9 3 (0.35%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.35%) COSHH
9 3 (0.35%) EMIR
9 3 (0.35%) GxP
9 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.23%) COBIT
10 2 (0.23%) GAAP
10 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.23%) IFRS
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (9.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.81%) Firmware
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.35%) Docker
5 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.12%) KVM
6 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (5.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (4.61%) SCCM
3 10 (1.15%) Ansible
4 5 (0.58%) Dell DRAC
5 4 (0.46%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.12%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.12%) Autotask
7 1 (0.12%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.12%) Grafana
7 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.12%) MobiControl
7 1 (0.12%) MOM
7 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.12%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 251 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 134 (15.46%) ServiceNow
3 71 (8.19%) SAP
4 31 (3.58%) Google
5 23 (2.65%) IBM
6 19 (2.19%) Oracle
6 19 (2.19%) Snow
7 18 (2.08%) Apple
7 18 (2.08%) Cisco
7 18 (2.08%) Databricks
7 18 (2.08%) HP
8 15 (1.73%) Remedy
9 14 (1.61%) Bloomberg
10 12 (1.38%) Adobe
10 12 (1.38%) Autodesk
11 11 (1.27%) Charles River
11 11 (1.27%) VMware
12 10 (1.15%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.15%) Samsung
13 9 (1.04%) OpenAI