Order Management Contracts

Order Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Order Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Order 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 378 450 507
Rank change year-on-year +72 +57 -24
Contract jobs citing Order Management 142 150 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.34% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.40% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 84 121
10th Percentile £212 £200 £425
25th Percentile £509 £344 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £838 £709 £800
90th Percentile £875 £864 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £498
% change year-on-year +12.50% -19.60% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 8
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.13
25th Percentile £13.50 £15.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £23.75 £21.50 £16.90
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% +27.22% -38.55%
75th Percentile £43.00 £22.25 £23.19
90th Percentile £59.20 £26.66 £32.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.50 £16.82 £16.90
% change year-on-year -19.74% -0.47% -62.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Order 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%

Order Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Order Management in the UK

Order Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Order Management in the UK

Order Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Order Management in the UK

Order Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Order Management in the UK

Order Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Order Management in the UK

Order 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 Order 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 +70 122 £675 +9.31% 152
London +53 85 £675 +3.85% 86
Work from Home +36 51 £700 +2.34% 42
UK excluding London +54 40 £450 +12.50% 73
South East +56 19 £513 +51.85% 16
Midlands +22 8 £150 - 10
West Midlands +15 6 £150 - 4
Scotland +9 5 £468 +16.88% 2
North of England +26 4 £185 -43.08% 22
East of England +23 2 - - 6
North West +8 2 - - 13
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 - 5
East Midlands +8 1 £513 - 6
North East 0 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £185 - 8

Order 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 15 (10.56%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.82%) Confluence
3 2 (1.41%) Camunda
3 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) CMS
4 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.41%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (7.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.93%) SAP SD
3 5 (3.52%) SAP PP
4 4 (2.82%) Aladdin
5 3 (2.11%) Maximo
5 3 (2.11%) SAP MM
6 2 (1.41%) Movex
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle SCM
6 2 (1.41%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (1.41%) SAP QM
6 2 (1.41%) Shopify
6 2 (1.41%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.70%) SAP BRIM
7 1 (0.70%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 1 (0.70%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.70%) SAP Travel Management
7 1 (0.70%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.97%) GCP
2 16 (11.27%) AWS
3 15 (10.56%) dbt
4 11 (7.75%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.11%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.41%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.41%) Azure
8 2 (1.41%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.41%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.70%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.70%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (0.70%) Cloud Run
9 1 (0.70%) Collibra
9 1 (0.70%) SaaS
9 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.11%) WAN
2 2 (1.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.56%) Amazon Athena
2 15 (10.56%) Apache Arrow
2 15 (10.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 15 (10.56%) Dremio
3 7 (4.93%) Power BI
4 6 (4.23%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.70%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.70%) Redis
6 1 (0.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (6.34%) JIRA
2 2 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.70%) Maven
3 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 66 (46.48%) Finance
2 47 (33.10%) Front Office
3 41 (28.87%) Social Skills
4 21 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.45%) Banking
5 12 (8.45%) Billing
6 11 (7.75%) Telecoms
7 9 (6.34%) Marketing
7 9 (6.34%) Retail
8 6 (4.23%) Legal
8 6 (4.23%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.52%) Advertising
9 5 (3.52%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.82%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.11%) Automotive
11 3 (2.11%) German Language
12 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (28.17%) Analyst
2 31 (21.83%) Developer
3 23 (16.20%) Business Analyst
4 19 (13.38%) Consultant
5 18 (12.68%) Architect
5 18 (12.68%) Business Manager
5 18 (12.68%) Product Analyst
5 18 (12.68%) Product Business Analyst
5 18 (12.68%) Product Manager
6 15 (10.56%) AWS Developer
6 15 (10.56%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (10.56%) AWS Software Engineer
6 15 (10.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 15 (10.56%) Software Engineer
7 13 (9.15%) SAP Consultant
8 12 (8.45%) Java Developer
9 11 (7.75%) Administrator
10 10 (7.04%) Python Developer
10 10 (7.04%) Python Engineer
10 10 (7.04%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.68%) Node.js
2 16 (11.27%) AngularJS
2 16 (11.27%) React
3 15 (10.56%) NumPy
3 15 (10.56%) Pandas
3 15 (10.56%) SciPy
3 15 (10.56%) Vue
4 7 (4.93%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (2.11%) Middleware
5 3 (2.11%) RESTful
6 2 (1.41%) EDI
6 2 (1.41%) IDoc
6 2 (1.41%) Parceljs
6 2 (1.41%) Web Services
7 1 (0.70%) Flask
7 1 (0.70%) JWT
7 1 (0.70%) MACH
7 1 (0.70%) Next.js
7 1 (0.70%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.70%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 36 (25.35%) Fixed Income
2 33 (23.24%) Equities
2 33 (23.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 25 (17.61%) Derivative
4 18 (12.68%) Hedge funds
4 18 (12.68%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.93%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.23%) State Machine
7 3 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.41%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.41%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.41%) TM Forum
8 2 (1.41%) Wiki
9 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.70%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.68%) Apple iOS
2 6 (4.23%) Windows
3 4 (2.82%) Unix
4 2 (1.41%) Linux
4 2 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.99%) Agile
2 42 (29.58%) Asset Management
3 40 (28.17%) Investment Management
4 24 (16.90%) Portfolio Management
5 22 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (14.79%) Analytics
7 20 (14.08%) Artificial Intelligence
8 18 (12.68%) Front End Development
8 18 (12.68%) Machine Learning
8 18 (12.68%) Quantitative Analysis
8 18 (12.68%) Risk Analytics
8 18 (12.68%) Roadmaps
9 17 (11.97%) Risk Management
10 15 (10.56%) Fintech
10 15 (10.56%) Performance Attribution
10 15 (10.56%) Software Engineering
11 13 (9.15%) Logistics
12 12 (8.45%) Project Management
13 11 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (7.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.97%) JavaScript
1 17 (11.97%) TypeScript
2 13 (9.15%) Python
3 12 (8.45%) Java
4 9 (6.34%) SQL
5 2 (1.41%) ABAP
5 2 (1.41%) C
6 1 (0.70%) Bicep
6 1 (0.70%) C#
6 1 (0.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (18.31%) Degree
2 4 (2.82%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.82%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.11%) PMP
4 2 (1.41%) APMP
4 2 (1.41%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.52%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.11%) QA
3 2 (1.41%) PMO
4 1 (0.70%) GDPR
4 1 (0.70%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.41%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (15.49%) SAP
2 17 (11.97%) Salesforce
3 14 (9.86%) Microsoft
4 11 (7.75%) ServiceNow
5 9 (6.34%) Oracle
6 6 (4.23%) ION Trading
6 6 (4.23%) Solace
7 5 (3.52%) Google
8 3 (2.11%) Adobe
8 3 (2.11%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.11%) Sage
9 2 (1.41%) Ariba
9 2 (1.41%) Charles River
9 2 (1.41%) Cisco
9 2 (1.41%) HP
9 2 (1.41%) IBM
9 2 (1.41%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.41%) Progress
9 2 (1.41%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.41%) UiPath