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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 96 134
Rank change year-on-year +5 +38 -2
Contract jobs citing Asset Management 886 1,024 1,109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.71% 2.39% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 2.80% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 811 846
10th Percentile £206 £263 £176
25th Percentile £400 £500 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £800 £850 £700
90th Percentile £875 £888 £779
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £455 £438
% change year-on-year -12.09% +4.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 47 53
10th Percentile - £14.76 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.51 £15.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £18.38 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -3.29% -5.00%
75th Percentile - £30.63 £23.75
90th Percentile £28.42 £40.00 £64.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £18.38 £18.21
% change year-on-year +2.69% +0.91% +7.53%

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 29,591 36,621 50,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.45% 85.36% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,632 23,386 34,849
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,510 2,453 1,703
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%
75th Percentile £53.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £38.12 £39.26
% change year-on-year -35.51% -2.91% +83.08%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -2 796 £600 -11.11% 888
London -17 495 £700 -3.45% 441
Work from Home -7 364 £725 -3.33% 282
UK excluding London +62 330 £400 -12.09% 542
North of England +10 77 £400 -23.81% 120
South East +74 76 £525 +90.91% 153
Midlands +15 54 £275 -15.38% 77
West Midlands +19 42 £275 -43.59% 49
South West +30 40 £313 -30.56% 68
North West +7 38 £400 -13.04% 72
Scotland -1 38 £458 +11.03% 61
East of England +39 35 £225 -32.33% 51
Yorkshire +2 35 £400 -27.27% 34
Wales +14 9 £329 - 12
East Midlands -5 6 - - 27
North East - 4 - - 14
Northern Ireland -9 1 - - 12

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
1 105 (11.85%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (7.67%) Apache
3 28 (3.16%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.58%) Confluence
6 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.79%) CMS
8 5 (0.56%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) Documentum
9 2 (0.23%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.23%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) FileNet
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 50 (5.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.93%) MS Visio
4 22 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.11%) Revit
8 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 63 (7.11%) Aladdin
2 35 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (2.14%) thinkFolio
4 15 (1.69%) Maximo
5 11 (1.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 9 (1.02%) SAP PM
7 6 (0.68%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.45%) Bloomberg AIM
9 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-S
9 3 (0.34%) SAP QM
9 3 (0.34%) Temenos T24
10 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 2 (0.23%) R3 Corda
10 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.23%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 193 (21.78%) AWS
2 111 (12.53%) dbt
3 110 (12.42%) GCP
4 96 (10.84%) Azure
5 69 (7.79%) Snowflake
6 58 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (3.16%) Power Platform
8 18 (2.03%) SaaS
9 17 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (1.69%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.69%) Serverless
11 14 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (1.47%) OneDrive
13 12 (1.35%) OpenShift
14 10 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.02%) Dagster
16 8 (0.90%) Amazon S3
17 6 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.81%) LAN
1 16 (1.81%) VPN
2 13 (1.47%) Firewall
3 9 (1.02%) DHCP
3 9 (1.02%) WAN
4 8 (0.90%) DNS
4 8 (0.90%) Internet
4 8 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (0.90%) WLAN
5 7 (0.79%) Network Security
5 7 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (0.79%) Wireless
6 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.56%) 4G
7 5 (0.56%) BIG-IP
7 5 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (0.56%) SAN
7 5 (0.56%) VLAN
8 4 (0.45%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (11.85%) Amazon Athena
2 104 (11.74%) Apache Iceberg
2 104 (11.74%) Dremio
3 100 (11.29%) Apache Arrow
4 70 (7.90%) PostgreSQL
5 51 (5.76%) Apache Ignite
6 48 (5.42%) Data Lake
7 25 (2.82%) Power BI
8 16 (1.81%) Metadata
9 15 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.13%) GIS
10 10 (1.13%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.13%) SQL Server
11 8 (0.90%) Tableau
12 6 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.56%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.56%) Redis
14 4 (0.45%) DocumentDB
14 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (3.61%) JIRA
2 12 (1.35%) Artifactory
3 8 (0.90%) Git
4 4 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.23%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.23%) GitLab
5 2 (0.23%) Maven
5 2 (0.23%) ScriptRunner
5 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.11%) ERwin
6 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.11%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.11%) LSMW
6 1 (0.11%) Postman
6 1 (0.11%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.11%) Subversion
6 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 411 (46.39%) Finance
2 264 (29.80%) Social Skills
3 233 (26.30%) Front Office
4 145 (16.37%) Banking
5 65 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (7.00%) Investment Banking
7 39 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
8 37 (4.18%) Public Sector
9 23 (2.60%) Manufacturing
10 22 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.92%) Marketing
12 16 (1.81%) Back Office
13 15 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.69%) Legal
14 13 (1.47%) Retail
15 12 (1.35%) Local Government
16 11 (1.24%) Telecoms
17 10 (1.13%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 7 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 199 (22.46%) Analyst
2 149 (16.82%) Software Engineer
3 141 (15.91%) Developer
4 125 (14.11%) Business Analyst
5 107 (12.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 100 (11.29%) AWS Engineer
7 88 (9.93%) AWS Software Engineer
8 82 (9.26%) Python Engineer
9 63 (7.11%) Python Software Engineer
10 60 (6.77%) Senior
11 58 (6.55%) Java Engineer
11 58 (6.55%) Java Software Engineer
12 55 (6.21%) Architect
12 55 (6.21%) IT Engineer
13 50 (5.64%) AWS Developer
14 48 (5.42%) Business Manager
14 48 (5.42%) Project Manager
15 47 (5.30%) Consultant
16 41 (4.63%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
17 38 (4.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (10.38%) React
2 81 (9.14%) Pandas
3 78 (8.80%) NumPy
4 76 (8.58%) SciPy
5 68 (7.67%) Node.js
6 57 (6.43%) Redux
7 56 (6.32%) AngularJS
7 56 (6.32%) Vue
8 40 (4.51%) PySpark
9 39 (4.40%) gRPC
9 39 (4.40%) Protocol Buffers
10 16 (1.81%) Kafka
11 12 (1.35%) J2EE
12 11 (1.24%) XML
13 10 (1.13%) .NET
13 10 (1.13%) HTML
14 9 (1.02%) REST
15 8 (0.90%) CSS
15 8 (0.90%) JSON
16 5 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 199 (22.46%) Fixed Income
2 127 (14.33%) Hedge funds
3 112 (12.64%) Equities
4 110 (12.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 103 (11.63%) Derivative
6 44 (4.97%) Onboarding
7 37 (4.18%) Management Information System
8 33 (3.72%) Pricing Data
9 32 (3.61%) CMDB
10 30 (3.39%) Driving Licence
11 26 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.69%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.35%) Life Science
15 11 (1.24%) Product Ownership
16 10 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
16 10 (1.13%) Smartphone
17 9 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
17 9 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
18 8 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 98 (11.06%) Windows
2 45 (5.08%) Windows 10
3 20 (2.26%) Apple iOS
4 15 (1.69%) Linux
5 14 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.02%) Android
7 8 (0.90%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.90%) Windows 7
7 8 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.68%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.56%) Windows 8
10 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.56%) Windows XP
11 3 (0.34%) VMS
11 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.23%) CentOS
12 2 (0.23%) Debian
13 1 (0.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (34.88%) Agile
2 214 (24.15%) Investment Management
3 168 (18.96%) Software Engineering
4 96 (10.84%) Fintech
5 93 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (10.38%) Ticket Management
7 91 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 77 (8.69%) ITIL
9 75 (8.47%) Analytics
9 75 (8.47%) Migration
10 71 (8.01%) IT Asset Management
11 70 (7.90%) Business Analysis
12 67 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
13 66 (7.45%) ITSM
14 64 (7.22%) Risk Management
15 63 (7.11%) Portfolio Management
16 62 (7.00%) Change Management
17 61 (6.88%) Project Management
18 55 (6.21%) Performance Attribution
18 55 (6.21%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 233 (26.30%) Python
2 142 (16.03%) JavaScript
3 129 (14.56%) TypeScript
4 127 (14.33%) SQL
5 97 (10.95%) Java
6 17 (1.92%) C#
7 13 (1.47%) Go
7 13 (1.47%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.34%) VBScript
9 2 (0.23%) ABAP
9 2 (0.23%) Bash
9 2 (0.23%) DAML
9 2 (0.23%) Groovy
9 2 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.23%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.23%) Scala
9 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.23%) VBA
10 1 (0.11%) RPG IV
10 1 (0.11%) VB6
Qualifications
1 144 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 126 (14.22%) SC Cleared
3 52 (5.87%) Degree
4 14 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (0.68%) CCNA
7 6 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.56%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (0.45%) CFA
9 4 (0.45%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.45%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.34%) CBAP
10 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.34%) PMP
10 3 (0.34%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.93%) Data Quality
2 18 (2.03%) QA
3 17 (1.92%) PMO
4 15 (1.69%) MiFID
5 13 (1.47%) EMIR
5 13 (1.47%) SLA
6 8 (0.90%) NIST
7 5 (0.56%) GDPR
8 4 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.45%) NIST 800
8 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.45%) PMBOK
9 3 (0.34%) NCSC
10 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.23%) GRC
10 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 19770
11 1 (0.11%) Basel III
11 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.11%) P3O
11 1 (0.11%) UCITS
System Software
1 58 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.03%) Docker
3 6 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.45%) vSphere
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (3.27%) SCCM
2 21 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (1.81%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.81%) Terraform
4 8 (0.90%) Ansible
5 3 (0.34%) Backup Exec
5 3 (0.34%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.34%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.23%) CASB
6 2 (0.23%) Nessus
6 2 (0.23%) Opsgenie
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.11%) Grafana
7 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 142 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.13%) ServiceNow
3 51 (5.76%) SAP
4 38 (4.29%) BISAM
5 35 (3.95%) Charles River
5 35 (3.95%) HP
6 33 (3.72%) Dell
7 23 (2.60%) SimCorp
8 21 (2.37%) Cisco
9 19 (2.14%) Calypso
10 17 (1.92%) Oracle
10 17 (1.92%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.81%) IBM
12 12 (1.35%) Adobe
12 12 (1.35%) Google
13 9 (1.02%) Bloomberg
13 9 (1.02%) VMware
14 7 (0.79%) Apple
14 7 (0.79%) Databricks
14 7 (0.79%) ESRI