Supplier Management Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Supplier Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Supplier Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 105 106
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 -15
Contract jobs citing Supplier Management 7 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.54% 0.25% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.28% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £363 - £460
25th Percentile £434 £625 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +4.00% +2.34%
75th Percentile £586 £675 £694
90th Percentile £614 - £700
South East median daily rate £528 £560 £531
% change year-on-year -5.80% +5.41% +5.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Supplier 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 in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,163 1,415 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.60% 88.60% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 756 999
10th Percentile £325 £325 £250
25th Percentile £420 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £691 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 56 69
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.34 £18.95
25th Percentile £16.60 £41.25 £45.21
Median hourly rate £29.31 £58.49 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -49.90% -4.51% +21.29%
75th Percentile £59.44 £63.41 £72.33
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.13 £77.55
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.34 £52.10
% change year-on-year -64.50% +11.97% +40.32%

Supplier Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Supplier Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Supplier Management job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Supplier Management
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Supplier Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Supplier Management

Supplier Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Supplier Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Supplier Management in Berkshire

Supplier Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Supplier Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Supplier Management

Supplier Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Supplier Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2025. 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
Reading +22 5 £561 -13.77% 1
Bracknell - 1 £350 -
Supplier Management
South East

Supplier Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) IPsec
1 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Broadband
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Security Solutions Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Operational Technology
1 2 (28.57%) SCADA
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
2 2 (28.57%) Budget Management
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Resilience
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Data Lineage
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (28.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
3 1 (14.29%) Business Development
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft