Supplier Management Contracts in the North West

Supplier Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Supplier Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Supplier Management over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 114 117
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +18
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Supplier Management 17 11 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.76% 0.45% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.54% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 24
10th Percentile £282 £481 £415
25th Percentile £500 £497 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £523 £544
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -3.91% -1.14%
75th Percentile £600 £553 £581
90th Percentile £654 £566 £646
England median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,978 2,047 2,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.70% 83.96% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,283 1,224 1,742
10th Percentile £300 £310 £288
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £669 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 147 163
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% +1.03% +60.70%
75th Percentile £52.50 £53.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.90 £64.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

Supplier Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Supplier Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Supplier Management in the North West

Supplier Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Supplier Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Supplier Management in the North West over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Supplier Management in the North West

Supplier Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Supplier Management
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +9 15 £550 +7.58% 9
Cheshire -22 1 - - 4
Lancashire - 1 £638 - 3
Supplier Management
England

Supplier Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 13 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Retail
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Automotive
6 1 (5.88%) Law
6 1 (5.88%) Legal
6 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Senior
2 5 (29.41%) Project Manager
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Manager
4 3 (17.65%) Commercial Officer
4 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 3 (17.65%) Security Manager
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Implementation Manager
5 2 (11.76%) IT Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.76%) Security Project Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Service Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Service Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Service Security Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Service Transition Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Transition Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Commercial Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) EPoS
2 2 (11.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) NHS
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (35.29%) Project Management
3 5 (29.41%) Contract Management
3 5 (29.41%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Project Governance
5 3 (17.65%) Project Planning
5 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
5 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Business Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) Contract Negotiation
6 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
6 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Risk Register
6 2 (11.76%) Security Operations
6 2 (11.76%) Transition Management
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO 22301
1 1 (5.88%) ISO 31000
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) PMBOK
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) SCSM
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Ariba
2 1 (5.88%) Remedy
2 1 (5.88%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds