Vendor Relationship Management Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Vendor Relationship Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Vendor Relationship Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 563 565
Rank change year-on-year +60 +2 +189
Permanent jobs citing Vendor Relationship Management 6 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.008% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.009% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £37,900 - -
25th Percentile £40,750 £31,561 £30,059
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £31,971 £30,450
Median % change year-on-year +43.88% +5.00% -47.04%
75th Percentile £50,750 £32,380 £33,192
90th Percentile £53,300 - £37,427
UK median annual salary £62,375 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.96% +9.09% +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vendor Relationship Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Vendor Relationship Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vendor Relationship Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Vendor Relationship Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Vendor Relationship Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Vendor Relationship Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Vendor Relationship Management

Vendor Relationship Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vendor Relationship Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Vendor Relationship Management in the UK excluding London

Vendor Relationship Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vendor Relationship Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England - 5 £55,000 -
Yorkshire - 4 £55,000 -
North West - 1 - -
South West - 1 £37,000 -
Vendor Relationship Management
UK

Vendor Relationship Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) IT Manager
2 2 (33.33%) IT Relationships Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Relationships Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Supplier Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Supplier Relationship Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Product Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 4 (66.67%) Supplier Relationship Management
2 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Email Filtering
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Product Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (16.67%) Web Filtering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Clearswift
1 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
1 1 (16.67%) Sophos
1 1 (16.67%) Tenable
1 1 (16.67%) VMware