Inventory Management Contracts in England

Inventory Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Inventory Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inventory Management over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 422 491
Rank change year-on-year +83 +69 +143
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 160 130 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.41% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 60 88
10th Percentile £150 £168 £204
25th Percentile £185 £289 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% -2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £566 £603 £610
90th Percentile £660 £725 £756
UK median daily rate £250 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -48.72% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 22 5
10th Percentile - £11.06 -
25th Percentile - £12.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £17.07
Median % change year-on-year +43.69% +2.56% -14.68%
75th Percentile £38.25 £21.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £21.95 £19.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £16.99 £17.07
% change year-on-year +48.01% -0.42% -14.68%

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 24,147 31,870 43,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.93% 85.64% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,520 20,680 30,282
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,216 2,288 1,563
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%
75th Percentile £54.81 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £72.73 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
% change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Inventory Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Inventory Management in England

Inventory Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Inventory Management in England

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inventory Management in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in England

Inventory Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Inventory Management in England

Inventory Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inventory Management in England over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 50 £500 +5.26% 122
South East +56 34 £170 -62.22% 46
East of England +38 27 £200 -13.04% 13
North of England +6 19 £580 +16.00% 30
Midlands +23 18 £250 -29.58% 33
North West +16 16 £580 +16.00% 11
East Midlands +10 11 £250 +56.25% 15
South West +37 8 £220 -63.33% 21
West Midlands +6 4 £450 - 18
Yorkshire +4 3 £400 - 13
Inventory Management
UK

Inventory Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (6.88%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.88%) CMS
2 3 (1.88%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.25%) Camunda
3 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (8.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.38%) SAP MM
3 3 (1.88%) SAP SCM
4 2 (1.25%) SAP EWM
4 2 (1.25%) SAP LE
4 2 (1.25%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.63%) Endur
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle ASCP
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.63%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.63%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.63%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.38%) Azure
2 8 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (3.75%) Snowflake
5 5 (3.13%) AWS
6 3 (1.88%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.88%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.88%) GCP
6 3 (1.88%) Serverless
7 2 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.63%) Dialogflow
8 1 (0.63%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.63%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.63%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.63%) VPN
2 8 (5.00%) 4G
2 8 (5.00%) Firewall
3 7 (4.38%) LAN
3 7 (4.38%) WAN
3 7 (4.38%) Wireless
4 6 (3.75%) DNS
4 6 (3.75%) Network Security
4 6 (3.75%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.13%) DHCP
5 5 (3.13%) VoIP
6 4 (2.50%) MPLS
7 3 (1.88%) 5G
7 3 (1.88%) DOCSIS
7 3 (1.88%) GPON
7 3 (1.88%) LTE
7 3 (1.88%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (1.88%) RFID
7 3 (1.88%) xDSL
8 2 (1.25%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.00%) Power BI
2 5 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 5 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.88%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.88%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.63%) Big Data
5 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.63%) OLTP
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.63%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.63%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.25%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) Hudson
General
1 95 (59.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (10.63%) Finance
3 15 (9.38%) Manufacturing
4 14 (8.75%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (5.00%) Retail
6 6 (3.75%) Legal
6 6 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.13%) Marketing
7 5 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.88%) Automotive
8 3 (1.88%) Banking
9 2 (1.25%) Advertising
9 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.63%) Back Office
10 1 (0.63%) Law
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (17.50%) Consultant
2 15 (9.38%) SAP Consultant
3 14 (8.75%) Lead
4 13 (8.13%) Analyst
4 13 (8.13%) Desktop Support
4 13 (8.13%) Support Engineer
5 11 (6.88%) IT Support
5 11 (6.88%) Senior
6 8 (5.00%) Architect
6 8 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
6 8 (5.00%) Team Leader
7 6 (3.75%) Business Analyst
7 6 (3.75%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 6 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (3.75%) SAP MM Consultant
7 6 (3.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.13%) Administration Assistant
8 5 (3.13%) IT Assistant
8 5 (3.13%) IT Engineer
9 4 (2.50%) Deployment Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.88%) OAuth
1 3 (1.88%) OAuth2
1 3 (1.88%) OpenID
1 3 (1.88%) SAML
2 2 (1.25%) EDI
2 2 (1.25%) IDoc
3 1 (0.63%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.63%) ATL
3 1 (0.63%) Google JAX
3 1 (0.63%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.63%) JAX
3 1 (0.63%) LangChain
3 1 (0.63%) Middleware
3 1 (0.63%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.25%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (8.13%) Driving Licence
3 12 (7.50%) EPoS
4 11 (6.88%) iPad
4 11 (6.88%) iPhone
5 10 (6.25%) CMDB
6 6 (3.75%) Life Science
7 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (2.50%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.88%) TM Forum
10 2 (1.25%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.63%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.63%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.63%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.00%) Windows
2 12 (7.50%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.25%) Linux
3 2 (1.25%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (16.88%) Logistics
2 27 (16.88%) Workflow
3 23 (14.38%) Migration
4 21 (13.13%) Asset Management
5 20 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 20 (12.50%) Time Management
6 19 (11.88%) ITIL
7 17 (10.63%) IT Asset Management
7 17 (10.63%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (10.00%) Service Management
9 14 (8.75%) Customer Service
9 14 (8.75%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (8.13%) Service Delivery
10 13 (8.13%) Workflow Management
11 12 (7.50%) Data Modelling
11 12 (7.50%) ITSM
11 12 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (6.88%) Inventory Control
12 11 (6.88%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.75%) SQL
2 2 (1.25%) Python
3 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 38 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 32 (20.00%) Degree
4 15 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (5.00%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.50%) CCNA
7 4 (2.50%) CCNP
7 4 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.88%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.25%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.25%) PMP
9 2 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.63%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.63%) CISSP
10 1 (0.63%) CPIM
10 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.63%) GIAC
10 1 (0.63%) MCP
10 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.38%) COSHH
2 6 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.50%) PMO
4 3 (1.88%) QA
5 2 (1.25%) GDPR
5 2 (1.25%) OASIS TOSCA
5 2 (1.25%) SLA
6 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.63%) NIST
6 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.88%) Firmware
3 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.63%) vSphere
3 1 (0.63%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (6.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (3.75%) FortiGate
3 3 (1.88%) Ansible
3 3 (1.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.88%) SCCM
4 2 (1.25%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (1.25%) CASB
5 1 (0.63%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.63%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 36 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 28 (17.50%) SAP
3 10 (6.25%) McAfee
4 8 (5.00%) Google
5 7 (4.38%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.13%) Ariba
6 5 (3.13%) Cisco
7 3 (1.88%) Oracle
7 3 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.25%) Amdocs
8 2 (1.25%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.25%) Apple
8 2 (1.25%) Ericsson
8 2 (1.25%) F5
8 2 (1.25%) Huawei
8 2 (1.25%) Hyperion
8 2 (1.25%) NetCracker
8 2 (1.25%) Nokia
9 1 (0.63%) Criteo
9 1 (0.63%) IFS