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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 375 452
Rank change year-on-year -30 +77 +29
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 171 113 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.44% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.49% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 70 52
10th Percentile £166 £142 £180
25th Percentile £263 £176 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £349 £438
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% -20.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £525 £616
90th Percentile £716 £621 £840
UK median daily rate £380 £370 £425
% change year-on-year +2.70% -12.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 16
10th Percentile £13.58 £21.05 £11.03
25th Percentile £15.96 £22.61 £11.29
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £14.76
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% +63.85% -12.07%
75th Percentile £24.42 £29.38 £17.72
90th Percentile £56.32 £49.90 £19.64
UK median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £16.00
% change year-on-year -21.96% +51.13% -3.03%

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 30,972 23,170 33,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.17% 90.22% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,848 14,569 21,913
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,919 779 2,056
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.59 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.93
90th Percentile £72.51 £75.30 £72.17
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -40 45 £431 +30.48% 15
South East -11 42 £400 +5.26% 16
North of England -55 29 £500 -9.09% 13
Midlands -32 27 £390 +35.65% 8
West Midlands -32 19 £375 -11.76% 7
North West -34 17 £703 +21.12% 3
South West -21 14 £488 +121.59% 11
East Midlands -14 8 £500 +233.33% 1
East of England -25 8 £350 +70.73% 5
Yorkshire -60 8 £500 +36.99% 6
North East - 4 - - 5
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 (4.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.17%) SAS
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.58%) IIS
5 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (7.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 32 (18.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (15.20%) SAP MM
3 12 (7.02%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (6.43%) Oracle EBS R12
5 7 (4.09%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (2.34%) SAP EWM
7 3 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (1.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (1.75%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (1.17%) Oracle AGIS
8 2 (1.17%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (1.17%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (1.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (1.17%) Oracle SCM
8 2 (1.17%) SAP ERP
8 2 (1.17%) SAP PM
8 2 (1.17%) SAP SD
8 2 (1.17%) SAP WM
9 1 (0.58%) Endur
9 1 (0.58%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 26 (15.20%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (10.53%) Azure
3 8 (4.68%) OneDrive
4 6 (3.51%) OCI
5 4 (2.34%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.34%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.75%) AWS
6 3 (1.75%) Google Ads
7 2 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.17%) GCP
7 2 (1.17%) Slack
8 1 (0.58%) Google Drive
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.58%) SaaS
8 1 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.77%) VPN
2 9 (5.26%) Firewall
3 8 (4.68%) DNS
3 8 (4.68%) Wireless
4 7 (4.09%) WAN
5 6 (3.51%) Cisco IPT
5 6 (3.51%) DMVPN
5 6 (3.51%) IPsec
5 6 (3.51%) SSL
6 5 (2.92%) Network Security
7 4 (2.34%) LAN
8 3 (1.75%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.17%) DHCP
9 2 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.58%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.34%) Power BI
2 3 (1.75%) Flink
3 2 (1.17%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.17%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.58%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.58%) MySQL
4 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.58%) Tableau
4 1 (0.58%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 2 (1.17%) JIRA
2 1 (0.58%) Git
2 1 (0.58%) Hudson
2 1 (0.58%) QADirector
2 1 (0.58%) Robot Framework
2 1 (0.58%) Vite
2 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 65 (38.01%) Social Skills
2 46 (26.90%) Finance
3 22 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.43%) Manufacturing
4 11 (6.43%) Retail
4 11 (6.43%) Telecoms
5 10 (5.85%) Aerospace
6 8 (4.68%) Banking
7 7 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.09%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.75%) Back Office
9 3 (1.75%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.75%) Legal
9 3 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.17%) Billing
10 2 (1.17%) Front Office
10 2 (1.17%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Electronics
11 1 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (22.81%) Consultant
2 20 (11.70%) SAP Consultant
3 19 (11.11%) Analyst
4 16 (9.36%) Senior
5 14 (8.19%) Functional Consultant
6 13 (7.60%) IT Support
6 13 (7.60%) SAP MM Consultant
7 11 (6.43%) Desktop Support
7 11 (6.43%) Oracle Consultant
7 11 (6.43%) Support Engineer
8 10 (5.85%) Senior Consultant
9 9 (5.26%) IT Manager
9 9 (5.26%) Lead
9 9 (5.26%) Management Consultant
9 9 (5.26%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 9 (5.26%) Project Manager
10 8 (4.68%) IT Engineer
10 8 (4.68%) Support Specialist
11 7 (4.09%) Security Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.51%) 802.1X
1 6 (3.51%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (1.75%) Kafka
2 3 (1.75%) REST
3 2 (1.17%) OpenAPI
3 2 (1.17%) Redfish
3 2 (1.17%) Spring
3 2 (1.17%) Swagger
4 1 (0.58%) Blazor
4 1 (0.58%) CSS
4 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.58%) gRPC
4 1 (0.58%) Jest
4 1 (0.58%) Middleware
4 1 (0.58%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.58%) Parceljs
4 1 (0.58%) Sass
4 1 (0.58%) SignalR
4 1 (0.58%) SOAP
4 1 (0.58%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.77%) Onboarding
2 13 (7.60%) Data Centre
2 13 (7.60%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.34%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.75%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.75%) iPad
6 3 (1.75%) iPhone
6 3 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.75%) Replication
7 2 (1.17%) CMDB
7 2 (1.17%) Life Science
7 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 39 (22.81%) Windows
2 13 (7.60%) Windows 10
3 9 (5.26%) Linux
4 5 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.34%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.75%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.58%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (21.64%) Logistics
2 35 (20.47%) Asset Management
3 29 (16.96%) Customer Service
4 24 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (13.45%) Service Management
6 19 (11.11%) ERP
6 19 (11.11%) Migration
7 17 (9.94%) ITIL
8 16 (9.36%) Order Management
9 15 (8.77%) Roadmaps
9 15 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (8.19%) ITSM
11 12 (7.02%) Knowledge Transfer
12 11 (6.43%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (6.43%) Process Improvement
13 10 (5.85%) Cost Optimisation
13 10 (5.85%) User Acceptance Testing
14 9 (5.26%) Change Management
14 9 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (5.26%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.60%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.34%) Python
2 4 (2.34%) Shell Script
2 4 (2.34%) SQL
3 3 (1.75%) Java
4 1 (0.58%) C++
4 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.58%) R
4 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 35 (20.47%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.19%) Degree
4 5 (2.92%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.34%) A+ Certification
5 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.17%) CCNA
7 2 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.17%) HNC
7 2 (1.17%) HND
7 2 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.17%) PMP
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) CCNP
8 1 (0.58%) MBA
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.34%) QA
3 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.17%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) IFRS
4 1 (0.58%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (16.96%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.34%) Docker
4 3 (1.75%) Firmware
4 3 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.09%) Jamf Pro
2 7 (4.09%) SCCM
3 2 (1.17%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (0.58%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.58%) CEMLI
4 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.58%) Grafana
4 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (25.15%) SAP
2 31 (18.13%) Microsoft
3 27 (15.79%) Oracle
4 18 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.26%) Cisco
6 7 (4.09%) CheckPoint
6 7 (4.09%) F5
6 7 (4.09%) Juniper
7 6 (3.51%) Blue Coat
8 3 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.75%) Veeam
8 3 (1.75%) VMware
9 2 (1.17%) Ariba
9 2 (1.17%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.17%) Starlink
10 1 (0.58%) Commvault
10 1 (0.58%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.58%) McAfee
10 1 (0.58%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.58%) Tenable