Logistics Job Trends in England

Logistics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Logistics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 264 153
Rank change year-on-year +149 -111 +82
Permanent jobs citing Logistics 1,406 465 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.69% 1.20% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 1.29% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,047 285 876
10th Percentile £29,650 £28,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62,250 £73,750 £61,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Logistics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,553 36,113 73,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.02% 93.35% 83.76%
Number of salaries quoted 41,006 19,403 54,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +8.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,610 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%

Logistics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Logistics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Logistics job vacancy trend in England

Logistics
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Logistics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Logistics

Logistics
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Logistics in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Logistics in England

Logistics
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Logistics within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +71 400 £52,500 +16.67% 113
North of England +96 319 £55,000 +41.03% 90
South East +115 308 £40,000 -13.51% 94
West Midlands +62 261 £55,000 +22.22% 65
London +54 200 £55,000 -21.43% 144
North West +93 187 £60,000 +71.43% 48
East Midlands +36 134 £47,000 +22.08% 47
South West +10 105 £35,000 -45.10% 31
Yorkshire +19 100 £52,500 +23.53% 37
East of England +6 62 £50,000 +9.89% 30
North East -14 32 £35,500 -21.11% 7
Logistics
UK

Logistics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (0.85%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.78%) CMS
3 3 (0.21%) Confluence
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.071%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.071%) IIS
5 1 (0.071%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.071%) WordPress
Applications
1 102 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.36%) InDesign
6 5 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.071%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.071%) Sketch
8 1 (0.071%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (4.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.28%) Sprinklr
3 14 (1.00%) Dynamics AX
3 14 (1.00%) SAP SD
4 13 (0.92%) SAP Travel Management
5 11 (0.78%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.71%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.71%) SAP WM
7 8 (0.57%) SAP GTS
8 7 (0.50%) SAP EWM
8 7 (0.50%) SAP IBP
8 7 (0.50%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.28%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.28%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 4 (0.28%) Shopify
10 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.21%) Magento
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 102 (7.25%) SaaS
2 61 (4.34%) Azure
3 44 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 40 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (1.56%) AWS
6 14 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (0.71%) Serverless
8 9 (0.64%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (0.36%) Azure Event Grid
10 5 (0.36%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.28%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.28%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (0.28%) GitHub
11 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.21%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (0.21%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (0.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.35%) Wireless
2 15 (1.07%) Firewall
3 12 (0.85%) WAN
4 10 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.57%) DNS
5 8 (0.57%) SD-WAN
5 8 (0.57%) VPN
5 8 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.50%) DHCP
7 4 (0.28%) LAN
8 3 (0.21%) Intranet
8 3 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.14%) Cisco Wireless
9 2 (0.14%) RFID
10 1 (0.071%) 4G
10 1 (0.071%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.071%) Internet
10 1 (0.071%) IPsec
10 1 (0.071%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (0.071%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (2.77%) Power BI
2 18 (1.28%) Tableau
3 17 (1.21%) SQL Server
4 13 (0.92%) GIS
5 9 (0.64%) DynamoDB
5 9 (0.64%) Power Query
6 7 (0.50%) Oracle Database
6 7 (0.50%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.21%) MySQL
7 3 (0.21%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.14%) DB2
8 2 (0.14%) DTS
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (0.14%) QGIS
8 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.071%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.071%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 32 (2.28%) JIRA
2 14 (1.00%) Postman
3 12 (0.85%) Git
3 12 (0.85%) Selenium
3 12 (0.85%) SoapUI
3 12 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
3 12 (0.85%) WebDriver
4 4 (0.28%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.14%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.071%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.071%) Bitbucket
General
1 283 (20.13%) Social Skills
2 226 (16.07%) Manufacturing
3 185 (13.16%) Finance
4 145 (10.31%) Retail
5 101 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
6 69 (4.91%) Marketing
7 67 (4.77%) Organisational Skills
8 42 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 32 (2.28%) Law
10 26 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 22 (1.56%) Electronics
13 20 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.35%) German Language
14 19 (1.35%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (1.21%) Billing
16 17 (1.21%) Dutch Language
17 16 (1.14%) Automotive
18 10 (0.71%) French Language
Job Titles
1 306 (21.76%) Development Manager
2 296 (21.05%) Business Manager
3 286 (20.34%) Business Development Manager
4 116 (8.25%) Analyst
5 111 (7.89%) Senior
6 71 (5.05%) Developer
7 52 (3.70%) Administrator
8 48 (3.41%) Logistics Manager
9 46 (3.27%) Account Executive
10 45 (3.20%) IT Support
11 44 (3.13%) Consultant
12 40 (2.84%) Senior Manager
13 39 (2.77%) Architect
14 36 (2.56%) IT Manager
15 35 (2.49%) Support Technician
16 34 (2.42%) IT Technician
17 33 (2.35%) Coordinator
18 32 (2.28%) Lead
19 31 (2.20%) Project Manager
20 30 (2.13%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (3.56%) .NET
2 22 (1.56%) EDI
3 15 (1.07%) React
4 14 (1.00%) HTML
4 14 (1.00%) Middleware
4 14 (1.00%) SAP Fiori
4 14 (1.00%) SOAP
5 13 (0.92%) SAP TM
6 10 (0.71%) AngularJS
7 8 (0.57%) .NET Core
8 7 (0.50%) Matplotlib
8 7 (0.50%) Seaborn
9 6 (0.43%) AWS Amplify
9 6 (0.43%) MapLibre
9 6 (0.43%) Web Services
10 5 (0.36%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.36%) Gherkin
11 4 (0.28%) AWS CDK
11 4 (0.28%) REST
12 3 (0.21%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 50 (3.56%) Onboarding
2 49 (3.49%) Driving Licence
3 39 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 25 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 22 (1.56%) Learning Management System
7 22 (1.56%) Product Ownership
8 17 (1.21%) NHS
9 16 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.00%) Data Centre
12 13 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
13 12 (0.85%) Social Media
14 10 (0.71%) Data Structures
15 9 (0.64%) FMCG
15 9 (0.64%) Life Science
15 9 (0.64%) Operational Technology
16 8 (0.57%) EPoS
17 7 (0.50%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 41 (2.92%) Windows
2 12 (0.85%) Android
3 10 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.36%) Linux
4 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.071%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.071%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.071%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.071%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.071%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (24.68%) Business Development
2 162 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
3 141 (10.03%) ERP
4 132 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 129 (9.17%) Project Management
6 114 (8.11%) Project Delivery
7 108 (7.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 103 (7.33%) Decision-Making
9 90 (6.40%) Agile
9 90 (6.40%) E-Commerce
10 89 (6.33%) Customer Service
11 86 (6.12%) CRM
12 72 (5.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 66 (4.69%) Business Intelligence
14 60 (4.27%) ITIL
14 60 (4.27%) Roadmaps
15 58 (4.13%) AI
16 55 (3.91%) Analytics
17 52 (3.70%) Service Delivery
18 48 (3.41%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 84 (5.97%) SQL
2 51 (3.63%) C#
3 29 (2.06%) Python
4 19 (1.35%) TypeScript
5 16 (1.14%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.07%) Java
7 8 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (0.57%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.50%) Clojure
9 4 (0.28%) ABAP
9 4 (0.28%) RPG
10 3 (0.21%) C++
10 3 (0.21%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.21%) Swift
11 2 (0.14%) C
11 2 (0.14%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.14%) RPG III
11 2 (0.14%) RPG IV
11 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.071%) PHP
Qualifications
1 75 (5.33%) Degree
2 67 (4.77%) DBS Check
3 25 (1.78%) Security Cleared
4 21 (1.49%) CIPD
5 19 (1.35%) ACCA
5 19 (1.35%) CIMA
5 19 (1.35%) ISTQB
6 14 (1.00%) PMI Certification
7 13 (0.92%) HNC
7 13 (0.92%) PMP
7 13 (0.92%) SC Cleared
8 12 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 8 (0.57%) Postgraduate
10 7 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 5 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.36%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.36%) SAP Certification
11 5 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (1.71%) ISO 9001
2 19 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.21%) SLA
4 13 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.92%) GDPR
4 13 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (0.92%) PMO
5 11 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (0.64%) ISO 14001
6 9 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 7 (0.50%) QA
8 2 (0.14%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.071%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.071%) GRC
9 1 (0.071%) IFRS
9 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.36%) Docker
2 5 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.28%) Firmware
3 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.28%) IAG
4 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (0.71%) SCCM
2 5 (0.36%) Ansible
2 5 (0.36%) Autotask
3 4 (0.28%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.14%) Nagios
4 2 (0.14%) Terraform
5 1 (0.071%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.071%) Grafana
5 1 (0.071%) MOM
5 1 (0.071%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.071%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 160 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 84 (5.97%) SAP
3 30 (2.13%) Oracle
4 19 (1.35%) NEC
5 17 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 13 (0.92%) Cisco
7 11 (0.78%) Adobe
7 11 (0.78%) ServiceNow
8 9 (0.64%) HubSpot
9 8 (0.57%) Fortinet
9 8 (0.57%) IBM
9 8 (0.57%) IFS
9 8 (0.57%) SonicWALL
10 7 (0.50%) Databricks
11 6 (0.43%) Ariba
11 6 (0.43%) Sage
12 5 (0.36%) Facebook
12 5 (0.36%) JDA
12 5 (0.36%) Pardot
12 5 (0.36%) VMware