Inventory Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Inventory Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Inventory Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Inventory Management over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 374 427
Rank change year-on-year +57 +53 -27
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 81 73 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.36% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 42 44
10th Percentile £158 £205 £158
25th Percentile £181 £275 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +8.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £540 £600
90th Percentile £725 £670 -
UK median daily rate £488 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +14.71% -10.53% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 8
10th Percentile £11.06 - £15.87
25th Percentile £12.00 - £17.42
Median hourly rate £16.00 £14.00 £18.71
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -25.17% -1.53%
75th Percentile £16.70 £17.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £17.72 £19.20 -
UK median hourly rate £16.70 £17.07 £20.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% -14.68% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Inventory Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Inventory Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Inventory Management in the UK excluding London

Inventory Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Inventory Management in the UK excluding London

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inventory Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in the UK excluding London

Inventory Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Inventory Management in the UK excluding London

Inventory Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Inventory Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
North of England +26 20 £475 -12.04% 23
South East +6 16 £568 +38.41% 30
East of England +18 14 £210 -40.85% 18
Scotland +51 13 £381 +69.26% 4
South West +11 11 £650 +136.36% 10
North West +10 10 £475 -12.04% 15
Midlands +20 8 £355 -27.18% 20
Yorkshire +20 6 - - 4
West Midlands +14 5 - - 15
East Midlands +5 2 £160 -72.77% 5
North East - 1 - - 4
Inventory Management
UK

Inventory Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.23%) CMS
2 1 (1.23%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (12.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (6.17%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.23%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.23%) SAP EWM
3 1 (1.23%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
3 1 (1.23%) SAP IBP
3 1 (1.23%) SAP LE
3 1 (1.23%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.23%) SAP Retail
3 1 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (8.64%) Azure
3 6 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.94%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.47%) AWS
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.23%) Serverless
6 1 (1.23%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) BGP
1 3 (3.70%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (3.70%) Firewall
1 3 (3.70%) IOS XR
1 3 (3.70%) VPN
1 3 (3.70%) WAN
1 3 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.47%) DHCP
2 2 (2.47%) LAN
2 2 (2.47%) SAN
2 2 (2.47%) SNMP
2 2 (2.47%) VLAN
3 1 (1.23%) DNS
3 1 (1.23%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.23%) Internet
3 1 (1.23%) PBX
3 1 (1.23%) PSTN
3 1 (1.23%) SDH
3 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.23%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Hudson
2 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 45 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.28%) Finance
3 11 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.58%) Retail
4 7 (8.64%) Manufacturing
4 7 (8.64%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (8.64%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.94%) French Language
6 4 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Marketing
7 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.47%) Automotive
8 2 (2.47%) Cantonese Language
8 2 (2.47%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (2.47%) Portuguese Language
8 2 (2.47%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.23%) Electronics
9 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (16.05%) Consultant
2 11 (13.58%) Lead
3 8 (9.88%) IT Engineer
3 8 (9.88%) Support Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 6 (7.41%) Desktop Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) Senior
6 5 (6.17%) Desktop Support
6 5 (6.17%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Analyst
7 4 (4.94%) Architect
7 4 (4.94%) Coordinator
7 4 (4.94%) Functional Consultant
7 4 (4.94%) Lead Consultant
7 4 (4.94%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Asset Management Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) IT Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.70%) Django
1 3 (3.70%) JSON
1 3 (3.70%) REST
1 3 (3.70%) RESTful
1 3 (3.70%) YANG
2 1 (1.23%) .NET
2 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.23%) IDoc
2 1 (1.23%) Kafka
2 1 (1.23%) NgRx
2 1 (1.23%) Node.js
2 1 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.17%) CMDB
2 4 (4.94%) iPad
2 4 (4.94%) iPhone
2 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.70%) Operational Technology
3 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.70%) Smartphone
4 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.23%) BYOD
5 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) PDA
5 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.23%) Social Media
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Windows
2 9 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 8 (9.88%) Apple iOS
4 6 (7.41%) Linux
5 4 (4.94%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.70%) Android
7 1 (1.23%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.23%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (16.05%) Asset Management
2 13 (16.05%) Customer Service
2 13 (16.05%) Logistics
2 13 (16.05%) Service Management
3 11 (13.58%) Supply Chain Management
4 10 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (11.11%) Break/Fix
5 9 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 9 (11.11%) Migration
5 9 (11.11%) Time Management
6 8 (9.88%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (8.64%) Agile
7 7 (8.64%) Analytics
7 7 (8.64%) ERP
7 7 (8.64%) GAP Analysis
7 7 (8.64%) ITSM
7 7 (8.64%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (7.41%) Inventory Control
8 6 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.17%) SQL
2 4 (4.94%) Python
3 3 (3.70%) Bash
3 3 (3.70%) Java
3 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.70%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.23%) C
4 1 (1.23%) C#
4 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (19.75%) Degree
2 11 (13.58%) Security Cleared
3 9 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.70%) CPIM
6 3 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.23%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.23%) MCSE
7 1 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.23%) PMP
7 1 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) SLA
2 3 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 12 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.47%) KVM
3 1 (1.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (7.41%) SCCM
3 4 (4.94%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (38.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.28%) SAP
3 13 (16.05%) ServiceNow
4 6 (7.41%) Apple
5 3 (3.70%) Ariba
5 3 (3.70%) Cisco
5 3 (3.70%) IFS
5 3 (3.70%) McAfee
5 3 (3.70%) TOWER Software
6 2 (2.47%) Dell
7 1 (1.23%) Canon
7 1 (1.23%) Citrix
7 1 (1.23%) HP
7 1 (1.23%) Intel
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle
7 1 (1.23%) Peregrine
7 1 (1.23%) Remedy
7 1 (1.23%) Sage
7 1 (1.23%) Salesforce