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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 343 413
Rank change year-on-year -55 +70 +72
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 230 170 122
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.61% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.67% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 104 59
10th Percentile £200 £150 £162
25th Percentile £250 £185 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £305 £450
Median % change year-on-year +35.25% -32.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £544
90th Percentile £675 £643 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £300 £475
% change year-on-year +41.67% -36.84% -12.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 10
10th Percentile £15.00 £24.99 £19.65
25th Percentile £19.50 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +19.76% +23.06%
75th Percentile £42.38 - £21.88
90th Percentile £178.75 £30.98 £31.95
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.39% +19.76% +23.06%

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 38,771 25,264 28,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.78% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,101 16,147 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -55 88 £500 -8.05% 60
South East -67 41 £275 +44.74% 42
North of England -39 37 £365 -37.07% 28
Midlands -43 30 £450 +80.00% 25
Yorkshire -22 22 £365 -8.75% 10
East of England -25 20 £225 +12.50% 14
East Midlands -7 15 £500 +100.00% 10
West Midlands -44 15 £338 -4.93% 15
North West -42 12 £400 -31.03% 15
South West -35 10 £478 +19.38% 12
North East - 3 - - 3
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 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.30%) Confluence
2 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.30%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.43%) Smallworld
Applications
1 15 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.43%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 23 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (4.35%) SAP MM
3 9 (3.91%) SAP EWM
4 4 (1.74%) SAP ERP
4 4 (1.74%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.87%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.87%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.43%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.43%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.43%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.43%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 29 (12.61%) Azure
2 26 (11.30%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (6.96%) Entra ID
4 14 (6.09%) AWS
5 8 (3.48%) GCP
5 8 (3.48%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.17%) GitHub
8 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (1.74%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.30%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.30%) SaaS
10 2 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.87%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon ECR
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.43%) Azure AI
11 1 (0.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.70%) VPN
2 14 (6.09%) DNS
2 14 (6.09%) Firewall
3 12 (5.22%) WAN
3 12 (5.22%) WebEx
3 12 (5.22%) Wireless
4 10 (4.35%) Network Security
5 9 (3.91%) DHCP
5 9 (3.91%) Internet
6 8 (3.48%) SAN
6 8 (3.48%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.17%) DMVPN
7 5 (2.17%) IPsec
7 5 (2.17%) LAN
7 5 (2.17%) SSL
8 4 (1.74%) Cisco IPT
9 3 (1.30%) 4G
9 3 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.87%) MPLS
10 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.48%) Power BI
2 3 (1.30%) Flink
2 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (0.87%) GIS
3 2 (0.87%) Metadata
3 2 (0.87%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.43%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.43%) MySQL
4 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.43%) OLTP
4 1 (0.43%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (6.96%) JIRA
2 3 (1.30%) Git
2 3 (1.30%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.87%) Flyway
3 2 (0.87%) git-flow
3 2 (0.87%) Hudson
3 2 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.87%) JUnit
3 2 (0.87%) Liquibase
3 2 (0.87%) Mockito
4 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.43%) Toad
General
1 94 (40.87%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.35%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (21.74%) Finance
4 37 (16.09%) Manufacturing
5 25 (10.87%) Retail
6 21 (9.13%) Telecoms
7 17 (7.39%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (5.22%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.04%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.04%) Billing
9 7 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.61%) Banking
11 5 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.74%) Law
12 4 (1.74%) Legal
13 3 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.30%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.87%) Advertising
14 2 (0.87%) Military
14 2 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (16.52%) Analyst
2 22 (9.57%) IT Support
3 20 (8.70%) Senior
4 19 (8.26%) Support Engineer
5 17 (7.39%) Architect
5 17 (7.39%) Consultant
5 17 (7.39%) Lead
6 16 (6.96%) Business Analyst
7 15 (6.52%) IT Engineer
8 13 (5.65%) IT Support Engineer
8 13 (5.65%) Technical Support
9 11 (4.78%) SAP Consultant
10 10 (4.35%) Data Centre Engineer
10 10 (4.35%) Support Analyst
11 9 (3.91%) Support Technician
12 8 (3.48%) Developer
12 8 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (3.04%) Senior Business Analyst
13 7 (3.04%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.35%) Redfish
2 6 (2.61%) REST
3 5 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.74%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.74%) Middleware
4 4 (1.74%) Spring
5 3 (1.30%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (1.30%) Kafka
5 3 (1.30%) OpenAPI
5 3 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.30%) Swagger
6 2 (0.87%) HATEOAS
6 2 (0.87%) Jasypt
6 2 (0.87%) JDBC
6 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.87%) RESTful
6 2 (0.87%) SOAP
6 2 (0.87%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.87%) Spring MVC
6 2 (0.87%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 22 (9.57%) Onboarding
3 20 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.22%) Video Conferencing
5 11 (4.78%) FMCG
6 10 (4.35%) CMDB
6 10 (4.35%) Web Conferencing
7 9 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (3.04%) iPad
9 6 (2.61%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.61%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.61%) iPhone
9 6 (2.61%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.74%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (27.83%) Windows
2 19 (8.26%) Linux
3 17 (7.39%) Windows 10
4 15 (6.52%) Mac OS
5 13 (5.65%) Android
6 11 (4.78%) Apple iOS
7 6 (2.61%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.74%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.30%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.43%) CentOS
10 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (23.04%) Logistics
3 49 (21.30%) Asset Management
3 49 (21.30%) ERP
4 38 (16.52%) ITSM
5 35 (15.22%) Migration
6 34 (14.78%) Customer Service
7 33 (14.35%) Inventory Control
8 31 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (11.74%) ITIL
10 23 (10.00%) Data Migration
10 23 (10.00%) Service Management
11 22 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (9.13%) Project Delivery
12 21 (9.13%) Roadmaps
12 21 (9.13%) User Acceptance Testing
13 17 (7.39%) Test Automation
13 17 (7.39%) Validation
14 16 (6.96%) Agile
14 16 (6.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.91%) Python
2 6 (2.61%) Java
2 6 (2.61%) Shell Script
3 5 (2.17%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.74%) Bicep
4 4 (1.74%) SQL
5 2 (0.87%) ABAP
5 2 (0.87%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.87%) PromQL
5 2 (0.87%) SOQL
5 2 (0.87%) SOSL
6 1 (0.43%) Bash
6 1 (0.43%) C++
6 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.00%) Degree
3 22 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 20 (8.70%) A+ Certification
5 14 (6.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.61%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (2.17%) CISSP
10 4 (1.74%) CCNA
10 4 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.74%) CISM
10 4 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.74%) SAP Certification
11 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.30%) CCNP
11 3 (1.30%) PMP
12 2 (0.87%) CISA
12 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.48%) QA
3 6 (2.61%) NIST
4 5 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.17%) SLA
5 2 (0.87%) COSHH
5 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.87%) NCSC
5 2 (0.87%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.87%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.43%) ISA99
6 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (13.48%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.35%) Firmware
3 4 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.30%) Docker
5 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.43%) zsh
Systems Management
1 10 (4.35%) Dell DRAC
1 10 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.48%) Terraform
3 5 (2.17%) Ansible
3 5 (2.17%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.30%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.30%) Grafana
4 3 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.87%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.87%) Consul
5 2 (0.87%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.43%) SCCM
6 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (32.17%) Microsoft
2 37 (16.09%) SAP
3 25 (10.87%) ServiceNow
4 15 (6.52%) Oracle
5 11 (4.78%) Apple
6 9 (3.91%) Juniper
7 8 (3.48%) Cisco
7 8 (3.48%) Google
8 5 (2.17%) CheckPoint
8 5 (2.17%) F5
8 5 (2.17%) Qualys
8 5 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.17%) Samsung
9 4 (1.74%) Blue Coat
9 4 (1.74%) VMware
10 3 (1.30%) Rapid7
10 3 (1.30%) Splunk
10 3 (1.30%) Starlink
10 3 (1.30%) Tenable
10 3 (1.30%) TOWER Software