Inventory Management Contracts in the North West

Inventory Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 122 131
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +41
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Inventory Management 12 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.54% 0.25% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.30% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 6
10th Percentile £479 - £444
25th Percentile - £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +22.11% -8.65% +26.06%
75th Percentile £700 £528 £585
90th Percentile £727 £534 £600
England median daily rate £325 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -27.78% -10.00% +5.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 2,026 2,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.84% 84.00% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,277 1,214 1,778
10th Percentile £291 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £670 £680 £663
England median daily rate £510 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.77% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 164 158
10th Percentile £13.23 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +14.20% +40.71%
75th Percentile £55.25 £52.05 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.00 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.17% +4.66% +51.39%

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Inventory Management in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Inventory Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Inventory Management

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inventory Management in the North West over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Inventory Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Inventory Management

Inventory Management
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire -14 9 £580 - 7
Manchester -1 2 £700 +47.37% 17
Merseyside - 1 £650 - 2
Inventory Management
England

Inventory Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (8.33%) SAP LE
2 1 (8.33%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) Power Platform
1 5 (41.67%) Snowflake
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Power BI
2 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Big Data
3 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (8.33%) Tableau
General
1 7 (58.33%) Manufacturing
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Advertising
5 1 (8.33%) Marketing
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) SAP Financial Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Business Process Owner
3 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 1 (8.33%) Programme Director
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP WM Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior SAP Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior SAP Supply Chain Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior SAP WM Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Supply Chain Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Supply Chain Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Life Science
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Logistics
2 6 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Quality Management
5 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Community of Practice
6 2 (16.67%) Data Science
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 2 (16.67%) Profit Centre Accounting
6 2 (16.67%) Record to Report
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Use Case
7 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (8.33%) Product Information Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) R
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) PMO
3 1 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) SAP
2 4 (33.33%) Ariba
3 2 (16.67%) Anaplan
3 2 (16.67%) Hyperion
4 1 (8.33%) Apple
4 1 (8.33%) Criteo
4 1 (8.33%) Databricks
4 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow