Supplier Management Contracts in Reading

Supplier Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 88 77
Rank change year-on-year +25 -11 -10
Contract jobs citing Supplier Management 4 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.66% 0.35% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.41% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile - £482 £384
25th Percentile - £534 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £613 £515
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% +18.93% -14.17%
75th Percentile £569 £675 £566
90th Percentile £589 - £570
Berkshire median daily rate £536 £575 £505
% change year-on-year -6.78% +13.86% -14.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 556 974 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.36% 85.97% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 528 629
10th Percentile £351 £347 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +6.86% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 22
10th Percentile - £14.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £14.75 £52.21 £54.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.92% -6.67% +120.00%
75th Percentile £38.42 £75.93 £74.59
90th Percentile £59.13 £87.46 £76.82
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £58.75
% change year-on-year -47.97% +4.85% +95.83%

Supplier Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Supplier Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Supplier Management in Reading

Supplier Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Supplier Management in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Supplier Management in Reading

Supplier Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) IPsec
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Broadband
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Security Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Security Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lineage
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Conflict Management
2 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft