Inventory Management Contracts

Inventory Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Inventory Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Inventory Management over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 522 645
Rank change year-on-year +95 +123 -45
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 161 173 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.31% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.34% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 104 103
10th Percentile £156 £200 £206
25th Percentile £265 £264 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £600
90th Percentile £725 £725 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +13.89% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 5 11
10th Percentile £11.06 - -
25th Percentile £14.47 £14.00 £17.42
Median hourly rate £16.70 £17.07 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -14.68% -
75th Percentile £21.50 £18.00 £24.88
90th Percentile £21.52 £19.50 £36.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £14.00 £18.71
% change year-on-year +14.29% -25.17% -1.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Inventory Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inventory Management over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inventory Management over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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 +71 122 £475 +11.76% 138
UK excluding London +63 82 £513 +13.89% 98
Work from Home +101 59 £588 +40.72% 36
London +60 46 £475 +18.75% 36
North of England +29 22 £450 -16.67% 22
South East +2 16 £568 +48.37% 24
Scotland +43 13 £381 +69.26% 4
East of England +18 13 £210 -40.85% 17
North West +20 12 £450 -16.67% 15
South West +11 11 £650 +136.36% 12
Midlands +12 8 £355 -27.18% 21
Yorkshire +12 6 - - 3
West Midlands +11 5 - - 17
East Midlands +6 2 £160 -72.77% 4
North East - 1 - - 4

Inventory 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 6 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.48%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) CMS
3 1 (0.62%) IIS
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 26 (16.15%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (16.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (7.45%) SAP EWM
3 8 (4.97%) SAP MM
4 4 (2.48%) SAP ERP
4 4 (2.48%) SAP FI
4 4 (2.48%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
4 4 (2.48%) SAP Retail
5 3 (1.86%) SAP WM
6 2 (1.24%) NetSuite
6 2 (1.24%) SAP IBP
6 2 (1.24%) SAP PP
6 2 (1.24%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.62%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.07%) Azure
1 13 (8.07%) Dynamics 365
2 10 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (3.73%) OneDrive
4 5 (3.11%) SaaS
5 4 (2.48%) Google Workspace
5 4 (2.48%) OCI
5 4 (2.48%) Slack
5 4 (2.48%) Zapier
6 3 (1.86%) AWS
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.62%) Collibra
7 1 (0.62%) GitHub
7 1 (0.62%) PaaS
7 1 (0.62%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.35%) Internet
1 7 (4.35%) Wireless
2 5 (3.11%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.86%) BGP
4 3 (1.86%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.86%) Firewall
4 3 (1.86%) IOS XR
4 3 (1.86%) VPN
4 3 (1.86%) WAN
5 2 (1.24%) DHCP
5 2 (1.24%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.24%) LAN
5 2 (1.24%) MPLS
5 2 (1.24%) SAN
5 2 (1.24%) SNMP
5 2 (1.24%) VLAN
6 1 (0.62%) DWDM
6 1 (0.62%) RFID
6 1 (0.62%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.48%) Couchbase
3 3 (1.86%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.24%) Metadata
4 2 (1.24%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.24%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.62%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.62%) Power BI
5 1 (0.62%) Redis
5 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.73%) JIRA
2 2 (1.24%) Hudson
3 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.62%) TeamCity
General
1 69 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (14.91%) Finance
3 17 (10.56%) Retail
4 14 (8.70%) Manufacturing
5 13 (8.07%) Telecoms
6 12 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.97%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.73%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.11%) Spanish Language
10 4 (2.48%) French Language
10 4 (2.48%) Marketing
11 2 (1.24%) Automotive
11 2 (1.24%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (1.24%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.24%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.24%) Portuguese Language
12 1 (0.62%) Law
Job Titles
1 41 (25.47%) Consultant
2 18 (11.18%) Lead
3 16 (9.94%) Analyst
3 16 (9.94%) Senior
4 14 (8.70%) Support Engineer
5 13 (8.07%) Desktop Support
5 13 (8.07%) SAP Consultant
6 11 (6.83%) Architect
6 11 (6.83%) Functional Consultant
7 10 (6.21%) IT Engineer
8 8 (4.97%) Desktop Engineer
8 8 (4.97%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 8 (4.97%) SAP EWM Consultant
9 7 (4.35%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 7 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.73%) Project Manager
11 5 (3.11%) Desktop Analyst
11 5 (3.11%) Desktop Support Analyst
11 5 (3.11%) Senior Manager
11 5 (3.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.11%) Kafka
2 3 (1.86%) Django
2 3 (1.86%) JSON
2 3 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.86%) REST
2 3 (1.86%) RESTful
2 3 (1.86%) YANG
3 2 (1.24%) IDoc
4 1 (0.62%) .NET
4 1 (0.62%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.62%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.62%) BAPI
4 1 (0.62%) EDI
4 1 (0.62%) Middleware
4 1 (0.62%) NgRx
4 1 (0.62%) Node.js
4 1 (0.62%) SAP ALE
4 1 (0.62%) SAP TM
4 1 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.11%) CMDB
3 5 (3.11%) iPad
3 5 (3.11%) iPhone
4 4 (2.48%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.48%) Smartphone
5 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.86%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.86%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.24%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.62%) BYOD
7 1 (0.62%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.62%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.53%) Windows
2 13 (8.07%) Windows 10
3 10 (6.21%) Apple iOS
4 9 (5.59%) Linux
5 6 (3.73%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.86%) Android
7 2 (1.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.62%) Unix
8 1 (0.62%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.62%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.88%) Logistics
2 24 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 21 (13.04%) Migration
5 19 (11.80%) Supply Chain Management
6 17 (10.56%) ERP
7 15 (9.32%) Asset Management
7 15 (9.32%) Data Migration
7 15 (9.32%) Project Management
7 15 (9.32%) Service Management
8 13 (8.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (7.45%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (6.83%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (6.83%) Time Management
11 10 (6.21%) Agile
11 10 (6.21%) Break/Fix
11 10 (6.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (5.59%) Analytics
12 9 (5.59%) Workshop Facilitation
13 8 (4.97%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.59%) Python
2 8 (4.97%) SQL
3 7 (4.35%) Bash
4 6 (3.73%) Java
5 4 (2.48%) ABAP
5 4 (2.48%) C++
5 4 (2.48%) Google Apps Script
6 3 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.86%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.24%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.24%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.24%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.24%) VB
8 1 (0.62%) C#
8 1 (0.62%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (16.77%) Degree
2 14 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.86%) CPIM
6 3 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.62%) ACCA
8 1 (0.62%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.62%) CIMA
8 1 (0.62%) CSPO
8 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.62%) MCSE
8 1 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.62%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.62%) PMP
8 1 (0.62%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.59%) SLA
2 3 (1.86%) GDPR
3 2 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.24%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.24%) PMO
3 2 (1.24%) QA
4 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (9.32%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.73%) Firmware
3 2 (1.24%) KVM
4 1 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 11 (6.83%) SCCM
2 9 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (3.73%) WSUS
4 3 (1.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 47 (29.19%) Microsoft
2 43 (26.71%) SAP
3 17 (10.56%) ServiceNow
4 12 (7.45%) Oracle
5 8 (4.97%) Apple
6 4 (2.48%) Ariba
6 4 (2.48%) BT
6 4 (2.48%) Google
6 4 (2.48%) Okta
7 3 (1.86%) Cisco
7 3 (1.86%) IFS
7 3 (1.86%) Kofax
7 3 (1.86%) McAfee
7 3 (1.86%) ReadSoft
7 3 (1.86%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.86%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.24%) Altiris
8 2 (1.24%) Dell
8 2 (1.24%) Snow
9 1 (0.62%) Databricks