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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 409 458
Rank change year-on-year +64 +49 +142
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 180 119 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.43% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 59 72
10th Percentile £201 £140 £206
25th Percentile £250 £244 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -17.95% -2.50%
75th Percentile £629 £525 £600
90th Percentile £720 £665 £650
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 5 4
10th Percentile £16.30 £22.30 -
25th Percentile £20.57 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £15.53
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +55.67% -16.98%
75th Percentile - £31.50 £18.55
90th Percentile £30.98 £32.85 £19.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £15.53
% change year-on-year +4.01% +55.67% -16.98%

All Process and 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 25,569 27,638 36,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.90% 86.49% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,234 16,840 24,997
10th Percentile £294 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,594 1,106 1,474
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%
75th Percentile £44.80 £66.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.22 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%

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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 2025. 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 +33 59 £575 +21.05% 35
South East +20 32 £400 +11.11% 32
Midlands +14 31 £300 -29.41% 10
North of England -20 26 £703 +77.85% 19
West Midlands -6 17 £375 -11.76% 4
North West -5 16 £703 - 8
South West +28 15 £225 -62.50% 6
East Midlands - 12 £250 - 6
East of England -6 11 £238 +13.10% 5
North East -1 6 - - 3
Yorkshire -28 4 £400 +1.27% 9
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 11 (6.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.22%) Confluence
4 3 (1.67%) CMS
4 3 (1.67%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.11%) Camunda
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) IIS
6 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 25 (13.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (10.00%) SAP MM
3 4 (2.22%) Oracle SCM
3 4 (2.22%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.67%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.67%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.67%) SAP SCM
5 2 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (1.11%) SAP PP
5 2 (1.11%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.56%) Endur
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle AGIS
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle ASCP
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.56%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.56%) Azure
2 15 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (7.22%) OneDrive
4 11 (6.11%) OCI
5 5 (2.78%) AWS
6 4 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.22%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.67%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.67%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.67%) Serverless
8 2 (1.11%) GCP
8 2 (1.11%) Slack
8 2 (1.11%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.56%) Dialogflow
9 1 (0.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.56%) Vertex AI
9 1 (0.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.89%) VPN
2 18 (10.00%) Firewall
3 17 (9.44%) DNS
4 16 (8.89%) WAN
4 16 (8.89%) Wireless
5 14 (7.78%) Network Security
6 10 (5.56%) Cisco IPT
6 10 (5.56%) DMVPN
6 10 (5.56%) IPsec
6 10 (5.56%) SSL
7 9 (5.00%) 4G
8 7 (3.89%) DHCP
8 7 (3.89%) LAN
8 7 (3.89%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.67%) DOCSIS
9 3 (1.67%) GPON
9 3 (1.67%) LTE
9 3 (1.67%) MPLS
9 3 (1.67%) VoIP
9 3 (1.67%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.22%) Power BI
2 3 (1.67%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.56%) EDRMS
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.56%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 5 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 92 (51.11%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.56%) Finance
3 24 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.78%) Banking
8 5 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.78%) Legal
9 4 (2.22%) Back Office
9 4 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.67%) Automotive
10 3 (1.67%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.67%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.56%) French Language
11 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Law
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (22.22%) Consultant
2 23 (12.78%) Desktop Support
2 23 (12.78%) SAP Consultant
3 20 (11.11%) Senior
4 16 (8.89%) Analyst
5 13 (7.22%) SAP MM Consultant
6 12 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
7 11 (6.11%) Senior Consultant
8 10 (5.56%) Desktop Specialist
8 10 (5.56%) Desktop Support Specialist
8 10 (5.56%) Support Specialist
9 9 (5.00%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.44%) Architect
10 8 (4.44%) Management Consultant
11 7 (3.89%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.89%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 7 (3.89%) Oracle Consultant
11 7 (3.89%) Security Engineer
11 7 (3.89%) Senior Management Consultant
11 7 (3.89%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.56%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.67%) OAuth
2 3 (1.67%) OAuth2
2 3 (1.67%) OpenID
2 3 (1.67%) SAML
2 3 (1.67%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.11%) EDI
3 2 (1.11%) IDoc
4 1 (0.56%) Faiss
4 1 (0.56%) Google JAX
4 1 (0.56%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.56%) JAX
4 1 (0.56%) LangChain
4 1 (0.56%) Middleware
4 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.56%) REST
4 1 (0.56%) SOAP
4 1 (0.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.22%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.33%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.33%) iPad
4 6 (3.33%) iPhone
4 6 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.67%) CMDB
6 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.67%) TM Forum
7 2 (1.11%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.11%) Life Science
7 2 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.11%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.56%) Windows
2 23 (12.78%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.33%) Linux
3 6 (3.33%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.22%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (20.56%) Logistics
1 37 (20.56%) Migration
2 28 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (15.56%) Workflow
3 25 (13.89%) Workflow Management
4 20 (11.11%) ERP
5 18 (10.00%) ITIL
6 16 (8.89%) Customer Service
6 16 (8.89%) Knowledge Transfer
7 14 (7.78%) Service Management
7 14 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (7.78%) Supply Chain Planning
8 13 (7.22%) Data Governance
9 12 (6.67%) Change Management
9 12 (6.67%) Patch Management
10 11 (6.11%) Analytics
10 11 (6.11%) Inventory Control
10 11 (6.11%) Master Data Management
10 11 (6.11%) Mobile Device Management
10 11 (6.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.11%) Python
2 2 (1.11%) SQL
3 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 67 (37.22%) Security Cleared
2 63 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.56%) Degree
4 6 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.78%) CCNA
5 5 (2.78%) CCNP
5 5 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.67%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.11%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.56%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CISSP
8 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.56%) CPIM
8 1 (0.56%) GIAC
8 1 (0.56%) MCP
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.22%) QA
3 2 (1.11%) GDPR
3 2 (1.11%) NIST
3 2 (1.11%) OASIS TOSCA
3 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (12.22%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.11%) Firmware
4 1 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (3.89%) FortiGate
3 6 (3.33%) SCCM
4 4 (2.22%) Ansible
4 4 (2.22%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (1.11%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 37 (20.56%) SAP
2 29 (16.11%) Microsoft
3 20 (11.11%) Oracle
4 11 (6.11%) Cisco
5 10 (5.56%) Blue Coat
5 10 (5.56%) CheckPoint
5 10 (5.56%) F5
5 10 (5.56%) Juniper
6 8 (4.44%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.33%) McAfee
7 6 (3.33%) Starlink
8 3 (1.67%) Apple
8 3 (1.67%) Google
9 2 (1.11%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.11%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.11%) Ericsson
9 2 (1.11%) Huawei
9 2 (1.11%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.11%) NetCracker
9 2 (1.11%) Nokia