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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 337 412
Rank change year-on-year -51 +75 +66
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 254 177 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.64% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.70% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 90 60
10th Percentile £190 £185 £141
25th Percentile £226 £195 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £338 £363
Median % change year-on-year +28.52% -6.90% -27.50%
75th Percentile £565 £549 £500
90th Percentile £675 £675 £669
UK median daily rate £430 £318 £425
% change year-on-year +35.43% -25.29% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 24 5
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.87 £21.10
25th Percentile £17.45 £24.74 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £25.15 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% -11.75% +83.49%
75th Percentile £41.25 - £31.75
90th Percentile £178.75 £26.10 £32.95
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £25.15 £28.50
% change year-on-year +1.39% -11.75% +83.49%

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 39,380 25,274 28,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.84% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,176 16,039 17,819
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
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 2,707 1,489 1,353
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.33 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -39 100 £500 -11.11% 83
North of England -39 47 £365 -18.16% 36
Midlands -38 37 £475 +90.00% 25
South East -55 35 £370 +94.74% 47
North West -24 24 £483 -18.96% 20
Yorkshire -22 20 £365 -8.75% 11
West Midlands -38 20 £381 +0.33% 16
East of England -32 19 £238 +21.79% 10
East Midlands -10 17 £500 +100.00% 9
South West -50 10 £315 +40.00% 10
North East -48 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 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.57%) Confluence
2 4 (1.57%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (11.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (5.51%) SAP MM
3 8 (3.15%) SAP EWM
4 5 (1.97%) SAP ERP
4 5 (1.97%) SAP SD
5 3 (1.18%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.79%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.79%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.79%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.79%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.39%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.39%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.39%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.39%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.39%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 34 (13.39%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (12.99%) Azure
3 18 (7.09%) Entra ID
4 16 (6.30%) AWS
5 12 (4.72%) Power Platform
6 10 (3.94%) GCP
7 8 (3.15%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.76%) GitHub
9 6 (2.36%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.57%) SaaS
11 3 (1.18%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.79%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.79%) Smartsheet
13 1 (0.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 1 (0.39%) Collibra
13 1 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.66%) VPN
2 17 (6.69%) DNS
2 17 (6.69%) Firewall
3 15 (5.91%) Wireless
4 13 (5.12%) WAN
5 12 (4.72%) WebEx
6 11 (4.33%) Network Security
7 10 (3.94%) DHCP
8 9 (3.54%) Internet
8 9 (3.54%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.76%) DMVPN
9 7 (2.76%) IPsec
9 7 (2.76%) LAN
9 7 (2.76%) SSL
10 6 (2.36%) Cisco IPT
10 6 (2.36%) SAN
11 4 (1.57%) 4G
12 3 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
13 1 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.54%) Power BI
2 2 (0.79%) Metadata
2 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.39%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.39%) GIS
3 1 (0.39%) OLTP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (6.69%) JIRA
2 4 (1.57%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.18%) Git
4 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.79%) Flyway
4 2 (0.79%) git-flow
4 2 (0.79%) GitLab
4 2 (0.79%) Hudson
4 2 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.79%) JUnit
4 2 (0.79%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.79%) Mockito
5 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.39%) Toad
General
1 96 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 57 (22.44%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (18.50%) Finance
4 38 (14.96%) Manufacturing
5 32 (12.60%) Retail
6 19 (7.48%) Telecoms
7 14 (5.51%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (5.12%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.76%) Billing
11 5 (1.97%) Back Office
11 5 (1.97%) Legal
12 4 (1.57%) Law
12 4 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.57%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.18%) Aviation
13 3 (1.18%) Banking
14 2 (0.79%) Advertising
14 2 (0.79%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.79%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 45 (17.72%) Analyst
2 27 (10.63%) Support Engineer
3 25 (9.84%) IT Support
3 25 (9.84%) Senior
4 23 (9.06%) Architect
5 21 (8.27%) Consultant
6 19 (7.48%) Business Analyst
6 19 (7.48%) IT Engineer
7 15 (5.91%) IT Support Engineer
8 13 (5.12%) Lead
8 13 (5.12%) SAP Consultant
8 13 (5.12%) Technical Support
9 11 (4.33%) Senior Analyst
9 11 (4.33%) Senior Business Analyst
9 11 (4.33%) Support Analyst
10 10 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.15%) Desktop Engineer
11 8 (3.15%) Desktop Support
11 8 (3.15%) Security Engineer
11 8 (3.15%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.54%) Terraform
2 6 (2.36%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.36%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (2.36%) Redfish
3 5 (1.97%) Middleware
3 5 (1.97%) REST
4 3 (1.18%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (0.79%) Drools
5 2 (0.79%) IDoc
5 2 (0.79%) JDBC
5 2 (0.79%) JWT
5 2 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.79%) Loki
5 2 (0.79%) OpenAPI
5 2 (0.79%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (0.79%) RESTful
5 2 (0.79%) SAP Core Interface
5 2 (0.79%) SOAP
5 2 (0.79%) Spring
5 2 (0.79%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.24%) Onboarding
2 23 (9.06%) Data Centre
3 20 (7.87%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.51%) CMDB
5 13 (5.12%) Video Conferencing
6 12 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (4.33%) FMCG
8 10 (3.94%) Web Conferencing
9 8 (3.15%) Driving Licence
10 6 (2.36%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.97%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.97%) iPad
11 5 (1.97%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.57%) iPhone
12 4 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (27.56%) Windows
2 19 (7.48%) Windows 10
3 16 (6.30%) Mac OS
4 15 (5.91%) Linux
5 13 (5.12%) Android
6 10 (3.94%) Apple iOS
7 6 (2.36%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.57%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.18%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.39%) CentOS
10 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (25.59%) Logistics
1 65 (25.59%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (22.83%) ERP
3 46 (18.11%) Asset Management
4 43 (16.93%) Customer Service
5 37 (14.57%) Inventory Control
6 36 (14.17%) ITSM
7 35 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 31 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (12.20%) Migration
9 30 (11.81%) ITIL
10 29 (11.42%) Service Management
11 25 (9.84%) Process Improvement
12 24 (9.45%) User Acceptance Testing
13 21 (8.27%) Data Migration
14 20 (7.87%) Roadmaps
14 20 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (7.48%) Agile
16 18 (7.09%) Project Delivery
17 17 (6.69%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.94%) PowerShell
1 10 (3.94%) Python
2 7 (2.76%) Shell Script
3 5 (1.97%) SQL
4 4 (1.57%) ABAP
4 4 (1.57%) Bicep
5 3 (1.18%) Java
6 2 (0.79%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.79%) PromQL
6 2 (0.79%) SOQL
6 2 (0.79%) SOSL
7 1 (0.39%) Bash
7 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.42%) Degree
3 25 (9.84%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.27%) A+ Certification
5 15 (5.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.76%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (1.97%) CCNA
9 5 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.57%) CCNP
10 4 (1.57%) CISM
10 4 (1.57%) CISSP
10 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.57%) SAP Certification
11 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.18%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.18%) PMP
11 3 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.69%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.15%) QA
3 7 (2.76%) SLA
4 6 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.36%) NIST
5 3 (1.18%) NCSC
6 2 (0.79%) COSHH
6 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.79%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.39%) GDPR
7 1 (0.39%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) ISA99
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 35 (13.78%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.76%) Firmware
3 6 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.97%) Docker
5 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.39%) zsh
Systems Management
1 16 (6.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.15%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.76%) Ansible
4 6 (2.36%) Dell DRAC
4 6 (2.36%) SCCM
5 4 (1.57%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.79%) Consul
7 2 (0.79%) Grafana
7 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.79%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.39%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 98 (38.58%) Microsoft
2 51 (20.08%) SAP
3 25 (9.84%) ServiceNow
4 18 (7.09%) Oracle
5 13 (5.12%) Apple
6 12 (4.72%) Cisco
6 12 (4.72%) Google
7 11 (4.33%) Juniper
8 7 (2.76%) CheckPoint
8 7 (2.76%) F5
8 7 (2.76%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.76%) Samsung
9 6 (2.36%) Blue Coat
9 6 (2.36%) VMware
9 6 (2.36%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.97%) JD Edwards
10 5 (1.97%) Qualys
11 4 (1.57%) IBM
11 4 (1.57%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.18%) Ariba