Supplier Management Contracts

Supplier Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Supplier Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Supplier Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 352 385
Rank change year-on-year +6 +33 +38
Contract jobs citing Supplier Management 228 382 590
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.67% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.75% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 272 449
10th Percentile £375 £369 £400
25th Percentile £465 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £638
90th Percentile £745 £745 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +1.25% -3.38% +8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 14
10th Percentile £13.86 £28.58 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £14.44
Median hourly rate £15.85 £43.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.77% +62.04% +17.39%
75th Percentile £22.89 £70.33 £35.88
90th Percentile £32.90 £86.68 £43.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.68 £35.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -55.21% +70.73% -10.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Supplier Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Supplier Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Supplier Management in the UK

Supplier Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Supplier Management in the UK

Supplier Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Supplier Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Supplier Management in the UK

Supplier Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Supplier Management in the UK

Supplier Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Supplier Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Supplier Management in the UK

Supplier Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
England +6 202 £550 - 143
UK excluding London -13 117 £506 +1.25% 107
London +53 104 £550 -15.38% 36
Work from Home +14 71 £500 -16.14% 51
South East +25 37 £525 -6.25% 26
Scotland +36 20 £475 +5.56% 5
North of England +1 18 £500 -6.98% 25
Midlands -4 16 £750 +50.00% 31
South West -5 15 £490 -2.00% 13
Yorkshire +8 12 £500 -4.76% 9
West Midlands +1 12 £750 +50.00% 22
East of England +3 11 £488 +8.33% 9
North West -4 6 £513 -6.82% 13
East Midlands +11 4 - - 9

Supplier Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (1.75%) Confluence
1 4 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.44%) CMS
2 1 (0.44%) Drupal
2 1 (0.44%) Kentico
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.44%) Moodle
Applications
1 21 (9.21%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.88%) InDesign
5 2 (0.88%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.44%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 9 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.75%) SAP MM
3 3 (1.32%) Maximo
3 3 (1.32%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.88%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.88%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.89%) Azure
2 10 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (3.95%) SaaS
4 7 (3.07%) Google Workspace
4 7 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.63%) AWS
6 5 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (2.19%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (1.75%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.75%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.75%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.32%) MailChimp
9 2 (0.88%) SurveyMonkey
10 1 (0.44%) GCP
10 1 (0.44%) IaaS
10 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.07%) WAN
2 5 (2.19%) Internet
3 4 (1.75%) BGP
3 4 (1.75%) LAN
3 4 (1.75%) OSPF
3 4 (1.75%) VLAN
4 3 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.32%) DHCP
4 3 (1.32%) DNS
4 3 (1.32%) Firewall
4 3 (1.32%) NAS
4 3 (1.32%) SAN
4 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.88%) 2G
5 2 (0.88%) 3G
5 2 (0.88%) 4G
5 2 (0.88%) 5G
5 2 (0.88%) Network Security
5 2 (0.88%) SNMP
5 2 (0.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (1.75%) Electronic Patient Records
1 4 (1.75%) Power BI
2 2 (0.88%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.44%) DTS
Development Applications
1 13 (5.70%) JIRA
2 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.88%) Selenium
3 1 (0.44%) LabVIEW
General
1 58 (25.44%) Public Sector
2 56 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 54 (23.68%) Finance
4 31 (13.60%) Legal
5 22 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (8.33%) Telecoms
7 15 (6.58%) Marketing
8 13 (5.70%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (5.26%) Retail
10 10 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (3.51%) Police
11 8 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (3.07%) Manufacturing
13 6 (2.63%) Banking
13 6 (2.63%) Law
13 6 (2.63%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (1.75%) Local Government
15 3 (1.32%) Advertising
15 3 (1.32%) Back Office
16 2 (0.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 51 (22.37%) Project Manager
2 27 (11.84%) Lead
3 24 (10.53%) Analyst
4 22 (9.65%) Contracts Manager
5 20 (8.77%) Senior
6 13 (5.70%) Programme Manager
7 12 (5.26%) Business Analyst
7 12 (5.26%) IT Manager
8 10 (4.39%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
8 10 (4.39%) Senior Manager
8 10 (4.39%) Service Manager
9 9 (3.95%) Development Manager
10 8 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) Senior Business Analyst
11 7 (3.07%) Commercial Manager
11 7 (3.07%) ICT Support
11 7 (3.07%) IT Project Manager
11 7 (3.07%) Service Analyst
12 6 (2.63%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (0.88%) REST
1 2 (0.88%) SOAP
2 1 (0.44%) EDI
2 1 (0.44%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.58%) Data Centre
1 15 (6.58%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.07%) PMI
4 6 (2.63%) CMDB
4 6 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.63%) Photography
5 5 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.32%) CCTV
7 3 (1.32%) FMCG
7 3 (1.32%) NHS
7 3 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.44%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.44%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.44%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.82%) Windows
2 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.88%) Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (30.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 58 (25.44%) Project Management
3 44 (19.30%) PRINCE2
4 37 (16.23%) Agile
5 34 (14.91%) ITIL
6 31 (13.60%) Collaborative Working
7 30 (13.16%) Risk Management
8 24 (10.53%) Project Delivery
9 21 (9.21%) Migration
10 19 (8.33%) Service Delivery
10 19 (8.33%) Service Management
11 18 (7.89%) Programme Management
12 16 (7.02%) Asset Management
12 16 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (7.02%) Roadmaps
13 14 (6.14%) Analytics
13 14 (6.14%) DevOps
13 14 (6.14%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (5.70%) Change Control
15 12 (5.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.44%) Java
1 1 (0.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 34 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 31 (13.60%) Degree
3 24 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.51%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.19%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (1.75%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.75%) CISM
8 4 (1.75%) CISSP
8 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.32%) MCP
10 2 (0.88%) APMG
10 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.88%) PMP
10 2 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.44%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.95%) PMO
1 9 (3.95%) SLA
2 8 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.88%) COBIT
3 2 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.44%) NEBOSH
4 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 8 (3.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.88%) Nagios
1 2 (0.88%) OpenView
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.44%) SafeCom
2 1 (0.44%) SCCM
2 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.89%) SAP
3 9 (3.95%) Oracle
4 7 (3.07%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.75%) Cisco
5 4 (1.75%) Google
6 3 (1.32%) Huawei
7 2 (0.88%) Adobe
7 2 (0.88%) AlienVault
7 2 (0.88%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.88%) Remedy
7 2 (0.88%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.44%) Apple
8 1 (0.44%) Ariba
8 1 (0.44%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.44%) Juniper
8 1 (0.44%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.44%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.44%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.44%) Workday