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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 264 162
Rank change year-on-year +151 -102 +78
Permanent jobs citing Logistics 1,387 460 1,520
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.68% 1.20% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.29% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,027 280 866
10th Percentile £29,650 £28,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £31,438 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £61,625 £75,000 £61,750
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 61,053 35,757 72,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.82% 93.39% 84.23%
Number of salaries quoted 40,449 19,146 54,102
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
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 £73,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -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 25 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 25 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 +65 392 £52,500 +25.75% 122
North of England +117 313 £55,000 +57.14% 108
South East +119 302 £42,500 -10.53% 92
West Midlands +63 257 £55,000 +22.22% 69
London +59 201 £55,000 -21.43% 175
North West +93 182 £60,000 +71.43% 52
East Midlands +32 130 £47,000 +22.08% 52
South West +14 109 £35,000 -45.10% 43
Yorkshire +20 101 £55,000 +76.00% 45
East of England +5 59 £47,500 +4.40% 34
North East -14 30 £31,000 -31.11% 14
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 (0.79%) CMS
3 3 (0.22%) Confluence
4 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.072%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.072%) IIS
5 1 (0.072%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 100 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.36%) InDesign
6 5 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.072%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.072%) Sketch
8 1 (0.072%) Trello
Business Applications
1 57 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.30%) Sprinklr
3 14 (1.01%) Dynamics AX
3 14 (1.01%) SAP SD
4 13 (0.94%) SAP Travel Management
5 11 (0.79%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.72%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.65%) SAP WM
8 7 (0.50%) SAP EWM
8 7 (0.50%) SAP GTS
8 7 (0.50%) SAP IBP
8 7 (0.50%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.29%) Magento
9 4 (0.29%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.29%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 4 (0.29%) Shopify
10 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 103 (7.43%) SaaS
2 56 (4.04%) Azure
3 44 (3.17%) Power Platform
4 38 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (1.51%) AWS
6 13 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (0.72%) 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%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.37%) Wireless
2 14 (1.01%) Firewall
3 12 (0.87%) WAN
4 10 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.58%) DNS
6 8 (0.58%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.58%) VPN
7 7 (0.50%) DHCP
8 4 (0.29%) LAN
9 3 (0.22%) Intranet
9 3 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) Cisco Wireless
10 2 (0.14%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.14%) RFID
11 1 (0.072%) Bluetooth
11 1 (0.072%) FTP
11 1 (0.072%) SAN
11 1 (0.072%) SNMP
11 1 (0.072%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (2.81%) Power BI
2 20 (1.44%) Tableau
3 15 (1.08%) SQL Server
4 12 (0.87%) GIS
5 9 (0.65%) DynamoDB
5 9 (0.65%) Power Query
6 7 (0.50%) SAP HANA
7 6 (0.43%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.22%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.14%) DB2
9 2 (0.14%) DTS
9 2 (0.14%) MySQL
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.14%) QGIS
9 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.072%) Looker
10 1 (0.072%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 32 (2.31%) JIRA
2 15 (1.08%) Postman
3 13 (0.94%) Selenium
3 13 (0.94%) SoapUI
3 13 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
3 13 (0.94%) WebDriver
4 12 (0.87%) Git
5 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.072%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.072%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.072%) Claude Code
General
1 277 (19.97%) Social Skills
2 224 (16.15%) Manufacturing
3 184 (13.27%) Finance
4 147 (10.60%) Retail
5 97 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 71 (5.12%) Marketing
7 66 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
8 41 (2.96%) Public Sector
9 27 (1.95%) Law
10 25 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 21 (1.51%) Electronics
13 19 (1.37%) German Language
14 18 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.30%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.23%) Automotive
15 17 (1.23%) Dutch Language
16 15 (1.08%) Billing
17 10 (0.72%) French Language
Job Titles
1 305 (21.99%) Development Manager
2 294 (21.20%) Business Manager
3 285 (20.55%) Business Development Manager
4 117 (8.44%) Analyst
5 109 (7.86%) Senior
6 65 (4.69%) Developer
7 54 (3.89%) Administrator
8 48 (3.46%) Logistics Manager
9 46 (3.32%) Account Executive
10 44 (3.17%) Consultant
10 44 (3.17%) IT Support
11 42 (3.03%) Architect
12 38 (2.74%) Senior Manager
13 35 (2.52%) Coordinator
14 34 (2.45%) Support Technician
15 33 (2.38%) IT Technician
16 32 (2.31%) IT Manager
17 31 (2.24%) Account Manager
18 30 (2.16%) Senior Development Manager
18 30 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (3.39%) .NET
2 21 (1.51%) EDI
3 15 (1.08%) React
3 15 (1.08%) SAP Fiori
3 15 (1.08%) SOAP
4 14 (1.01%) Middleware
5 13 (0.94%) HTML
5 13 (0.94%) SAP TM
6 8 (0.58%) AngularJS
7 7 (0.50%) .NET Core
7 7 (0.50%) Matplotlib
7 7 (0.50%) Seaborn
8 6 (0.43%) AWS Amplify
8 6 (0.43%) MapLibre
9 5 (0.36%) Web Services
10 4 (0.29%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.29%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.29%) Gherkin
11 3 (0.22%) JSON
11 3 (0.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 49 (3.53%) Onboarding
2 48 (3.46%) Driving Licence
3 39 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (2.24%) Management Information System
5 25 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (1.59%) Learning Management System
7 21 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (1.51%) Product Ownership
8 17 (1.23%) NHS
9 16 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (0.94%) Data Centre
12 12 (0.87%) Social Media
12 12 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
13 10 (0.72%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.65%) FMCG
14 9 (0.65%) Operational Technology
15 7 (0.50%) Blog
15 7 (0.50%) EPoS
15 7 (0.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.81%) Windows
2 11 (0.79%) Android
3 9 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.43%) Linux
5 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.29%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.072%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.072%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.072%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.072%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.072%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (24.80%) Business Development
2 158 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
3 137 (9.88%) ERP
4 129 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 125 (9.01%) Project Management
6 109 (7.86%) Project Delivery
7 105 (7.57%) Decision-Making
8 100 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
9 90 (6.49%) E-Commerce
10 87 (6.27%) CRM
11 86 (6.20%) Agile
12 85 (6.13%) Customer Service
13 67 (4.83%) Business Intelligence
13 67 (4.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 60 (4.33%) Roadmaps
15 59 (4.25%) AI
15 59 (4.25%) Analytics
16 53 (3.82%) ITIL
17 48 (3.46%) Cybersecurity
18 47 (3.39%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 80 (5.77%) SQL
2 47 (3.39%) C#
3 32 (2.31%) Python
4 18 (1.30%) TypeScript
5 17 (1.23%) Java
6 14 (1.01%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (0.58%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) RPG III
11 2 (0.14%) RPG IV
12 1 (0.072%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.072%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (5.55%) Degree
2 64 (4.61%) DBS Check
3 26 (1.87%) Security Cleared
4 21 (1.51%) CIPD
5 19 (1.37%) ISTQB
6 17 (1.23%) ACCA
6 17 (1.23%) CIMA
7 13 (0.94%) HNC
7 13 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 13 (0.94%) SC Cleared
8 12 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (0.87%) PMI Certification
9 11 (0.79%) PMP
10 7 (0.50%) Postgraduate
10 7 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 6 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.36%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.29%) CCNA
13 4 (0.29%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (1.73%) ISO 9001
2 18 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.23%) GDPR
4 16 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 15 (1.08%) SLA
6 13 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.94%) PMO
7 11 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (0.65%) ISO 14001
8 9 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 7 (0.50%) QA
10 2 (0.14%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.072%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.072%) GRC
11 1 (0.072%) IFRS
11 1 (0.072%) 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 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (0.58%) SCCM
2 5 (0.36%) Ansible
2 5 (0.36%) Autotask
3 3 (0.22%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.14%) Nagios
4 2 (0.14%) Terraform
5 1 (0.072%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.072%) Grafana
5 1 (0.072%) MOM
5 1 (0.072%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.072%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 156 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.77%) SAP
3 28 (2.02%) Oracle
4 19 (1.37%) NEC
5 18 (1.30%) Salesforce
6 13 (0.94%) Cisco
7 11 (0.79%) Adobe
8 9 (0.65%) HubSpot
8 9 (0.65%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.58%) IBM
10 7 (0.50%) Databricks
10 7 (0.50%) Fortinet
10 7 (0.50%) SonicWALL
11 6 (0.43%) Ariba
11 6 (0.43%) IFS
11 6 (0.43%) Sage
12 5 (0.36%) Facebook
12 5 (0.36%) JDA
12 5 (0.36%) Pardot
12 5 (0.36%) SolarWinds