Manufacturing Contracts in the North of England

Manufacturing
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 114 139
Rank change year-on-year +58 +25 -32
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 150 107 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.20% 1.87% 1.54%
As % of the General category 5.83% 3.38% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 80 82
10th Percentile £376 £231 £400
25th Percentile £422 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -11.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £688
90th Percentile £680 £739 £734
England median daily rate £500 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -6.10% +1.43% +3.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 6 11
10th Percentile £12.13 £23.15 £9.90
25th Percentile £21.44 £24.08 £11.83
Median hourly rate £32.90 £33.85 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +38.16% -4.85%
75th Percentile £43.75 £43.79 £65.26
90th Percentile £46.13 £45.05 £96.23
England median hourly rate £33.00 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +28.57% -2.78%

All General Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,572 3,162 3,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.81% 55.40% 50.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,507 2,185 2,585
10th Percentile £256 £300 £206
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +5.37% +7.95%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £560
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 90 178
10th Percentile £12.13 £14.23 £11.20
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.95 £14.96
Median hourly rate £16.06 £25.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +35.51% +1.72%
75th Percentile £33.00 £37.30 £31.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £53.02 £50.98
England median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% +51.16% -4.17%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the North of England

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the North of England

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the North of England

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the North of England

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in the North of England

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +33 90 £510 +4.94% 362
Yorkshire +48 43 £450 -16.28% 274
North East +21 14 £423 +78.11% 105
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (3.33%) Apache
1 5 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (6.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.67%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.67%) SAP MDG
3 3 (2.00%) SAP CO
3 3 (2.00%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.00%) SAP MDM
3 3 (2.00%) SAP PP
4 2 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.33%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.67%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.67%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.67%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.33%) Dynamics 365
2 14 (9.33%) Power Platform
3 11 (7.33%) AWS
4 9 (6.00%) Snowflake
5 8 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (5.33%) PowerApps
6 7 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (4.67%) Azure
6 7 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.33%) Serverless
8 2 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.33%) IaaS
8 2 (1.33%) PaaS
8 2 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.00%) MQTT
2 5 (3.33%) FTP
3 4 (2.67%) AMQP
4 3 (2.00%) Firewall
4 3 (2.00%) Modbus
5 2 (1.33%) DMZ
5 2 (1.33%) DNS
5 2 (1.33%) InfiniBand
5 2 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.67%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.67%) LAN
6 1 (0.67%) NAS
6 1 (0.67%) SAN
6 1 (0.67%) WAN
6 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.33%) Power BI
2 6 (4.00%) Ingres
3 5 (3.33%) Big Data
4 4 (2.67%) Metadata
4 4 (2.67%) Tableau
5 3 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.67%) MySQL
7 1 (0.67%) Navicat
7 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.67%) JIRA
2 5 (3.33%) Git
3 4 (2.67%) ERwin
4 2 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.67%) JMeter
5 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.67%) NeoLoad
General
1 42 (28.00%) Finance
2 35 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 18 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.00%) Electronics
5 16 (10.67%) Marketing
5 16 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 16 (10.67%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.00%) Retail
7 6 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.00%) Automotive
9 2 (1.33%) Aeronautics
9 2 (1.33%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.33%) French Language
10 1 (0.67%) Aviation
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.67%) German Language
10 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (12.00%) Analyst
1 18 (12.00%) Project Manager
2 14 (9.33%) Architect
2 14 (9.33%) Lead
3 13 (8.67%) Administrator
3 13 (8.67%) Business Analyst
4 10 (6.67%) Senior
4 10 (6.67%) Trainer
5 9 (6.00%) Consultant
5 9 (6.00%) IT Support
6 8 (5.33%) Data Administrator
6 8 (5.33%) Data Architect
6 8 (5.33%) Support Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) DBA
7 6 (4.00%) Ingres DBA
7 6 (4.00%) IT Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) SAP Consultant
7 6 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (3.33%) Manufacturing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.67%) JSON
1 7 (4.67%) XML
2 3 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (1.33%) RESTful
3 2 (1.33%) SOAP
3 2 (1.33%) Web Services
3 2 (1.33%) XSLT
4 1 (0.67%) ADO
4 1 (0.67%) Kafka
4 1 (0.67%) Laravel
4 1 (0.67%) Middleware
4 1 (0.67%) ODBC
4 1 (0.67%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.33%) IoT
2 10 (6.67%) Robotics
3 9 (6.00%) Industry 4.0
4 6 (4.00%) Life Science
5 5 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.67%) FMCG
6 4 (2.67%) iPhone
6 4 (2.67%) Taxonomies
6 4 (2.67%) Wiki
7 3 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.00%) PKI
8 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.33%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 2 (1.33%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.67%) Windows
2 6 (4.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.67%) Android
3 4 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.00%) Linux
5 2 (1.33%) VMS
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (20.67%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (17.33%) ERP
2 26 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (17.33%) Project Management
3 20 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (12.00%) Programme Management
5 17 (11.33%) Data Governance
6 16 (10.67%) Digital Marketing
6 16 (10.67%) Workshop Facilitation
7 15 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (9.33%) Roadmaps
8 14 (9.33%) Supply Chain Management
9 13 (8.67%) Agile
9 13 (8.67%) Analytics
9 13 (8.67%) Data Analysis
10 12 (8.00%) Change Management
10 12 (8.00%) Data Management
10 12 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
11 11 (7.33%) Migration
11 11 (7.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.67%) SQL
2 7 (4.67%) Python
3 5 (3.33%) C#
3 5 (3.33%) Java
4 4 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.33%) C
5 2 (1.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.33%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.67%) ABAP
6 1 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (11.33%) Degree
2 10 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.33%) IIBA
5 3 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.33%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.33%) PMP
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.67%) CCNP
7 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.67%) HNC
7 1 (0.67%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.00%) GDPR
2 11 (7.33%) GxP
3 6 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.33%) GAMP
4 5 (3.33%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.33%) QA
6 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (7.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.00%) Docker
3 2 (1.33%) Firmware
3 2 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.00%) Grafana
2 2 (1.33%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (1.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.67%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (30.67%) SAP
2 23 (15.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.00%) Citrix
4 5 (3.33%) Informatica
4 5 (3.33%) Talend
5 4 (2.67%) Cisco
5 4 (2.67%) Sparx
5 4 (2.67%) VMware
6 3 (2.00%) Veeam
7 2 (1.33%) Actian
7 2 (1.33%) Dell
7 2 (1.33%) Isilon
7 2 (1.33%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.67%) Ariba
8 1 (0.67%) BMC
8 1 (0.67%) HP
8 1 (0.67%) IBM
8 1 (0.67%) JDA
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle
8 1 (0.67%) Qualys