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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 310 351
Rank change year-on-year +53 +41 +92
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 110 63 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.34% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.41% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 34 38
10th Percentile £150 £170 £396
25th Percentile £185 £248 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £450 £545
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% -17.43% +28.24%
75th Percentile £414 £597 £625
90th Percentile £580 £646 £725
UK median daily rate £300 £475 £539
% change year-on-year -36.84% -11.89% +7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £18.04 £11.49 -
25th Percentile £21.37 £11.68 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +109.58% -14.29% -30.00%
75th Percentile £48.88 £13.04 -
90th Percentile £72.25 £13.62 -
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £17.07
% change year-on-year +19.76% +23.06% -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 13,643 15,321 19,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.29% 83.17% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,223 9,175 13,288
10th Percentile £240 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £692
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,316 1,596 1,213
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.70
Median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -43.82% +3.38% +84.19%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +61.02%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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
South East +39 35 £190 -47.22% 39
East of England +19 28 £200 -13.04% 9
Midlands +11 25 £250 -29.58% 16
North of England -20 15 £580 +16.00% 34
East Midlands +4 14 £250 +56.25% 5
North West 0 12 £580 +16.00% 13
West Midlands -2 9 £355 - 11
Scotland -2 9 £200 -68.00% 11
Yorkshire -9 3 £400 - 17
South West +22 2 £400 -2.44% 18
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
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 5 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.82%) Camunda
3 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.91%) Confluence
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (17.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (10.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.55%) SAP MM
3 3 (2.73%) SAP SCM
4 2 (1.82%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.91%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle ASCP
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.91%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.91%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.00%) Azure
2 6 (5.45%) Power Platform
2 6 (5.45%) Snowflake
3 4 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.82%) AWS
6 1 (0.91%) GCP
6 1 (0.91%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.09%) VPN
2 8 (7.27%) WAN
3 7 (6.36%) Firewall
3 7 (6.36%) Wireless
4 6 (5.45%) Cisco IPT
4 6 (5.45%) DMVPN
4 6 (5.45%) DNS
4 6 (5.45%) IPsec
4 6 (5.45%) SSL
5 4 (3.64%) MPLS
6 3 (2.73%) 4G
6 3 (2.73%) 5G
6 3 (2.73%) DOCSIS
6 3 (2.73%) GPON
6 3 (2.73%) LTE
6 3 (2.73%) Network Security
6 3 (2.73%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (2.73%) VoIP
6 3 (2.73%) xDSL
7 2 (1.82%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) Power BI
2 5 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.91%) Big Data
3 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Hudson
General
1 67 (60.91%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (12.73%) Finance
3 14 (12.73%) Manufacturing
4 11 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 11 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.18%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.73%) Automotive
8 2 (1.82%) Banking
8 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Legal
8 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Advertising
9 1 (0.91%) Electronics
9 1 (0.91%) Marketing
9 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (14.55%) Consultant
2 13 (11.82%) Desktop Support
2 13 (11.82%) Lead
3 9 (8.18%) SAP Consultant
4 8 (7.27%) Team Leader
5 7 (6.36%) Analyst
5 7 (6.36%) Desktop Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) IT Support
6 5 (4.55%) Data Analytics Specialist
6 5 (4.55%) IT Assistant
6 5 (4.55%) Network Engineer
6 5 (4.55%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.64%) Deployment Assistant
7 4 (3.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (3.64%) IT Support Assistant
7 4 (3.64%) SAP MM Consultant
7 4 (3.64%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (3.64%) Support Assistant
7 4 (3.64%) Technical Leader
7 4 (3.64%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.45%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.82%) EDI
2 2 (1.82%) IDoc
3 1 (0.91%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Driving Licence
1 12 (10.91%) EPoS
2 8 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (6.36%) CMDB
3 7 (6.36%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.55%) Life Science
5 4 (3.64%) iPad
5 4 (3.64%) iPhone
6 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.73%) TM Forum
7 1 (0.91%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.91%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.91%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.91%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.91%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.82%) Windows
2 9 (8.18%) Windows 10
3 6 (5.45%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.64%) Linux
5 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (24.55%) Logistics
3 23 (20.91%) Workflow
4 17 (15.45%) Migration
5 15 (13.64%) Service Delivery
6 14 (12.73%) Technical Leadership
7 13 (11.82%) ITIL
8 12 (10.91%) Mentoring
9 11 (10.00%) Process Improvement
9 11 (10.00%) Time Management
10 10 (9.09%) Asset Management
11 9 (8.18%) Analytics
11 9 (8.18%) Customer Service
11 9 (8.18%) ITSM
12 8 (7.27%) Inventory Control
12 8 (7.27%) Service Management
12 8 (7.27%) Workflow Management
13 7 (6.36%) Change Management
13 7 (6.36%) Data Modelling
13 7 (6.36%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.73%) SQL
2 1 (0.91%) Python
2 1 (0.91%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 27 (24.55%) SC Cleared
3 25 (22.73%) Degree
4 11 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (6.36%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.91%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.91%) CPIM
8 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.91%) HNC
8 1 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.91%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.55%) COSHH
2 4 (3.64%) QA
3 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.82%) OASIS TOSCA
4 2 (1.82%) PMO
4 2 (1.82%) SLA
5 1 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.91%) GDPR
5 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.91%) vSphere
2 1 (0.91%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.73%) Ansible
2 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.73%) SCCM
3 2 (1.82%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 26 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.09%) SAP
3 8 (7.27%) Cisco
4 7 (6.36%) F5
5 6 (5.45%) Blue Coat
5 6 (5.45%) CheckPoint
5 6 (5.45%) Juniper
6 5 (4.55%) Ariba
7 4 (3.64%) McAfee
8 3 (2.73%) Anaplan
8 3 (2.73%) Apple
8 3 (2.73%) Hyperion
8 3 (2.73%) Nokia
8 3 (2.73%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.82%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.82%) Ericsson
9 2 (1.82%) Google
9 2 (1.82%) Huawei
9 2 (1.82%) NetCracker
9 2 (1.82%) Oracle