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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 331 397
Rank change year-on-year -57 +66 +66
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 261 185 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.67% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.73% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 92 56
10th Percentile £193 £185 £136
25th Percentile £232 £250 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £395 £383
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% +3.27% -23.50%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £520
90th Percentile £675 £722 £664
UK median daily rate £450 £390 £425
% change year-on-year +15.38% -8.24% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 28 2
10th Percentile £14.94 £16.30 £30.58
25th Percentile £17.45 £20.31 £30.69
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% -20.79% +104.41%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £33.19
90th Percentile £178.75 £39.93 £33.53
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £31.75
% change year-on-year -16.50% -20.79% +104.41%

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 39,415 25,251 27,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.00% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,982 16,042 16,911
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,873 1,537 1,195
10th Percentile £13.88 £14.39 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £47.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -48 100 £523 -9.13% 113
North of England -58 47 £425 -39.50% 42
Midlands -31 40 £500 +66.67% 34
South East -54 37 £360 -7.10% 56
North West -39 24 £566 -20.84% 26
East of England -18 21 £250 +17.65% 12
West Midlands -42 21 £463 +22.52% 20
Yorkshire -27 20 £365 -8.75% 11
East Midlands -11 19 £500 +100.00% 14
South West -43 10 £315 +40.00% 19
North East -42 3 - - 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 6 (2.30%) Confluence
2 5 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.53%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 23 (8.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 34 (13.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.60%) SAP MM
3 5 (1.92%) SAP ERP
4 4 (1.53%) SAP EWM
5 3 (1.15%) SAP QM
5 3 (1.15%) SAP WM
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle SCM
6 2 (0.77%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.77%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.77%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.77%) SAP Travel Management
6 2 (0.77%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.38%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.38%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.38%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.38%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.38%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.41%) Azure
2 34 (13.03%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (7.28%) Entra ID
4 18 (6.90%) AWS
5 17 (6.51%) Power Platform
6 11 (4.21%) Microsoft Copilot
7 10 (3.83%) GCP
8 7 (2.68%) GitHub
9 6 (2.30%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.53%) SaaS
12 3 (1.15%) AWS Control Tower
12 3 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (0.77%) OCI
13 2 (0.77%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.77%) Smartsheet
14 1 (0.38%) Amazon ECR
14 1 (0.38%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.43%) VPN
2 17 (6.51%) Firewall
3 16 (6.13%) DNS
4 15 (5.75%) Wireless
5 12 (4.60%) WebEx
6 11 (4.21%) WAN
7 10 (3.83%) Network Security
8 9 (3.45%) DHCP
9 8 (3.07%) Internet
9 8 (3.07%) SSL
9 8 (3.07%) TCP/IP
10 7 (2.68%) DMVPN
10 7 (2.68%) IPsec
11 6 (2.30%) Cisco IPT
11 6 (2.30%) LAN
12 5 (1.92%) SAN
13 4 (1.53%) 4G
13 4 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
14 1 (0.38%) Telepresence
14 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.21%) Power BI
2 2 (0.77%) Metadata
2 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.77%) Power Query
3 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.38%) GIS
3 1 (0.38%) OLTP
3 1 (0.38%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (7.28%) JIRA
2 4 (1.53%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.15%) Git
4 2 (0.77%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.77%) Flyway
4 2 (0.77%) git-flow
4 2 (0.77%) GitLab
4 2 (0.77%) Hudson
4 2 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.77%) JUnit
4 2 (0.77%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.77%) Mockito
5 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.38%) Toad
General
1 103 (39.46%) Social Skills
2 59 (22.61%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (16.86%) Finance
4 41 (15.71%) Manufacturing
5 36 (13.79%) Retail
6 17 (6.51%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (6.13%) Telecoms
8 12 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.07%) Billing
11 7 (2.68%) Back Office
12 6 (2.30%) Aviation
12 6 (2.30%) Banking
12 6 (2.30%) Legal
13 4 (1.53%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.53%) Law
13 4 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.53%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.15%) Automotive
15 2 (0.77%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 43 (16.48%) Analyst
2 26 (9.96%) Support Engineer
3 25 (9.58%) Architect
3 25 (9.58%) Senior
4 22 (8.43%) IT Support
5 21 (8.05%) Consultant
6 17 (6.51%) Business Analyst
6 17 (6.51%) IT Engineer
7 14 (5.36%) IT Support Engineer
8 13 (4.98%) Lead
8 13 (4.98%) Technical Support
9 11 (4.21%) SAP Consultant
10 10 (3.83%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (3.83%) Senior Business Analyst
11 9 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.45%) Support Analyst
12 8 (3.07%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.07%) Support Specialist
12 8 (3.07%) Support Technician
13 7 (2.68%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.45%) Terraform
2 7 (2.68%) 802.1X
3 6 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.92%) Middleware
4 5 (1.92%) Redfish
4 5 (1.92%) REST
5 3 (1.15%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (0.77%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.77%) JDBC
6 2 (0.77%) JWT
6 2 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.77%) Loki
6 2 (0.77%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.77%) SAP TM
6 2 (0.77%) SOAP
6 2 (0.77%) Spring
6 2 (0.77%) Spring Batch
6 2 (0.77%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (0.77%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 22 (8.43%) Data Centre
3 20 (7.66%) Management Information System
4 16 (6.13%) CMDB
5 12 (4.60%) Video Conferencing
6 11 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.83%) FMCG
7 10 (3.83%) Web Conferencing
8 9 (3.45%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.30%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.92%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.92%) iPad
10 5 (1.92%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.53%) iPhone
11 4 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (25.67%) Windows
2 17 (6.51%) Windows 10
3 15 (5.75%) Mac OS
4 13 (4.98%) Android
4 13 (4.98%) Linux
5 10 (3.83%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.30%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.15%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (26.82%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (26.44%) Logistics
3 58 (22.22%) ERP
4 48 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 47 (18.01%) Asset Management
6 44 (16.86%) Customer Service
7 43 (16.48%) Inventory Control
8 37 (14.18%) ITSM
9 34 (13.03%) Process Improvement
10 33 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (11.49%) ITIL
12 29 (11.11%) Migration
12 29 (11.11%) Service Management
13 23 (8.81%) User Acceptance Testing
14 21 (8.05%) Agile
14 21 (8.05%) Roadmaps
14 21 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 20 (7.66%) Change Management
15 20 (7.66%) Validation
16 18 (6.90%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.60%) PowerShell
2 10 (3.83%) Python
3 7 (2.68%) Shell Script
3 7 (2.68%) SQL
4 4 (1.53%) Bicep
5 3 (1.15%) Java
6 2 (0.77%) ABAP
6 2 (0.77%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.77%) PromQL
6 2 (0.77%) SOQL
6 2 (0.77%) SOSL
7 1 (0.38%) Bash
7 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.96%) Degree
4 19 (7.28%) A+ Certification
5 13 (4.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.92%) CCNA
8 5 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (1.53%) CCNP
9 4 (1.53%) CISM
9 4 (1.53%) CISSP
9 4 (1.53%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.15%) PMP
10 3 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.77%) CFA
11 2 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.45%) QA
2 9 (3.45%) SLA
3 6 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.30%) NIST
4 3 (1.15%) NCSC
5 2 (0.77%) COSHH
5 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.38%) GDPR
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) ISA99
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (11.49%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.30%) Firmware
2 6 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.92%) Docker
4 2 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) zsh
Systems Management
1 16 (6.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.07%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.68%) Ansible
3 7 (2.68%) SCCM
4 5 (1.92%) Dell DRAC
5 4 (1.53%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.77%) Consul
6 2 (0.77%) Grafana
6 2 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.77%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.38%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 101 (38.70%) Microsoft
2 59 (22.61%) SAP
3 25 (9.58%) ServiceNow
4 19 (7.28%) Oracle
5 12 (4.60%) Apple
5 12 (4.60%) Cisco
5 12 (4.60%) Google
6 11 (4.21%) Juniper
7 7 (2.68%) CheckPoint
7 7 (2.68%) F5
7 7 (2.68%) JD Edwards
7 7 (2.68%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.68%) Samsung
8 6 (2.30%) Blue Coat
8 6 (2.30%) VMware
8 6 (2.30%) Zscaler
9 5 (1.92%) IBM
9 5 (1.92%) Qualys
10 4 (1.53%) Ariba
10 4 (1.53%) Salesforce