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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 339 411
Rank change year-on-year -89 +72 +69
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 171 138 123
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.58% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.64% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 95 57
10th Percentile £172 £150 £162
25th Percentile £271 £185 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £250 £475
Median % change year-on-year +46.00% -47.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £600
90th Percentile £614 £615 £725
UK median daily rate £365 £250 £475
% change year-on-year +46.00% -47.37% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 24
10th Percentile £14.96 £25.15 £11.06
25th Percentile £24.48 £25.30 £12.00
Median hourly rate £38.75 £47.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.55% +168.53% +2.56%
75th Percentile £125.69 £73.13 £21.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £75.63 £21.85
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £47.00 £16.70
% change year-on-year -20.21% +181.44% -2.14%

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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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
South East -47 44 £300 +100.00% 21
London -67 40 £500 - 17
North of England -56 34 £365 -37.07% 11
Midlands -53 24 £453 +81.00% 16
North West -37 16 £173 -70.26% 6
East of England -47 15 £350 +75.00% 9
West Midlands -49 15 £375 -31.82% 10
Yorkshire - 15 £365 - 5
South West -28 10 £525 +138.64% 4
East Midlands -29 9 £475 +115.91% 6
North East - 3 - -
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 (4.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.17%) Apache
2 2 (1.17%) Confluence
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.58%) Smallworld
Applications
1 13 (7.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.58%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (0.58%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 24 (14.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (7.60%) SAP MM
3 9 (5.26%) SAP EWM
4 6 (3.51%) SAP SD
5 5 (2.92%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (1.75%) SAP PM
7 2 (1.17%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (1.17%) SAP ERP
7 2 (1.17%) SAP QM
7 2 (1.17%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.58%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.70%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (5.26%) Azure
3 7 (4.09%) AWS
4 6 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.92%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.34%) GitHub
7 3 (1.75%) Google Ads
8 2 (1.17%) GCP
8 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.17%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.17%) SaaS
8 2 (1.17%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.58%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.58%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.02%) VPN
2 11 (6.43%) Firewall
3 10 (5.85%) WAN
4 7 (4.09%) DNS
4 7 (4.09%) Network Security
4 7 (4.09%) SAN
5 6 (3.51%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.92%) Wireless
7 4 (2.34%) DHCP
7 4 (2.34%) DMVPN
7 4 (2.34%) IPsec
7 4 (2.34%) LAN
7 4 (2.34%) SSL
8 3 (1.75%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (1.75%) Internet
9 2 (1.17%) 4G
9 2 (1.17%) MPLS
9 2 (1.17%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.58%) DWDM
10 1 (0.58%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.75%) Flink
1 3 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.17%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (1.17%) Power BI
3 1 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.58%) GIS
3 1 (0.58%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.58%) Metadata
3 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.58%) MySQL
3 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.58%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 11 (6.43%) JIRA
2 2 (1.17%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.17%) Flyway
2 2 (1.17%) Git
2 2 (1.17%) git-flow
2 2 (1.17%) Hudson
2 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.17%) JUnit
2 2 (1.17%) Liquibase
2 2 (1.17%) Mockito
3 1 (0.58%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.58%) Toad
General
1 57 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 46 (26.90%) Finance
3 38 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (14.04%) Manufacturing
5 23 (13.45%) Telecoms
6 15 (8.77%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (7.60%) Retail
8 9 (5.26%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.51%) Banking
10 5 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.34%) Billing
11 4 (2.34%) Law
11 4 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.75%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.17%) Front Office
13 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.17%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 28 (16.37%) Analyst
2 26 (15.20%) Consultant
3 18 (10.53%) Lead
4 16 (9.36%) SAP Consultant
5 15 (8.77%) Support Analyst
6 13 (7.60%) IT Support
7 9 (5.26%) Data Centre Engineer
7 9 (5.26%) IT Analyst
7 9 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
8 8 (4.68%) Business Analyst
8 8 (4.68%) Functional Consultant
8 8 (4.68%) IT Manager
8 8 (4.68%) Senior
9 7 (4.09%) Architect
9 7 (4.09%) Desktop Support
9 7 (4.09%) Project Manager
9 7 (4.09%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.51%) Developer
10 6 (3.51%) Security Engineer
10 6 (3.51%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.26%) Redfish
2 4 (2.34%) REST
2 4 (2.34%) Spring
3 3 (1.75%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.75%) Kafka
3 3 (1.75%) OpenAPI
3 3 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (1.75%) Swagger
4 2 (1.17%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.17%) HATEOAS
4 2 (1.17%) IDoc
4 2 (1.17%) Jasypt
4 2 (1.17%) JWT
4 2 (1.17%) Loki
4 2 (1.17%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.17%) RESTful
4 2 (1.17%) SAP Core Interface
4 2 (1.17%) Spring Batch
4 2 (1.17%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.17%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.94%) Data Centre
2 16 (9.36%) Onboarding
3 13 (7.60%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.92%) iPad
6 5 (2.92%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (2.34%) FMCG
7 4 (2.34%) iPhone
7 4 (2.34%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.75%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.17%) SCADA
9 2 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.58%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 40 (23.39%) Windows
2 17 (9.94%) Linux
3 14 (8.19%) Windows 10
4 7 (4.09%) Mac OS
5 6 (3.51%) Android
6 5 (2.92%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.17%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.58%) CentOS
8 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (21.64%) Migration
2 36 (21.05%) Asset Management
2 36 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (19.88%) ERP
3 34 (19.88%) Logistics
4 27 (15.79%) Customer Service
5 24 (14.04%) ITIL
6 23 (13.45%) Service Management
7 21 (12.28%) User Acceptance Testing
8 20 (11.70%) Data Migration
8 20 (11.70%) ITSM
9 19 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (11.11%) Project Delivery
10 18 (10.53%) Roadmaps
11 15 (8.77%) GAP Analysis
12 13 (7.60%) Computer Science
13 12 (7.02%) Infrastructure Management
13 12 (7.02%) Project Management
13 12 (7.02%) Test Automation
14 11 (6.43%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.51%) Shell Script
2 5 (2.92%) Java
3 4 (2.34%) SQL
4 2 (1.17%) ABAP
4 2 (1.17%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.17%) PromQL
4 2 (1.17%) Python
5 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.58%) Bicep
5 1 (0.58%) C++
5 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.58%) SOQL
5 1 (0.58%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 25 (14.62%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.36%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.19%) Degree
4 11 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (5.26%) A+ Certification
5 9 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
6 5 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.34%) SAP Certification
8 3 (1.75%) CCNA
8 3 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.75%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.75%) PMP
9 2 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.17%) CCNP
9 2 (1.17%) CISSP
9 2 (1.17%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.58%) CISA
10 1 (0.58%) CISM
10 1 (0.58%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.34%) SLA
3 3 (1.75%) NIST
4 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.17%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.17%) QA
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) GRC
5 1 (0.58%) ISA99
5 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (12.87%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.26%) Firmware
3 4 (2.34%) Docker
3 4 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (5.26%) Dell DRAC
2 7 (4.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.75%) Grafana
3 3 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.17%) Ansible
4 2 (1.17%) Consul
4 2 (1.17%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.17%) SCCM
4 2 (1.17%) Zipkin
5 1 (0.58%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (20.47%) Microsoft
1 35 (20.47%) SAP
2 13 (7.60%) Oracle
2 13 (7.60%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.68%) Juniper
4 6 (3.51%) Cisco
5 5 (2.92%) CheckPoint
5 5 (2.92%) F5
5 5 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.34%) VMware
7 3 (1.75%) Blue Coat
7 3 (1.75%) Starlink
8 2 (1.17%) Apple
8 2 (1.17%) Ariba
8 2 (1.17%) JD Edwards
8 2 (1.17%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.17%) Solace
9 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.58%) Freshdesk
9 1 (0.58%) IFS