Inventory Management Contracts

Inventory Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 533 669
Rank change year-on-year +95 +136 -46
Contract jobs citing Inventory Management 156 165 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.33% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 99 105
10th Percentile £169 £200 £203
25th Percentile £338 £275 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £603 £575 £600
90th Percentile £725 £728 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 5 10
10th Percentile £11.06 - £16.90
25th Percentile £12.50 £14.00 £17.42
Median hourly rate £16.35 £17.07 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -14.68% -
75th Percentile £21.50 £18.00 -
90th Percentile £21.76 £19.50 £31.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.52 £14.00 £18.71
% change year-on-year +10.82% -25.17% -1.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,161 49,793 79,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.16% 89.64% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,765 34,463 55,606
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,583 1,678 1,849
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £33.14 £21.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% +57.82% -

Inventory Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Inventory Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management.

Daily rate trend for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inventory Management over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inventory Management.

Hourly rate trend for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inventory Management over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Inventory Management in the UK

Inventory Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 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
England +80 122 £475 +5.56% 131
UK excluding London +60 81 £525 +10.53% 95
Work from Home +86 58 £575 +35.29% 42
London +57 43 £475 +18.75% 36
North of England +26 19 £500 -7.41% 20
South East +17 17 £568 +38.41% 28
East of England +15 16 £210 -40.85% 11
South West +9 12 £600 +118.18% 15
Scotland +44 9 £575 +170.59% 3
Midlands +14 9 £355 -29.00% 17
North West +6 8 £500 -7.41% 14
Yorkshire +6 7 - - 3
West Midlands +13 6 - - 13
East Midlands +5 2 £160 -77.14% 4
North East - 1 - - 3

Inventory Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.64%) CMS
3 1 (0.64%) IIS
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (14.10%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (7.69%) SAP EWM
3 8 (5.13%) SAP MM
4 4 (2.56%) SAP ERP
4 4 (2.56%) SAP FI
4 4 (2.56%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
4 4 (2.56%) SAP Retail
5 3 (1.92%) SAP WM
6 2 (1.28%) NetSuite
6 2 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (1.28%) SAP IBP
6 2 (1.28%) SAP PP
6 2 (1.28%) SAP PS
6 2 (1.28%) Shopify
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
2 12 (7.69%) Azure
3 7 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.21%) SaaS
5 4 (2.56%) Google Workspace
5 4 (2.56%) OCI
5 4 (2.56%) Slack
5 4 (2.56%) Zapier
6 3 (1.92%) AWS
7 2 (1.28%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.28%) Stripe
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.64%) PaaS
8 1 (0.64%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.13%) Wireless
2 7 (4.49%) Internet
3 5 (3.21%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.56%) Firewall
4 4 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.92%) BGP
5 3 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.92%) IOS XR
5 3 (1.92%) VPN
5 3 (1.92%) WAN
6 2 (1.28%) DHCP
6 2 (1.28%) Ethernet
6 2 (1.28%) LAN
6 2 (1.28%) MPLS
6 2 (1.28%) RFID
6 2 (1.28%) SAN
6 2 (1.28%) SNMP
6 2 (1.28%) VLAN
7 1 (0.64%) DWDM
7 1 (0.64%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.56%) Couchbase
3 3 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.28%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.64%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.64%) Metadata
5 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.64%) Power BI
5 1 (0.64%) Redis
5 1 (0.64%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.21%) JIRA
2 2 (1.28%) Hudson
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
General
1 68 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.38%) Finance
3 19 (12.18%) Retail
4 17 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.97%) Manufacturing
5 14 (8.97%) Telecoms
6 12 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.21%) Spanish Language
9 4 (2.56%) French Language
9 4 (2.56%) Marketing
10 2 (1.28%) Automotive
10 2 (1.28%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (1.28%) Legal
10 2 (1.28%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.28%) Portuguese Language
11 1 (0.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (25.00%) Consultant
2 18 (11.54%) Lead
3 15 (9.62%) Analyst
3 15 (9.62%) Senior
4 13 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
5 11 (7.05%) Desktop Support
5 11 (7.05%) Support Engineer
6 10 (6.41%) Architect
6 10 (6.41%) Functional Consultant
7 8 (5.13%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 8 (5.13%) IT Engineer
7 8 (5.13%) Project Manager
7 8 (5.13%) SAP EWM Consultant
8 6 (3.85%) Desktop Engineer
8 6 (3.85%) Developer
8 6 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.21%) Deployment Engineer
9 5 (3.21%) Desktop Analyst
9 5 (3.21%) Desktop Support Analyst
9 5 (3.21%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.21%) Kafka
2 3 (1.92%) Django
2 3 (1.92%) JSON
2 3 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.92%) REST
2 3 (1.92%) RESTful
2 3 (1.92%) YANG
3 2 (1.28%) .NET
3 2 (1.28%) IDoc
4 1 (0.64%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.64%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.64%) BAPI
4 1 (0.64%) EDI
4 1 (0.64%) Middleware
4 1 (0.64%) NgRx
4 1 (0.64%) Node.js
4 1 (0.64%) SAP ALE
4 1 (0.64%) SAP TM
4 1 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.85%) CMDB
2 6 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.21%) iPad
3 5 (3.21%) iPhone
4 4 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.56%) Smartphone
5 3 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.92%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.92%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.64%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.64%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.74%) Windows
2 9 (5.77%) Linux
2 9 (5.77%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.85%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.92%) Android
4 3 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.28%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.64%) Unix
6 1 (0.64%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.64%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (20.51%) Logistics
2 23 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (12.82%) Customer Service
3 20 (12.82%) Migration
4 18 (11.54%) ERP
5 17 (10.90%) Supply Chain Management
6 15 (9.62%) Project Management
7 14 (8.97%) Data Migration
8 13 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (7.69%) Asset Management
9 12 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (7.05%) Service Management
10 11 (7.05%) Time Management
11 10 (6.41%) Requirements Gathering
12 9 (5.77%) Agile
12 9 (5.77%) Analytics
12 9 (5.77%) Process Improvement
12 9 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (5.13%) Change Management
13 8 (5.13%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.77%) Python
2 8 (5.13%) SQL
3 7 (4.49%) Bash
4 6 (3.85%) Java
5 4 (2.56%) ABAP
5 4 (2.56%) C++
5 4 (2.56%) Google Apps Script
6 3 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.92%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.92%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.28%) C
7 2 (1.28%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.28%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.28%) VB
8 1 (0.64%) C#
8 1 (0.64%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (18.59%) Degree
2 14 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.56%) CPIM
7 3 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.64%) ACCA
9 1 (0.64%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.64%) CIMA
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.64%) MCSE
9 1 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.64%) PMP
9 1 (0.64%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.56%) SLA
2 3 (1.92%) GDPR
3 2 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.28%) PMO
3 2 (1.28%) QA
4 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (7.05%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.85%) Firmware
3 2 (1.28%) KVM
4 1 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (5.13%) SCCM
2 6 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (3.85%) WSUS
3 3 (1.92%) Ansible
4 2 (1.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 44 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 42 (26.92%) SAP
3 11 (7.05%) Oracle
4 9 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.56%) Apple
5 4 (2.56%) Ariba
5 4 (2.56%) BT
5 4 (2.56%) Google
5 4 (2.56%) IFS
5 4 (2.56%) Okta
6 3 (1.92%) Cisco
6 3 (1.92%) Kofax
6 3 (1.92%) McAfee
6 3 (1.92%) ReadSoft
6 3 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.92%) TOWER Software
7 2 (1.28%) Altiris
7 2 (1.28%) Dell
7 2 (1.28%) HP
7 2 (1.28%) Snow