Manufacturing Contracts in the West Midlands

Manufacturing
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 60 75
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 +29
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 61 84 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.17% 3.53% 3.07%
As % of the General category 5.60% 6.07% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 62 83
10th Percentile £311 £370 £376
25th Percentile £352 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.73% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £497 £600 £620
90th Percentile £533 £660 £750
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 3
10th Percentile £14.71 - £20.85
25th Percentile £15.25 £92.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.59 £95.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -79.38% +322.22% -
75th Percentile £30.37 £97.50 £25.25
90th Percentile £39.92 - £26.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £45.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +25.00% -

All General Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,090 1,384 1,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.62% 58.15% 56.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 972 1,508
10th Percentile £263 £228 £250
25th Percentile £395 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +7.37% +17.28%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 41 53
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.90 £12.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.59 £18.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.83% +5.88% +2.26%
75th Percentile £39.34 £27.13 £19.50
90th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £23.45
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the West Midlands

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the West Midlands

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the West Midlands

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the West Midlands

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in the West Midlands

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Staffordshire +13 16 £413 -36.54% 66
Warwickshire +7 16 £433 -24.78% 45
Birmingham -8 6 £375 -25.00% 79
Walsall - 4 - - 3
Dudley - 3 £525 - 10
Worcestershire +9 2 £400 -33.33% 44
West Bromwich - 2 - - 2
Coventry +11 1 £475 +28.38% 49
Wolverhampton +2 1 - - 26
Solihull -18 1 - - 21
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (3.28%) Maya
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.28%) NUKE
2 2 (3.28%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Maximo
2 2 (3.28%) Odoo
3 1 (1.64%) Sage 200
3 1 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.20%) Azure
2 3 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.64%) Azure App Service
4 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.64%) SaaS
4 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Firewall
1 1 (1.64%) FTP
1 1 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.64%) tcpdump
1 1 (1.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.64%) MS Access
3 1 (1.64%) Power BI
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Git
1 1 (1.64%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (1.64%) JIRA
General
1 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Automotive
3 5 (8.20%) Finance
4 4 (6.56%) Avionics
4 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.28%) Electronics
6 2 (3.28%) Games
6 2 (3.28%) Marketing
6 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (11.48%) Analyst
2 6 (9.84%) Developer
2 6 (9.84%) Programmer
3 4 (6.56%) Administrator
3 4 (6.56%) Change Manager
4 3 (4.92%) Business Change Manager
4 3 (4.92%) Business Manager
4 3 (4.92%) Business Systems Analyst
4 3 (4.92%) Data Engineer
4 3 (4.92%) ERP Manager
4 3 (4.92%) IT Manager
4 3 (4.92%) Junior
4 3 (4.92%) Lead
4 3 (4.92%) Project Manager
4 3 (4.92%) Senior
4 3 (4.92%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (3.28%) Classic ASP Developer
5 2 (3.28%) ERP Implementation Manager
5 2 (3.28%) Junior Product Owner
5 2 (3.28%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) .NET
2 2 (3.28%) Classic ASP
2 2 (3.28%) Unreal Engine
2 2 (3.28%) V-Ray
3 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.64%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.64%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.64%) OLE
3 1 (1.64%) Swagger
3 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Infotainment
1 4 (6.56%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.64%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.64%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.95%) ERP
2 7 (11.48%) Change Management
2 7 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (8.20%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (8.20%) Logistics
4 5 (8.20%) Manufacturing Engineering
4 5 (8.20%) Product Strategy
4 5 (8.20%) Use Case
5 4 (6.56%) Analytics
5 4 (6.56%) Battery Management
5 4 (6.56%) Physics
5 4 (6.56%) Process Improvement
5 4 (6.56%) Project Management
5 4 (6.56%) Validation
6 3 (4.92%) Customer Service
6 3 (4.92%) Data Analysis
6 3 (4.92%) Data Analytics
6 3 (4.92%) ETL
6 3 (4.92%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.84%) SQL
2 3 (4.92%) T-SQL
3 2 (3.28%) C#
3 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
3 2 (3.28%) Python
4 1 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) Degree
2 2 (3.28%) Dell Certification
3 1 (1.64%) ACCA
3 1 (1.64%) CIMA
3 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) SLA
2 1 (1.64%) GDPR
2 1 (1.64%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.64%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (1.64%) Kibana
1 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.84%) SAP
3 4 (6.56%) Progress
4 3 (4.92%) JD Edwards
4 3 (4.92%) QAD
5 2 (3.28%) Dell
5 2 (3.28%) Fujitsu
5 2 (3.28%) HP
5 2 (3.28%) Sage
5 2 (3.28%) Sun
6 1 (1.64%) Ariba
6 1 (1.64%) Google
6 1 (1.64%) IFS
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.64%) Splunk