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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 342 408
Rank change year-on-year -53 +66 +49
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 264 180 122
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.64% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.70% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 87 60
10th Percentile £182 £201 £141
25th Percentile £225 £250 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -3.03% -15.38%
75th Percentile £588 £629 £531
90th Percentile £675 £720 £665
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 30 6
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.30 £21.05
25th Percentile £17.45 £20.57 £21.83
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +4.01% +55.67%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £29.67
90th Percentile £64.45 £30.98 £32.63
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year -16.50% +4.01% +55.67%

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 39,799 25,590 27,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.90% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,011 16,250 16,937
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,071 1,598 1,107
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.53 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £44.78 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -37 104 £525 -8.70% 12
North of England -56 41 £425 -39.50% 1
Midlands -39 39 £500 +66.67% 5
South East -61 38 £318 -20.63% 11
East of England -13 25 £300 +26.32% 6
North West -43 22 £566 -19.43%
West Midlands -40 20 £500 +33.33% 4
East Midlands -4 19 £500 +100.00% 1
Yorkshire -26 18 £365 -8.75% 1
South West -41 11 £400 +77.78% 3
North East -41 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 5 (1.89%) Confluence
1 5 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.52%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (9.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 36 (13.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (5.68%) SAP MM
3 5 (1.89%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle SCM
4 3 (1.14%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.14%) SAP QM
4 3 (1.14%) SAP WM
4 3 (1.14%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.76%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.76%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.76%) SAP PP
5 2 (0.76%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.38%) Endur
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.38%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.38%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 38 (14.39%) Azure
2 32 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (7.58%) Entra ID
4 18 (6.82%) AWS
4 18 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 13 (4.92%) GCP
6 11 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 7 (2.65%) GitHub
8 6 (2.27%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.52%) AWS Control Tower
10 4 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.52%) SaaS
11 3 (1.14%) OCI
12 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.76%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.76%) Smartsheet
13 1 (0.38%) Collibra
13 1 (0.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.95%) VPN
2 16 (6.06%) DNS
2 16 (6.06%) Firewall
3 15 (5.68%) Wireless
4 12 (4.55%) WAN
4 12 (4.55%) WebEx
5 9 (3.41%) DHCP
5 9 (3.41%) Internet
5 9 (3.41%) Network Security
6 8 (3.03%) LAN
6 8 (3.03%) SAN
6 8 (3.03%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.65%) SSL
8 6 (2.27%) Cisco IPT
8 6 (2.27%) DMVPN
8 6 (2.27%) IPsec
9 5 (1.89%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.52%) 4G
10 4 (1.52%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.55%) Power BI
2 2 (0.76%) GIS
2 2 (0.76%) Metadata
2 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.76%) Power Query
2 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.38%) OLTP
3 1 (0.38%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (6.06%) JIRA
2 4 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.14%) Git
4 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.76%) Flyway
4 2 (0.76%) git-flow
4 2 (0.76%) GitLab
4 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.76%) JUnit
4 2 (0.76%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.76%) LSMW
4 2 (0.76%) Mockito
5 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.38%) Hudson
5 1 (0.38%) Toad
General
1 103 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.97%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (17.80%) Manufacturing
4 43 (16.29%) Finance
5 37 (14.02%) Retail
6 20 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.03%) Banking
10 8 (3.03%) Billing
11 7 (2.65%) Back Office
12 6 (2.27%) Aviation
12 6 (2.27%) Legal
13 5 (1.89%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.52%) Automotive
14 4 (1.52%) Law
14 4 (1.52%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.76%) Advertising
15 2 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (15.53%) Analyst
2 29 (10.98%) Support Engineer
3 26 (9.85%) Architect
4 25 (9.47%) Senior
5 22 (8.33%) IT Support
6 19 (7.20%) Consultant
6 19 (7.20%) IT Engineer
7 17 (6.44%) Business Analyst
8 16 (6.06%) IT Support Engineer
9 13 (4.92%) Technical Support
10 11 (4.17%) Lead
11 10 (3.79%) Administrator
11 10 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (3.79%) Senior Business Analyst
12 9 (3.41%) SAP Consultant
13 8 (3.03%) Data Centre Engineer
13 8 (3.03%) Support Specialist
13 8 (3.03%) Support Technician
14 7 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.65%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.55%) Terraform
2 7 (2.65%) 802.1X
3 6 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.89%) Middleware
4 5 (1.89%) REST
5 4 (1.52%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (1.52%) Redfish
6 2 (0.76%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.76%) HATEOAS
6 2 (0.76%) IDoc
6 2 (0.76%) Jasypt
6 2 (0.76%) JWT
6 2 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.76%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.76%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (0.76%) Spring Batch
6 2 (0.76%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.76%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.85%) Data Centre
1 26 (9.85%) Onboarding
2 22 (8.33%) CMDB
3 20 (7.58%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.55%) FMCG
4 12 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
5 10 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.79%) Web Conferencing
6 8 (3.03%) Driving Licence
6 8 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.27%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.89%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.52%) iPad
10 4 (1.52%) iPhone
10 4 (1.52%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 66 (25.00%) Windows
2 17 (6.44%) Windows 10
3 14 (5.30%) Linux
3 14 (5.30%) macOS
4 11 (4.17%) Android
5 9 (3.41%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.03%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.52%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (28.41%) Logistics
2 70 (26.52%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 55 (20.83%) ERP
5 52 (19.70%) Asset Management
6 49 (18.56%) Inventory Control
7 44 (16.67%) Customer Service
8 39 (14.77%) Process Improvement
9 33 (12.50%) ITSM
10 32 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (10.61%) ITIL
12 27 (10.23%) Service Management
13 25 (9.47%) Migration
14 23 (8.71%) Change Management
15 22 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 21 (7.95%) Agile
16 21 (7.95%) Validation
17 20 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
17 20 (7.58%) Roadmaps
17 20 (7.58%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.92%) PowerShell
1 13 (4.92%) Python
2 8 (3.03%) Shell Script
3 7 (2.65%) SQL
4 6 (2.27%) Bicep
5 4 (1.52%) Java
6 3 (1.14%) ABAP
7 2 (0.76%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.76%) PromQL
7 2 (0.76%) SOQL
7 2 (0.76%) SOSL
8 1 (0.38%) Bash
8 1 (0.38%) C++
8 1 (0.38%) Perl
8 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.09%) Degree
4 17 (6.44%) A+ Certification
5 12 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.89%) CCNA
8 5 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.89%) CISSP
9 4 (1.52%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.52%) CCNP
9 4 (1.52%) CISM
9 4 (1.52%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.52%) ISSAP
9 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.14%) PMP
10 3 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.41%) QA
3 8 (3.03%) SLA
4 7 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.27%) NIST
6 3 (1.14%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.14%) NCSC
6 3 (1.14%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.76%) COSHH
8 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.38%) GDPR
8 1 (0.38%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 28 (10.61%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.89%) Docker
3 5 (1.89%) Firmware
4 4 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) zsh
Systems Management
1 16 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.41%) Ansible
2 9 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.41%) SCCM
3 4 (1.52%) Dell DRAC
3 4 (1.52%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.14%) Grafana
5 2 (0.76%) Consul
5 2 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.76%) WSUS
5 2 (0.76%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.38%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 106 (40.15%) Microsoft
2 64 (24.24%) SAP
3 26 (9.85%) ServiceNow
4 20 (7.58%) Oracle
5 14 (5.30%) Google
6 11 (4.17%) Apple
6 11 (4.17%) Cisco
7 10 (3.79%) Juniper
8 7 (2.65%) JD Edwards
8 7 (2.65%) Qualys
8 7 (2.65%) Samsung
9 6 (2.27%) Blue Coat
9 6 (2.27%) CheckPoint
9 6 (2.27%) F5
9 6 (2.27%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.27%) VMware
9 6 (2.27%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.89%) Ariba
10 5 (1.89%) IBM
10 5 (1.89%) Splunk