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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 343 410
Rank change year-on-year -67 +67 +70
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 211 163 125
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.59% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.65% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 102 57
10th Percentile £200 £150 £162
25th Percentile £226 £185 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £277 £475
Median % change year-on-year +44.40% -41.68% -5.94%
75th Percentile £544 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £648 £688
UK median daily rate £425 £250 £475
% change year-on-year +70.00% -47.37% -11.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 18 15
10th Percentile £15.00 £24.66 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.50 - £15.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% +19.76% +23.06%
75th Percentile £62.13 - £21.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £39.93 £27.85
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £21.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% +19.76% +23.06%

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 38,210 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.22% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,914 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £69.49 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -38 82 £465 -10.36% 31
South East -60 42 £275 +44.74% 33
North of England -56 32 £365 -37.07% 20
Midlands -54 25 £475 +90.00% 20
East of England -29 17 £215 +7.50% 8
Yorkshire -30 17 £365 -8.75% 10
East Midlands -13 13 £500 +100.00% 8
North West -49 12 £400 -31.03% 9
West Midlands -51 12 £356 -20.83% 12
South West -32 8 £525 +31.25% 10
North East - 3 - - 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 7 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.42%) Confluence
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.47%) Smallworld
Applications
1 12 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.47%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.47%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 23 (10.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (5.21%) SAP MM
3 10 (4.74%) SAP EWM
4 5 (2.37%) SAP SD
5 4 (1.90%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.95%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.95%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.95%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.47%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.47%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.47%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.32%) Azure
2 22 (10.43%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (5.69%) Entra ID
4 11 (5.21%) AWS
5 6 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.84%) GCP
6 5 (2.37%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.90%) GitHub
8 3 (1.42%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.42%) Google Ads
8 3 (1.42%) SaaS
9 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.95%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.47%) OCI
10 1 (0.47%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.47%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.95%) VPN
2 13 (6.16%) Firewall
3 12 (5.69%) WebEx
4 11 (5.21%) DNS
4 11 (5.21%) WAN
4 11 (5.21%) Wireless
5 9 (4.27%) Network Security
6 8 (3.79%) Internet
6 8 (3.79%) SAN
7 7 (3.32%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.84%) DHCP
9 5 (2.37%) DMVPN
9 5 (2.37%) IPsec
9 5 (2.37%) SSL
10 4 (1.90%) Cisco IPT
10 4 (1.90%) LAN
11 2 (0.95%) 4G
11 2 (0.95%) MPLS
11 2 (0.95%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.47%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.37%) Power BI
2 3 (1.42%) Flink
2 3 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (0.95%) GIS
3 2 (0.95%) Metadata
3 2 (0.95%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.47%) OLTP
4 1 (0.47%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.47%) Tableau
4 1 (0.47%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 16 (7.58%) JIRA
2 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.95%) Flyway
2 2 (0.95%) Git
2 2 (0.95%) git-flow
2 2 (0.95%) Hudson
2 2 (0.95%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.95%) JUnit
2 2 (0.95%) Liquibase
2 2 (0.95%) Mockito
3 1 (0.47%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.47%) Toad
General
1 84 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.17%) Analytical Skills
2 51 (24.17%) Finance
3 27 (12.80%) Manufacturing
4 21 (9.95%) Telecoms
5 20 (9.48%) Retail
6 17 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.27%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.84%) Banking
9 6 (2.84%) Billing
9 6 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.90%) Law
11 4 (1.90%) Legal
11 4 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.42%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.95%) Front Office
13 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.95%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (14.69%) Analyst
2 19 (9.00%) Consultant
3 18 (8.53%) IT Support
4 17 (8.06%) Lead
4 17 (8.06%) Senior
5 15 (7.11%) Support Engineer
6 14 (6.64%) Architect
6 14 (6.64%) Business Analyst
7 13 (6.16%) IT Engineer
7 13 (6.16%) SAP Consultant
8 12 (5.69%) Technical Support
9 10 (4.74%) Data Centre Engineer
9 10 (4.74%) IT Support Engineer
10 9 (4.27%) Support Analyst
10 9 (4.27%) Support Technician
11 8 (3.79%) IT Manager
12 7 (3.32%) Desktop Support
12 7 (3.32%) Developer
13 6 (2.84%) Project Manager
13 6 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.74%) Redfish
2 5 (2.37%) REST
3 4 (1.90%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.90%) Middleware
3 4 (1.90%) Spring
4 3 (1.42%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (1.42%) Kafka
4 3 (1.42%) OpenAPI
4 3 (1.42%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.42%) Swagger
5 2 (0.95%) Gherkin
5 2 (0.95%) HATEOAS
5 2 (0.95%) IDoc
5 2 (0.95%) Jasypt
5 2 (0.95%) JWT
5 2 (0.95%) Loki
5 2 (0.95%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.95%) SAP Core Interface
5 2 (0.95%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.95%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.43%) Data Centre
1 22 (10.43%) Onboarding
2 20 (9.48%) Management Information System
3 12 (5.69%) Video Conferencing
4 11 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (4.74%) Web Conferencing
6 9 (4.27%) FMCG
7 8 (3.79%) CMDB
8 7 (3.32%) iPad
8 7 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.84%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.84%) iPhone
9 6 (2.84%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.90%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.90%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.42%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (27.96%) Windows
2 18 (8.53%) Linux
3 16 (7.58%) Windows 10
4 14 (6.64%) Mac OS
5 12 (5.69%) Android
6 11 (5.21%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.90%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.90%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.42%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.47%) CentOS
9 1 (0.47%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (23.70%) Asset Management
2 47 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (20.38%) Logistics
4 40 (18.96%) ERP
5 38 (18.01%) ITSM
6 37 (17.54%) Migration
7 29 (13.74%) Customer Service
8 28 (13.27%) ITIL
9 27 (12.80%) Service Management
10 25 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (11.37%) Roadmaps
12 23 (10.90%) Data Migration
13 22 (10.43%) Inventory Control
13 22 (10.43%) Project Delivery
14 21 (9.95%) User Acceptance Testing
15 19 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (8.06%) Test Automation
17 16 (7.58%) GAP Analysis
17 16 (7.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 16 (7.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.32%) Python
2 6 (2.84%) Java
3 5 (2.37%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.90%) Bicep
4 4 (1.90%) SQL
5 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.95%) ABAP
6 2 (0.95%) PromQL
7 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.47%) C++
7 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.47%) SOQL
7 1 (0.47%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 40 (18.96%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.95%) Degree
3 20 (9.48%) A+ Certification
3 20 (9.48%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (6.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.84%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (2.37%) CISSP
9 4 (1.90%) CISM
9 4 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (1.90%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.42%) CCNA
10 3 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.42%) PMP
11 2 (0.95%) CCNP
11 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.79%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.32%) QA
3 6 (2.84%) NIST
4 5 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.37%) SLA
5 2 (0.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.95%) NCSC
5 2 (0.95%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) GRC
6 1 (0.47%) ISA99
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (12.32%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.74%) Firmware
3 4 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.42%) Docker
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (4.74%) Dell DRAC
2 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.84%) Terraform
4 5 (2.37%) Ansible
5 3 (1.42%) Grafana
5 3 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.42%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.95%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.95%) Consul
6 2 (0.95%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.95%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.47%) SCCM
7 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (27.96%) Microsoft
2 35 (16.59%) SAP
3 27 (12.80%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.74%) Apple
4 10 (4.74%) Oracle
5 9 (4.27%) Juniper
6 8 (3.79%) Cisco
7 6 (2.84%) Google
8 5 (2.37%) CheckPoint
8 5 (2.37%) F5
8 5 (2.37%) Qualys
8 5 (2.37%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.90%) Blue Coat
9 4 (1.90%) Samsung
9 4 (1.90%) VMware
10 3 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.42%) Okta
10 3 (1.42%) Starlink
10 3 (1.42%) Tenable
10 3 (1.42%) TOWER Software