Manufacturing Contracts in the Midlands

Manufacturing
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 57 74
Rank change year-on-year +15 +17 +23
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 108 135 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.93% 3.92% 3.06%
As % of the General category 7.16% 7.02% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 93 116
10th Percentile £208 £370 £355
25th Percentile £325 £450 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £664 £685 £738
England median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 8 6
10th Percentile £13.34 - £19.63
25th Percentile £15.25 £50.50 £20.88
Median hourly rate £19.59 £51.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.59% +108.16% +53.13%
75th Percentile £39.63 £51.50 £28.72
90th Percentile £51.26 £65.30 £33.44
England median hourly rate £33.00 £45.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -26.67% +26.76% -1.39%

All General Skills
Midlands

Manufacturing is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,509 1,922 2,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 54.85% 55.82% 54.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,031 1,360 2,052
10th Percentile £206 £213 £225
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £468
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.67% +16.88%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £550
90th Percentile £738 £688 £653
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 83 103
10th Percentile £11.75 £11.80 £9.74
25th Percentile £13.90 £13.31 £12.63
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.32 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +14.80% +10.63%
75th Percentile £38.13 £32.13 £24.88
90th Percentile £53.80 £51.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £33.91 £21.50
% change year-on-year -11.53% +57.72% -4.44%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the Midlands

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the Midlands

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the Midlands

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the Midlands

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in the Midlands

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
West Midlands +8 61 £433 -13.50% 422
East Midlands +15 38 £363 -31.12% 262
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.93%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (2.78%) CATIA
3 2 (1.85%) Maya
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.85%) NUKE
3 2 (1.85%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.85%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Maximo
2 3 (2.78%) SAP MII
2 3 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.85%) Odoo
4 1 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.93%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.93%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.93%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.93%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.41%) Azure
2 6 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.85%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.93%) Azure App Service
6 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.93%) OCI
6 1 (0.93%) SaaS
6 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) VPN
2 3 (2.78%) Firewall
3 2 (1.85%) LAN
3 2 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.85%) WAN
4 1 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.93%) DNS
4 1 (0.93%) FTP
4 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.93%) SAN
4 1 (0.93%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.93%) VLAN
4 1 (0.93%) Wireless
4 1 (0.93%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Hive
2 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.93%) MS Access
2 1 (0.93%) MySQL
2 1 (0.93%) Power BI
2 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Git
1 1 (0.93%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 28 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.59%) Automotive
3 13 (12.04%) Finance
4 12 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.26%) Aerospace
6 9 (8.33%) Electronics
7 8 (7.41%) Public Sector
8 7 (6.48%) Marketing
8 7 (6.48%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.70%) Avionics
9 4 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.85%) Games
10 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Advertising
11 1 (0.93%) Aviation
11 1 (0.93%) Billing
Job Titles
1 13 (12.04%) Analyst
1 13 (12.04%) Programmer
2 6 (5.56%) Administrator
2 6 (5.56%) Consultant
2 6 (5.56%) Developer
3 5 (4.63%) Change Manager
3 5 (4.63%) Lead
3 5 (4.63%) Project Manager
3 5 (4.63%) Support Engineer
4 4 (3.70%) Business Analyst
4 4 (3.70%) IT Engineer
4 4 (3.70%) Product Owner
4 4 (3.70%) SAP Consultant
5 3 (2.78%) Architect
5 3 (2.78%) Business Change Manager
5 3 (2.78%) Business Systems Analyst
5 3 (2.78%) IT Manager
5 3 (2.78%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (2.78%) Junior
5 3 (2.78%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.78%) .NET
2 2 (1.85%) Classic ASP
2 2 (1.85%) Unreal Engine
2 2 (1.85%) V-Ray
3 1 (0.93%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.93%) EDI
3 1 (0.93%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.93%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.93%) OLE
3 1 (0.93%) SAP MI
3 1 (0.93%) Swagger
3 1 (0.93%) Web Services
3 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.70%) Infotainment
2 4 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.85%) FMCG
3 2 (1.85%) IoT
4 1 (0.93%) CCTV
4 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.93%) Robotics
4 1 (0.93%) SCADA
4 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.93%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.96%) Windows
2 6 (5.56%) Windows 7
3 4 (3.70%) Linux
4 3 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.85%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.93%) Android
6 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (14.81%) ERP
2 14 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (9.26%) Change Management
3 10 (9.26%) Collaborative Working
3 10 (9.26%) Project Management
4 8 (7.41%) Logistics
4 8 (7.41%) Process Improvement
4 8 (7.41%) Programme Management
4 8 (7.41%) Requirements Gathering
5 7 (6.48%) Agile
5 7 (6.48%) Customer Service
5 7 (6.48%) Digital Marketing
5 7 (6.48%) ITIL
5 7 (6.48%) Product Strategy
5 7 (6.48%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (6.48%) Use Case
6 6 (5.56%) Information Security
6 6 (5.56%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.48%) SQL
2 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
3 2 (1.85%) C#
3 2 (1.85%) PL/SQL
3 2 (1.85%) Python
4 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 12 (11.11%) Degree
2 6 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.78%) SAP Certification
4 2 (1.85%) Dell Certification
5 1 (0.93%) ACCA
5 1 (0.93%) CIMA
5 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.93%) PMP
5 1 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) SLA
2 2 (1.85%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (6.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.93%) Snort
2 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.93%) Kibana
2 1 (0.93%) PaperCut
2 1 (0.93%) SCCM
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (16.67%) SAP
2 15 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.70%) Computacenter
3 4 (3.70%) Progress
3 4 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.70%) VMware
4 3 (2.78%) HP
4 3 (2.78%) JD Edwards
4 3 (2.78%) QAD
4 3 (2.78%) Sage
5 2 (1.85%) Ariba
5 2 (1.85%) Dell
5 2 (1.85%) Fujitsu
5 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.85%) Splunk
5 2 (1.85%) Sun
6 1 (0.93%) Aruba
6 1 (0.93%) Google
6 1 (0.93%) Veeam
6 1 (0.93%) WatchGuard