Asset Management Contracts

Asset Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Asset Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Asset Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 98 129
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 -2
Contract jobs citing Asset Management 773 991 1,206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.64% 2.27% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.63% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 746 914
10th Percentile £222 £204 £173
25th Percentile £450 £488 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £618 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +14.78% -6.43%
75th Percentile £800 £788 £700
90th Percentile £875 £850 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £450 £365
% change year-on-year -11.11% +23.29% -18.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 52 43
10th Percentile £18.40 £14.41 £14.62
25th Percentile - £16.02 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.51 £20.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -11.05% +12.43%
75th Percentile £21.01 £35.00 £24.56
90th Percentile £29.84 £40.00 £64.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.51 £17.72 £17.72
% change year-on-year +4.46% - +4.24%

All Process and 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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Asset Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Asset Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Asset Management in the UK

Asset Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Asset Management.

Daily rate trend for Asset Management in the UK

Asset Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Asset Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Asset Management in the UK

Asset Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Asset Management.

Hourly rate trend for Asset Management in the UK

Asset Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Asset Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Asset Management in the UK

Asset Management
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 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
England 0 698 £625 +0.81% 641
London +4 500 £675 - 352
Work from Home +11 330 £725 +3.57% 254
UK excluding London +12 235 £400 -11.11% 325
South East +48 54 £475 +140.51% 87
North of England -14 53 £400 -23.81% 85
Scotland +5 38 £496 -4.39% 30
North West -8 38 £363 -20.33% 58
Midlands -7 36 £168 -59.62% 56
West Midlands +11 34 £168 -71.40% 35
South West +35 27 £370 -17.78% 40
East of England +33 16 £200 -45.21% 26
Yorkshire -12 12 £525 -4.55% 20
Wales +10 6 £360 - 1
Northern Ireland -5 5 - - 7
North East +2 3 - - 9
East Midlands -12 2 - - 21

Asset Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 110 (14.23%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (11.13%) Apache
3 28 (3.62%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.62%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.20%) Confluence
5 12 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.42%) CMS
7 4 (0.52%) nginx
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.26%) Documentum
8 2 (0.26%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) Magnolia
9 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.13%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 47 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (3.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (2.33%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.78%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.52%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.52%) Sketch
8 2 (0.26%) Revit
9 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 49 (6.34%) Aladdin
2 36 (4.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (1.81%) thinkFolio
4 11 (1.42%) Maximo
5 10 (1.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 10 (1.29%) SAP PM
6 8 (1.03%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.65%) SAP MDG-S
8 4 (0.52%) SAP QM
9 3 (0.39%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (0.26%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
11 1 (0.13%) Aligne
11 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg AIM
11 1 (0.13%) Front Arena
11 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
11 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
11 1 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
11 1 (0.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 206 (26.65%) AWS
2 115 (14.88%) dbt
3 104 (13.45%) GCP
4 75 (9.70%) Azure
5 59 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
6 58 (7.50%) Snowflake
7 57 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (5.95%) Serverless
9 45 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
10 44 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (4.92%) Power Platform
12 33 (4.27%) Amazon S3
12 33 (4.27%) OpenShift
13 29 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.36%) Dagster
15 16 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (1.81%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (1.81%) SaaS
17 13 (1.68%) Entra ID
18 12 (1.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.81%) LAN
2 12 (1.55%) VPN
3 9 (1.16%) Firewall
4 8 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.03%) WLAN
5 7 (0.91%) Wireless
6 6 (0.78%) WAN
7 5 (0.65%) DHCP
7 5 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.65%) SAN
8 4 (0.52%) DNS
8 4 (0.52%) NAS
8 4 (0.52%) Network Security
8 4 (0.52%) VLAN
9 2 (0.26%) HTTP
9 2 (0.26%) Internet
9 2 (0.26%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.26%) SSL
9 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (14.36%) Amazon Athena
2 110 (14.23%) Apache Iceberg
2 110 (14.23%) Dremio
3 99 (12.81%) Apache Arrow
4 68 (8.80%) Apache Ignite
5 50 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
6 46 (5.95%) Data Lake
7 36 (4.66%) Power BI
8 18 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (2.20%) NoSQL
10 16 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (2.07%) Metadata
11 12 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (1.55%) DocumentDB
11 12 (1.55%) Redis
12 9 (1.16%) SQL Server
13 6 (0.78%) GIS
13 6 (0.78%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (4.27%) Artifactory
2 27 (3.49%) JIRA
3 9 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.65%) Git
5 3 (0.39%) ERwin
5 3 (0.39%) GitLab
6 2 (0.26%) Maven
6 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.13%) GCC
7 1 (0.13%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.13%) LSMW
7 1 (0.13%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.13%) Subversion
7 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 411 (53.17%) Finance
2 240 (31.05%) Front Office
3 184 (23.80%) Social Skills
4 129 (16.69%) Banking
5 64 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (6.86%) Investment Banking
7 28 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (3.62%) Public Sector
8 20 (2.59%) Manufacturing
9 16 (2.07%) Legal
10 15 (1.94%) Marketing
11 13 (1.68%) Back Office
12 12 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.55%) Retail Banking
13 9 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.03%) Law
14 8 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.78%) Publishing
16 5 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 186 (24.06%) Analyst
2 122 (15.78%) Developer
3 119 (15.39%) Software Engineer
4 116 (15.01%) AWS Engineer
5 106 (13.71%) Business Analyst
6 93 (12.03%) Python Engineer
7 87 (11.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 71 (9.18%) AWS Software Engineer
9 58 (7.50%) Business Manager
10 54 (6.99%) Project Manager
11 51 (6.60%) Senior
12 47 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
12 47 (6.08%) Python Software Engineer
13 44 (5.69%) AWS DevOps
13 44 (5.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 42 (5.43%) AWS Developer
15 41 (5.30%) Architect
15 41 (5.30%) Data Engineer
16 40 (5.17%) Consultant
17 39 (5.05%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (9.57%) PySpark
1 74 (9.57%) React
2 65 (8.41%) NumPy
2 65 (8.41%) Pandas
3 64 (8.28%) SciPy
4 58 (7.50%) Node.js
5 55 (7.12%) Redux
6 46 (5.95%) AngularJS
7 40 (5.17%) gRPC
7 40 (5.17%) Protocol Buffers
7 40 (5.17%) Vue
8 33 (4.27%) J2EE
9 31 (4.01%) Kafka
10 14 (1.81%) CSS
11 13 (1.68%) HTML
11 13 (1.68%) RESTful
12 12 (1.55%) GraphQL
13 9 (1.16%) XML
14 8 (1.03%) REST
15 7 (0.91%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 181 (23.42%) Fixed Income
2 124 (16.04%) Derivative
3 120 (15.52%) Hedge funds
4 87 (11.25%) Equities
5 83 (10.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 41 (5.30%) CMDB
6 41 (5.30%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.88%) Management Information System
8 29 (3.75%) Product Ownership
9 22 (2.85%) Driving Licence
10 18 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.94%) Life Science
12 12 (1.55%) Pricing Data
13 9 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.16%) Smartphone
14 8 (1.03%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
15 6 (0.78%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 83 (10.74%) Windows
2 46 (5.95%) Apple iOS
3 40 (5.17%) Windows 10
4 15 (1.94%) Linux
5 10 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.16%) Android
6 9 (1.16%) Mac OS
7 8 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (0.78%) Mac OS X
8 6 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.65%) Windows 8
9 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.65%) Windows XP
10 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.26%) CentOS
11 2 (0.26%) Debian
11 2 (0.26%) VMS
12 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (40.62%) Agile
2 187 (24.19%) Investment Management
3 173 (22.38%) Software Engineering
4 101 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (12.42%) Fintech
6 94 (12.16%) Analytics
7 76 (9.83%) Business Intelligence
7 76 (9.83%) ITSM
8 70 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 66 (8.54%) IT Asset Management
9 66 (8.54%) ITIL
10 64 (8.28%) Portfolio Management
11 61 (7.89%) DevOps
11 61 (7.89%) User Experience
12 59 (7.63%) Migration
13 55 (7.12%) Service Management
14 50 (6.47%) CI/CD
14 50 (6.47%) Roadmaps
15 49 (6.34%) Business Analysis
16 45 (5.82%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 243 (31.44%) Python
2 131 (16.95%) JavaScript
3 100 (12.94%) Java
3 100 (12.94%) TypeScript
4 94 (12.16%) SQL
5 34 (4.40%) Go
6 19 (2.46%) C#
7 6 (0.78%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.26%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.26%) VBA
9 1 (0.13%) ABAP
9 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.13%) Groovy
9 1 (0.13%) PeopleCode
9 1 (0.13%) Perl
9 1 (0.13%) RPG
9 1 (0.13%) VB
9 1 (0.13%) VB6
9 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 80 (10.35%) Security Cleared
2 69 (8.93%) SC Cleared
3 68 (8.80%) Degree
4 15 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (0.91%) PMI Certification
6 7 (0.91%) PMP
6 7 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (0.65%) CCNA
7 5 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (0.52%) Dell Certification
8 4 (0.52%) SAP Certification
9 3 (0.39%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.39%) CFA
9 3 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.26%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.07%) Data Quality
1 16 (2.07%) PMO
1 16 (2.07%) QA
2 14 (1.81%) SLA
3 8 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.65%) MiFID
5 4 (0.52%) EMIR
5 4 (0.52%) PMBOK
6 3 (0.39%) GRC
7 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.26%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.13%) Basel III
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) NIST
8 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.13%) UCITS
System Software
1 54 (6.99%) Active Directory
2 50 (6.47%) Docker
3 5 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.39%) vSphere
5 2 (0.26%) Firmware
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (5.95%) Kubernetes
1 46 (5.95%) Terraform
2 27 (3.49%) SCCM
3 20 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.39%) Backup Exec
5 3 (0.39%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.26%) Ansible
6 2 (0.26%) CASB
6 2 (0.26%) Nessus
6 2 (0.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) Grafana
7 1 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.13%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 119 (15.39%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.18%) ServiceNow
3 50 (6.47%) SAP
4 36 (4.66%) BISAM
5 31 (4.01%) HP
6 30 (3.88%) Charles River
7 29 (3.75%) Dell
8 16 (2.07%) SimCorp
9 15 (1.94%) Salesforce
10 14 (1.81%) Calypso
11 13 (1.68%) Cisco
12 11 (1.42%) Adobe
13 10 (1.29%) Google
14 9 (1.16%) VMware
15 8 (1.03%) Oracle
16 6 (0.78%) IBM
16 6 (0.78%) Snow
17 5 (0.65%) BiZZdesign
17 5 (0.65%) Canon
17 5 (0.65%) Veeam