Manufacturing Contracts in the East of England

Manufacturing
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 21 61
Rank change year-on-year -32 +40 +26
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 31 128 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.17% 6.67% 2.98%
As % of the General category 5.14% 11.30% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 50 37
10th Percentile £250 £300 £219
25th Percentile £313 £388 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £418 £513
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -18.54% +3.54%
75th Percentile £580 £522 £600
90th Percentile £609 £600 £676
England median daily rate £530 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 26 10
10th Percentile £15.65 £20.88 £38.83
25th Percentile £24.87 £21.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.92 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.56% -46.79% +68.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.00 £60.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £40.84 £32.12 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.17% -35.77% +40.85%

All General Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 603 1,133 1,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 61.59% 59.01% 59.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 406 643
10th Percentile £200 £210 £201
25th Percentile £341 £345 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £676 £672 £742
England median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 443 238
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.12 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% +92.43% +27.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.97 £31.00 £31.92
% change year-on-year -9.77% -2.88% +48.47%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the East of England

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the East of England

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the East of England

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the East of England

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in the East of England

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the East of England region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Cambridgeshire -8 17 £480 +17.07% 202
Bedfordshire -11 7 £580 +0.87% 144
Hertfordshire -17 4 £463 +0.05% 221
Suffolk -12 2 £497 -20.48% 65
Norfolk -5 1 £200 -63.64% 79
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.23%) CANalyzer
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (16.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.23%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (3.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.90%) Snowflake
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) iPaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (12.90%) DHCP
1 4 (12.90%) DNS
1 4 (12.90%) PuTTY
2 3 (9.68%) Wireless
3 2 (6.45%) Firewall
3 2 (6.45%) Intranet
3 2 (6.45%) LAN
3 2 (6.45%) WAN
3 2 (6.45%) WLAN
4 1 (3.23%) Ethernet
4 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (12.90%) Data Lake
2 4 (12.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Hudson
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) Appium
2 1 (3.23%) CANoe
2 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.23%) Gatling
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) JMeter
2 1 (3.23%) JUnit
2 1 (3.23%) LoadRunner
2 1 (3.23%) Postman
2 1 (3.23%) Selenium
2 1 (3.23%) TestNG
General
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Electronics
4 2 (6.45%) Back Office
4 2 (6.45%) Billing
4 2 (6.45%) Law
4 2 (6.45%) Marketing
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Automotive
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (12.90%) Analyst
1 4 (12.90%) Data Analytics Specialist
1 4 (12.90%) Network Analyst
2 3 (9.68%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (9.68%) IT Manager
2 3 (9.68%) Support Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Architect
3 2 (6.45%) C++ Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Consultant
3 2 (6.45%) Design Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) IT Services Delivery Manager
3 2 (6.45%) IT Services Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Network Support Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Salesforce Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Service Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (3.23%) Middleware
1 1 (3.23%) RESTful
1 1 (3.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Life Science
1 4 (12.90%) Virtual Team
2 2 (6.45%) Robotics
3 1 (3.23%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.13%) Analytics
1 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
1 5 (16.13%) Inventory Management
1 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (12.90%) Change Management
2 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
2 4 (12.90%) Logistics
3 3 (9.68%) API Testing
3 3 (9.68%) Information Management
3 3 (9.68%) Line Management
3 3 (9.68%) Process Improvement
3 3 (9.68%) Project Management
3 3 (9.68%) Record to Report
3 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
3 3 (9.68%) Use Case
3 3 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office Automation
4 2 (6.45%) Office Automation
4 2 (6.45%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (6.45%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) C++
1 2 (6.45%) Groovy
1 2 (6.45%) Python
2 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
2 1 (3.23%) C#
2 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.23%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) CCNA
2 4 (12.90%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Master's Degree
3 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) CCNP
5 1 (3.23%) APMG
5 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) HNC
5 1 (3.23%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.45%) PMO
2 1 (3.23%) GMP
2 1 (3.23%) GxP
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) SAP
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.90%) Ariba
3 4 (12.90%) Cisco
4 2 (6.45%) Anaplan
4 2 (6.45%) Facebook
4 2 (6.45%) HP
4 2 (6.45%) Hyperion
4 2 (6.45%) IFS
4 2 (6.45%) Peregrine
4 2 (6.45%) Remedy
4 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.23%) Altiris
5 1 (3.23%) SnapLogic
5 1 (3.23%) VMware