Manufacturing Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Manufacturing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 21 45
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 +23
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Manufacturing 38 26 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.55% 6.16% 1.48%
As % of the General category 20.00% 11.11% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 5
10th Percentile £325 £284 -
25th Percentile £456 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £393 £413
Median % change year-on-year +33.76% -4.85% +135.71%
75th Percentile £659 £506 £419
90th Percentile £838 £559 £449
East of England median daily rate £538 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +34.38% -30.43% +43.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 2
10th Percentile £15.20 - £21.15
25th Percentile £15.86 £46.25 £22.88
Median hourly rate £18.00 £47.75 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.30% +80.19% -18.46%
75th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £30.88
90th Percentile £39.70 £59.25 £33.05
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -45.45% +12.24% +37.54%

All General Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 190 234 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 57.75% 55.45% 64.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 54 123
10th Percentile £213 £233 £201
25th Percentile £364 £363 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £639 £572 £538
90th Percentile £688 £650 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 108 173
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.37 £19.13
90th Percentile £31.00 £50.25 £21.80
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £38.12 £17.72
% change year-on-year -17.00% +115.12% -10.55%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Cambridgeshire

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Manufacturing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in Cambridgeshire

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Manufacturing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in Cambridgeshire

Manufacturing
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Peterborough +12 22 £675 +58.82% 7
Cambridge -8 10 £475 +26.67% 20
Manufacturing
East of England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (7.89%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (2.63%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.63%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (2.63%) Azure
2 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.63%) GitHub
2 1 (2.63%) iPaaS
2 1 (2.63%) Lucidchart
2 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) Cisco IOS
1 7 (18.42%) DHCP
1 7 (18.42%) DNS
1 7 (18.42%) PuTTY
2 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) LAN
2 2 (5.26%) WAN
2 2 (5.26%) Wireless
2 2 (5.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Appium
1 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
1 1 (2.63%) Gatling
1 1 (2.63%) Git
1 1 (2.63%) Hudson
1 1 (2.63%) JMeter
1 1 (2.63%) JUnit
1 1 (2.63%) LoadRunner
1 1 (2.63%) Postman
1 1 (2.63%) Selenium
1 1 (2.63%) TestNG
General
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Retail
3 8 (21.05%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Spanish Language
5 3 (7.89%) Aerospace
5 3 (7.89%) Finance
6 1 (2.63%) Environmental Health
6 1 (2.63%) Lithuanian Language
6 1 (2.63%) Military
6 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Analyst
2 11 (28.95%) Network Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) Service Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) Service Desk Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Network Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Network Support
4 5 (13.16%) Network Support Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Network Support Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Developer
5 3 (7.89%) IFS Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Design Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.26%) PCB Design Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) PCB Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Test Technician
7 1 (2.63%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (2.63%) Middleware
1 1 (2.63%) RESTful
1 1 (2.63%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) SCADA
2 2 (5.26%) Robotics
2 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.05%) Active Listening
1 8 (21.05%) Customer Experience
2 7 (18.42%) Computer Science
3 6 (15.79%) ERP
4 4 (10.53%) Project Management
5 3 (7.89%) Agile
5 3 (7.89%) Logistics
5 3 (7.89%) Migration
5 3 (7.89%) Process Improvement
5 3 (7.89%) Roadmaps
5 3 (7.89%) Scrum
5 3 (7.89%) SDLC
6 2 (5.26%) Analytics
6 2 (5.26%) Business Strategy
6 2 (5.26%) Business Transformation
6 2 (5.26%) CI/CD
6 2 (5.26%) DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Mentoring
6 2 (5.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (5.26%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) SQL
2 3 (7.89%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.63%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.63%) C#
3 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Degree
2 7 (18.42%) CCNA
2 7 (18.42%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (18.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) CCNP
4 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Def Stans
1 1 (2.63%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Cisco
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) IFS
2 5 (13.16%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.89%) Rockwell
3 3 (7.89%) SAP
3 3 (7.89%) Siemens
4 2 (5.26%) Facebook
4 2 (5.26%) Peregrine
4 2 (5.26%) Remedy
4 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle
5 1 (2.63%) SnapLogic