Supply Chain Manager Contract Job Trends in England

Supply Chain Manager
UK > England

The median Supply Chain Manager daily rate in England is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 513 565
Rank change year-on-year +15 +52 +187
Contract jobs requiring a Supply Chain Manager 11 17 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.052% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.055% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 33
10th Percentile £487 £520 £503
25th Percentile £495 £538 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £560 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% -10.40% +6.38%
75th Percentile £558 £593 £675
90th Percentile £628 £608 £725
UK median daily rate £506 £573 £625
% change year-on-year -11.57% -8.40% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £32.92
25th Percentile - £30.50 £33.27
Median hourly rate - £31.00 £33.85
Median % change year-on-year - -8.41% -12.20%
75th Percentile - £31.50 £34.42
90th Percentile - - £34.77
UK median hourly rate - £41.75 £33.85
% change year-on-year - +23.36% -12.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,404 30,670 39,970
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 93.04% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,367 19,338 28,025
10th Percentile £281 £305 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,355 1,536 1,320
10th Percentile £13.67 £14.56 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +8.20% +65.66%
75th Percentile £54.38 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +61.35%

Supply Chain Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Supply Chain Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Supply Chain Manager in England

Supply Chain Manager
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Supply Chain Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Supply Chain Manager job vacancies in England

Supply Chain Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Supply Chain Manager in England over the 6 months to 11 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Supply Chain Manager in England

Supply Chain Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Supply Chain Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Supply Chain Manager job vacancies in England

Supply Chain Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Supply Chain Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
London +12 4 £544 -9.38% 9
North of England -16 4 £513 -6.82% 1
Midlands -10 3 - -
South East +14 2 £500 - 5
Yorkshire -12 2 - - 1
North West -19 2 £513 -9.69%
West Midlands - 2 - -
North East - 2 - -
East Midlands -8 1 - -
Supply Chain Manager
UK

Supply Chain Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 11 September 2025, Supply Chain Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Supply Chain Manager in the job title.

1 9 (81.82%) Supply Chain Management
2 5 (45.45%) Project Management
3 4 (36.36%) Retail
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) PMO
4 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (18.18%) Facilities Management
5 2 (18.18%) CAFM
5 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) SAP
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (18.18%) ERP
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery Management
5 2 (18.18%) Resource Allocation
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (18.18%) Power BI
5 2 (18.18%) Logistics
5 2 (18.18%) Supply Chain Transformation
5 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
6 1 (9.09%) NIST
6 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
6 1 (9.09%) Portfolio Management
6 1 (9.09%) Data Management

Supply Chain Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
General
1 4 (36.36%) Retail
2 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) FMCG
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Supply Chain Management
2 5 (45.45%) Project Management
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) CAFM
4 2 (18.18%) ERP
4 2 (18.18%) Facilities Management
4 2 (18.18%) Logistics
4 2 (18.18%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery Management
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (18.18%) Supply Chain Transformation
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity
5 1 (9.09%) Data Management
5 1 (9.09%) Information Security
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) PMO
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (9.09%) GRC
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Planview