Manufacturing Contract Job Trends in Derby

Manufacturing
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Derby. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 14 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 6 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 6.25% 7.52% 12.04%
As % of the General category 13.64% 13.70% 27.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £132 £557
25th Percentile £640 £173 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £275 £650
Median % change year-on-year +136.36% -57.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £660 £375 £664
90th Percentile - £450 £675
Derbyshire median daily rate £675 £313 £650
% change year-on-year +116.00% -51.92% +18.18%

All General Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 44 73 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 45.83% 54.89% 43.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 40 31
10th Percentile £170 £160 £240
25th Percentile £288 £200 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £405 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.65% -14.74% +18.75%
75th Percentile £596 £563 £624
90th Percentile £705 £631 £664
Derbyshire median daily rate £456 £418 £494
% change year-on-year +9.28% -15.44% +23.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile £24.43 - -
25th Percentile £24.70 - £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.94% +9.68% -11.43%
75th Percentile £39.45 £20.59 £15.75
90th Percentile £48.03 £31.57 -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £24.50 £17.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +44.12% +9.68% -11.43%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Derby

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in Derby

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derby 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Primavera
1 1 (16.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Back Office
2 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 2 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing Execution System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
1 1 (16.67%) Change Control
1 1 (16.67%) Coaching
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) ERP
1 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
1 1 (16.67%) PLM
1 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
1 1 (16.67%) Project Management
1 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
1 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (16.67%) User Stories
1 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle