Manufacturing Engineering Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Manufacturing Engineering
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Manufacturing Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - 60
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing Engineering 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.34% - 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £619 - -
25th Percentile £628 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - -
75th Percentile £703 - -
90th Percentile £716 - -
England median daily rate £525 - £500

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Manufacturing Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 511 596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.50% 86.76% 82.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 315 425
10th Percentile £188 £250 £213
25th Percentile £352 £333 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £453
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -6.18% -4.63%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £681
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 23 45
10th Percentile £15.86 £15.48 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.44 £22.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +1.01% +32.35%
75th Percentile £24.87 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

Manufacturing Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Manufacturing Engineering job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Manufacturing Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Manufacturing Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Manufacturing Engineering

Manufacturing Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Manufacturing Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Manufacturing Engineering

Manufacturing Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing Engineering within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £663 -
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Manufacturing Engineering
England

Manufacturing Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) ERP Manager
2 1 (33.33%) ERP Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 2 (66.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Cutover Planning
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) PMI Certification
2 2 (66.67%) PMP