Supplier Management Contract Job Trends in the South West

Supplier Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Supplier Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 115 132
Rank change year-on-year -8 +17 +22
Contract jobs citing Supplier Management 4 16 22
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.19% 0.66% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.78% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 19
10th Percentile £565 £450 £380
25th Percentile £588 £459 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% -13.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £688 £509 £625
90th Percentile £755 £525 £730
England median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - £37.00 £51.78
% change year-on-year - -28.54% +143.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,867 2,052 2,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.50% 84.58% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 1,228 1,868
10th Percentile £222 £313 £306
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 157 288
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.57 £19.78
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.95 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +27.14%

Supplier Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Supplier Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Supplier Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Supplier Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Supplier Management in the South West over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Supplier Management in the South West

Supplier Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Supplier Management
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Somerset - 2 £613 -
Gloucestershire +3 1 £800 +11.89%
Bristol -8 1 £600 +26.32% 2
Supplier Management
England

Supplier Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Director
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Transformation Director
1 1 (25.00%) Transformation Programme Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Business Development
3 1 (25.00%) Culture Change
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCIE
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) JNCIE
1 1 (25.00%) JNCIP
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Juniper
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto