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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 89 79
Rank change year-on-year -60 -10 +42
Contract jobs citing Asset Management 728 678 940
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 2.85% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 3.12% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 502 756
10th Percentile £193 £226 £225
25th Percentile £325 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -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 74 42 45
10th Percentile £15.38 - £14.41
25th Percentile £17.10 - £16.02
Median hourly rate £19.18 £18.51 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% +2.10% -19.37%
75th Percentile £24.29 £20.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £29.55 £31.38 £40.00
UK median hourly rate £19.03 £18.51 £18.13
% change year-on-year +2.81% +2.10% -18.03%

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 35,337 21,704 31,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 91.29% 85.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,449 14,185 20,585
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £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 £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 923 2,285
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -66 384 £581 -16.96% 147
North of England -19 112 £375 -6.25% 34
South East -38 70 £375 -16.67% 46
Midlands -42 66 £325 +93.45% 33
North West -24 55 £429 +7.32% 19
Yorkshire -15 53 £365 -30.48% 12
South West -19 47 £418 +48.44% 21
West Midlands -52 44 £400 +138.10% 19
East of England -8 41 £600 +200.00% 4
East Midlands -12 22 £200 - 14
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 24 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.92%) Confluence
3 9 (1.24%) 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 40 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.69%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.27%) InDesign
7 2 (0.27%) Maya
7 2 (0.27%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 38 (5.22%) Aladdin
2 27 (3.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (2.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 18 (2.47%) SAP PM
4 16 (2.20%) Oracle Payables
4 16 (2.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 14 (1.92%) Maximo
6 7 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.55%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.55%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.41%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.27%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.27%) Global One
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 92 (12.64%) Azure
2 68 (9.34%) AWS
3 53 (7.28%) Power Platform
4 43 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (4.40%) Snowflake
6 31 (4.26%) GCP
7 18 (2.47%) SaaS
8 15 (2.06%) OCI
9 14 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 11 (1.51%) GitHub
11 8 (1.10%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.10%) Serverless
12 6 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (0.82%) dbt
13 5 (0.69%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
2 25 (3.43%) VPN
3 9 (1.24%) Firewall
3 9 (1.24%) LAN
3 9 (1.24%) Wireless
4 8 (1.10%) SAN
4 8 (1.10%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.82%) DNS
5 6 (0.82%) MPLS
5 6 (0.82%) Network Security
6 5 (0.69%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.69%) InfiniBand
6 5 (0.69%) NetScaler
6 5 (0.69%) WAN
7 4 (0.55%) DHCP
7 4 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.73%) Power BI
2 25 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.65%) Tableau
4 11 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.37%) Metadata
5 10 (1.37%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.82%) DB2
6 6 (0.82%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.69%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.69%) Star Schema
8 4 (0.55%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.55%) Delta Lake
8 4 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.41%) Big Data
9 3 (0.41%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.41%) Power Query
9 3 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (7.14%) JIRA
2 10 (1.37%) SpecFlow
3 8 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.96%) 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%) XCUITest
General
1 304 (41.76%) Finance
2 227 (31.18%) Social Skills
3 82 (11.26%) Banking
4 68 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (6.87%) Front Office
6 46 (6.32%) Investment Banking
7 39 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
8 27 (3.71%) Legal
9 26 (3.57%) Public Sector
10 25 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (3.02%) Law
12 21 (2.88%) Manufacturing
13 20 (2.75%) Back Office
14 17 (2.34%) Marketing
15 13 (1.79%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.79%) Retail Banking
16 12 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.65%) Military
16 12 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 126 (17.31%) Analyst
2 76 (10.44%) Lead
3 60 (8.24%) Business Analyst
4 51 (7.01%) Developer
5 41 (5.63%) Senior
6 40 (5.49%) Architect
7 35 (4.81%) Support Engineer
8 33 (4.53%) Asset Management Analyst
9 31 (4.26%) Project Manager
10 29 (3.98%) IT Support
11 27 (3.71%) Consultant
12 26 (3.57%) Data Analyst
13 25 (3.43%) IT Engineer
14 22 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.88%) Desktop Support
16 20 (2.75%) Data Engineer
17 16 (2.20%) Lead Developer
18 15 (2.06%) IT Analyst
18 15 (2.06%) Software Engineer
19 14 (1.92%) Asset Management Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.16%) React
2 20 (2.75%) Node.js
3 17 (2.34%) REST
4 16 (2.20%) Playwright
4 16 (2.20%) Redux
5 9 (1.24%) AngularJS
5 9 (1.24%) Middleware
5 9 (1.24%) Redfish
6 7 (0.96%) Kafka
6 7 (0.96%) XML
7 6 (0.82%) CSS
7 6 (0.82%) HTML
7 6 (0.82%) SOAP
8 5 (0.69%) .NET
8 5 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.69%) RESTful
8 5 (0.69%) Spring
8 5 (0.69%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.55%) ADO
10 3 (0.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.55%) Onboarding
2 46 (6.32%) CMDB
3 38 (5.22%) Equities
4 35 (4.81%) Fixed Income
5 32 (4.40%) Derivative
6 27 (3.71%) Management Information System
7 24 (3.30%) Data Structures
8 22 (3.02%) Cloud Native
8 22 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.47%) Data Centre
9 18 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.34%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.37%) Driving Licence
11 10 (1.37%) Operational Technology
11 10 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.10%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.96%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 85 (11.68%) Windows
2 38 (5.22%) Windows 10
3 37 (5.08%) Linux
4 18 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.06%) Mac OS
5 15 (2.06%) Unix
6 8 (1.10%) Android
7 6 (0.82%) AIX
8 5 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.69%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.55%) Windows 8
10 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (15.11%) Agile
2 93 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 83 (11.40%) ITIL
5 77 (10.58%) Migration
6 73 (10.03%) IT Asset Management
7 72 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 65 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
9 64 (8.79%) ITSM
10 62 (8.52%) Investment Management
11 58 (7.97%) Validation
12 57 (7.83%) Analytics
13 55 (7.55%) AI
14 54 (7.42%) Data Modelling
15 52 (7.14%) Customer Service
16 51 (7.01%) Roadmaps
17 50 (6.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 49 (6.73%) Service Management
18 49 (6.73%) Workflow
19 48 (6.59%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 86 (11.81%) SQL
2 79 (10.85%) Python
3 39 (5.36%) JavaScript
4 34 (4.67%) TypeScript
5 23 (3.16%) Java
6 17 (2.34%) PowerShell
7 16 (2.20%) C#
8 10 (1.37%) Bash
9 8 (1.10%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.69%) Scala
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
12 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 77 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.28%) Degree
4 11 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (0.69%) RIBA
7 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.27%) CCNP
9 2 (0.27%) CISSP
9 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.27%) PMP
9 2 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.14%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.01%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.53%) SLA
3 17 (2.34%) QA
4 13 (1.79%) GDPR
5 5 (0.69%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.69%) PMO
6 4 (0.55%) GMP
6 4 (0.55%) GRC
6 4 (0.55%) IFRS
7 3 (0.41%) Accessibility
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%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.14%) UCITS
System Software
1 53 (7.28%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.37%) Firmware
3 6 (0.82%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.82%) KVM
3 6 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.69%) 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 33 (4.53%) SCCM
2 23 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (1.92%) Terraform
4 10 (1.37%) Dell DRAC
5 9 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (1.10%) Grafana
6 8 (1.10%) IBM BigFix
6 8 (1.10%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.96%) Ansible
8 6 (0.82%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.55%) Control-M
9 4 (0.55%) Salt
10 3 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.41%) Kubernetes
11 2 (0.27%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.27%) Nessus
11 2 (0.27%) Puppet
12 1 (0.14%) MOM
12 1 (0.14%) SCOM
12 1 (0.14%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 130 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 103 (14.15%) ServiceNow
3 53 (7.28%) SAP
4 23 (3.16%) HP
5 21 (2.88%) Oracle
6 18 (2.47%) Databricks
6 18 (2.47%) IBM
7 15 (2.06%) Charles River
7 15 (2.06%) Cisco
8 12 (1.65%) Adobe
8 12 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.37%) Dell
10 9 (1.24%) Snow
11 8 (1.10%) Computacenter
11 8 (1.10%) Google
11 8 (1.10%) IFS
11 8 (1.10%) Splunk
11 8 (1.10%) VMware
12 7 (0.96%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.96%) Palo Alto