Manufacturing Engineering Contracts in the East Midlands

Manufacturing Engineering
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Manufacturing Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 63 67
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +22
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing Engineering 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.38% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.17% 0.13%
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 £625 £433 £425
% change year-on-year +44.51% +1.76% +0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £37.02 £48.48 £31.76
Median % change year-on-year -23.63% +52.63% -15.42%
England median hourly rate £50.00 £24.19 £39.55
% change year-on-year +106.70% -38.84% +5.33%

All Process and 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 673 606 784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.28% 79.53% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 415 595
10th Percentile £213 £252 £213
25th Percentile £333 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £500 £566 £600
90th Percentile £625 £622 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 39 41
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.64 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £13.90 £20.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £18.32 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -64.08% +137.21%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.45 £54.00
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

Manufacturing Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Manufacturing Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing Engineering in the East Midlands

Manufacturing Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing Engineering in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing Engineering in the East Midlands

Manufacturing Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing Engineering in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing Engineering in the East Midlands

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 3 August 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 -10 2 £663 - 3
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
Manufacturing Engineering
England

Manufacturing Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) ERP Manager
2 1 (33.33%) ERP Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) PMO Officer
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management Officer
2 1 (33.33%) Project Officer
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%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
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%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Earned Value Management
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) PMI Certification
1 2 (66.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO