Inventory Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Inventory Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 91 144 131
Rank change year-on-year +53 -13 +25
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 11 1 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.73% 0.037% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.043% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 10
10th Percentile £178 - £500
25th Percentile £185 £513 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £525 £631
Median % change year-on-year -63.81% -16.80% +34.97%
75th Percentile £494 £538 -
90th Percentile £511 - £684
South East median daily rate £150 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -71.43% +0.96% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.50
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £20.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £11.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +508.70% -42.50% +6.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Inventory Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Inventory Management in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Inventory Management in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire - 5 £439 - 12
Buckinghamshire - 5 £190 - 1
Oxfordshire +5 1 - - 8
Inventory Management
South East

Inventory Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle ASCP
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
1 2 (18.18%) Wireless
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (9.09%) DMVPN
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Internet
2 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (9.09%) IP Telephony
2 1 (9.09%) IPsec
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) MPLS
2 1 (9.09%) NAS
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) SAN
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Skype
2 1 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Deployment Assistant
4 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Assistant
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support Assistant
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Product Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Resource Management Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Support Assistant
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) EPoS
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
2 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
2 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (36.36%) Workflow
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Resource Management
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Business Forecasting
4 1 (9.09%) Business Process Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) Planning and Forecasting
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) Supply Chain Management
4 1 (9.09%) Supply Chain Planning
4 1 (9.09%) Threat Management
4 1 (9.09%) Ticket Management
4 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) A+ Certification
2 1 (9.09%) MCP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) COSHH
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) vSphere
1 1 (9.09%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco
1 2 (18.18%) F5
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Blue Coat
2 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Citrix
2 1 (9.09%) Juniper
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) VMware