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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 337 422
Rank change year-on-year -77 +85 +59
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 168 136 123
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.56% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.62% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 90 61
10th Percentile £166 £140 £160
25th Percentile £200 £174 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £211 £475
Median % change year-on-year +72.78% -55.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £528 £528 £600
90th Percentile £613 £595 £725
UK median daily rate £355 £220 £475
% change year-on-year +61.36% -53.68% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 23
10th Percentile £14.77 £37.15 £11.06
25th Percentile £24.33 £54.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £38.75 £70.00 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -44.64% +304.98% +1.29%
75th Percentile £161.06 £74.69 £21.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £76.38 £21.51
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £70.00 £16.70
% change year-on-year -46.43% +319.16% -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 34,360 22,106 31,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 91.23% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,945 14,454 20,903
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,132 926 2,241
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.56 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -48 43 £275 +83.33% 17
London -62 41 £465 +24.00% 17
North of England -46 32 £365 -37.07% 13
Midlands -58 25 £453 +105.68% 9
North West -39 16 £173 -70.26% 6
West Midlands -44 15 £356 -35.23% 4
East of England -42 14 £350 +75.00% 6
Yorkshire - 13 £365 - 6
East Midlands -26 10 £488 +156.58% 5
South West -36 9 £525 +138.64% 9
North East - 3 - - 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 6 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.19%) Apache
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.60%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) SAS
3 1 (0.60%) Smallworld
Applications
1 14 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.60%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (0.60%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 25 (14.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (8.33%) SAP MM
3 9 (5.36%) SAP EWM
4 6 (3.57%) SAP SD
5 5 (2.98%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (1.79%) SAP PM
7 2 (1.19%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (1.19%) SAP ERP
7 2 (1.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (1.19%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.60%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.60%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (4.76%) Azure
3 5 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (2.38%) AWS
4 4 (2.38%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.79%) Google Ads
6 2 (1.19%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.19%) SaaS
7 1 (0.60%) GCP
7 1 (0.60%) Google Drive
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.60%) OCI
7 1 (0.60%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.60%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Slack
7 1 (0.60%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.55%) VPN
2 9 (5.36%) Firewall
2 9 (5.36%) WAN
3 6 (3.57%) DNS
3 6 (3.57%) Network Security
3 6 (3.57%) SAN
4 4 (2.38%) DMVPN
4 4 (2.38%) IPsec
4 4 (2.38%) LAN
4 4 (2.38%) SSL
4 4 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.38%) Wireless
5 3 (1.79%) Cisco IPT
5 3 (1.79%) DHCP
5 3 (1.79%) Internet
6 2 (1.19%) MPLS
6 2 (1.19%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.60%) 4G
7 1 (0.60%) DWDM
7 1 (0.60%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.79%) Flink
2 2 (1.19%) Apache Ignite
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.60%) GIS
3 1 (0.60%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.60%) Metadata
3 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.60%) MySQL
3 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.60%) Power BI
3 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.60%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (5.36%) JIRA
2 2 (1.19%) Hudson
3 1 (0.60%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.60%) Toad
General
1 62 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 46 (27.38%) Finance
3 38 (22.62%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.10%) Manufacturing
5 21 (12.50%) Telecoms
6 16 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (8.33%) Retail
8 9 (5.36%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.57%) Banking
9 6 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.38%) Billing
10 4 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.38%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.19%) Front Office
11 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.19%) Law
12 1 (0.60%) Electronics
12 1 (0.60%) Legal
12 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (16.67%) Analyst
2 25 (14.88%) Consultant
3 18 (10.71%) Lead
4 16 (9.52%) SAP Consultant
5 15 (8.93%) Support Analyst
6 14 (8.33%) IT Support
7 9 (5.36%) IT Analyst
7 9 (5.36%) IT Manager
7 9 (5.36%) IT Support Analyst
8 8 (4.76%) Data Centre Engineer
8 8 (4.76%) Functional Consultant
8 8 (4.76%) Support Engineer
9 7 (4.17%) Architect
9 7 (4.17%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.17%) Desktop Support
9 7 (4.17%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.57%) Security Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.57%) Technical Support
10 6 (3.57%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.76%) Redfish
2 3 (1.79%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.79%) Kafka
3 2 (1.19%) IDoc
3 2 (1.19%) REST
3 2 (1.19%) SAP Core Interface
3 2 (1.19%) Spring
4 1 (0.60%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.60%) gRPC
4 1 (0.60%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.60%) Middleware
4 1 (0.60%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.60%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.60%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.60%) SOAP
4 1 (0.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 14 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.98%) iPad
5 5 (2.98%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (2.38%) iPhone
6 4 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.79%) FMCG
7 3 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.19%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.19%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.19%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.19%) Replication
9 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 42 (25.00%) Windows
2 17 (10.12%) Linux
3 14 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 7 (4.17%) Mac OS
5 6 (3.57%) Android
6 5 (2.98%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.79%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.19%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.60%) CentOS
9 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (24.40%) Asset Management
2 37 (22.02%) Logistics
3 36 (21.43%) Migration
4 34 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (19.05%) ERP
6 29 (17.26%) Customer Service
7 24 (14.29%) ITIL
8 23 (13.69%) Service Management
9 21 (12.50%) Data Migration
9 21 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
10 18 (10.71%) Roadmaps
11 17 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (10.12%) ITSM
11 17 (10.12%) Project Delivery
12 15 (8.93%) GAP Analysis
13 14 (8.33%) Order Management
14 11 (6.55%) Cost Optimisation
14 11 (6.55%) Project Management
14 11 (6.55%) Test Automation
14 11 (6.55%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.57%) Shell Script
2 3 (1.79%) Java
2 3 (1.79%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.79%) SQL
3 2 (1.19%) ABAP
3 2 (1.19%) Python
4 1 (0.60%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.60%) C++
4 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.60%) SOQL
4 1 (0.60%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 26 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.12%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.33%) Degree
4 10 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (5.36%) A+ Certification
5 9 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.36%) Network+ Certification
6 5 (2.98%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.38%) SAP Certification
8 3 (1.79%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.19%) CCNA
9 2 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.19%) CISSP
9 2 (1.19%) PMP
10 1 (0.60%) CCNP
10 1 (0.60%) CISA
10 1 (0.60%) CISM
10 1 (0.60%) GIAC
10 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.38%) SLA
3 2 (1.19%) NIST
3 2 (1.19%) NIST 800
3 2 (1.19%) QA
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) GRC
4 1 (0.60%) IFRS
4 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.60%) ISA99
4 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.76%) Firmware
3 4 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.19%) Docker
4 2 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (5.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.76%) Dell DRAC
3 4 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.79%) SCCM
5 1 (0.60%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (22.02%) Microsoft
2 35 (20.83%) SAP
3 13 (7.74%) ServiceNow
4 11 (6.55%) Oracle
5 7 (4.17%) Juniper
6 6 (3.57%) Cisco
7 5 (2.98%) CheckPoint
7 5 (2.98%) F5
7 5 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.38%) VMware
9 3 (1.79%) Blue Coat
9 3 (1.79%) Starlink
10 2 (1.19%) Apple
10 2 (1.19%) Ariba
10 2 (1.19%) JD Edwards
10 2 (1.19%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.19%) Veeam
11 1 (0.60%) Ciena
11 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.60%) Rapid7