Inventory Management Contracts in the North of England

Inventory Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Inventory Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inventory Management over the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 159 171
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +44
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 16 17 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.41% 0.39% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.46% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 14
10th Percentile £370 - £425
25th Percentile £423 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -7.41% +27.06%
75th Percentile £688 £538 £600
90th Percentile £722 £560 £742
England median daily rate £275 £475 £503
% change year-on-year -42.11% -5.54% +18.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £17.07
% change year-on-year +19.76% +23.06% -14.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,447 3,674 4,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.75% 84.09% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,197 2,232 3,238
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -0.04% +0.04%
75th Percentile £553 £584 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 286 198
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.26 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.45 £13.36 £17.73
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.25 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -18.65% +35.87%
75th Percentile £43.39 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.40 £68.13 £53.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +65.38%

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Inventory Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Inventory Management in the North of England

Inventory Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Inventory Management in the North of England

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inventory Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in the North of England

Inventory Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Inventory Management in the North of England

Inventory Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
North West +10 13 £580 +16.00% 18
Yorkshire -2 3 £400 - 17
Inventory Management
England

Inventory Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (37.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.25%) SAP LE
2 1 (6.25%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
1 5 (31.25%) Snowflake
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Power BI
2 4 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.25%) Tableau
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
1 7 (43.75%) Manufacturing
2 5 (31.25%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Marketing
5 1 (6.25%) Advertising
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Financial Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Business Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Business Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Programme Director
4 1 (6.25%) Project Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) SAP WM Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Senior SAP Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Senior SAP Supply Chain Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Supply Chain Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Life Science
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Logistics
2 7 (43.75%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 5 (31.25%) Analytics
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Quality Management
6 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
6 3 (18.75%) Integration Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Agile
7 2 (12.50%) Community of Practice
7 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
7 2 (12.50%) Data Management
7 2 (12.50%) DevOps
7 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
7 2 (12.50%) Record to Report
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (12.50%) Use Case
7 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) PMO
3 1 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (6.25%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) SAP
2 4 (25.00%) Ariba
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) Anaplan
4 2 (12.50%) Hyperion
4 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.25%) Apple
5 1 (6.25%) Criteo
5 1 (6.25%) Databricks
5 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.25%) Google
5 1 (6.25%) Infoblox