Inventory Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Inventory Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Inventory Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inventory Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 288 377
Rank change year-on-year +17 +89 +144
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 30 56 95
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.37% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.42% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 63
10th Percentile £238 £478 £260
25th Percentile £400 £516 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +41.18% -12.82%
75th Percentile £588 £725 £549
90th Percentile £670 £748 £631
UK median daily rate £220 £475 £410
% change year-on-year -53.68% +15.85% -7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £14.27 £16.13
25th Percentile £63.75 £14.68 £16.69
Median hourly rate £67.50 £15.35 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +339.74% -15.89% -
75th Percentile £71.25 £16.03 £19.69
90th Percentile - £16.43 £20.18
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £16.70 £17.07
% change year-on-year +319.16% -2.14% -14.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Inventory 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,020 13,413 23,039
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.92% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 8,959 16,290
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 580 529
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.38 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Inventory Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Inventory Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Inventory Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Inventory Management.

Inventory Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Inventory Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Inventory Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Inventory Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Inventory Management.

Inventory Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Inventory Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (10.00%) SAP LE
3 2 (6.67%) SAP MM
3 2 (6.67%) SAP PP
4 1 (3.33%) Demantra
4 1 (3.33%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (3.33%) SAP IBP
4 1 (3.33%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
1 4 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) GCP
3 1 (3.33%) Google Ads
3 1 (3.33%) Google Sheets
3 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) DNS
1 5 (16.67%) WAN
2 4 (13.33%) DHCP
2 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 4 (13.33%) LAN
2 4 (13.33%) Network Security
2 4 (13.33%) VPN
2 4 (13.33%) Wireless
3 3 (10.00%) 4G
3 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (3.33%) DMVPN
4 1 (3.33%) IPsec
4 1 (3.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Big Data
1 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.33%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Hudson
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Manufacturing
3 6 (20.00%) Retail
4 4 (13.33%) German Language
5 3 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (10.00%) Marketing
6 2 (6.67%) Advertising
6 2 (6.67%) Automotive
6 2 (6.67%) Finance
6 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Back Office
7 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Consultant
2 6 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 6 (20.00%) Senior
3 5 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Asset Management Project Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Delivery Project Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Lead
4 4 (13.33%) Lead Project Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Project Leader
4 4 (13.33%) SAP Delivery Manager
4 4 (13.33%) SAP Manager
4 4 (13.33%) SAP Project Leader
4 4 (13.33%) SAP Project Manager
4 4 (13.33%) SAP WM Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior SAP Supply Chain Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Senior SAP WM Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) EDI
1 2 (6.67%) IDoc
2 1 (3.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.33%) ATL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.67%) Life Science
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) EPoS
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Migration
1 6 (20.00%) Project Management
2 5 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 5 (16.67%) Logistics
3 4 (13.33%) Business Strategy
3 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
3 4 (13.33%) EAM
3 4 (13.33%) Project Delivery
4 3 (10.00%) Data Privacy
4 3 (10.00%) High Availability
4 3 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (10.00%) Order Management
4 3 (10.00%) Proactive Management
4 3 (10.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (10.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (10.00%) Supply Chain Planning
4 3 (10.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) CCNA
3 3 (10.00%) CCNP
3 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (6.67%) SCCM
2 2 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) SAP
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) Anaplan
4 1 (3.33%) Apple
4 1 (3.33%) Ariba
4 1 (3.33%) Blue Coat
4 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Criteo
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) F5
4 1 (3.33%) IFS
4 1 (3.33%) Juniper
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle