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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 345 427
Rank change year-on-year -58 +82 +52
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 210 160 122
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.58% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.64% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 103 57
10th Percentile £189 £150 £166
25th Percentile £225 £185 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £275 £475
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -42.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £541 £566 £575
90th Percentile £675 £645 £725
UK median daily rate £400 £250 £475
% change year-on-year +60.00% -47.37% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 16 16
10th Percentile £15.00 £24.33 £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 £25.49 £21.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £72.50 £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 38,301 24,864 30,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 90.66% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,041 15,953 19,995
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,379 1,324 2,046
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.23 £13.22
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.90
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £69.10 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.39 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -39 82 £444 -11.25% 32
South East -63 41 £275 +61.76% 20
North of England -61 33 £365 -37.07% 6
Midlands -41 24 £475 +90.00% 11
East of England -24 17 £350 +75.00% 2
Yorkshire -39 16 £365 -8.75% 2
North West -50 14 £173 -70.26% 4
East Midlands -15 13 £500 +100.00% 7
West Midlands -54 11 £356 -20.83% 4
South West -30 8 £525 +31.25% 3
North East - 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 8 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.43%) Confluence
2 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.48%) Smallworld
Applications
1 12 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.48%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (12.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (6.19%) SAP MM
3 10 (4.76%) SAP EWM
4 5 (2.38%) SAP SD
5 4 (1.90%) SAP ERP
6 3 (1.43%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.95%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.95%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.48%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.48%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.48%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.43%) Azure
2 22 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (5.24%) AWS
3 11 (5.24%) Entra ID
4 6 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (2.86%) GCP
5 5 (2.38%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.90%) GitHub
7 3 (1.43%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.43%) Google Ads
7 3 (1.43%) SaaS
8 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.95%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.48%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.48%) Serverless
9 1 (0.48%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.48%) VPN
2 13 (6.19%) Firewall
3 12 (5.71%) DNS
4 11 (5.24%) WAN
4 11 (5.24%) Wireless
5 10 (4.76%) WebEx
6 9 (4.29%) Network Security
7 8 (3.81%) Internet
7 8 (3.81%) SAN
7 8 (3.81%) TCP/IP
8 7 (3.33%) DHCP
9 5 (2.38%) DMVPN
9 5 (2.38%) IPsec
9 5 (2.38%) SSL
10 4 (1.90%) Cisco IPT
10 4 (1.90%) LAN
11 2 (0.95%) 4G
11 2 (0.95%) MPLS
11 2 (0.95%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.48%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.38%) Power BI
2 3 (1.43%) Flink
2 3 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (0.95%) GIS
3 2 (0.95%) Metadata
3 2 (0.95%) 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%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.48%) OLTP
4 1 (0.48%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.48%) Tableau
4 1 (0.48%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.95%) Flyway
2 2 (0.95%) Git
2 2 (0.95%) git-flow
2 2 (0.95%) Hudson
2 2 (0.95%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.95%) JUnit
2 2 (0.95%) Liquibase
2 2 (0.95%) Mockito
3 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.48%) Toad
General
1 81 (38.57%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.29%) Finance
3 50 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.90%) Manufacturing
5 22 (10.48%) Telecoms
6 19 (9.05%) Retail
7 15 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.29%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.86%) Banking
11 5 (2.38%) Billing
11 5 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.90%) Law
12 4 (1.90%) Legal
12 4 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.95%) Front Office
13 2 (0.95%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.95%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (14.76%) Analyst
2 21 (10.00%) Consultant
3 18 (8.57%) IT Support
3 18 (8.57%) Lead
4 16 (7.62%) Senior
5 15 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
6 14 (6.67%) Architect
6 14 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 13 (6.19%) Business Analyst
8 12 (5.71%) IT Engineer
9 11 (5.24%) Support Analyst
9 11 (5.24%) Technical Support
10 10 (4.76%) Data Centre Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Support Technician
12 8 (3.81%) Desktop Support
12 8 (3.81%) IT Manager
13 7 (3.33%) Developer
13 7 (3.33%) IT Analyst
13 7 (3.33%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.76%) Redfish
2 5 (2.38%) REST
3 4 (1.90%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.90%) Middleware
3 4 (1.90%) Spring
4 3 (1.43%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (1.43%) Kafka
4 3 (1.43%) OpenAPI
4 3 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.43%) Swagger
5 2 (0.95%) HATEOAS
5 2 (0.95%) IDoc
5 2 (0.95%) Jasypt
5 2 (0.95%) JWT
5 2 (0.95%) Loki
5 2 (0.95%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.95%) SAP Core Interface
5 2 (0.95%) Spring Batch
5 2 (0.95%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.95%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.48%) Onboarding
2 20 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 20 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (3.81%) FMCG
5 8 (3.81%) iPad
5 8 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.81%) Web Conferencing
6 7 (3.33%) iPhone
7 6 (2.86%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.86%) CMDB
7 6 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.38%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.90%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.90%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.43%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (28.57%) Windows
2 19 (9.05%) Linux
3 17 (8.10%) Windows 10
4 15 (7.14%) Mac OS
5 13 (6.19%) Android
6 12 (5.71%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.90%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.90%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.43%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.48%) CentOS
9 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (22.86%) Asset Management
3 41 (19.52%) ERP
4 39 (18.57%) Logistics
4 39 (18.57%) Migration
5 36 (17.14%) ITSM
6 31 (14.76%) Customer Service
7 30 (14.29%) ITIL
8 28 (13.33%) Service Management
9 23 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (10.95%) Data Migration
9 23 (10.95%) Roadmaps
9 23 (10.95%) User Acceptance Testing
10 21 (10.00%) Project Delivery
11 17 (8.10%) GAP Analysis
11 17 (8.10%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (8.10%) Test Automation
12 16 (7.62%) Computer Science
12 16 (7.62%) Inventory Control
12 16 (7.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.33%) Python
2 6 (2.86%) Java
3 5 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.90%) Bicep
4 4 (1.90%) Shell Script
4 4 (1.90%) SQL
5 2 (0.95%) ABAP
5 2 (0.95%) PromQL
6 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.48%) C++
6 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.48%) SOQL
6 1 (0.48%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 38 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.48%) Degree
3 20 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 19 (9.05%) A+ Certification
5 15 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (2.38%) CISSP
9 5 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.90%) CISM
10 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.90%) SAP Certification
11 3 (1.43%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.43%) CCNA
11 3 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.43%) PMP
12 2 (0.95%) CCNP
12 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.38%) NIST
2 5 (2.38%) QA
2 5 (2.38%) SLA
3 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.95%) GDPR
4 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.95%) NCSC
4 2 (0.95%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) GRC
5 1 (0.48%) ISA99
5 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (12.86%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.76%) Firmware
3 4 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.43%) Docker
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (4.76%) Dell DRAC
2 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.86%) Terraform
4 5 (2.38%) Ansible
5 3 (1.43%) Grafana
5 3 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.43%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.95%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.95%) Consul
6 2 (0.95%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.95%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.48%) SCCM
7 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 37 (17.62%) SAP
3 25 (11.90%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.24%) Oracle
5 10 (4.76%) Apple
6 9 (4.29%) Juniper
7 8 (3.81%) Cisco
8 6 (2.86%) Google
9 5 (2.38%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.38%) F5
9 5 (2.38%) Qualys
9 5 (2.38%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.90%) Blue Coat
10 4 (1.90%) Samsung
10 4 (1.90%) Starlink
10 4 (1.90%) VMware
11 3 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.43%) Okta
11 3 (1.43%) Tenable
11 3 (1.43%) TOWER Software