Manufacturing Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Manufacturing
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 45 68
Rank change year-on-year +10 +23 +1
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 3 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.32% 1.46% 1.04%
As % of the General category 1.97% 2.80% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £204 £430
25th Percentile £463 £268 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -11.97% +6.50%
75th Percentile £488 £741 £579
90th Percentile - £825 £592
South East median daily rate £575 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +43.75% -27.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £12.82 -
Median % change year-on-year +368.02% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% -16.67% -

All General Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 152 250 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 66.67% 52.30% 62.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 168 429
10th Percentile £280 £202 £248
25th Percentile £402 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £474 £470
Median % change year-on-year +7.12% +0.80% +2.73%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £750 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 2
10th Percentile - £14.75 £12.68
25th Percentile - £18.00 £17.44
Median hourly rate £14.20 £24.43 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.87% -6.93% +113.24%
75th Percentile £28.81 £28.75 £35.44
90th Percentile £62.50 £29.50 £40.43
South East median hourly rate £24.18 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -46.27% -5.26% +137.50%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Buckinghamshire

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in Buckinghamshire

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in Buckinghamshire

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Milton Keynes +12 1 £475 -40.63% 21
Manufacturing
South East

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
1 2 (66.67%) Avionics
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test and Integration Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Verification Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Test Management
1 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto