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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 338 406
Rank change year-on-year -61 +68 +69
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 248 164 122
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.59% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.65% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 100 60
10th Percentile £196 £150 £162
25th Percentile £250 £193 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £318 £463
Median % change year-on-year +34.65% -31.35% -7.50%
75th Percentile £578 £580 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £669
UK median daily rate £430 £305 £475
% change year-on-year +40.98% -35.79% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 20 9
10th Percentile £15.00 £24.99 -
25th Percentile £19.50 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +19.76% +23.06%
75th Percentile £42.38 - £22.00
90th Percentile £178.75 £30.98 £32.15
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.39% +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 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -32 96 £506 -7.95% 30
North of England -49 45 £365 -37.07% 23
South East -69 41 £318 +86.76% 42
Midlands -46 32 £453 +81.00% 31
Yorkshire -24 23 £365 -8.75% 7
East of England -29 20 £225 +12.50% 12
North West -40 19 £400 -31.03% 12
West Midlands -39 17 £375 +2.04% 16
East Midlands -17 15 £500 +100.00% 15
South West -33 10 £430 -33.85% 12
North East - 3 - - 4
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 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.61%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.21%) Confluence
3 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.81%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.40%) Smallworld
Applications
1 16 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (6.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.40%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 24 (9.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.84%) SAP MM
3 8 (3.23%) SAP EWM
4 4 (1.61%) SAP ERP
4 4 (1.61%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.81%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.81%) SAP QM
5 2 (0.81%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.40%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.40%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.90%) Azure
2 30 (12.10%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (6.85%) AWS
3 17 (6.85%) Entra ID
4 11 (4.44%) GCP
5 9 (3.63%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (2.42%) GitHub
6 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (2.02%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.21%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (1.21%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.21%) SaaS
9 2 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.81%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.40%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.40%) OCI
10 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.47%) VPN
2 16 (6.45%) DNS
2 16 (6.45%) Firewall
3 14 (5.65%) WAN
3 14 (5.65%) Wireless
4 12 (4.84%) WebEx
5 11 (4.44%) Network Security
6 10 (4.03%) DHCP
6 10 (4.03%) Internet
7 9 (3.63%) TCP/IP
8 8 (3.23%) SAN
9 7 (2.82%) LAN
10 6 (2.42%) DMVPN
10 6 (2.42%) IPsec
10 6 (2.42%) SSL
11 5 (2.02%) Cisco IPT
12 4 (1.61%) 4G
13 3 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (0.81%) MPLS
14 2 (0.81%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.63%) Power BI
2 3 (1.21%) Flink
2 3 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.81%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (0.81%) GIS
3 2 (0.81%) Metadata
3 2 (0.81%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.40%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.40%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.40%) OLTP
4 1 (0.40%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.40%) Tableau
4 1 (0.40%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (6.85%) JIRA
2 4 (1.61%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.21%) Git
4 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.81%) Flyway
4 2 (0.81%) git-flow
4 2 (0.81%) Hudson
4 2 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.81%) JUnit
4 2 (0.81%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.81%) Mockito
5 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.40%) GitLab
5 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.40%) Toad
General
1 98 (39.52%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.79%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (22.18%) Finance
4 39 (15.73%) Manufacturing
5 27 (10.89%) Retail
6 22 (8.87%) Telecoms
7 17 (6.85%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.82%) Billing
11 6 (2.42%) Banking
11 6 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.02%) Aerospace
12 5 (2.02%) Law
12 5 (2.02%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.61%) Legal
14 3 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.81%) Advertising
15 2 (0.81%) Front Office
15 2 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (16.53%) Analyst
2 24 (9.68%) IT Support
3 23 (9.27%) Support Engineer
4 22 (8.87%) Architect
4 22 (8.87%) Senior
5 18 (7.26%) Consultant
6 17 (6.85%) Business Analyst
6 17 (6.85%) Lead
7 16 (6.45%) IT Engineer
8 14 (5.65%) IT Support Engineer
9 13 (5.24%) Technical Support
10 12 (4.84%) SAP Consultant
11 11 (4.44%) Support Analyst
12 10 (4.03%) Data Centre Engineer
13 8 (3.23%) Developer
13 8 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (3.23%) Senior Business Analyst
13 8 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.23%) Support Technician
14 7 (2.82%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.03%) Redfish
2 6 (2.42%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (2.42%) REST
3 5 (2.02%) 802.1X
3 5 (2.02%) Middleware
4 4 (1.61%) Spring
5 3 (1.21%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (1.21%) Kafka
5 3 (1.21%) OpenAPI
5 3 (1.21%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.21%) Swagger
6 2 (0.81%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.81%) IDoc
6 2 (0.81%) Jasypt
6 2 (0.81%) JWT
6 2 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.81%) Loki
6 2 (0.81%) SAP Core Interface
6 2 (0.81%) Spring Batch
6 2 (0.81%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.48%) Data Centre
2 23 (9.27%) Onboarding
3 20 (8.06%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.65%) CMDB
5 13 (5.24%) Video Conferencing
6 12 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (4.44%) FMCG
8 10 (4.03%) Web Conferencing
9 9 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.82%) iPad
11 6 (2.42%) Cloud Native
11 6 (2.42%) Driving Licence
11 6 (2.42%) iPhone
11 6 (2.42%) Operational Technology
12 5 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
14 3 (1.21%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 71 (28.63%) Windows
2 20 (8.06%) Windows 10
3 19 (7.66%) Linux
4 16 (6.45%) Mac OS
5 13 (5.24%) Android
6 11 (4.44%) Apple iOS
7 6 (2.42%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.61%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.21%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.40%) CentOS
10 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (22.18%) ERP
2 55 (22.18%) Logistics
3 52 (20.97%) Asset Management
4 41 (16.53%) ITSM
5 38 (15.32%) Customer Service
6 34 (13.71%) Inventory Control
6 34 (13.71%) Migration
7 32 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (12.90%) ITIL
8 28 (11.29%) Service Management
9 27 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (10.08%) Roadmaps
11 23 (9.27%) Data Migration
11 23 (9.27%) User Acceptance Testing
12 21 (8.47%) Project Delivery
13 18 (7.26%) Computer Science
13 18 (7.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (7.26%) Validation
14 17 (6.85%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.44%) Python
2 7 (2.82%) PowerShell
2 7 (2.82%) Shell Script
3 6 (2.42%) Java
4 5 (2.02%) SQL
5 4 (1.61%) ABAP
5 4 (1.61%) Bicep
6 2 (0.81%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.81%) PromQL
6 2 (0.81%) SOQL
6 2 (0.81%) SOSL
7 1 (0.40%) Bash
7 1 (0.40%) C++
7 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.69%) Degree
3 22 (8.87%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.47%) A+ Certification
5 15 (6.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.82%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (2.02%) CCNA
9 5 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.02%) CISSP
10 4 (1.61%) CCNP
10 4 (1.61%) CISM
10 4 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.61%) SAP Certification
11 3 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.21%) PMP
11 3 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.23%) QA
3 6 (2.42%) NIST
3 6 (2.42%) SLA
4 5 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.81%) COSHH
5 2 (0.81%) GDPR
5 2 (0.81%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.81%) NCSC
5 2 (0.81%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) ISA99
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (14.11%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.44%) Firmware
3 6 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.61%) Docker
5 2 (0.81%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.40%) zsh
Systems Management
1 13 (5.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.03%) Dell DRAC
3 9 (3.63%) Terraform
4 7 (2.82%) Kubernetes
5 6 (2.42%) Ansible
6 4 (1.61%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.21%) Grafana
7 3 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.21%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.21%) SCCM
8 2 (0.81%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.81%) Consul
8 2 (0.81%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 41 (16.53%) SAP
3 28 (11.29%) ServiceNow
4 18 (7.26%) Oracle
5 12 (4.84%) Apple
5 12 (4.84%) Google
6 10 (4.03%) Juniper
7 9 (3.63%) Cisco
8 6 (2.42%) CheckPoint
8 6 (2.42%) F5
8 6 (2.42%) Samsung
8 6 (2.42%) VMware
9 5 (2.02%) Blue Coat
9 5 (2.02%) Qualys
9 5 (2.02%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.61%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.21%) Okta
11 3 (1.21%) Tenable
11 3 (1.21%) Zscaler