Supplier Management Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Supplier Management
England > North of England

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 124 147
Rank change year-on-year -57 +23 +36
Contract jobs citing Supplier Management 31 40 41
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.65% 1.14% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.30% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 22
10th Percentile £267 £443 £364
25th Percentile £338 £501 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £615 £665 £699
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £25.81 £48.42
25th Percentile - £29.31 £48.45
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £51.99
Median % change year-on-year - -37.49% +79.86%
75th Percentile - £34.56 £55.64
90th Percentile - £36.03 £55.74
England median hourly rate - £32.50 £36.89
% change year-on-year - -11.89% +66.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,201 3,066 4,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.29% 87.05% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,795 1,747 2,706
10th Percentile £220 £263 £292
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £648 £667 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 146 197
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £15.09
25th Percentile £19.75 £17.08 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.80 £27.26 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -9.15% +33.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 £45.76 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £67.84 £61.55
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

Supplier Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Supplier Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Supplier Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Supplier Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Supplier Management

Supplier Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Supplier Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Supplier Management in the North of England

Supplier Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Supplier Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Supplier Management

Supplier Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Yorkshire -37 13 £481 -3.75% 21
North West -39 12 £500 -13.04% 36
North East -3 8 £280 -51.30% 4
Supplier Management
England

Supplier Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (3.23%) Confluence
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.23%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.45%) AWS
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (6.45%) SaaS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) IaaS
3 1 (3.23%) PaaS
3 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) DWDM
1 1 (3.23%) LAN
1 1 (3.23%) Unified Communications
1 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.23%) Power BI
2 1 (3.23%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 19 (61.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Retail
3 5 (16.13%) Finance
4 4 (12.90%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Automotive
6 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Project Manager
2 5 (16.13%) Senior
2 5 (16.13%) Senior Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Security Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Senior Project Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Service Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Service Transition Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Transition Manager
4 3 (9.68%) IT Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 3 (9.68%) Security Project Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Implementation Manager
5 2 (6.45%) IT Support
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Project Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Service Security Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Software Implementation Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Software Implementation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.45%) NHS
3 1 (3.23%) CMDB
3 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.23%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (48.39%) Project Delivery
3 13 (41.94%) Project Management
4 10 (32.26%) Agile
5 7 (22.58%) ITIL
6 6 (19.35%) Coaching
6 6 (19.35%) Logistics
6 6 (19.35%) Migration
6 6 (19.35%) Project Governance
6 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (16.13%) Customer Service
7 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
7 5 (16.13%) People Management
7 5 (16.13%) Performance Management
7 5 (16.13%) PRINCE2
7 5 (16.13%) Service Delivery
7 5 (16.13%) Service Management
7 5 (16.13%) Waterfall
8 4 (12.90%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.23%) ACCA
3 1 (3.23%) CIMA
3 1 (3.23%) CISA
3 1 (3.23%) CISM
3 1 (3.23%) CISSP
3 1 (3.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) SLA
2 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.23%) COBIT
3 1 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) NIST
3 1 (3.23%) PMBOK
3 1 (3.23%) PMO
3 1 (3.23%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Ariba
2 1 (3.23%) Avaya
2 1 (3.23%) BMC
2 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
2 1 (3.23%) Concur
2 1 (3.23%) Genesys
2 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.23%) SAP
2 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.23%) Workday