Inventory Management Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Inventory Management
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Inventory Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 77 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 10 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.99% 0.65% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £209 - -
25th Percentile £241 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £360 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £353 £370 -
90th Percentile £381 £419 -
South East median daily rate £400 £360 £569
% change year-on-year +11.11% -36.74% +8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £32.87 - -
25th Percentile £44.45 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £73.25 - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 - £14.00
% change year-on-year - - -30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 874 979 1,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.45% 79.14% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 625 659
10th Percentile £304 £360 £273
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +7.55% +0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £636
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 69 109
10th Percentile - £25.45 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £25.04 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.23% +27.27% +42.86%
75th Percentile £41.00 £75.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £59.38 £79.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £59.25 £53.00
% change year-on-year -62.02% +11.78% +66.09%

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Inventory Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Inventory Management job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Inventory Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Inventory Management

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inventory Management in Hampshire over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in Hampshire

Inventory Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Inventory Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Inventory Management

Inventory Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inventory Management in Hampshire over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Inventory Management in Hampshire

Inventory Management
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 7 October 2025. 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
Portsmouth 0 6 - -
Farnborough - 2 - - 3
Basingstoke - 1 £200 -
Inventory Management
South East

Inventory Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (10.00%) DMVPN
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) IPsec
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (10.00%) ERP Implementation Manager
2 1 (10.00%) ERP Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Inventory Control
2 6 (60.00%) Storage Management
2 6 (60.00%) Workflow
2 6 (60.00%) Workflow Management
3 2 (20.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (20.00%) ERP
3 2 (20.00%) Project Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) Juniper