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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 347 416
Rank change year-on-year -46 +69 +65
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 251 178 117
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.64% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.71% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 91 59
10th Percentile £192 £185 £140
25th Percentile £232 £195 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £325 £365
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% -10.96% -25.13%
75th Percentile £573 £543 £500
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £438 £310 £425
% change year-on-year +41.13% -27.06% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 24 5
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.87 £21.10
25th Percentile £17.45 £24.74 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £25.15 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% -11.75% +83.49%
75th Percentile £41.25 - £31.75
90th Percentile £178.75 £26.10 £32.95
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £25.15 £28.50
% change year-on-year +1.39% -11.75% +83.49%

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 39,321 25,058 28,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.80% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,195 15,905 17,612
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £752
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,661 1,475 1,343
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.27 £14.84
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.83 £20.24
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.03 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.17% -41.51% +1.96%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -53 98 £506 -10.00% 121
North of England -38 45 £365 -18.16% 41
South East -64 37 £370 +94.74% 43
Midlands -42 35 £475 +90.00% 35
North West -35 23 £483 -18.96% 25
East of England -22 20 £238 +21.79% 10
Yorkshire -19 19 £365 -8.75% 10
West Midlands -38 19 £381 +0.33% 22
East Midlands -13 16 £500 +100.00% 13
South West -50 10 £315 +40.00% 13
North East -47 3 - - 6
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 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.59%) Confluence
2 4 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.40%) Smallworld
Applications
1 19 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.40%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 29 (11.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (5.58%) SAP MM
3 8 (3.19%) SAP EWM
4 5 (1.99%) SAP SD
5 4 (1.59%) SAP ERP
6 3 (1.20%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.80%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.80%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.80%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.40%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.40%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.40%) SAP CAR
8 1 (0.40%) SAP LE
8 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.40%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 33 (13.15%) Azure
1 33 (13.15%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (7.17%) Entra ID
3 16 (6.37%) AWS
4 12 (4.78%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.98%) GCP
6 8 (3.19%) Microsoft Copilot
7 7 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.79%) GitHub
8 6 (2.39%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.20%) SaaS
10 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.80%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.80%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon ECR
11 1 (0.40%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.40%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.76%) VPN
2 17 (6.77%) DNS
2 17 (6.77%) Firewall
3 15 (5.98%) Wireless
4 13 (5.18%) WAN
5 12 (4.78%) WebEx
6 11 (4.38%) Network Security
7 10 (3.98%) DHCP
7 10 (3.98%) Internet
8 9 (3.59%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.79%) DMVPN
9 7 (2.79%) IPsec
9 7 (2.79%) LAN
9 7 (2.79%) SSL
10 6 (2.39%) Cisco IPT
10 6 (2.39%) SAN
11 4 (1.59%) 4G
12 3 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.40%) SDH
13 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.59%) Power BI
2 2 (0.80%) GIS
2 2 (0.80%) Metadata
2 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.40%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.40%) OLTP
3 1 (0.40%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (6.77%) JIRA
2 4 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.20%) Git
4 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.80%) Flyway
4 2 (0.80%) git-flow
4 2 (0.80%) GitLab
4 2 (0.80%) Hudson
4 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.80%) JUnit
4 2 (0.80%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.80%) Mockito
5 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.40%) Toad
General
1 95 (37.85%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.11%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (19.12%) Finance
4 39 (15.54%) Manufacturing
5 30 (11.95%) Retail
6 20 (7.97%) Telecoms
7 15 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (5.58%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.39%) Billing
11 5 (1.99%) Legal
11 5 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.59%) Law
12 4 (1.59%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.20%) Aviation
13 3 (1.20%) Back Office
13 3 (1.20%) Banking
14 2 (0.80%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 44 (17.53%) Analyst
2 26 (10.36%) Support Engineer
3 25 (9.96%) IT Support
4 24 (9.56%) Senior
5 22 (8.76%) Architect
6 21 (8.37%) Consultant
7 19 (7.57%) IT Engineer
8 18 (7.17%) Business Analyst
9 15 (5.98%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (5.98%) Lead
10 13 (5.18%) SAP Consultant
10 13 (5.18%) Technical Support
11 11 (4.38%) Support Analyst
12 10 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (3.98%) Senior Business Analyst
13 9 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (3.19%) Security Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) Support Technician
15 7 (2.79%) Data Analyst
15 7 (2.79%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.59%) Terraform
2 6 (2.39%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.39%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (2.39%) Redfish
3 5 (1.99%) Middleware
3 5 (1.99%) REST
4 3 (1.20%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (0.80%) Gherkin
5 2 (0.80%) IDoc
5 2 (0.80%) JDBC
5 2 (0.80%) JWT
5 2 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.80%) Loki
5 2 (0.80%) OpenAPI
5 2 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (0.80%) SAP Core Interface
5 2 (0.80%) SOAP
5 2 (0.80%) Spring
5 2 (0.80%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (0.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.96%) Onboarding
2 23 (9.16%) Data Centre
3 20 (7.97%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.58%) CMDB
5 13 (5.18%) Video Conferencing
6 12 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (4.38%) FMCG
8 10 (3.98%) Web Conferencing
9 7 (2.79%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.39%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.99%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.99%) iPad
11 5 (1.99%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.59%) iPhone
12 4 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 68 (27.09%) Windows
2 19 (7.57%) Windows 10
3 16 (6.37%) Mac OS
4 15 (5.98%) Linux
5 13 (5.18%) Android
6 10 (3.98%) Apple iOS
7 6 (2.39%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.59%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.20%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.40%) CentOS
10 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (24.30%) Logistics
1 61 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (23.11%) ERP
3 46 (18.33%) Asset Management
4 40 (15.94%) Customer Service
5 36 (14.34%) Inventory Control
5 36 (14.34%) ITSM
6 33 (13.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 32 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (12.75%) Migration
8 29 (11.55%) ITIL
9 28 (11.16%) Service Management
10 25 (9.96%) User Acceptance Testing
11 23 (9.16%) Process Improvement
12 22 (8.76%) Data Migration
13 20 (7.97%) Roadmaps
13 20 (7.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 19 (7.57%) Agile
14 19 (7.57%) Project Delivery
14 19 (7.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.98%) Python
2 9 (3.59%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.79%) Shell Script
4 5 (1.99%) SQL
5 4 (1.59%) ABAP
5 4 (1.59%) Bicep
6 3 (1.20%) Java
7 2 (0.80%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.80%) PromQL
7 2 (0.80%) SOQL
7 2 (0.80%) SOSL
8 1 (0.40%) Bash
8 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (17.13%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.95%) Degree
3 26 (10.36%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.37%) A+ Certification
5 15 (5.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.79%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (1.99%) CCNA
9 5 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.99%) CISSP
10 4 (1.59%) CCNP
10 4 (1.59%) CISM
10 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.59%) SAP Certification
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.20%) PMP
11 3 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.19%) QA
3 7 (2.79%) NIST
3 7 (2.79%) SLA
4 6 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.20%) NCSC
6 2 (0.80%) COSHH
6 2 (0.80%) GRC
6 2 (0.80%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.80%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.80%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.40%) GDPR
7 1 (0.40%) ISA99
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 35 (13.94%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.79%) Firmware
3 6 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.99%) Docker
5 2 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.40%) zsh
Systems Management
1 15 (5.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.19%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.79%) Ansible
4 6 (2.39%) Dell DRAC
5 5 (1.99%) SCCM
6 4 (1.59%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.80%) Consul
8 2 (0.80%) Grafana
8 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.80%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.40%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (38.25%) Microsoft
2 47 (18.73%) SAP
3 25 (9.96%) ServiceNow
4 18 (7.17%) Oracle
5 13 (5.18%) Apple
6 12 (4.78%) Google
7 11 (4.38%) Cisco
7 11 (4.38%) Juniper
8 7 (2.79%) CheckPoint
8 7 (2.79%) F5
8 7 (2.79%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.79%) Samsung
9 6 (2.39%) Blue Coat
9 6 (2.39%) VMware
9 6 (2.39%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.99%) Qualys
11 4 (1.59%) JD Edwards
11 4 (1.59%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.20%) Ariba
12 3 (1.20%) IBM