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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 349 419
Rank change year-on-year -70 +70 +46
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 207 163 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.59% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.65% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 104 59
10th Percentile £196 £150 £162
25th Percentile £225 £185 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £275 £475
Median % change year-on-year +43.18% -42.11% -5.54%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £563
90th Percentile £675 £668 £725
UK median daily rate £425 £250 £475
% change year-on-year +70.00% -47.37% -11.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 16
10th Percentile £15.00 £24.49 £11.68
25th Percentile £19.50 - £13.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% +19.76% +23.06%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £21.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £72.25 £26.88
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £21.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% +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 38,425 24,898 29,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.75% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,067 15,953 19,300
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £424 £405 £416
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 £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,362 1,833
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.21 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.46 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -43 80 £450 -13.25% 31
South East -64 41 £275 +61.76% 34
North of England -57 32 £365 -37.07% 16
Midlands -48 25 £475 +90.00% 19
Yorkshire -27 17 £365 -8.75% 8
East of England -30 16 £215 +7.50% 9
East Midlands -14 13 £500 +100.00% 8
West Midlands -44 12 £356 -20.83% 11
North West -48 12 £400 -31.03% 7
South West -29 8 £525 +31.25% 6
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 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.45%) Confluence
2 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.97%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.48%) Smallworld
Applications
1 11 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.48%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.48%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 23 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (5.31%) SAP MM
3 10 (4.83%) SAP EWM
4 5 (2.42%) SAP SD
5 4 (1.93%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.97%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.97%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.97%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.48%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.48%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.48%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.59%) Azure
2 22 (10.63%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (5.80%) Entra ID
4 11 (5.31%) AWS
5 6 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.90%) GCP
6 5 (2.42%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.93%) GitHub
8 3 (1.45%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.45%) Google Ads
8 3 (1.45%) SaaS
9 2 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.97%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.48%) Google Drive
10 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Serverless
10 1 (0.48%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.63%) VPN
2 13 (6.28%) Firewall
3 12 (5.80%) DNS
4 11 (5.31%) WAN
4 11 (5.31%) Wireless
5 10 (4.83%) WebEx
6 9 (4.35%) Network Security
7 8 (3.86%) Internet
7 8 (3.86%) SAN
7 8 (3.86%) TCP/IP
8 7 (3.38%) DHCP
9 5 (2.42%) DMVPN
9 5 (2.42%) IPsec
9 5 (2.42%) SSL
10 4 (1.93%) Cisco IPT
10 4 (1.93%) LAN
11 2 (0.97%) 4G
11 2 (0.97%) MPLS
11 2 (0.97%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.48%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.42%) Power BI
2 3 (1.45%) Flink
2 3 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.97%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (0.97%) GIS
3 2 (0.97%) Metadata
3 2 (0.97%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.48%) MySQL
4 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.48%) OLTP
4 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.48%) Tableau
4 1 (0.48%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (7.25%) JIRA
2 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.97%) Flyway
2 2 (0.97%) Git
2 2 (0.97%) git-flow
2 2 (0.97%) Hudson
2 2 (0.97%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.97%) JUnit
2 2 (0.97%) Liquibase
2 2 (0.97%) Mockito
3 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.48%) Toad
General
1 81 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.64%) Finance
3 50 (24.15%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.56%) Manufacturing
5 21 (10.14%) Telecoms
6 19 (9.18%) Retail
7 17 (8.21%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.35%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.90%) Banking
10 6 (2.90%) Billing
10 6 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.93%) Law
12 4 (1.93%) Legal
12 4 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.45%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.97%) Police
Job Titles
1 32 (15.46%) Analyst
2 19 (9.18%) Consultant
3 17 (8.21%) IT Support
3 17 (8.21%) Lead
3 17 (8.21%) Senior
4 14 (6.76%) Architect
4 14 (6.76%) Business Analyst
4 14 (6.76%) Support Engineer
5 13 (6.28%) SAP Consultant
6 12 (5.80%) IT Engineer
7 10 (4.83%) Data Centre Engineer
7 10 (4.83%) Technical Support
8 9 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
8 9 (4.35%) Support Analyst
8 9 (4.35%) Support Technician
9 8 (3.86%) IT Manager
10 7 (3.38%) Desktop Support
10 7 (3.38%) Developer
11 6 (2.90%) Service Analyst
11 6 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.83%) Redfish
2 5 (2.42%) REST
3 4 (1.93%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.93%) Middleware
3 4 (1.93%) Spring
4 3 (1.45%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (1.45%) Kafka
4 3 (1.45%) OpenAPI
4 3 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.45%) Swagger
5 2 (0.97%) Gherkin
5 2 (0.97%) HATEOAS
5 2 (0.97%) Jasypt
5 2 (0.97%) JWT
5 2 (0.97%) Loki
5 2 (0.97%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.97%) SAP Core Interface
5 2 (0.97%) Spring Batch
5 2 (0.97%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.97%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.63%) Onboarding
2 21 (10.14%) Data Centre
3 20 (9.66%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.31%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (4.83%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (3.86%) FMCG
6 8 (3.86%) Web Conferencing
7 7 (3.38%) CMDB
7 7 (3.38%) iPad
7 7 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.90%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.90%) iPhone
8 6 (2.90%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.93%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.93%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.93%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.45%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (27.54%) Windows
2 18 (8.70%) Linux
3 15 (7.25%) Mac OS
3 15 (7.25%) Windows 10
4 13 (6.28%) Android
5 12 (5.80%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.93%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.93%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.45%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.48%) CentOS
8 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (22.71%) Asset Management
2 46 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (19.32%) ERP
3 40 (19.32%) Logistics
4 37 (17.87%) ITSM
4 37 (17.87%) Migration
5 29 (14.01%) Customer Service
5 29 (14.01%) ITIL
6 27 (13.04%) Service Management
7 24 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (11.59%) Roadmaps
8 23 (11.11%) Data Migration
9 22 (10.63%) Project Delivery
10 21 (10.14%) User Acceptance Testing
11 18 (8.70%) Inventory Control
11 18 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (8.21%) Test Automation
13 16 (7.73%) GAP Analysis
13 16 (7.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (7.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.38%) Python
2 6 (2.90%) Java
3 5 (2.42%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.93%) Bicep
4 4 (1.93%) SQL
5 3 (1.45%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.97%) ABAP
6 2 (0.97%) PromQL
7 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.48%) C++
7 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.48%) SOQL
7 1 (0.48%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 38 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.14%) Degree
3 20 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.70%) A+ Certification
5 14 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.90%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (2.42%) CISSP
10 4 (1.93%) CISM
10 4 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.93%) SAP Certification
11 3 (1.45%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.45%) CCNA
11 3 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.45%) PMP
12 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.97%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.97%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.86%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.38%) QA
3 6 (2.90%) NIST
4 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.42%) SLA
5 2 (0.97%) GDPR
5 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.97%) NCSC
5 2 (0.97%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.97%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.48%) ISA99
6 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.83%) Firmware
3 4 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.45%) Docker
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (4.83%) Dell DRAC
2 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.90%) Terraform
4 5 (2.42%) Ansible
5 3 (1.45%) Grafana
5 3 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.45%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.97%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.97%) Consul
6 2 (0.97%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.97%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.48%) SCCM
7 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 34 (16.43%) SAP
3 25 (12.08%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.83%) Apple
4 10 (4.83%) Oracle
5 9 (4.35%) Juniper
6 8 (3.86%) Cisco
7 6 (2.90%) Google
8 5 (2.42%) CheckPoint
8 5 (2.42%) F5
8 5 (2.42%) Qualys
8 5 (2.42%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.93%) Blue Coat
9 4 (1.93%) Samsung
9 4 (1.93%) VMware
10 3 (1.45%) Okta
10 3 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.45%) Starlink
10 3 (1.45%) Tenable
10 3 (1.45%) TOWER Software