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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 268 164
Rank change year-on-year +155 -104 +73
Permanent jobs citing Logistics 1,375 449 1,472
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.67% 1.17% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 1.25% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,016 278 858
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,550 £24,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £60,781 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £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 60,779 35,855 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.78% 93.41% 84.74%
Number of salaries quoted 40,146 19,238 53,727
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,288
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -9.84%

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 22 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 22 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 +66 388 £51,250 +13.89% 120
North of England +116 314 £55,000 +41.03% 101
South East +102 297 £42,500 -15.00% 87
West Midlands +62 256 £55,000 +22.22% 75
London +56 197 £55,000 -26.67% 131
North West +90 180 £60,000 +71.43% 49
East Midlands +24 127 £50,000 +29.87% 45
South West +12 109 £35,000 -46.15% 41
Yorkshire +25 101 £55,000 +37.50% 39
East of England +7 59 £47,500 +5.56% 32
North East -5 33 £31,000 -31.11% 16
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 (0.87%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.80%) CMS
3 3 (0.22%) Confluence
4 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.073%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.073%) IIS
5 1 (0.073%) Kinematics
Applications
1 97 (7.05%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.36%) InDesign
6 5 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.073%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.073%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 57 (4.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.31%) Sprinklr
3 14 (1.02%) Dynamics AX
3 14 (1.02%) SAP SD
4 13 (0.95%) SAP Travel Management
5 11 (0.80%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.65%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.65%) SAP WM
7 7 (0.51%) SAP EWM
7 7 (0.51%) SAP GTS
7 7 (0.51%) SAP IBP
7 7 (0.51%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.29%) Magento
8 4 (0.29%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.29%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 4 (0.29%) Shopify
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 100 (7.27%) SaaS
2 55 (4.00%) Azure
3 43 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 35 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (1.53%) AWS
6 13 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (0.73%) Serverless
8 8 (0.58%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (0.36%) Azure Event Grid
10 4 (0.29%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.29%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.29%) GitHub
10 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.22%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (0.22%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (0.22%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.38%) Wireless
2 13 (0.95%) Firewall
3 12 (0.87%) WAN
4 10 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.58%) DNS
5 8 (0.58%) SD-WAN
5 8 (0.58%) VPN
6 7 (0.51%) DHCP
7 4 (0.29%) LAN
8 3 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.15%) Cisco Wireless
9 2 (0.15%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.15%) Intranet
10 1 (0.073%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.073%) FTP
10 1 (0.073%) IPsec
10 1 (0.073%) SAN
10 1 (0.073%) SNMP
10 1 (0.073%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (2.84%) Power BI
2 20 (1.45%) Tableau
3 14 (1.02%) SQL Server
4 12 (0.87%) GIS
5 9 (0.65%) DynamoDB
5 9 (0.65%) Power Query
6 7 (0.51%) SAP HANA
7 6 (0.44%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.22%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.15%) DB2
9 2 (0.15%) DTS
9 2 (0.15%) MySQL
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.15%) QGIS
9 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.073%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 32 (2.33%) JIRA
2 15 (1.09%) Postman
3 13 (0.95%) Selenium
3 13 (0.95%) SoapUI
3 13 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
3 13 (0.95%) WebDriver
4 12 (0.87%) Git
5 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.073%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.073%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.073%) Claude Code
General
1 274 (19.93%) Social Skills
2 223 (16.22%) Manufacturing
3 187 (13.60%) Finance
4 147 (10.69%) Retail
5 94 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (5.09%) Marketing
7 68 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
8 42 (3.05%) Public Sector
9 28 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (1.96%) Law
11 25 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
12 20 (1.45%) Electronics
13 19 (1.38%) German Language
14 18 (1.31%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.24%) Automotive
15 17 (1.24%) Dutch Language
15 17 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.09%) Billing
17 10 (0.73%) French Language
Job Titles
1 304 (22.11%) Development Manager
2 289 (21.02%) Business Manager
3 280 (20.36%) Business Development Manager
4 119 (8.65%) Analyst
5 109 (7.93%) Senior
6 64 (4.65%) Developer
7 52 (3.78%) Administrator
8 46 (3.35%) Logistics Manager
9 43 (3.13%) Account Executive
9 43 (3.13%) Consultant
10 41 (2.98%) Architect
10 41 (2.98%) IT Support
11 38 (2.76%) Senior Manager
12 36 (2.62%) Coordinator
13 32 (2.33%) Account Manager
13 32 (2.33%) IT Manager
14 31 (2.25%) IT Technician
14 31 (2.25%) Support Technician
15 30 (2.18%) Senior Business Development Manager
15 30 (2.18%) Senior Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.35%) .NET
2 21 (1.53%) EDI
3 15 (1.09%) React
3 15 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
3 15 (1.09%) SOAP
4 14 (1.02%) Middleware
5 13 (0.95%) HTML
5 13 (0.95%) SAP TM
6 8 (0.58%) AngularJS
7 7 (0.51%) .NET Core
7 7 (0.51%) Matplotlib
7 7 (0.51%) Seaborn
8 6 (0.44%) AWS Amplify
8 6 (0.44%) MapLibre
9 4 (0.29%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.29%) Gherkin
9 4 (0.29%) Web Services
10 3 (0.22%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.22%) JSON
10 3 (0.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (3.35%) Onboarding
2 44 (3.20%) Driving Licence
3 36 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 27 (1.96%) Learning Management System
6 25 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (1.45%) Product Ownership
8 17 (1.24%) NHS
9 16 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (0.95%) Data Centre
12 12 (0.87%) Social Media
13 11 (0.80%) Web Conferencing
14 10 (0.73%) Data Structures
15 9 (0.65%) Blog
15 9 (0.65%) FMCG
16 8 (0.58%) Operational Technology
17 7 (0.51%) EPoS
17 7 (0.51%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.69%) Windows
2 10 (0.73%) Android
3 8 (0.58%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.44%) Linux
5 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.073%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.073%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.073%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.073%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (24.51%) Business Development
2 153 (11.13%) Problem-Solving
3 133 (9.67%) ERP
4 129 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 123 (8.95%) Project Management
6 108 (7.85%) Decision-Making
7 105 (7.64%) Project Delivery
8 98 (7.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 85 (6.18%) E-Commerce
10 84 (6.11%) Agile
11 83 (6.04%) CRM
11 83 (6.04%) Customer Service
12 66 (4.80%) Business Intelligence
12 66 (4.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 61 (4.44%) AI
14 58 (4.22%) Analytics
14 58 (4.22%) Roadmaps
15 52 (3.78%) ITIL
16 50 (3.64%) Process Improvement
17 49 (3.56%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 78 (5.67%) SQL
2 45 (3.27%) C#
3 32 (2.33%) Python
4 18 (1.31%) TypeScript
5 17 (1.24%) Java
6 14 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (0.58%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.44%) Clojure
9 4 (0.29%) ABAP
9 4 (0.29%) C++
10 3 (0.22%) C
10 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.22%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.22%) RPG
10 3 (0.22%) Swift
11 2 (0.15%) RPG III
11 2 (0.15%) RPG IV
12 1 (0.073%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.073%) Bash
Qualifications
1 77 (5.60%) Degree
2 60 (4.36%) DBS Check
3 26 (1.89%) Security Cleared
4 25 (1.82%) CIPD
5 19 (1.38%) ISTQB
6 17 (1.24%) ACCA
6 17 (1.24%) CIMA
7 13 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 13 (0.95%) SC Cleared
8 12 (0.87%) HNC
8 12 (0.87%) PMI Certification
9 11 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.80%) PMP
10 7 (0.51%) Postgraduate
10 7 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 6 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.36%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.29%) HND
13 4 (0.29%) RIBA
13 4 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (1.67%) ISO 9001
2 18 (1.31%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.09%) SLA
5 14 (1.02%) GDPR
6 13 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.95%) PMO
7 11 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (0.65%) ISO 14001
8 9 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 7 (0.51%) QA
10 2 (0.15%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.073%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.073%) GRC
11 1 (0.073%) IFRS
11 1 (0.073%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (0.65%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.29%) Docker
2 4 (0.29%) Firmware
2 4 (0.29%) IAG
2 4 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (0.51%) SCCM
2 5 (0.36%) Ansible
2 5 (0.36%) Autotask
3 3 (0.22%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.15%) Nagios
4 2 (0.15%) Terraform
5 1 (0.073%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.073%) Grafana
5 1 (0.073%) MOM
5 1 (0.073%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.073%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.073%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 150 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 79 (5.75%) SAP
3 27 (1.96%) Oracle
4 19 (1.38%) NEC
5 18 (1.31%) Salesforce
6 12 (0.87%) Cisco
7 11 (0.80%) Adobe
8 9 (0.65%) HubSpot
8 9 (0.65%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.58%) IBM
10 7 (0.51%) Databricks
11 6 (0.44%) Ariba
11 6 (0.44%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.44%) IFS
11 6 (0.44%) Sage
11 6 (0.44%) SonicWALL
12 5 (0.36%) JDA
12 5 (0.36%) Kaseya
12 5 (0.36%) Pardot
12 5 (0.36%) SolarWinds