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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 335 425
Rank change year-on-year -81 +90 +65
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 184 143 125
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.58% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.63% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 96 54
10th Percentile £182 £146 £169
25th Percentile £222 £185 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £250 £475
Median % change year-on-year +46.00% -47.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £561 £600
90th Percentile £658 £597 £725
UK median daily rate £365 £250 £500
% change year-on-year +46.00% -50.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 9 22
10th Percentile £18.80 - £11.06
25th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% +43.69% +2.56%
75th Percentile £178.75 £71.25 £21.50
90th Percentile - £74.50 £21.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £16.70
% change year-on-year +59.05% +50.60% -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 36,618 22,657 32,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 91.33% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,120 14,657 20,816
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £727 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -3.79% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,297 1,070 2,391
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.11 £16.04
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.72% -29.51% +6.14%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -41 56 £500 -3.61% 23
South East -47 41 £238 +58.33% 11
North of England -58 32 £365 -37.07% 6
Midlands -45 24 £465 +86.00% 13
East of England -33 19 £350 +75.00% 7
Yorkshire -48 15 £365 +2.82% 2
North West -39 14 £173 -70.26% 3
West Midlands -41 13 £375 -31.82% 7
East Midlands -20 11 £500 +127.27% 6
South West -22 10 £525 +138.64% 10
North East - 3 - - 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 7 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.63%) Confluence
3 2 (1.09%) Apache
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.54%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.54%) Smallworld
Applications
1 12 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.54%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (0.54%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 23 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (7.07%) SAP MM
3 10 (5.43%) SAP EWM
4 5 (2.72%) SAP SD
5 3 (1.63%) SAP ERP
5 3 (1.63%) SAP PM
6 2 (1.09%) SAP QM
6 2 (1.09%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.54%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.54%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.54%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.54%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 19 (10.33%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (7.07%) Azure
3 10 (5.43%) AWS
4 9 (4.89%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.72%) GCP
5 5 (2.72%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.17%) GitHub
7 3 (1.63%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.63%) Google Ads
8 2 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.09%) SaaS
8 2 (1.09%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.54%) Google Drive
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.15%) VPN
2 11 (5.98%) Firewall
3 9 (4.89%) WAN
4 8 (4.35%) DNS
4 8 (4.35%) Network Security
4 8 (4.35%) SAN
5 6 (3.26%) DHCP
5 6 (3.26%) Internet
6 5 (2.72%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.72%) Wireless
7 4 (2.17%) LAN
8 3 (1.63%) DMVPN
8 3 (1.63%) IPsec
8 3 (1.63%) SSL
9 2 (1.09%) 4G
9 2 (1.09%) Cisco IPT
9 2 (1.09%) MPLS
9 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.72%) Power BI
2 3 (1.63%) Flink
2 3 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (1.09%) GIS
3 2 (1.09%) Metadata
3 2 (1.09%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.54%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.54%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.54%) MySQL
4 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.54%) OLTP
4 1 (0.54%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.54%) Tableau
4 1 (0.54%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 14 (7.61%) JIRA
2 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.09%) Flyway
2 2 (1.09%) Git
2 2 (1.09%) git-flow
2 2 (1.09%) Hudson
2 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.09%) JUnit
2 2 (1.09%) Liquibase
2 2 (1.09%) Mockito
3 1 (0.54%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.54%) Toad
General
1 64 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 45 (24.46%) Finance
3 43 (23.37%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.59%) Manufacturing
5 22 (11.96%) Telecoms
6 16 (8.70%) Retail
7 15 (8.15%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.89%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.26%) Banking
10 5 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.17%) Billing
11 4 (2.17%) Law
11 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.63%) Legal
13 2 (1.09%) Front Office
13 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.09%) Military
13 2 (1.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (16.85%) Analyst
2 21 (11.41%) Consultant
3 18 (9.78%) Lead
4 15 (8.15%) SAP Consultant
4 15 (8.15%) Support Analyst
5 13 (7.07%) Architect
5 13 (7.07%) IT Support
5 13 (7.07%) Senior
6 10 (5.43%) Business Analyst
6 10 (5.43%) Data Centre Engineer
7 9 (4.89%) IT Analyst
7 9 (4.89%) IT Support Analyst
8 8 (4.35%) Desktop Support
8 8 (4.35%) IT Manager
9 7 (3.80%) Developer
9 7 (3.80%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.26%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.26%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.26%) Technical Support
10 6 (3.26%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.43%) Redfish
2 4 (2.17%) REST
2 4 (2.17%) Spring
3 3 (1.63%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (1.63%) Kafka
3 3 (1.63%) OpenAPI
3 3 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (1.63%) Swagger
4 2 (1.09%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.09%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.09%) HATEOAS
4 2 (1.09%) IDoc
4 2 (1.09%) Jasypt
4 2 (1.09%) JWT
4 2 (1.09%) Loki
4 2 (1.09%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.09%) SAP Core Interface
4 2 (1.09%) Spring Batch
4 2 (1.09%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.09%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.33%) Onboarding
2 18 (9.78%) Data Centre
3 17 (9.24%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.35%) iPad
6 6 (3.26%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.26%) FMCG
6 6 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.72%) CMDB
7 5 (2.72%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.17%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.17%) iPhone
8 4 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.63%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 49 (26.63%) Windows
2 21 (11.41%) Linux
3 15 (8.15%) Windows 10
4 11 (5.98%) Mac OS
5 10 (5.43%) Android
5 10 (5.43%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.17%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.17%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.63%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.54%) CentOS
8 1 (0.54%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (20.65%) Asset Management
2 38 (20.65%) Migration
3 37 (20.11%) ERP
4 34 (18.48%) Logistics
5 26 (14.13%) Customer Service
5 26 (14.13%) ITIL
5 26 (14.13%) Service Management
6 22 (11.96%) Data Migration
6 22 (11.96%) ITSM
6 22 (11.96%) Roadmaps
7 21 (11.41%) User Acceptance Testing
8 20 (10.87%) Project Delivery
9 19 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (8.70%) GAP Analysis
11 14 (7.61%) Computer Science
11 14 (7.61%) Configuration Management
11 14 (7.61%) Test Automation
12 13 (7.07%) Agile
12 13 (7.07%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.26%) Shell Script
2 5 (2.72%) Java
2 5 (2.72%) Python
3 4 (2.17%) Bicep
3 4 (2.17%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.17%) SQL
4 2 (1.09%) ABAP
4 2 (1.09%) PromQL
5 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.54%) C++
5 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.54%) SOQL
5 1 (0.54%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.70%) Degree
4 14 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.43%) A+ Certification
7 9 (4.89%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (2.72%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.17%) CISSP
9 4 (2.17%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.63%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.63%) CISM
10 3 (1.63%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.63%) PMP
11 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.09%) CCNP
11 2 (1.09%) CISA
11 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.09%) GIAC
11 2 (1.09%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.72%) NIST
3 4 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.17%) SLA
4 3 (1.63%) QA
5 2 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.09%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.09%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.54%) GDPR
6 1 (0.54%) GRC
6 1 (0.54%) ISA99
6 1 (0.54%) NCSC
6 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.43%) Firmware
3 4 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.63%) Docker
5 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (5.43%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.72%) Ansible
3 5 (2.72%) Terraform
4 3 (1.63%) Grafana
4 3 (1.63%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.63%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.09%) Consul
5 2 (1.09%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.09%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.54%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 40 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 35 (19.02%) SAP
3 13 (7.07%) Oracle
3 13 (7.07%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.35%) Juniper
5 6 (3.26%) Apple
6 5 (2.72%) Cisco
6 5 (2.72%) Google
6 5 (2.72%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.17%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.17%) F5
7 4 (2.17%) Qualys
7 4 (2.17%) Starlink
7 4 (2.17%) VMware
8 3 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.63%) Okta
8 3 (1.63%) Rapid7
8 3 (1.63%) Splunk
8 3 (1.63%) Tenable
8 3 (1.63%) TOWER Software