Manufacturing Contract Job Trends in Durham

Manufacturing
North East > Durham

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 11.54% - 4.17%
As % of the General category 30.00% - 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £140
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.66%
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £175 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +96.26%

All General Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 10 35 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 38.46% 67.31% 52.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 23
10th Percentile £300 £263 £288
25th Percentile £377 £366 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £563 £400
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +40.63% -1.54%
75th Percentile £677 £594 £448
90th Percentile £750 £697 £540
North East median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £20.75 -
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.26% +56.00%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Manufacturing job vacancy trend in Durham

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in Durham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in Durham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Durham region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Darlington - 1 - -
Manufacturing
North East

Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (66.67%) Robotics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Mechatronics
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) VMware