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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 405 441
Rank change year-on-year +47 +36 +120
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 186 104 136
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.34% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.39% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 54 73
10th Percentile £204 £128 £200
25th Percentile £263 £222 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £365 £500
Median % change year-on-year +34.79% -27.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £634 £525 £600
90th Percentile £718 £665 £650
UK median daily rate £463 £378 £500
% change year-on-year +22.20% -24.30% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 5 3
10th Percentile £16.30 - -
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +72.71% -16.58%
75th Percentile - - £17.10
90th Percentile - £28.57 £18.95
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £24.18 £14.00
% change year-on-year +3.39% +72.71% -15.15%

All Process and 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 27,183 26,639 35,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.25% 86.82% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,253 16,245 24,094
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 955 1,480
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £47.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.94 £74.82 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +25.71%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +28 65 £550 +70.02% 51
South East +16 33 £550 +52.78% 27
North of England -24 30 £649 +77.74% 10
Midlands -9 29 £350 -17.65% 26
West Midlands -15 18 £375 -11.76% 18
North West -13 16 £703 - 6
South West +12 15 £225 +12.50% 7
East Midlands - 11 £250 - 8
East of England -17 8 £225 -33.33% 3
Yorkshire -38 8 £500 +36.99% 3
North East - 6 - - 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 12 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.15%) Confluence
4 3 (1.61%) CMS
4 3 (1.61%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.54%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) IIS
5 1 (0.54%) SAS
5 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (5.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (12.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (9.14%) SAP MM
3 10 (5.38%) Oracle EBS R12
4 8 (4.30%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (3.76%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (2.15%) SAP EWM
7 3 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (1.61%) Oracle SCM
8 2 (1.08%) Endur
8 2 (1.08%) Oracle AGIS
8 2 (1.08%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (1.08%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (1.08%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (1.08%) SAP ERP
8 2 (1.08%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (1.08%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.54%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.54%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.52%) Azure
2 24 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (6.99%) OneDrive
4 11 (5.91%) OCI
5 5 (2.69%) AWS
5 5 (2.69%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.61%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.61%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.61%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.61%) Serverless
7 2 (1.08%) GCP
7 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.08%) Slack
7 2 (1.08%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.54%) Dialogflow
8 1 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.90%) VPN
2 15 (8.06%) Firewall
3 14 (7.53%) Wireless
4 13 (6.99%) DNS
5 12 (6.45%) WAN
6 10 (5.38%) Cisco IPT
6 10 (5.38%) DMVPN
6 10 (5.38%) IPsec
6 10 (5.38%) Network Security
6 10 (5.38%) SSL
7 5 (2.69%) LAN
8 3 (1.61%) DHCP
8 3 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.08%) 4G
9 2 (1.08%) SSH
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.69%) Power BI
2 3 (1.61%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.61%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.08%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.54%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.54%) Git
2 1 (0.54%) QADirector
2 1 (0.54%) Vite
2 1 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 92 (49.46%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.43%) Finance
3 26 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.99%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.84%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.30%) Retail
8 6 (3.23%) Banking
8 6 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.23%) Legal
9 4 (2.15%) Back Office
9 4 (2.15%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.08%) Marketing
10 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.54%) Electronics
11 1 (0.54%) French Language
11 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (18.82%) Consultant
2 23 (12.37%) Desktop Support
3 20 (10.75%) Analyst
3 20 (10.75%) Senior
4 17 (9.14%) SAP Consultant
5 15 (8.06%) Support Engineer
6 12 (6.45%) Oracle Consultant
6 12 (6.45%) Support Specialist
7 11 (5.91%) Desktop Engineer
7 11 (5.91%) Senior Consultant
8 10 (5.38%) Desktop Specialist
8 10 (5.38%) Desktop Support Specialist
8 10 (5.38%) SAP MM Consultant
9 9 (4.84%) IT Support
10 8 (4.30%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.30%) Functional Consultant
10 8 (4.30%) Management Consultant
10 8 (4.30%) Project Manager
11 7 (3.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 7 (3.76%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.38%) 802.1X
2 6 (3.23%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.61%) OAuth
3 3 (1.61%) OAuth2
3 3 (1.61%) OpenID
3 3 (1.61%) SAML
4 2 (1.08%) REST
5 1 (0.54%) CSS
5 1 (0.54%) Faiss
5 1 (0.54%) Jest
5 1 (0.54%) Middleware
5 1 (0.54%) Parceljs
5 1 (0.54%) React
5 1 (0.54%) RESTful
5 1 (0.54%) Sass
5 1 (0.54%) SignalR
5 1 (0.54%) SOAP
5 1 (0.54%) Swagger
5 1 (0.54%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.54%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (7.53%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.38%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.76%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.23%) iPad
5 6 (3.23%) iPhone
6 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.61%) CMDB
7 3 (1.61%) Life Science
7 3 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.08%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.08%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.54%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (23.66%) Windows
2 23 (12.37%) Windows 10
3 7 (3.76%) Linux
4 6 (3.23%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.23%) Mac OS
4 6 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (20.43%) Logistics
2 31 (16.67%) Migration
3 29 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (15.05%) Workflow
5 25 (13.44%) Workflow Management
6 23 (12.37%) Customer Service
7 21 (11.29%) ERP
8 18 (9.68%) Knowledge Transfer
9 16 (8.60%) Asset Management
10 15 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (7.53%) ITIL
12 13 (6.99%) Data Governance
12 13 (6.99%) Process Improvement
12 13 (6.99%) Service Management
12 13 (6.99%) Supply Chain Planning
13 12 (6.45%) Change Management
13 12 (6.45%) Inventory Control
13 12 (6.45%) Patch Management
14 11 (5.91%) Mobile Device Management
14 11 (5.91%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.06%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.61%) Python
2 3 (1.61%) SQL
3 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.54%) R
3 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
3 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 69 (37.10%) Security Cleared
2 66 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.83%) Degree
4 6 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.15%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.61%) CCNA
6 3 (1.61%) CCNP
6 3 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.61%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.08%) HNC
7 2 (1.08%) HND
7 2 (1.08%) PMP
8 1 (0.54%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.54%) CISSP
8 1 (0.54%) GIAC
8 1 (0.54%) MCP
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.91%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.76%) QA
3 2 (1.08%) GDPR
3 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.08%) NIST
3 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.54%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.54%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.54%) SLA
4 1 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (17.74%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.91%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.61%) Firmware
4 2 (1.08%) Docker
5 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (5.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (4.84%) SCCM
3 5 (2.69%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (2.15%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.61%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (1.08%) Ansible
7 1 (0.54%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.54%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (20.43%) SAP
2 32 (17.20%) Microsoft
3 27 (14.52%) Oracle
4 13 (6.99%) Cisco
4 13 (6.99%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.38%) Blue Coat
5 10 (5.38%) CheckPoint
5 10 (5.38%) F5
5 10 (5.38%) Juniper
6 6 (3.23%) McAfee
6 6 (3.23%) Starlink
7 3 (1.61%) Apple
7 3 (1.61%) Google
8 2 (1.08%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.08%) Ariba
8 2 (1.08%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.08%) Hyperion
8 2 (1.08%) OpenLink
8 2 (1.08%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.54%) Veeam