Inventory Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

Inventory Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading 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 57 88 89
Rank change year-on-year +31 +1 +8
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 6 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.01% 0.74% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.85% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £120 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% - -
75th Percentile £473 - -
90th Percentile £570 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £388 £525 -
% change year-on-year -26.19% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 540 936 975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.22% 86.43% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 511 656
10th Percentile £342 £350 £264
25th Percentile £450 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +7.84%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 24 14
10th Percentile - £14.50 £27.20
25th Percentile £14.75 £38.44 £57.81
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £65.56
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% -7.68% +23.70%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.74 £74.59
90th Percentile £68.75 £83.68 £75.18
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £60.00
% change year-on-year -38.41% +0.88% +20.00%

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Inventory Management job vacancy trend in Reading

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in Reading

Inventory Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Inventory Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (16.67%) SAP QM
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) 4G
1 1 (16.67%) 5G
1 1 (16.67%) Converged Networks
1 1 (16.67%) DOCSIS
1 1 (16.67%) GPON
1 1 (16.67%) LTE
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (16.67%) VoIP
1 1 (16.67%) xDSL
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) General Ledger
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Deployment Assistant
1 3 (50.00%) IT Assistant
1 3 (50.00%) IT Support
1 3 (50.00%) IT Support Assistant
1 3 (50.00%) Support Assistant
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Financials Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) OSS Architect
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SAP QM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) TM Forum
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Accounts Payable
2 1 (16.67%) Accounts Receivable
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Cash Management
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Discrete Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) eTOM
2 1 (16.67%) Fault Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) SAP