Inventory Management Contracts in the South West

Inventory Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 137 152
Rank change year-on-year +36 +15 +9
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 8 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.47% 0.38% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.45% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 13
10th Percentile £178 £384 -
25th Percentile £206 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £600 £200
Median % change year-on-year -63.33% +200.00% -44.06%
75th Percentile £545 £725 £275
90th Percentile £663 - -
England median daily rate £211 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -55.53% +11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - £12.24
Median hourly rate £26.50 £12.00 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +120.83% -3.96% -
75th Percentile £27.25 - £12.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £17.29 £17.07
% change year-on-year +304.98% +1.29% -14.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,524 2,653 3,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.34% 83.09% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,693 2,396
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 336 334
10th Percentile £18.48 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.27 £29.19 £16.32
Median hourly rate £62.75 £55.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.09% -10.57% +26.52%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.37
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.33 £36.77
% change year-on-year -19.99% -1.19% +51.01%

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Inventory Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Inventory Management in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inventory Management in the South West over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Inventory Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Gloucestershire +16 4 £220 -63.33% 4
Wiltshire +27 2 £400 -38.46% 1
Bristol +23 1 - - 6
Somerset - 1 £650 -
Inventory Management
England

Inventory Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Google Ads
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Advertising
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 2 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Assistant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) iPad
1 4 (50.00%) iPhone
1 4 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Antivirus Management
1 4 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (12.50%) Data Collection
2 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
2 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (12.50%) Data Science
2 1 (12.50%) Data Strategy
2 1 (12.50%) Key Management
2 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
2 1 (12.50%) Master Data Management
2 1 (12.50%) Monetization
2 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) McAfee
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Apple
2 1 (12.50%) Criteo
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Google