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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 83 78
Rank change year-on-year -74 -5 +43
Contract jobs citing Asset Management 792 808 908
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 2.91% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 3.21% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 551 753
10th Percentile £190 £211 £300
25th Percentile £325 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £600 £688
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% -12.73% +19.57%
75th Percentile £638 £825 £850
90th Percentile £754 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £475 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -20.83% -11.11% +22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 99 28
10th Percentile £15.81 £18.51 -
25th Percentile £17.72 - £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £18.87 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +11.29% -5.96% +0.33%
75th Percentile £24.29 - £29.13
90th Percentile £32.82 £21.50 £33.25
UK median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £18.38
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.69% -3.29%

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 38,840 25,197 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.30% 90.74% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,270 16,131 18,863
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,391 1,702
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £18.18
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.45 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -65 418 £598 -14.64% 296
North of England -39 102 £400 - 56
South East -58 94 £400 -27.27% 86
Midlands -24 83 £375 +36.36% 52
Yorkshire -16 64 £375 -6.25% 16
West Midlands -37 61 £400 +45.45% 38
South West -37 45 £350 +12.00% 29
East of England -19 40 £358 +68.47% 22
North West -46 39 £425 +3.03% 34
East Midlands +1 21 £200 - 13
North East -39 4 - - 7
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 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.65%) Confluence
3 15 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.51%) CMS
6 2 (0.25%) IIS
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.13%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.13%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.13%) Predix
Applications
1 38 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.51%) Navisworks
4 4 (0.51%) ProjectWise
4 4 (0.51%) Revit
5 3 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.38%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.25%) InDesign
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Maya
7 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 43 (5.43%) Aladdin
2 20 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (2.40%) SAP PM
4 18 (2.27%) Maximo
5 10 (1.26%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (1.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (1.26%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (1.01%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.63%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 5 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.63%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.38%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.25%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.25%) Global One
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.25%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 125 (15.78%) Azure
2 81 (10.23%) AWS
3 66 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (7.95%) Power Platform
5 40 (5.05%) Entra ID
6 38 (4.80%) Snowflake
7 35 (4.42%) GCP
8 24 (3.03%) SaaS
9 17 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (1.64%) GitHub
11 12 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.52%) dbt
12 9 (1.14%) OneDrive
13 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (1.01%) Serverless
14 6 (0.76%) Amazon S3
14 6 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (0.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.54%) VPN
2 26 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.52%) LAN
5 10 (1.26%) Firewall
6 9 (1.14%) SAN
6 9 (1.14%) WAN
7 8 (1.01%) DNS
7 8 (1.01%) WebEx
8 7 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
8 7 (0.88%) Network Security
8 7 (0.88%) Wireless
9 6 (0.76%) DHCP
9 6 (0.76%) MPLS
10 5 (0.63%) HTTP
10 5 (0.63%) Internet
11 4 (0.51%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.51%) InfiniBand
11 4 (0.51%) SSL
11 4 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (7.32%) Power BI
2 25 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (2.02%) Metadata
5 11 (1.39%) Tableau
6 9 (1.14%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.01%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.01%) GIS
8 7 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (0.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.51%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.38%) Db2
12 3 (0.38%) MS Access
12 3 (0.38%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
12 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 59 (7.45%) JIRA
2 12 (1.52%) Git
3 8 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.76%) GitLab
6 4 (0.51%) JMeter
6 4 (0.51%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.38%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 2 (0.25%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.25%) git-flow
8 2 (0.25%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.25%) MSI
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.13%) Appium
9 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 311 (39.27%) Finance
2 263 (33.21%) Social Skills
3 89 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (9.60%) Banking
5 50 (6.31%) Front Office
6 40 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
7 38 (4.80%) Investment Banking
8 33 (4.17%) Manufacturing
9 30 (3.79%) Public Sector
10 25 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (3.16%) Legal
11 20 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (2.53%) Law
12 16 (2.02%) Back Office
13 15 (1.89%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.77%) Marketing
15 13 (1.64%) Military
15 13 (1.64%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.52%) Local Government
17 11 (1.39%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 133 (16.79%) Analyst
2 74 (9.34%) Lead
3 59 (7.45%) Support Engineer
4 57 (7.20%) Architect
4 57 (7.20%) Business Analyst
5 55 (6.94%) Senior
6 50 (6.31%) Developer
7 44 (5.56%) Consultant
8 42 (5.30%) IT Support
9 41 (5.18%) IT Engineer
10 35 (4.42%) Asset Management Analyst
11 32 (4.04%) Data Engineer
12 29 (3.66%) IT Support Engineer
12 29 (3.66%) Project Manager
12 29 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
13 26 (3.28%) Data Analyst
14 22 (2.78%) Desktop Support
15 21 (2.65%) IT Analyst
16 19 (2.40%) IT Manager
17 18 (2.27%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.03%) React
2 19 (2.40%) Node.js
3 16 (2.02%) Redux
3 16 (2.02%) REST
4 10 (1.26%) Redfish
5 9 (1.14%) Middleware
5 9 (1.14%) Playwright
5 9 (1.14%) XML
6 8 (1.01%) .NET
6 8 (1.01%) Kafka
7 6 (0.76%) JSON
8 5 (0.63%) RESTful
9 4 (0.51%) ADO
9 4 (0.51%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.51%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (0.51%) PySpark
9 4 (0.51%) SOAP
9 4 (0.51%) Web Services
10 3 (0.38%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 85 (10.73%) Onboarding
2 57 (7.20%) CMDB
3 45 (5.68%) Management Information System
4 39 (4.92%) Fixed Income
5 37 (4.67%) Equities
6 33 (4.17%) Derivative
7 28 (3.54%) Product Ownership
8 26 (3.28%) Cloud Native
9 24 (3.03%) Data Structures
10 22 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
11 19 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (2.27%) Data Centre
13 17 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (2.15%) Operational Technology
14 16 (2.02%) Hedge funds
15 14 (1.77%) Driving Licence
15 14 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (1.52%) Smartphone
17 10 (1.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 127 (16.04%) Windows
2 42 (5.30%) Linux
3 36 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 19 (2.40%) Mac OS
4 19 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.52%) Android
6 9 (1.14%) Unix
7 7 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.63%) SUSE
9 4 (0.51%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.38%) AIX
11 2 (0.25%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.13%) CentOS
12 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 117 (14.77%) Agile
3 106 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 88 (11.11%) ITIL
6 85 (10.73%) IT Asset Management
6 85 (10.73%) ITSM
7 84 (10.61%) Validation
8 77 (9.72%) Migration
9 75 (9.47%) Data Modelling
10 73 (9.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 68 (8.59%) Analytics
12 59 (7.45%) AI
12 59 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
13 58 (7.32%) Roadmaps
14 57 (7.20%) Decision-Making
14 57 (7.20%) Investment Management
15 56 (7.07%) Customer Service
16 52 (6.57%) Inventory Management
17 51 (6.44%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (10.86%) Python
2 81 (10.23%) SQL
3 30 (3.79%) JavaScript
4 25 (3.16%) TypeScript
5 22 (2.78%) Java
6 17 (2.15%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.39%) C#
8 6 (0.76%) Bash
9 5 (0.63%) Bicep
9 5 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.51%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.51%) Scala
11 3 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.38%) Korn
11 3 (0.38%) Perl
12 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.25%) Swift
12 2 (0.25%) VB
13 1 (0.13%) ABAP
13 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 79 (9.97%) SC Cleared
3 68 (8.59%) Degree
4 17 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.01%) A+ Certification
7 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.76%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.63%) CISSP
8 5 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 5 (0.63%) RIBA
9 4 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.38%) IIBA
10 3 (0.38%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.38%) PMP
11 2 (0.25%) CCNP
11 2 (0.25%) CISM
11 2 (0.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.84%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.79%) SLA
3 28 (3.54%) QA
4 12 (1.52%) GDPR
5 9 (1.14%) GRC
6 5 (0.63%) PMO
7 4 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.51%) EMIR
7 4 (0.51%) GMP
7 4 (0.51%) ISO 19650
7 4 (0.51%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.38%) GxP
8 3 (0.38%) NIST
9 2 (0.25%) COBIT
9 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.25%) GAAP
9 2 (0.25%) IFRS
9 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.52%) Firmware
3 6 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.38%) Docker
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) KVM
4 3 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 42 (5.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (4.29%) SCCM
3 16 (2.02%) Terraform
4 11 (1.39%) Ansible
4 11 (1.39%) Dell DRAC
5 8 (1.01%) Grafana
6 6 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.63%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.38%) IBM BigFix
8 3 (0.38%) Kubernetes
8 3 (0.38%) Salt
9 2 (0.25%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.25%) Control-M
9 2 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.25%) Nessus
10 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.13%) MOM
10 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 186 (23.48%) Microsoft
2 126 (15.91%) ServiceNow
3 54 (6.82%) SAP
4 19 (2.40%) Cisco
4 19 (2.40%) IBM
4 19 (2.40%) Oracle
5 18 (2.27%) Apple
5 18 (2.27%) Databricks
6 16 (2.02%) HP
7 15 (1.89%) Google
8 14 (1.77%) Charles River
9 13 (1.64%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.52%) Snow
11 10 (1.26%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.14%) VMware
13 8 (1.01%) IFS
13 8 (1.01%) NEC
13 8 (1.01%) Splunk
14 7 (0.88%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.88%) Samsung