Inventory Management Contract Job Trends in England

Inventory Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Inventory Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 343 434
Rank change year-on-year -70 +91 +61
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 210 159 123
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.58% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.64% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 102 56
10th Percentile £189 £150 £166
25th Percentile £225 £185 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £275 £475
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -42.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £541 £570 £581
90th Percentile £675 £648 £725
UK median daily rate £400 £250 £475
% change year-on-year +60.00% -47.37% -7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 16 17
10th Percentile £15.00 £24.33 £11.24
25th Percentile £19.50 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% +19.76% +23.06%
75th Percentile £67.94 £25.49 £21.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £72.50 £25.90
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £19.36
% change year-on-year +39.17% +29.91% +13.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Inventory 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 38,446 24,678 30,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.44% 90.65% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,172 15,843 20,140
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £746 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,378 1,309 2,090
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.28 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.83
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Inventory Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Inventory Management job vacancy trend in England

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Inventory Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Inventory Management

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inventory Management in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in England

Inventory Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Inventory Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Inventory Management

Inventory Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inventory Management in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Inventory Management in England

Inventory 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 Inventory Management within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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 -30 80 £444 -11.25% 28
South East -50 41 £275 +61.76% 21
North of England -65 33 £365 -37.07% 7
Midlands -51 24 £475 +90.00% 13
East of England -26 19 £350 +75.00% 3
Yorkshire -29 16 £365 -8.75% 2
North West -53 14 £173 -70.26% 5
East Midlands -13 13 £500 +100.00% 7
West Midlands -52 11 £356 -20.83% 6
South West -32 8 £525 +31.25% 3
North East - 3 - -
Inventory Management
UK

Inventory 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 8 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.43%) Confluence
2 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.48%) Smallworld
Applications
1 13 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.48%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (12.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (6.19%) SAP MM
3 10 (4.76%) SAP EWM
4 5 (2.38%) SAP SD
5 4 (1.90%) SAP ERP
6 3 (1.43%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.95%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.95%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.48%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.48%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.48%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.95%) Azure
2 22 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (5.24%) AWS
3 11 (5.24%) Entra ID
4 6 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (2.86%) GCP
5 5 (2.38%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.90%) GitHub
7 3 (1.43%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.43%) Google Ads
7 3 (1.43%) SaaS
8 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.95%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.48%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.48%) Serverless
9 1 (0.48%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.48%) VPN
2 13 (6.19%) Firewall
3 12 (5.71%) DNS
4 11 (5.24%) WAN
4 11 (5.24%) Wireless
5 9 (4.29%) Network Security
5 9 (4.29%) WebEx
6 8 (3.81%) Internet
6 8 (3.81%) SAN
6 8 (3.81%) TCP/IP
7 7 (3.33%) DHCP
8 5 (2.38%) DMVPN
8 5 (2.38%) IPsec
8 5 (2.38%) SSL
9 4 (1.90%) Cisco IPT
9 4 (1.90%) LAN
10 2 (0.95%) 4G
10 2 (0.95%) MPLS
10 2 (0.95%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.48%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.38%) Power BI
2 3 (1.43%) Flink
2 3 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (0.95%) GIS
3 2 (0.95%) Metadata
3 2 (0.95%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.48%) MySQL
4 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.48%) OLTP
4 1 (0.48%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.95%) Flyway
2 2 (0.95%) Git
2 2 (0.95%) git-flow
2 2 (0.95%) Hudson
2 2 (0.95%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.95%) JUnit
2 2 (0.95%) Liquibase
2 2 (0.95%) Mockito
3 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.48%) Toad
General
1 82 (39.05%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
2 51 (24.29%) Finance
3 27 (12.86%) Manufacturing
4 22 (10.48%) Telecoms
5 18 (8.57%) Retail
6 15 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.29%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.86%) Banking
10 5 (2.38%) Billing
10 5 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.90%) Law
11 4 (1.90%) Legal
11 4 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.95%) Front Office
12 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (14.76%) Analyst
2 21 (10.00%) Consultant
3 18 (8.57%) IT Support
3 18 (8.57%) Lead
4 16 (7.62%) Senior
5 15 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
6 14 (6.67%) Architect
6 14 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 13 (6.19%) Business Analyst
8 12 (5.71%) IT Engineer
9 11 (5.24%) Support Analyst
10 10 (4.76%) Data Centre Engineer
10 10 (4.76%) Technical Support
11 9 (4.29%) IT Support Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) Desktop Support
12 8 (3.81%) IT Manager
12 8 (3.81%) Support Technician
13 7 (3.33%) Developer
13 7 (3.33%) IT Analyst
13 7 (3.33%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.76%) Redfish
2 5 (2.38%) REST
3 4 (1.90%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.90%) Middleware
3 4 (1.90%) Spring
4 3 (1.43%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (1.43%) Kafka
4 3 (1.43%) OpenAPI
4 3 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.43%) Swagger
5 2 (0.95%) Gherkin
5 2 (0.95%) HATEOAS
5 2 (0.95%) IDoc
5 2 (0.95%) Jasypt
5 2 (0.95%) JWT
5 2 (0.95%) Loki
5 2 (0.95%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.95%) SAP Core Interface
5 2 (0.95%) Spring Batch
5 2 (0.95%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.48%) Onboarding
2 20 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 19 (9.05%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.29%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (3.81%) FMCG
6 8 (3.81%) iPad
6 8 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.33%) iPhone
7 7 (3.33%) Web Conferencing
8 6 (2.86%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.86%) CMDB
8 6 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.38%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.90%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.90%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.43%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (28.10%) Windows
2 19 (9.05%) Linux
3 17 (8.10%) Windows 10
4 15 (7.14%) Mac OS
5 13 (6.19%) Android
6 12 (5.71%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.90%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.90%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.43%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.48%) CentOS
9 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (22.38%) Asset Management
3 41 (19.52%) ERP
4 40 (19.05%) Logistics
5 39 (18.57%) Migration
6 35 (16.67%) ITSM
7 31 (14.76%) Customer Service
8 30 (14.29%) ITIL
9 28 (13.33%) Service Management
10 23 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (10.95%) Data Migration
10 23 (10.95%) Roadmaps
10 23 (10.95%) User Acceptance Testing
11 21 (10.00%) Project Delivery
12 17 (8.10%) GAP Analysis
12 17 (8.10%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (8.10%) Test Automation
13 16 (7.62%) Computer Science
13 16 (7.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (7.14%) Inventory Control
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.33%) Python
2 6 (2.86%) Java
3 5 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.90%) Bicep
4 4 (1.90%) Shell Script
4 4 (1.90%) SQL
5 2 (0.95%) ABAP
5 2 (0.95%) PromQL
6 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.48%) C++
6 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.48%) SOQL
6 1 (0.48%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 37 (17.62%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.48%) Degree
3 20 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.57%) A+ Certification
5 15 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (2.38%) CISSP
8 5 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.90%) CISM
9 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (1.90%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.43%) CCNA
10 3 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.43%) PMP
11 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.95%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.38%) NIST
2 5 (2.38%) QA
2 5 (2.38%) SLA
3 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.95%) GDPR
4 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.95%) NCSC
4 2 (0.95%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) GRC
5 1 (0.48%) ISA99
5 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (12.86%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.76%) Firmware
3 4 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.43%) Docker
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (4.76%) Dell DRAC
2 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.86%) Terraform
4 5 (2.38%) Ansible
5 3 (1.43%) Grafana
5 3 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.43%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.95%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.95%) Consul
6 2 (0.95%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.95%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.48%) SCCM
7 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 39 (18.57%) SAP
3 24 (11.43%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.24%) Oracle
5 10 (4.76%) Apple
6 9 (4.29%) Juniper
7 8 (3.81%) Cisco
8 6 (2.86%) Google
9 5 (2.38%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.38%) F5
9 5 (2.38%) Qualys
9 5 (2.38%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.90%) Blue Coat
10 4 (1.90%) Samsung
10 4 (1.90%) Starlink
10 4 (1.90%) VMware
11 3 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.43%) Okta
11 3 (1.43%) Tenable
11 3 (1.43%) TOWER Software