Inventory Management Contracts in Scotland

Inventory Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 116 156
Rank change year-on-year +16 +40 +13
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 16 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.98% 0.59% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.66% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 4
10th Percentile £185 £110 £205
25th Percentile £190 £128 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £199 £381 £213
Median % change year-on-year -47.93% +79.41% -52.78%
75th Percentile £438 £625 £224
90th Percentile - £638 £232
UK median daily rate £220 £469 £425
% change year-on-year -53.04% +10.24% -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £16.70 £16.78
% change year-on-year +319.16% -0.49% -16.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Inventory Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Inventory Management in Scotland

Inventory Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Inventory Management in Scotland

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inventory Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in Scotland

Inventory Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Inventory Management in Scotland

Inventory Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +10 7 £189 - 1
Glasgow +5 7 £425 -
Perthshire - 2 - -
Inventory Management
UK

Inventory Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Network Security
1 4 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) ADSL
2 1 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (6.25%) PSTN
2 1 (6.25%) SDH
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (43.75%) Public Sector
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Deployment Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) IT Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Python Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Desktop Support
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Field Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Field Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Project Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (12.50%) Fat Client
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Smartphone
2 2 (12.50%) Thin Client
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.25%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Ubuntu
4 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Customer Service
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Asset Management
3 6 (37.50%) Logistics
4 5 (31.25%) ITIL
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Data Encryption
5 4 (25.00%) Data Extraction
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) ITSM
5 4 (25.00%) Time Management
5 4 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (18.75%) Service Management
7 2 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
7 2 (12.50%) Kanban
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (6.25%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.25%) HNC
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) SCCM
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) HP
3 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Apple
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Nokia