Manufacturing Contract Job Trends in Dartford

Manufacturing
Kent > Dartford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Dartford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 33 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dartford 71.74% - -
As % of the General category 89.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 24 0 0
10th Percentile £604 - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 - -
75th Percentile £648 - -
90th Percentile £650 - -
Kent median daily rate £635 £425 £205
% change year-on-year +49.41% +107.32% -

All General Skills
Dartford

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 general skills in Dartford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 37 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dartford 80.43% 40.00% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 4 3
10th Percentile £452 £355 £215
25th Percentile £613 £429 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £485 £465
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% +4.30% +151.35%
75th Percentile £648 £508 £686
90th Percentile £650 £521 £800
Kent median daily rate £625 £381 £458
% change year-on-year +63.93% -16.67% +38.64%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Dartford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Manufacturing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dartford.

Manufacturing job vacancy trend in Dartford

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in Dartford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dartford citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in Dartford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Dartford over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in Dartford

Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dartford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) FactoryTalk
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.03%) Azure
1 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.03%) Power BI
General
1 1 (3.03%) Finance
1 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (93.94%) Architect
2 15 (45.45%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (21.21%) SAP Architect
3 7 (21.21%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Integration Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Construction Business Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Data Analytics Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Data Manager
5 1 (3.03%) ERP Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) ERP Business Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 2 (6.06%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.03%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) PLM
2 5 (15.15%) ERP
3 3 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 2 (6.06%) Asset Management
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (3.03%) Agile
5 1 (3.03%) AI
5 1 (3.03%) Business Analysis
5 1 (3.03%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (3.03%) Change Management
5 1 (3.03%) EAM
5 1 (3.03%) Logistics
5 1 (3.03%) Operations Management
5 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2
5 1 (3.03%) Requirements Management
5 1 (3.03%) Resource Management
5 1 (3.03%) Risk Management
5 1 (3.03%) Scrum
5 1 (3.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.03%) WFM
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
1 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
1 1 (3.03%) PMP
1 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.03%) GRC
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) MOM
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) SAP
2 1 (3.03%) AVEVA
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) Rockwell
2 1 (3.03%) Siemens