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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 82 78
Rank change year-on-year -70 -4 +47
Contract jobs citing Asset Management 752 766 968
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 2.89% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 3.18% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 538 789
10th Percentile £195 £213 £260
25th Percentile £325 £413 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -9.43% +15.22%
75th Percentile £638 £825 £850
90th Percentile £775 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 75 47
10th Percentile £15.38 - £14.76
25th Percentile £17.72 £18.51 £15.00
Median hourly rate £19.38 £18.87 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +4.08% -9.98%
75th Percentile £24.29 - £30.63
90th Percentile £33.85 £28.81 £40.00
UK median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £18.13
% change year-on-year +2.44% +4.08% -9.98%

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 37,627 24,117 31,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.98% 85.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,684 15,510 20,711
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,203 2,295
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.93 £16.18
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.80
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.30 £72.95
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +74.79% -33.38% +0.67%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -65 403 £575 -17.86% 170
North of England -43 107 £375 -6.25% 37
Midlands -28 78 £340 +53.50% 37
South East -47 76 £400 -20.00% 68
Yorkshire -29 59 £365 -8.75% 15
West Midlands -44 57 £400 +80.59% 20
North West -34 46 £425 +6.25% 19
South West -18 44 £350 +12.00% 20
East of England -27 34 £600 +92.00% 9
East Midlands -2 19 £200 - 17
North East -37 3 - - 4
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 27 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.66%) Confluence
3 16 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.40%) CMS
4 3 (0.40%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.27%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 43 (5.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.53%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.27%) InDesign
7 2 (0.27%) Maya
7 2 (0.27%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 35 (4.65%) Aladdin
2 25 (3.32%) SAP PM
2 25 (3.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (2.26%) Maximo
4 14 (1.86%) Oracle Payables
4 14 (1.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 14 (1.86%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.80%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.66%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.53%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.40%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.27%) SAP EHS
10 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.27%) Sprinklr
10 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 109 (14.49%) Azure
2 71 (9.44%) AWS
3 55 (7.31%) Power Platform
4 51 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (4.39%) Entra ID
5 33 (4.39%) GCP
6 30 (3.99%) Snowflake
7 23 (3.06%) SaaS
8 13 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.46%) GitHub
10 11 (1.46%) OCI
11 10 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.06%) dbt
12 8 (1.06%) OneDrive
13 6 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (0.66%) PowerApps
15 4 (0.53%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
2 27 (3.59%) VPN
3 12 (1.60%) LAN
4 11 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.33%) Firewall
6 9 (1.20%) SAN
7 8 (1.06%) DNS
7 8 (1.06%) Wireless
8 7 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
8 7 (0.93%) Network Security
9 6 (0.80%) DHCP
9 6 (0.80%) MPLS
9 6 (0.80%) WAN
10 5 (0.66%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.66%) InfiniBand
10 5 (0.66%) NetScaler
10 5 (0.66%) VoIP
11 4 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (0.53%) Internet
11 4 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.78%) Power BI
2 25 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.86%) Metadata
4 12 (1.60%) Tableau
5 11 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 7 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.80%) Db2
7 6 (0.80%) GIS
7 6 (0.80%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.53%) Power Query
9 4 (0.53%) Star Schema
10 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.40%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.40%) MS Access
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 58 (7.71%) JIRA
2 9 (1.20%) Git
3 8 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.80%) SpecFlow
6 5 (0.66%) GitLab
7 4 (0.53%) JMeter
8 3 (0.40%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.40%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) AdminStudio
9 2 (0.27%) git-flow
9 2 (0.27%) InstallShield
9 2 (0.27%) MSI
9 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.13%) Appium
10 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.13%) WinAutomation
General
1 292 (38.83%) Finance
2 230 (30.59%) Social Skills
3 78 (10.37%) Banking
4 69 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (5.72%) Front Office
6 42 (5.59%) Investment Banking
7 35 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
8 31 (4.12%) Public Sector
9 25 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (3.32%) Legal
10 24 (3.19%) Manufacturing
11 23 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (2.53%) Law
13 18 (2.39%) Marketing
14 16 (2.13%) Back Office
15 12 (1.60%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.60%) Military
15 12 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (1.46%) Retail Banking
16 11 (1.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 137 (18.22%) Analyst
2 79 (10.51%) Lead
3 60 (7.98%) Business Analyst
4 51 (6.78%) Architect
4 51 (6.78%) Senior
5 46 (6.12%) Developer
6 41 (5.45%) Support Engineer
7 40 (5.32%) Asset Management Analyst
8 35 (4.65%) Consultant
9 33 (4.39%) IT Support
10 30 (3.99%) Project Manager
11 28 (3.72%) IT Engineer
11 28 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
12 25 (3.32%) Data Analyst
13 24 (3.19%) Data Engineer
14 23 (3.06%) Desktop Support
15 19 (2.53%) IT Analyst
16 18 (2.39%) IT Support Engineer
17 16 (2.13%) IT Manager
17 16 (2.13%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.19%) React
2 18 (2.39%) Node.js
3 16 (2.13%) Redux
4 11 (1.46%) REST
5 10 (1.33%) Playwright
5 10 (1.33%) Redfish
6 9 (1.20%) XML
7 8 (1.06%) .NET
7 8 (1.06%) Kafka
7 8 (1.06%) Middleware
8 6 (0.80%) JSON
9 4 (0.53%) ADO
9 4 (0.53%) Azure Blueprints
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.40%) Software Packaging
10 3 (0.40%) WPF
11 2 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
11 2 (0.27%) RESTful
11 2 (0.27%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.91%) Onboarding
2 53 (7.05%) CMDB
3 38 (5.05%) Equities
4 36 (4.79%) Management Information System
5 35 (4.65%) Fixed Income
6 31 (4.12%) Derivative
7 26 (3.46%) Data Structures
8 23 (3.06%) Cloud Native
9 20 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (2.53%) Product Ownership
11 18 (2.39%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.86%) Video Conferencing
13 13 (1.73%) Operational Technology
13 13 (1.73%) Smartphone
14 12 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (1.46%) Hedge funds
16 8 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
17 7 (0.93%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 105 (13.96%) Windows
2 47 (6.25%) Linux
3 38 (5.05%) Windows 10
4 23 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 20 (2.66%) Mac OS
6 13 (1.73%) Unix
7 12 (1.60%) Android
8 7 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.93%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.80%) AIX
9 6 (0.80%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.66%) SUSE
10 5 (0.66%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.53%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.40%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.13%) CentOS
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (14.23%) Agile
2 103 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 87 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 87 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (11.30%) ITIL
5 76 (10.11%) IT Asset Management
5 76 (10.11%) Migration
5 76 (10.11%) Validation
6 70 (9.31%) ITSM
7 67 (8.91%) Data Modelling
8 61 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 59 (7.85%) User Acceptance Testing
10 58 (7.71%) Analytics
11 57 (7.58%) AI
12 54 (7.18%) Decision-Making
13 53 (7.05%) Investment Management
14 52 (6.91%) Business Intelligence
14 52 (6.91%) Roadmaps
15 49 (6.52%) Service Management
15 49 (6.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 80 (10.64%) Python
2 75 (9.97%) SQL
3 34 (4.52%) JavaScript
4 28 (3.72%) TypeScript
5 22 (2.93%) PowerShell
6 20 (2.66%) Java
7 13 (1.73%) C#
8 9 (1.20%) Bash
9 6 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.66%) Bicep
10 5 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.53%) Scala
12 3 (0.40%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.27%) Perl
13 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.27%) Swift
13 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.27%) VB
14 1 (0.13%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 100 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 78 (10.37%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.98%) Degree
4 11 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.66%) CISSP
7 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.66%) RIBA
8 4 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.53%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (0.40%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.27%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.27%) CCNP
10 2 (0.27%) IIBA
10 2 (0.27%) ISSAP
10 2 (0.27%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.98%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.26%) SLA
3 21 (2.79%) QA
4 14 (1.86%) GDPR
5 6 (0.80%) GRC
6 4 (0.53%) EMIR
6 4 (0.53%) GMP
6 4 (0.53%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.53%) PMO
7 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.40%) IFRS
8 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.27%) GAAP
8 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.27%) NIST
8 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 67 (8.91%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.60%) Firmware
3 6 (0.80%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.80%) KVM
3 6 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.27%) Docker
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (4.39%) SCCM
3 16 (2.13%) Terraform
4 11 (1.46%) Dell DRAC
5 10 (1.33%) Ansible
6 8 (1.06%) Grafana
6 8 (1.06%) IBM BigFix
6 8 (1.06%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.80%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.53%) Salt
10 3 (0.40%) Control-M
10 3 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.40%) Kubernetes
11 2 (0.27%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.27%) Nessus
12 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.13%) MOM
12 1 (0.13%) Puppet
12 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 157 (20.88%) Microsoft
2 108 (14.36%) ServiceNow
3 57 (7.58%) SAP
4 22 (2.93%) IBM
5 21 (2.79%) Oracle
6 20 (2.66%) Cisco
7 17 (2.26%) HP
8 14 (1.86%) Apple
8 14 (1.86%) Databricks
9 13 (1.73%) Charles River
9 13 (1.73%) Google
9 13 (1.73%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.33%) Snow
10 10 (1.33%) Splunk
11 9 (1.20%) VMware
12 8 (1.06%) Adobe
12 8 (1.06%) IFS
12 8 (1.06%) Siemens
13 7 (0.93%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.93%) Red Hat