Manufacturing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 77 117
Rank change year-on-year +22 +40 0
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 709 703 672
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.48% 2.99% 2.19%
As % of the General category 6.39% 5.29% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 507 488
10th Percentile £205 £210 £247
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £734 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 59 44
10th Percentile £13.05 £23.02 £13.98
25th Percentile £18.98 £39.55 £20.56
Median hourly rate £34.00 £45.00 £35.58
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +26.48% +1.66%
75th Percentile £44.31 £51.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £64.63
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £37.83
% change year-on-year -22.22% +18.95% +5.08%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,090 13,277 17,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.42% 56.49% 55.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,304 9,083 11,757
10th Percentile £205 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,641 766 1,031
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +55.08% -4.10%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.68 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.74 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
% change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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 of England +56 150 £500 +2.88% 730
South East -5 139 £400 -25.43% 664
South West +6 132 £600 +4.35% 428
East of England +34 120 £410 -18.00% 397
Midlands +10 100 £441 -11.75% 727
North West +31 90 £510 +4.94% 371
West Midlands +3 59 £429 -10.68% 443
Scotland +65 47 £425 +1.49% 164
Yorkshire +47 43 £450 -16.28% 281
East Midlands +11 34 £463 -12.07% 283
North East +20 14 £423 +78.11% 105
Northern Ireland +3 11 - - 34
Wales -3 11 £450 -23.21% 125
Manufacturing
UK

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (2.40%) Confluence
2 16 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.85%) Apache
5 5 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.56%) CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 39 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.27%) Autodesk Inventor
6 6 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.71%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.71%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.56%) Windchill
9 3 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.42%) CATIA
9 3 (0.42%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.42%) Simulink
9 3 (0.42%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.28%) Maya
10 2 (0.28%) NUKE
11 1 (0.14%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 18 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.69%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.85%) SAP PP
4 5 (0.71%) Maximo
4 5 (0.71%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.71%) SAP MII
5 4 (0.56%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 4 (0.56%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.56%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.56%) SAP FI-AP
5 4 (0.56%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.56%) SAP MM
5 4 (0.56%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.42%) ENOVIA
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle Manufacturing
6 3 (0.42%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.42%) SAP MDM
6 3 (0.42%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 45 (6.35%) Azure
2 35 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (4.65%) Power Platform
4 25 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (2.12%) AWS
6 9 (1.27%) Snowflake
7 8 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.13%) PowerApps
8 7 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (0.99%) SaaS
8 7 (0.99%) Serverless
9 5 (0.71%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (0.71%) Amazon S3
9 5 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (0.71%) Collibra
9 5 (0.71%) OCI
10 4 (0.56%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.51%) Firewall
2 14 (1.97%) Cisco ISE
3 13 (1.83%) Network Security
4 11 (1.55%) VPN
5 10 (1.41%) LAN
6 9 (1.27%) FTP
6 9 (1.27%) WAN
7 8 (1.13%) SAN
7 8 (1.13%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.13%) Wireless
8 7 (0.99%) 3G
8 7 (0.99%) 4G
8 7 (0.99%) DNS
9 6 (0.85%) MQTT
10 5 (0.71%) HTTP
10 5 (0.71%) NAS
11 4 (0.56%) AMQP
11 4 (0.56%) VLAN
11 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.53%) Power BI
2 13 (1.83%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.55%) Metadata
4 9 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
5 7 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.99%) Tableau
6 6 (0.85%) Ingres
7 5 (0.71%) Big Data
8 3 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.28%) MySQL
9 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.14%) EDMS
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.14%) OLAP
10 1 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.14%) QlikView
10 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.95%) JIRA
2 12 (1.69%) Git
3 6 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.71%) Eclipse
4 5 (0.71%) ERwin
4 5 (0.71%) PyCharm
5 2 (0.28%) JMeter
5 2 (0.28%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.14%) GitLab
6 1 (0.14%) GoCD
6 1 (0.14%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.14%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.14%) NUnit
6 1 (0.14%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 220 (31.03%) Finance
2 211 (29.76%) Social Skills
3 195 (27.50%) Electronics
4 162 (22.85%) Marketing
5 154 (21.72%) Telecoms
6 153 (21.58%) Public Sector
7 67 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
8 64 (9.03%) Aerospace
9 50 (7.05%) Pharmaceutical
10 47 (6.63%) Automotive
11 18 (2.54%) Retail
12 15 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.85%) French Language
15 6 (0.85%) Games
15 6 (0.85%) Legal
16 4 (0.56%) Advertising
16 4 (0.56%) Avionics
16 4 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 91 (12.83%) Architect
2 79 (11.14%) Analyst
3 69 (9.73%) Project Manager
4 56 (7.90%) Lead
5 52 (7.33%) Business Analyst
6 48 (6.77%) Support Engineer
7 32 (4.51%) Test Architect
8 31 (4.37%) Consultant
9 27 (3.81%) Administrator
10 26 (3.67%) Senior
11 25 (3.53%) Developer
12 23 (3.24%) Desktop Support
12 23 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (3.10%) Desktop Engineer
13 22 (3.10%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 20 (2.82%) Software Engineer
14 20 (2.82%) Trainer
15 19 (2.68%) IT Support
16 17 (2.40%) ERP Manager
16 17 (2.40%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.55%) XML
2 9 (1.27%) .NET
3 8 (1.13%) JSON
4 6 (0.85%) CSS
5 5 (0.71%) EDI
5 5 (0.71%) HTML
5 5 (0.71%) React
5 5 (0.71%) Web Services
6 4 (0.56%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.56%) IDoc
6 4 (0.56%) SAP Business Workflow
7 3 (0.42%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.42%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.42%) Kafka
7 3 (0.42%) RESTful
8 2 (0.28%) Classic ASP
8 2 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.28%) Middleware
8 2 (0.28%) SOAP
8 2 (0.28%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.64%) NHS
2 32 (4.51%) Analogue Electronics
3 25 (3.53%) Life Science
4 20 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 18 (2.54%) IoT
6 15 (2.12%) Renewable Energy
7 14 (1.97%) Operational Technology
7 14 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.83%) Robotics
9 12 (1.69%) FMCG
9 12 (1.69%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.27%) Industry 4.0
11 8 (1.13%) CESG
11 8 (1.13%) LIMS
12 5 (0.71%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.71%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.71%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.71%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.56%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 66 (9.31%) Windows
2 28 (3.95%) Windows 10
3 17 (2.40%) Linux
4 9 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.13%) Android
6 5 (0.71%) Windows 7
6 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.42%) Unix
7 3 (0.42%) VMS
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (24.12%) Business Intelligence
2 154 (21.72%) Digital Marketing
2 154 (21.72%) Programme Management
3 122 (17.21%) Project Management
4 88 (12.41%) ERP
5 84 (11.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 80 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (9.17%) Agile
8 62 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (7.05%) Change Management
10 42 (5.92%) Process Improvement
11 40 (5.64%) Logistics
12 38 (5.36%) ITIL
12 38 (5.36%) Roadmaps
13 37 (5.22%) Data Governance
14 35 (4.94%) Test Strategy
15 34 (4.80%) Requirements Gathering
16 33 (4.65%) Migration
17 31 (4.37%) Software Engineering
18 29 (4.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (4.09%) SQL
2 21 (2.96%) Python
3 18 (2.54%) JavaScript
4 13 (1.83%) C#
4 13 (1.83%) Java
5 7 (0.99%) PowerShell
6 6 (0.85%) ABAP
6 6 (0.85%) C
7 5 (0.71%) Groovy
7 5 (0.71%) MATLAB
8 4 (0.56%) Bash
8 4 (0.56%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.42%) C++
9 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.14%) PHP
11 1 (0.14%) Rust
11 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 125 (17.63%) Security Cleared
2 94 (13.26%) SC Cleared
3 87 (12.27%) Degree
4 34 (4.80%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.12%) CISSP
6 12 (1.69%) IIBA
7 11 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.27%) CISA
8 9 (1.27%) CISM
9 8 (1.13%) CEH
9 8 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.13%) CISMP
9 8 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (1.13%) ISACA
9 8 (1.13%) PMP
9 8 (1.13%) SSCP
10 7 (0.99%) MCSE
10 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.99%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.92%) GDPR
2 25 (3.53%) GxP
3 17 (2.40%) Good Clinical Practice
4 15 (2.12%) QA
5 14 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.97%) NIST
6 12 (1.69%) SLA
7 11 (1.55%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.27%) GMP
8 9 (1.27%) PCI DSS
9 8 (1.13%) HIPAA
9 8 (1.13%) HL7
10 7 (0.99%) GAMP
11 6 (0.85%) NEBOSH
11 6 (0.85%) PMO
12 5 (0.71%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.71%) RMADS
13 2 (0.28%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.14%) ISO 9000
14 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 32 (4.51%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.13%) Firmware
3 5 (0.71%) Docker
3 5 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.42%) vSphere
4 3 (0.42%) zsh
5 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.14%) NFS
6 1 (0.14%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (0.85%) Terraform
2 4 (0.56%) Grafana
3 3 (0.42%) Ansible
3 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (0.28%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.28%) Nessus
4 2 (0.28%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.28%) SCCM
4 2 (0.28%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.14%) Avamar
5 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.14%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.14%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) SCOM
5 1 (0.14%) VxRail
5 1 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 240 (33.85%) SAP
2 91 (12.83%) Microsoft
3 25 (3.53%) Cisco
4 14 (1.97%) Oracle
4 14 (1.97%) VMware
5 11 (1.55%) Citrix
6 9 (1.27%) Autodesk
7 8 (1.13%) HP
8 7 (0.99%) IFS
8 7 (0.99%) Sage
8 7 (0.99%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.99%) ServiceNow
8 7 (0.99%) Siemens
9 6 (0.85%) Dell
9 6 (0.85%) Veeam
10 5 (0.71%) Informatica
10 5 (0.71%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.71%) Talend
11 4 (0.56%) Apple
11 4 (0.56%) SolarWinds