Manufacturing Contracts in Berkshire

Manufacturing
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 82 50
Rank change year-on-year +45 -32 +46
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 60 37 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.18% 1.90% 3.80%
As % of the General category 8.22% 3.34% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 23 60
10th Percentile £439 £325 £346
25th Percentile £550 £406 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £550 £648
Median % change year-on-year +17.05% -15.06% +9.28%
75th Percentile £700 £560 £689
90th Percentile - £625 £735
South East median daily rate £575 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +43.75% -27.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 -
Median hourly rate £48.00 £62.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% - -
75th Percentile £53.50 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £73.63 £69.04 -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% -16.67% -

All General Skills
Berkshire

Manufacturing falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 730 1,108 1,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 62.99% 56.88% 62.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 553 689
10th Percentile £300 £205 £325
25th Percentile £413 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -2.91% +8.42%
75th Percentile £628 £600 £635
90th Percentile £700 £660 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 86 28
10th Percentile £19.91 £20.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £30.25 £42.13 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.30 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +16.60% +137.81%
75th Percentile £65.62 £68.52 £67.16
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.18 £45.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -46.27% -2.70% +131.25%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Berkshire

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in Berkshire

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in Berkshire

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in Berkshire

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in Berkshire

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 5 May 2025. 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
Reading +61 36 £650 +28.40% 38
Bracknell +16 12 £558 +0.45% 3
Slough -4 4 £320 +30.61% 20
Manufacturing
South East

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (3.33%) CMS
1 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.33%) SAP EWM
2 2 (3.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.67%) Primavera
3 1 (1.67%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) Azure
2 3 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (3.33%) PaaS
4 1 (1.67%) AWS
4 1 (1.67%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
1 2 (3.33%) iSCSI
1 2 (3.33%) LAN
1 2 (3.33%) Network Security
1 2 (3.33%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.67%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.67%) Junos
2 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.67%) SSL
2 1 (1.67%) VPN
2 1 (1.67%) WAN
2 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Power BI
2 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.67%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Git
1 4 (6.67%) Selenium
2 3 (5.00%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 38 (63.33%) Finance
2 36 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 35 (58.33%) Electronics
3 35 (58.33%) Marketing
3 35 (58.33%) Telecoms
4 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Agriculture
6 2 (3.33%) Automotive
6 2 (3.33%) Aviation
6 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (36.67%) Architect
2 21 (35.00%) Active Directory Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.67%) Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (5.00%) Senior
5 3 (5.00%) Test Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Consultant
6 2 (3.33%) Development Specialist
6 2 (3.33%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (3.33%) IT Manager
6 2 (3.33%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) SAP Project Manager
6 2 (3.33%) Senior Tester
6 2 (3.33%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) Gherkin
1 3 (5.00%) PySpark
2 2 (3.33%) YAML
3 1 (1.67%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.67%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Life Science
1 7 (11.67%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.33%) CCTV
3 2 (3.33%) Learning Management System
3 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.67%) CMDB
4 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (43.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (63.33%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (60.00%) Programme Management
3 35 (58.33%) Digital Marketing
4 26 (43.33%) Agile
5 24 (40.00%) Test Automation
6 21 (35.00%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.00%) Project Management
9 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (10.00%) CI/CD
10 6 (10.00%) DevOps
11 4 (6.67%) Analytics
11 4 (6.67%) Change Management
11 4 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
11 4 (6.67%) Logistics
11 4 (6.67%) Process Improvement
11 4 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.33%) Python
3 4 (6.67%) Bash
3 4 (6.67%) SQL
4 2 (3.33%) ABAP
4 2 (3.33%) Bicep
5 1 (1.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 27 (45.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (16.67%) Degree
4 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (5.00%) PMI Certification
5 3 (5.00%) PMP
6 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.67%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.33%) NFS
2 2 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) FortiGate
1 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.33%) vRealize
1 2 (3.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (1.67%) Ansible
2 1 (1.67%) CASB
Vendors
1 42 (70.00%) SAP
2 3 (5.00%) Databricks
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.33%) Cisco
3 2 (3.33%) VMware
4 1 (1.67%) Aruba
4 1 (1.67%) Citrix
4 1 (1.67%) Dell
4 1 (1.67%) F5
4 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.67%) HP
4 1 (1.67%) IBM
4 1 (1.67%) Juniper
4 1 (1.67%) NEC
4 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.67%) Workday