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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 108 104
Rank change year-on-year -44 -4 +31
Contract jobs citing Asset Management 651 627 856
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.86% 2.43% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 2.69% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 485 638
10th Percentile £163 £250 £188
25th Percentile £300 £473 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £788 £750
90th Percentile £825 £875 £800
UK median daily rate £475 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -24.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 17 60
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.89 £13.15
25th Percentile £15.62 £18.51 £16.53
Median hourly rate £18.50 £22.09 £19.56
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +12.93% +5.73%
75th Percentile £19.34 £24.18 £33.94
90th Percentile £46.00 £25.88 £40.00
UK median hourly rate £18.87 £20.40 £19.12
% change year-on-year -7.48% +6.67% +3.58%

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 30,524 23,282 33,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.36% 90.06% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,511 14,543 22,029
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,903 748 2,025
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.28 £21.25 £16.30
Median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% - -
75th Percentile £63.05 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.08 £73.35
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -7.14% -

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -62 314 £550 -18.52% 85
South East +13 91 £460 -3.26% 73
South West +27 71 £250 -47.37% 22
North of England -60 66 £300 -17.81% 29
East of England +23 53 £413 +112.90% 21
Midlands -37 43 £325 -27.78% 16
North West -34 42 £385 -3.75% 12
West Midlands -52 26 £369 -24.36% 13
East Midlands -9 17 £200 -43.00% 3
Yorkshire -65 16 £248 +1.02% 16
North East -13 8 £106 -81.57% 1
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 10 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.08%) ArcGIS
3 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.92%) Apache
4 6 (0.92%) Confluence
5 4 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Appian
7 1 (0.15%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.15%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 31 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.77%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.46%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.15%) Maya
7 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 27 (4.15%) Aladdin
2 25 (3.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 22 (3.38%) Maximo
4 14 (2.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 12 (1.84%) Oracle Payables
5 12 (1.84%) Oracle Receivables
6 11 (1.69%) SAP PM
7 7 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.61%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.31%) Bloomberg AIM
10 2 (0.31%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.31%) SAP EHS
10 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.31%) SAP MM
11 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 63 (9.68%) AWS
2 62 (9.52%) Azure
3 43 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (6.45%) Snowflake
5 38 (5.84%) Power Platform
6 32 (4.92%) GCP
7 20 (3.07%) SaaS
8 17 (2.61%) Amazon S3
9 15 (2.30%) dbt
9 15 (2.30%) Serverless
10 12 (1.84%) OCI
11 10 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.54%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.08%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.77%) GitHub
14 5 (0.77%) PaaS
14 5 (0.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.99%) VPN
2 18 (2.76%) Wireless
3 12 (1.84%) LAN
4 11 (1.69%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.38%) WAN
6 6 (0.92%) Firewall
6 6 (0.92%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (0.77%) Ethernet
7 5 (0.77%) InfiniBand
7 5 (0.77%) NetScaler
7 5 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (0.61%) DHCP
8 4 (0.61%) DNS
8 4 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (0.61%) MPLS
8 4 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.31%) Network Security
10 1 (0.15%) SMS
10 1 (0.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.92%) Power BI
2 18 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
3 14 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (1.84%) Tableau
5 11 (1.69%) GIS
6 9 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.38%) Dremio
6 9 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (1.23%) Apache Arrow
7 8 (1.23%) Apache Iceberg
7 8 (1.23%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.08%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.08%) Metadata
8 7 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.92%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.92%) DB2
10 5 (0.77%) Apache Ignite
11 4 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (4.30%) JIRA
2 13 (2.00%) SpecFlow
3 9 (1.38%) Git
4 3 (0.46%) GitLab
4 3 (0.46%) Jasmine
4 3 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.15%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.15%) Hudson
5 1 (0.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.15%) WinAutomation
General
1 223 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 220 (33.79%) Finance
3 74 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (8.76%) Organisational Skills
5 56 (8.60%) Banking
6 42 (6.45%) Front Office
7 38 (5.84%) Public Sector
8 35 (5.38%) Investment Banking
9 19 (2.92%) Legal
10 18 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.15%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.84%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.84%) Marketing
14 11 (1.69%) Law
14 11 (1.69%) Local Government
14 11 (1.69%) Military
15 10 (1.54%) Retail Banking
16 9 (1.38%) Back Office
16 9 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 136 (20.89%) Analyst
2 70 (10.75%) IT Support
3 49 (7.53%) Business Analyst
3 49 (7.53%) Lead
4 48 (7.37%) IT Engineer
5 47 (7.22%) Support Engineer
6 44 (6.76%) Asset Management Analyst
7 43 (6.61%) Senior
8 38 (5.84%) Architect
9 37 (5.68%) Developer
10 35 (5.38%) Technical Support
11 34 (5.22%) IT Support Engineer
12 29 (4.45%) Project Manager
13 28 (4.30%) Data Analyst
13 28 (4.30%) Support Analyst
14 26 (3.99%) Consultant
15 21 (3.23%) Data Engineer
15 21 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (3.07%) Asset Management Business Analyst
17 17 (2.61%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.76%) REST
2 17 (2.61%) Node.js
3 16 (2.46%) AngularJS
3 16 (2.46%) Playwright
3 16 (2.46%) React
4 10 (1.54%) NumPy
4 10 (1.54%) Pandas
5 9 (1.38%) CSS
5 9 (1.38%) HTML
6 8 (1.23%) Redux
6 8 (1.23%) SciPy
6 8 (1.23%) SOAP
6 8 (1.23%) XML
7 7 (1.08%) .NET
7 7 (1.08%) Spring
7 7 (1.08%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.77%) Middleware
9 5 (0.77%) RESTful
9 5 (0.77%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.91%) CMDB
2 39 (5.99%) Onboarding
3 33 (5.07%) Driving Licence
4 29 (4.45%) Equities
4 29 (4.45%) Fixed Income
5 23 (3.53%) Cloud Native
6 21 (3.23%) Derivative
7 20 (3.07%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (2.30%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.84%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.23%) Data Centre
14 8 (1.23%) Hedge funds
15 7 (1.08%) NHS
16 6 (0.92%) Credit Risk
16 6 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
16 6 (0.92%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 85 (13.06%) Windows
2 25 (3.84%) Windows 10
3 24 (3.69%) Linux
4 17 (2.61%) Unix
4 17 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.15%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.92%) AIX
6 6 (0.92%) Android
6 6 (0.92%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.61%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.61%) Windows 8
8 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
2 93 (14.29%) Agile
3 92 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 78 (11.98%) Migration
5 73 (11.21%) Customer Service
6 65 (9.98%) ITIL
7 61 (9.37%) IT Asset Management
8 57 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (8.76%) Investment Management
9 56 (8.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 51 (7.83%) User Acceptance Testing
11 48 (7.37%) ITSM
12 43 (6.61%) Roadmaps
13 41 (6.30%) Ticket Management
14 39 (5.99%) Data Modelling
15 38 (5.84%) Business Intelligence
15 38 (5.84%) Workflow
16 35 (5.38%) Project Management
17 33 (5.07%) Service Management
18 32 (4.92%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 97 (14.90%) SQL
2 63 (9.68%) Python
3 47 (7.22%) JavaScript
4 35 (5.38%) TypeScript
5 24 (3.69%) Java
6 16 (2.46%) C#
7 14 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.69%) Bash
9 6 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.31%) Jython
11 2 (0.31%) R
11 2 (0.31%) Scala
12 1 (0.15%) ABAP
12 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.15%) COBOL
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) VB
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 125 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 98 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.30%) Degree
4 9 (1.38%) DV Cleared
5 6 (0.92%) ECDL
6 5 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.61%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.61%) PMP
8 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.46%) RIBA
9 2 (0.31%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.15%) CFA
10 1 (0.15%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.76%) SLA
2 29 (4.45%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.76%) QA
4 11 (1.69%) GDPR
5 7 (1.08%) NIST
6 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 19770
8 4 (0.61%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.61%) GRC
8 4 (0.61%) PMO
8 4 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.46%) IFRS
9 3 (0.46%) MiFID
10 2 (0.31%) Basel III
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.31%) GAAP
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 52 (7.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.92%) Hyper-V
2 6 (0.92%) KVM
2 6 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.61%) Docker
4 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.31%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (3.69%) SCCM
2 14 (2.15%) Terraform
3 11 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.23%) Ansible
5 8 (1.23%) IBM BigFix
6 7 (1.08%) Grafana
6 7 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.92%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.61%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.61%) Salt
9 2 (0.31%) Control-M
9 2 (0.31%) Nessus
9 2 (0.31%) Puppet
9 2 (0.31%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.15%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 111 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 80 (12.29%) ServiceNow
3 42 (6.45%) SAP
4 29 (4.45%) IBM
5 23 (3.53%) Oracle
6 22 (3.38%) Databricks
7 19 (2.92%) HP
8 15 (2.30%) Charles River
9 13 (2.00%) Dell
9 13 (2.00%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.69%) Computacenter
10 11 (1.69%) Snow
11 9 (1.38%) Adobe
11 9 (1.38%) Splunk
12 8 (1.23%) Cisco
13 6 (0.92%) Aruba
13 6 (0.92%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.92%) Google
13 6 (0.92%) Workday
14 5 (0.77%) Arista