Asset Management Contract Job Trends

Asset Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Asset Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 94 96
Rank change year-on-year -57 +2 +30
Contract jobs citing Asset Management 809 780 990
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 2.68% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.94% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 566 766
10th Percentile £199 £213 £220
25th Percentile £330 £424 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £638 £800 £788
90th Percentile £825 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% -15.79% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 47 48
10th Percentile £15.38 - £14.01
25th Percentile £16.07 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £18.95 £18.51 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +2.10% -15.62%
75th Percentile £24.29 £21.01 £28.75
90th Percentile £38.00 £30.10 £40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £18.51 £17.72
% change year-on-year +1.94% +4.46% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Asset 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40,526 26,506 36,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.38% 90.99% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,448 17,044 23,613
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,394 1,081 2,430
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.20 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.41 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +49.60% -21.13% +0.06%
75th Percentile £67.49 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.43 £37.50
% change year-on-year +76.96% -32.19% +7.14%

Asset Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Asset Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Asset Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Asset Management
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Asset Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Asset Management

Asset Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Asset Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Asset Management in the UK

Asset Management
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Asset Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Asset Management

Asset Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Asset Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Asset Management in the UK

Asset Management
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Asset Management within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 2026. 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
England -59 709 £500 -16.67% 268
UK excluding London -8 401 £410 +2.50% 170
London -75 366 £575 -14.81% 133
Work from Home -83 211 £525 -27.59% 101
North of England -15 110 £380 -5.00% 28
South East -50 69 £325 -29.73% 65
Midlands -43 63 £330 +96.43% 35
Scotland +16 59 £613 +23.49% 10
North West -13 59 £429 +7.32% 14
South West -24 50 £418 +48.44% 17
Yorkshire -22 48 £365 -30.48% 11
East of England -8 42 £600 +200.00% 11
West Midlands -58 41 £419 +149.26% 22
East Midlands -6 22 £200 - 13
Wales -9 9 £475 +61.02% 3
North East -21 3 £500 - 3
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 2

Asset Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.10%) Confluence
3 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.37%) Mendix
5 3 (0.37%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.25%) CMS
6 2 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) Appian
7 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 46 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.62%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.25%) InDesign
7 2 (0.25%) Maya
7 2 (0.25%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 35 (4.33%) Aladdin
2 30 (3.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (2.47%) SAP PM
4 18 (2.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (1.98%) Oracle Payables
5 16 (1.98%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (1.61%) Maximo
7 8 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.49%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.37%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.37%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.25%) Advent Geneva
10 2 (0.25%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 93 (11.50%) Azure
2 66 (8.16%) AWS
3 49 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 43 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (4.20%) GCP
6 33 (4.08%) Snowflake
7 21 (2.60%) SaaS
8 15 (1.85%) OCI
9 14 (1.73%) Google Ads
10 11 (1.36%) Entra ID
10 11 (1.36%) GitHub
11 10 (1.24%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.24%) Serverless
12 9 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.99%) dbt
14 7 (0.87%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (0.62%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.72%) VPN
1 22 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (1.11%) LAN
2 9 (1.11%) Wireless
3 8 (0.99%) Firewall
4 7 (0.87%) SAN
4 7 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.74%) DNS
5 6 (0.74%) MPLS
6 5 (0.62%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.62%) InfiniBand
6 5 (0.62%) NetScaler
6 5 (0.62%) Network Security
6 5 (0.62%) WAN
7 4 (0.49%) DHCP
7 4 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.25%) OSPF
9 2 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.44%) Power BI
2 25 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.48%) Tableau
5 10 (1.24%) SQL Server
6 7 (0.87%) DynamoDB
7 6 (0.74%) DB2
7 6 (0.74%) Metadata
7 6 (0.74%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.62%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.62%) Star Schema
9 4 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.49%) Delta Lake
9 4 (0.49%) GIS
9 4 (0.49%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.37%) Big Data
10 3 (0.37%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 55 (6.80%) JIRA
2 12 (1.48%) SpecFlow
3 9 (1.11%) Git
3 9 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (0.74%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.62%) GitLab
6 4 (0.49%) Selenium
7 3 (0.37%) Jasmine
7 3 (0.37%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.25%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.25%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.25%) ERwin
8 2 (0.25%) git-flow
8 2 (0.25%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.25%) JMeter
8 2 (0.25%) MSI
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.12%) Hudson
9 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
General
1 329 (40.67%) Finance
2 234 (28.92%) Social Skills
3 77 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (9.52%) Banking
4 47 (5.81%) Front Office
5 44 (5.44%) Investment Banking
6 42 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
7 37 (4.57%) Legal
8 35 (4.33%) Public Sector
9 27 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (2.84%) Law
11 20 (2.47%) Back Office
12 19 (2.35%) Manufacturing
13 17 (2.10%) Marketing
13 17 (2.10%) Military
14 13 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.61%) Retail Banking
15 12 (1.48%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 143 (17.68%) Analyst
2 76 (9.39%) Lead
3 66 (8.16%) Business Analyst
4 60 (7.42%) Developer
5 45 (5.56%) Architect
5 45 (5.56%) Senior
6 35 (4.33%) Project Manager
6 35 (4.33%) Support Engineer
7 33 (4.08%) IT Support
8 32 (3.96%) Consultant
9 30 (3.71%) Data Analyst
10 29 (3.58%) Asset Management Analyst
10 29 (3.58%) IT Engineer
11 23 (2.84%) Data Engineer
12 21 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (2.22%) Desktop Support
14 17 (2.10%) Administrator
15 16 (1.98%) Lead Developer
15 16 (1.98%) Python Developer
16 15 (1.85%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.72%) React
2 21 (2.60%) Node.js
2 21 (2.60%) REST
3 19 (2.35%) Playwright
4 16 (1.98%) Redux
5 11 (1.36%) AngularJS
6 10 (1.24%) Middleware
7 9 (1.11%) Kafka
7 9 (1.11%) RESTful
8 8 (0.99%) CSS
8 8 (0.99%) HTML
8 8 (0.99%) Redfish
9 7 (0.87%) Spring
9 7 (0.87%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.74%) SOAP
10 6 (0.74%) XML
11 5 (0.62%) HTML5
11 5 (0.62%) Sass
11 5 (0.62%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.18%) Onboarding
2 49 (6.06%) CMDB
3 33 (4.08%) Equities
4 32 (3.96%) Fixed Income
5 31 (3.83%) Derivative
6 25 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (2.97%) Management Information System
8 23 (2.84%) Data Structures
9 21 (2.60%) Cloud Native
10 18 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (2.10%) Data Centre
11 17 (2.10%) Product Ownership
12 14 (1.73%) Operational Technology
13 12 (1.48%) Driving Licence
14 11 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (0.99%) Hedge funds
15 8 (0.99%) SCADA
16 7 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 83 (10.26%) Windows
2 36 (4.45%) Linux
3 34 (4.20%) Windows 10
4 17 (2.10%) Unix
4 17 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.85%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.87%) Android
7 6 (0.74%) AIX
8 5 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.62%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.49%) Windows 8
10 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (15.95%) Agile
2 106 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
3 91 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 85 (10.51%) ITIL
5 83 (10.26%) IT Asset Management
6 78 (9.64%) Migration
7 76 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 72 (8.90%) User Acceptance Testing
9 63 (7.79%) ITSM
10 62 (7.66%) Data Modelling
10 62 (7.66%) Investment Management
11 60 (7.42%) Validation
12 57 (7.05%) Customer Service
13 54 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 53 (6.55%) AI
14 53 (6.55%) Service Management
15 50 (6.18%) Analytics
15 50 (6.18%) Software Asset Management
16 49 (6.06%) Decision-Making
16 49 (6.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 97 (11.99%) SQL
2 89 (11.00%) Python
3 44 (5.44%) JavaScript
4 38 (4.70%) TypeScript
5 27 (3.34%) Java
6 19 (2.35%) PowerShell
7 18 (2.22%) C#
8 10 (1.24%) Bash
9 8 (0.99%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.62%) Scala
11 2 (0.25%) ABAP
11 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.25%) Perl
11 2 (0.25%) R
11 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.25%) Swift
11 2 (0.25%) VB
12 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (11.99%) Security Cleared
2 80 (9.89%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.18%) Degree
4 12 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (0.74%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.62%) RIBA
8 4 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.37%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.37%) PMP
10 2 (0.25%) CCNP
10 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.25%) HNC
10 2 (0.25%) HND
10 2 (0.25%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.12%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.93%) Data Quality
2 35 (4.33%) SLA
3 23 (2.84%) QA
4 11 (1.36%) GDPR
5 5 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.62%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.62%) PMO
6 4 (0.49%) GMP
6 4 (0.49%) GRC
7 3 (0.37%) IFRS
7 3 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.37%) WCAG
8 2 (0.25%) Basel III
8 2 (0.25%) COBIT
8 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.25%) EMIR
8 2 (0.25%) GAAP
8 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 52 (6.43%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.11%) Firmware
3 7 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.74%) KVM
5 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.37%) Docker
6 3 (0.37%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (3.83%) SCCM
2 21 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (1.73%) Terraform
4 10 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (1.11%) Dell DRAC
6 8 (0.99%) Grafana
6 8 (0.99%) IBM BigFix
6 8 (0.99%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.87%) Ansible
8 6 (0.74%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.62%) Kubernetes
10 4 (0.49%) Control-M
10 4 (0.49%) Salt
11 3 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.25%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.25%) Nessus
12 2 (0.25%) Puppet
13 1 (0.12%) Autotask
13 1 (0.12%) SCOM
13 1 (0.12%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 133 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 107 (13.23%) ServiceNow
3 59 (7.29%) SAP
4 26 (3.21%) Oracle
5 25 (3.09%) HP
6 21 (2.60%) Databricks
7 18 (2.22%) IBM
8 16 (1.98%) Charles River
9 15 (1.85%) Adobe
10 14 (1.73%) Salesforce
10 14 (1.73%) Snow
11 13 (1.61%) Cisco
12 11 (1.36%) Dell
13 10 (1.24%) Computacenter
14 9 (1.11%) Splunk
15 8 (0.99%) IFS
16 7 (0.87%) AVEVA
16 7 (0.87%) Google
16 7 (0.87%) Palo Alto
16 7 (0.87%) Workday