Vendor Relationship Management Job Trends

Vendor Relationship Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Vendor Relationship Management skills. It covers permanent 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 637 707 684
Rank change year-on-year +70 -23 +324
Permanent jobs citing Vendor Relationship Management 7 9 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.016% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.018% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 13
10th Percentile £39,800 £31,561 £30,059
25th Percentile £45,500 £44,530 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £77,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £31,971 £30,450
% change year-on-year +43.88% +5.00% -47.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,537 49,891 46,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.05% 89.96% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 28,419 24,819 35,711
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,532 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

Vendor Relationship Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Vendor Relationship Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Vendor Relationship Management
Salary Trend

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

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

Vendor Relationship Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vendor Relationship Management over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Vendor Relationship Management in the UK

Vendor Relationship Management
Top 7 Job Locations

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +66 7 £55,000 -8.33% 5
UK excluding London +54 6 £46,000 +43.88% 2
North of England - 5 £55,000 -
Yorkshire - 4 £55,000 -
London +55 1 £90,000 +50.00% 4
North West - 1 - -
South West - 1 £37,000 -

Vendor Relationship Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) IT Manager
2 2 (28.57%) IT Relationships Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Relationships Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Supplier Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Supplier Relationship Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Product Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Driving Licence
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) ITIL
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
3 4 (57.14%) PRINCE2
3 4 (57.14%) Supplier Relationship Management
3 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Email Filtering
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (14.29%) Logistics
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Product Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (14.29%) Web Filtering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Nessus
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Clearswift
1 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
1 1 (14.29%) Sophos
1 1 (14.29%) Tenable
1 1 (14.29%) VMware