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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 353 417
Rank change year-on-year -54 +64 +67
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 174 122 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.50% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.55% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 82 59
10th Percentile £166 £146 £159
25th Percentile £263 £185 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £210 £450
Median % change year-on-year +73.81% -53.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £520 £616
90th Percentile £630 £595 £730
UK median daily rate £365 £220 £450
% change year-on-year +65.91% -51.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 23
10th Percentile £14.19 £34.85 £11.06
25th Percentile £17.25 £48.50 £12.00
Median hourly rate £24.55 £72.50 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -66.14% +319.44% +2.99%
75th Percentile £75.19 £75.63 £21.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £76.75 £21.51
UK median hourly rate £24.55 £72.50 £16.70
% change year-on-year -66.14% +334.13% +1.21%

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 33,651 22,305 32,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 91.07% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,531 14,664 21,253
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 886 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.80 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%
75th Percentile £67.13 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -12 51 £325 +116.67% 18
London -38 48 £465 +55.00% 22
North of England -54 30 £365 -37.07% 11
Midlands -53 23 £463 +143.42% 10
West Midlands -50 16 £375 -31.82% 2
Yorkshire - 15 £365 - 6
North West -49 13 £173 -70.26% 3
East of England -45 10 £350 +75.00% 3
South West -27 9 £525 +138.64% 8
East Midlands -33 7 £500 +163.16% 8
North East - 2 - - 2
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 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.15%) Apache
3 2 (1.15%) SAS
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Smallworld
Applications
1 13 (7.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.57%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (0.57%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 20 (11.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (9.20%) SAP MM
3 11 (6.32%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (5.17%) Oracle EBS R12
4 9 (5.17%) SAP EWM
5 6 (3.45%) SAP SD
6 5 (2.87%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (1.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (1.72%) SAP PM
8 2 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (1.15%) SAP ERP
8 2 (1.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (1.15%) SAP WM
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle AGIS
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.57%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.57%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 26 (14.94%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (5.75%) Azure
3 5 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (2.87%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.30%) AWS
5 3 (1.72%) Google Ads
6 2 (1.15%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.57%) GCP
7 1 (0.57%) Google Drive
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.57%) SaaS
7 1 (0.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.47%) VPN
2 8 (4.60%) Firewall
2 8 (4.60%) WAN
3 5 (2.87%) DNS
3 5 (2.87%) LAN
3 5 (2.87%) Network Security
3 5 (2.87%) SAN
3 5 (2.87%) Wireless
4 4 (2.30%) DMVPN
4 4 (2.30%) IPsec
4 4 (2.30%) SSL
5 3 (1.72%) Cisco IPT
5 3 (1.72%) Internet
5 3 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.15%) DHCP
6 2 (1.15%) MPLS
6 2 (1.15%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.57%) NaaS
7 1 (0.57%) SNMP
7 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.72%) Flink
2 2 (1.15%) Apache Ignite
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.57%) GIS
3 1 (0.57%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.57%) MySQL
3 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.57%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.57%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (4.60%) JIRA
2 2 (1.15%) Hudson
3 1 (0.57%) Git
3 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.57%) Vite
3 1 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 66 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 50 (28.74%) Finance
3 33 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.92%) Telecoms
5 17 (9.77%) Manufacturing
6 16 (9.20%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (6.90%) Retail
8 9 (5.17%) Aerospace
9 8 (4.60%) Banking
10 6 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.87%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.30%) Billing
12 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.15%) Front Office
13 2 (1.15%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.15%) Legal
14 1 (0.57%) Electronics
14 1 (0.57%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (16.67%) Consultant
2 21 (12.07%) Analyst
3 18 (10.34%) IT Support
3 18 (10.34%) Lead
4 15 (8.62%) SAP Consultant
5 14 (8.05%) Functional Consultant
6 13 (7.47%) Support Engineer
7 11 (6.32%) Support Analyst
8 10 (5.75%) IT Engineer
9 9 (5.17%) IT Manager
9 9 (5.17%) Senior
10 8 (4.60%) Architect
10 8 (4.60%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) Project Manager
11 7 (4.02%) Data Centre Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) Desktop Support
11 7 (4.02%) IT Analyst
11 7 (4.02%) IT Support Analyst
11 7 (4.02%) Oracle Consultant
11 7 (4.02%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.02%) Redfish
2 4 (2.30%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.72%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.72%) Kafka
4 2 (1.15%) IDoc
4 2 (1.15%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.15%) REST
4 2 (1.15%) SAP Core Interface
4 2 (1.15%) Spring
4 2 (1.15%) Swagger
5 1 (0.57%) Blazor
5 1 (0.57%) CSS
5 1 (0.57%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.57%) gRPC
5 1 (0.57%) Jest
5 1 (0.57%) Middleware
5 1 (0.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.57%) Parceljs
5 1 (0.57%) React
5 1 (0.57%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.62%) Data Centre
1 15 (8.62%) Onboarding
2 14 (8.05%) Management Information System
3 13 (7.47%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.87%) iPad
6 5 (2.87%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (2.30%) iPhone
7 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.72%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.72%) Replication
9 2 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.15%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.15%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 45 (25.86%) Windows
2 15 (8.62%) Linux
3 12 (6.90%) Windows 10
4 7 (4.02%) Apple iOS
4 7 (4.02%) Mac OS
5 6 (3.45%) Android
6 4 (2.30%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.30%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.57%) CentOS
8 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (26.44%) Asset Management
2 33 (18.97%) Customer Service
3 32 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (17.24%) Migration
5 29 (16.67%) Logistics
6 24 (13.79%) ERP
7 22 (12.64%) ITIL
8 21 (12.07%) Service Management
9 20 (11.49%) User Acceptance Testing
10 19 (10.92%) Project Delivery
10 19 (10.92%) Roadmaps
11 17 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (9.77%) Data Migration
11 17 (9.77%) ITSM
12 16 (9.20%) Order Management
13 12 (6.90%) GAP Analysis
13 12 (6.90%) Process Improvement
14 11 (6.32%) Cost Optimisation
14 11 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (6.32%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.87%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.30%) Shell Script
3 3 (1.72%) Java
3 3 (1.72%) Python
3 3 (1.72%) SQL
4 2 (1.15%) ABAP
5 1 (0.57%) C++
5 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.57%) R
5 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.20%) Degree
4 7 (4.02%) A+ Certification
4 7 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (4.02%) Network+ Certification
5 5 (2.87%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.30%) SAP Certification
7 3 (1.72%) PMP
8 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.15%) CCNA
8 2 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.15%) CISSP
8 2 (1.15%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.15%) HNC
8 2 (1.15%) HND
9 1 (0.57%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.57%) GWAPT
9 1 (0.57%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.30%) QA
3 3 (1.72%) SLA
4 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.15%) NIST
4 2 (1.15%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.57%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) GRC
5 1 (0.57%) IFRS
5 1 (0.57%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.57%) ISA99
5 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (17.82%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.02%) Firmware
3 4 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.72%) Docker
4 3 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.60%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (4.02%) Dell DRAC
4 6 (3.45%) SCCM
5 1 (0.57%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.57%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.57%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.57%) Grafana
5 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (22.99%) Microsoft
2 34 (19.54%) SAP
3 17 (9.77%) ServiceNow
4 15 (8.62%) Oracle
5 8 (4.60%) Cisco
6 6 (3.45%) Juniper
7 5 (2.87%) CheckPoint
7 5 (2.87%) F5
8 4 (2.30%) VMware
9 3 (1.72%) Blue Coat
9 3 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.72%) Starlink
9 3 (1.72%) Veeam
10 2 (1.15%) Apple
10 2 (1.15%) Ariba
10 2 (1.15%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.15%) Rapid7
11 1 (0.57%) Autodesk
11 1 (0.57%) BT
11 1 (0.57%) McAfee