Inventory Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Inventory Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 302 368
Rank change year-on-year +67 +66 +66
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 101 82 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.79% 0.40% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.48% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 41 49
10th Percentile £150 £140 £200
25th Percentile £185 £175 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £450 £355
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +26.76% -16.47%
75th Percentile £438 £638 £540
90th Percentile £580 £725 £626
UK median daily rate £220 £475 £410
% change year-on-year -53.68% +15.85% -5.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 2
10th Percentile £33.35 £11.06 £12.97
25th Percentile £44.75 £12.00 £14.06
Median hourly rate £67.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +321.88% -1.52% -18.76%
75th Percentile £72.50 £16.71 £18.56
90th Percentile £73.25 £17.72 £19.72
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £16.70 £17.07
% change year-on-year +319.16% -2.14% -14.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 17,190 21,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.48% 84.41% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,199 10,232 14,530
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.62% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 830 2,049 1,280
10th Percentile £14.19 £12.30 £10.99
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.23 £15.43
Median hourly rate £25.23 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.84% +1.39% +40.19%

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Inventory Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Inventory Management in the UK excluding London

Inventory Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Inventory Management in the UK excluding London

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inventory Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in the UK excluding London

Inventory Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Inventory Management in the UK excluding London

Inventory Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inventory Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Inventory Management in the UK excluding London

Inventory Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
East of England +39 26 £200 +2.56% 24
South East +59 25 £150 -71.43% 63
North West +17 16 £580 +28.89% 34
North of England +13 16 £580 +28.89% 48
Scotland +10 16 £199 -47.93% 6
Midlands +21 15 £250 -29.58% 21
East Midlands +12 9 £220 +37.50% 7
South West +38 8 £220 -66.15% 25
West Midlands +11 3 £550 - 13
Inventory Management
UK

Inventory Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (12.87%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (12.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (14.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.94%) SAP MM
3 5 (4.95%) SAP LE
4 3 (2.97%) SAP SCM
5 2 (1.98%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle ASCP
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (16.83%) Azure
2 8 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (6.93%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (4.95%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.98%) AWS
6 1 (0.99%) GCP
6 1 (0.99%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.84%) VPN
2 5 (4.95%) Network Security
3 3 (2.97%) RFID
3 3 (2.97%) WAN
4 2 (1.98%) Firewall
4 2 (1.98%) LAN
4 2 (1.98%) Wireless
5 1 (0.99%) ADSL
5 1 (0.99%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.99%) DNS
5 1 (0.99%) Internet
5 1 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.99%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.99%) IPsec
5 1 (0.99%) MPLS
5 1 (0.99%) PSTN
5 1 (0.99%) SAN
5 1 (0.99%) SDH
5 1 (0.99%) SSL
5 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.93%) Power BI
2 4 (3.96%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.99%) Big Data
3 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Hudson
1 1 (0.99%) JIRA
General
1 62 (61.39%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.87%) Manufacturing
2 13 (12.87%) Public Sector
3 12 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.89%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.94%) Finance
6 5 (4.95%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.96%) Marketing
8 3 (2.97%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.97%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.98%) Automotive
10 1 (0.99%) Advertising
10 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Electronics
10 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (22.77%) Consultant
2 14 (13.86%) Support Engineer
3 13 (12.87%) SAP Consultant
4 12 (11.88%) Lead
5 11 (10.89%) Desktop Support
6 9 (8.91%) Desktop Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Team Leader
8 7 (6.93%) IT Support
9 6 (5.94%) Deployment Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) IT Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) IT Assistant
10 5 (4.95%) SAP MM Consultant
11 4 (3.96%) Administration Assistant
11 4 (3.96%) Deployment Assistant
11 4 (3.96%) IT Support Assistant
11 4 (3.96%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
11 4 (3.96%) Senior SAP Supply Chain Consultant
11 4 (3.96%) Senior SAP WM Consultant
11 4 (3.96%) Senior Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.98%) EDI
1 2 (1.98%) IDoc
2 1 (0.99%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) EPoS
1 12 (11.88%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (10.89%) iPad
2 11 (10.89%) iPhone
3 7 (6.93%) CMDB
3 7 (6.93%) Driving Licence
3 7 (6.93%) Life Science
4 4 (3.96%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.96%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.96%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.98%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.98%) Smartphone
6 2 (1.98%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.99%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (26.73%) Windows
2 14 (13.86%) Windows 10
3 8 (7.92%) Linux
4 4 (3.96%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.97%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (39.60%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (24.75%) Logistics
3 21 (20.79%) Time Management
4 19 (18.81%) Customer Service
5 18 (17.82%) ITIL
6 15 (14.85%) Asset Management
7 13 (12.87%) Service Delivery
7 13 (12.87%) Workflow
8 12 (11.88%) Mentoring
8 12 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (10.89%) Antivirus Management
9 11 (10.89%) Data Modelling
9 11 (10.89%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (9.90%) ITSM
10 10 (9.90%) Service Management
11 8 (7.92%) Agile
11 8 (7.92%) IT Asset Management
11 8 (7.92%) Quality Management
12 7 (6.93%) Configuration Management
12 7 (6.93%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.93%) SQL
2 5 (4.95%) Python
3 1 (0.99%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (25.74%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.80%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.87%) Degree
4 11 (10.89%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (9.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.96%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.99%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.99%) HNC
7 1 (0.99%) MCP
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) COSHH
2 5 (4.95%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.98%) PMO
3 2 (1.98%) SLA
4 1 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.99%) GDPR
4 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 14 (13.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.96%) Docker
3 1 (0.99%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.99%) vSphere
3 1 (0.99%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 17 (16.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (7.92%) SCCM
3 4 (3.96%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.99%) Ansible
Vendors
1 34 (33.66%) Microsoft
2 22 (21.78%) SAP
3 11 (10.89%) McAfee
4 6 (5.94%) HP
5 5 (4.95%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.96%) Ariba
7 3 (2.97%) Cisco
8 2 (1.98%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.98%) Apple
8 2 (1.98%) F5
8 2 (1.98%) Google
8 2 (1.98%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.99%) Blue Coat
9 1 (0.99%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.99%) IFS
9 1 (0.99%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.99%) Juniper
9 1 (0.99%) Nokia
9 1 (0.99%) Symantec
9 1 (0.99%) VMware