Manufacturing Contracts in Cheshire

Manufacturing
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 38 42
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 37 24 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.34% 4.44% 3.08%
As % of the General category 11.86% 7.72% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 11
10th Percentile - £325 £400
25th Percentile £405 £403 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -7.69% +39.29%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £575
90th Percentile £565 £540 £598
North West median daily rate £510 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +4.08% -10.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - £9.90
Median hourly rate £42.50 £23.15 £10.28
Median % change year-on-year +83.59% +125.19% -66.22%
75th Percentile £43.75 £31.58 £14.31
90th Percentile - £36.63 £20.87
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £41.08 £24.50
% change year-on-year -14.80% +67.66% -4.85%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 312 311 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 61.90% 57.49% 59.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 206 181
10th Percentile £293 £215 £206
25th Percentile £394 £353 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +1.35%
75th Percentile £564 £566 £538
90th Percentile £628 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £469
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +10.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 20 20
10th Percentile £16.57 £13.95 £10.58
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.07 £12.33
Median hourly rate £24.58 £29.26 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% +28.62% +27.09%
75th Percentile £37.25 £33.42 £31.44
90th Percentile £43.75 £35.50 £59.18
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £25.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -30.51% +27.50% -11.11%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Cheshire

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in Cheshire

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Cheshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in Cheshire

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in Cheshire

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Macclesfield +2 25 £510 +16.57% 7
Chester +12 9 £625 - 23
Warrington +8 1 £575 - 21
Runcorn - 1 - - 7
Manufacturing
North West

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (13.51%) Apache
1 5 (13.51%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (13.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.70%) SAP MDG
2 1 (2.70%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.70%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (13.51%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (13.51%) Amazon EMR
2 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
2 5 (13.51%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (13.51%) AWS
2 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
2 5 (13.51%) Serverless
2 5 (13.51%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.70%) Azure
3 1 (2.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) FTP
2 2 (5.41%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Big Data
1 5 (13.51%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.70%) MySQL
2 1 (2.70%) Navicat
2 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Git
1 5 (13.51%) JIRA
General
1 16 (43.24%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Analyst
2 9 (24.32%) Business Analyst
3 7 (18.92%) Senior
4 6 (16.22%) Architect
4 6 (16.22%) Data Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Data Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) Manufacturing Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) SAP Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) SAP Data Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Support Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Data Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Data Analyst
7 3 (8.11%) IT Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) IT Support
7 3 (8.11%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) JSON
1 5 (13.51%) XML
2 1 (2.70%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Industry 4.0
2 7 (18.92%) Robotics
3 6 (16.22%) IoT
3 6 (16.22%) Life Science
4 5 (13.51%) Data Structures
5 4 (10.81%) Taxonomies
6 2 (5.41%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.70%) FMCG
7 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Data Governance
2 9 (24.32%) Analytics
2 9 (24.32%) Business Analysis
2 9 (24.32%) Data Integration
2 9 (24.32%) Requirements Gathering
3 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (21.62%) Use Case
4 7 (18.92%) Data Analysis
4 7 (18.92%) Data Management
5 6 (16.22%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (16.22%) Business Case
5 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.22%) Project Management
5 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.51%) Decision-Making
6 5 (13.51%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (13.51%) FMEA
6 5 (13.51%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (13.51%) Smart Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) C#
2 5 (13.51%) Java
2 5 (13.51%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
2 5 (13.51%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) GxP
2 8 (21.62%) GDPR
3 5 (13.51%) GAMP
3 5 (13.51%) Good Clinical Practice
4 4 (10.81%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) SAP
2 5 (13.51%) Informatica
2 5 (13.51%) Talend
3 1 (2.70%) Ariba
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) VMware