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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 344 409
Rank change year-on-year -48 +65 +49
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 266 180 119
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.64% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.70% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 87 59
10th Percentile £188 £201 £140
25th Percentile £225 £250 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -17.95%
75th Percentile £588 £629 £525
90th Percentile £675 £720 £665
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 30 5
10th Percentile £14.84 £16.30 £22.30
25th Percentile £17.45 £20.57 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +4.01% +55.67%
75th Percentile £39.69 - £31.50
90th Percentile £62.13 £30.98 £32.85
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year -16.50% +4.01% +55.67%

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 39,775 25,570 27,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.94% 90.90% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,015 16,235 16,841
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,044 1,594 1,106
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.41 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.80 £66.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -56 104 £525 -8.70% 80
North of England -56 41 £425 -39.50% 10
South East -54 40 £318 -20.63% 16
Midlands -43 39 £500 +66.67% 9
East of England -13 26 £300 +26.32% 10
North West -44 22 £566 -19.43% 6
West Midlands -43 20 £500 +33.33% 7
East Midlands -10 19 £500 +100.00% 2
Yorkshire -19 18 £365 -8.75% 3
South West -39 10 £315 +40.00% 5
North East -46 1 - - 1
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 5 (1.88%) Confluence
1 5 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.50%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (9.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 36 (13.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (5.64%) SAP MM
3 5 (1.88%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.13%) Oracle SCM
4 3 (1.13%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.13%) SAP QM
4 3 (1.13%) SAP WM
4 3 (1.13%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.75%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.75%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.75%) SAP PP
5 2 (0.75%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.38%) Endur
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.38%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 38 (14.29%) Azure
2 32 (12.03%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (7.52%) Entra ID
4 18 (6.77%) AWS
4 18 (6.77%) Power Platform
5 13 (4.89%) GCP
6 11 (4.14%) Microsoft Copilot
7 7 (2.63%) GitHub
8 6 (2.26%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.50%) AWS Control Tower
10 4 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.50%) SaaS
11 3 (1.13%) OCI
12 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.75%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.75%) Smartsheet
13 1 (0.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 1 (0.38%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.89%) VPN
2 16 (6.02%) DNS
2 16 (6.02%) Firewall
3 15 (5.64%) Wireless
4 12 (4.51%) WebEx
5 11 (4.14%) WAN
6 9 (3.38%) DHCP
6 9 (3.38%) Internet
6 9 (3.38%) Network Security
7 8 (3.01%) SAN
7 8 (3.01%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.63%) LAN
8 7 (2.63%) SSL
9 6 (2.26%) Cisco IPT
9 6 (2.26%) DMVPN
9 6 (2.26%) IPsec
10 5 (1.88%) Ethernet
11 4 (1.50%) 4G
11 4 (1.50%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.51%) Power BI
2 2 (0.75%) GIS
2 2 (0.75%) Metadata
2 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.75%) Power Query
2 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.38%) OLTP
3 1 (0.38%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (6.02%) JIRA
2 4 (1.50%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.13%) Git
4 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.75%) Flyway
4 2 (0.75%) git-flow
4 2 (0.75%) GitLab
4 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.75%) JUnit
4 2 (0.75%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.75%) LSMW
4 2 (0.75%) Mockito
5 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.38%) Hudson
5 1 (0.38%) Toad
General
1 103 (38.72%) Social Skills
2 59 (22.18%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (17.29%) Manufacturing
4 44 (16.54%) Finance
5 37 (13.91%) Retail
6 19 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (4.14%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.01%) Banking
10 8 (3.01%) Billing
11 7 (2.63%) Back Office
12 6 (2.26%) Aviation
12 6 (2.26%) Legal
13 5 (1.88%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.50%) Automotive
14 4 (1.50%) Law
14 4 (1.50%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (15.41%) Analyst
2 28 (10.53%) Support Engineer
3 26 (9.77%) Architect
4 25 (9.40%) Senior
5 21 (7.89%) IT Support
6 19 (7.14%) Consultant
7 18 (6.77%) IT Engineer
8 17 (6.39%) Business Analyst
9 15 (5.64%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (4.89%) Technical Support
11 11 (4.14%) Lead
12 10 (3.76%) Administrator
12 10 (3.76%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (3.76%) Senior Business Analyst
13 9 (3.38%) SAP Consultant
14 8 (3.01%) Data Centre Engineer
14 8 (3.01%) Support Specialist
14 8 (3.01%) Support Technician
15 7 (2.63%) Desktop Engineer
15 7 (2.63%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.51%) Terraform
2 7 (2.63%) 802.1X
3 6 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.88%) Middleware
4 5 (1.88%) REST
5 4 (1.50%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (1.50%) Redfish
6 2 (0.75%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.75%) HATEOAS
6 2 (0.75%) IDoc
6 2 (0.75%) Jasypt
6 2 (0.75%) JWT
6 2 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.75%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.75%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (0.75%) Spring Batch
6 2 (0.75%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.75%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.77%) Onboarding
2 25 (9.40%) Data Centre
3 22 (8.27%) CMDB
4 20 (7.52%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.51%) FMCG
5 12 (4.51%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (3.76%) Web Conferencing
7 9 (3.38%) Driving Licence
8 8 (3.01%) Enterprise Storage
9 7 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.26%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.26%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.88%) iPad
11 5 (1.88%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.50%) iPhone
12 4 (1.50%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (25.19%) Windows
2 16 (6.02%) macOS
2 16 (6.02%) Windows 10
3 14 (5.26%) Linux
4 13 (4.89%) Android
5 10 (3.76%) Apple iOS
6 8 (3.01%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.50%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.50%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (28.57%) Logistics
2 71 (26.69%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (21.05%) ERP
3 56 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 52 (19.55%) Asset Management
5 48 (18.05%) Inventory Control
6 43 (16.17%) Customer Service
7 38 (14.29%) Process Improvement
8 33 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (12.41%) ITSM
9 28 (10.53%) ITIL
10 27 (10.15%) Service Management
11 26 (9.77%) Migration
12 23 (8.65%) Change Management
13 22 (8.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (7.89%) Agile
14 21 (7.89%) User Acceptance Testing
14 21 (7.89%) Validation
15 20 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (7.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.89%) PowerShell
1 13 (4.89%) Python
2 8 (3.01%) Shell Script
3 7 (2.63%) SQL
4 6 (2.26%) Bicep
5 4 (1.50%) Java
6 3 (1.13%) ABAP
7 2 (0.75%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.75%) PromQL
7 2 (0.75%) SOQL
7 2 (0.75%) SOSL
8 1 (0.38%) Bash
8 1 (0.38%) C++
8 1 (0.38%) Perl
8 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.28%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.02%) Degree
4 17 (6.39%) A+ Certification
5 12 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.88%) CCNA
8 5 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.88%) CISSP
9 4 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.50%) CCNP
9 4 (1.50%) CISM
9 4 (1.50%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.50%) ISSAP
9 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.13%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.13%) PMP
10 3 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.38%) QA
3 8 (3.01%) SLA
4 7 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.26%) NIST
6 3 (1.13%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.13%) NCSC
6 3 (1.13%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.75%) COSHH
8 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.38%) GDPR
8 1 (0.38%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 28 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.88%) Docker
3 5 (1.88%) Firmware
4 3 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) zsh
Systems Management
1 16 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.38%) Ansible
2 9 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.01%) SCCM
4 4 (1.50%) Dell DRAC
4 4 (1.50%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.13%) Grafana
6 2 (0.75%) Consul
6 2 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.75%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.38%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 105 (39.47%) Microsoft
2 64 (24.06%) SAP
3 26 (9.77%) ServiceNow
4 20 (7.52%) Oracle
5 14 (5.26%) Google
6 12 (4.51%) Apple
7 11 (4.14%) Cisco
8 10 (3.76%) Juniper
9 7 (2.63%) JD Edwards
9 7 (2.63%) Qualys
9 7 (2.63%) Samsung
10 6 (2.26%) Blue Coat
10 6 (2.26%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.26%) F5
10 6 (2.26%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.26%) VMware
10 6 (2.26%) Zscaler
11 5 (1.88%) Ariba
11 5 (1.88%) IBM
11 5 (1.88%) Splunk