Lean Manufacturing Contract Job Trends in England

Lean Manufacturing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Lean Manufacturing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 463 -
Rank change year-on-year -114 - -
Contract jobs citing Lean Manufacturing 7 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.019% 0.037% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.041% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
UK median daily rate £525 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Lean Manufacturing 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,391 22,052 32,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.35% 90.83% 86.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,759 14,493 21,652
10th Percentile £313 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,980 839 2,155
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.56 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.81 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -0.58% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £75.44 £77.25 £71.89
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -9.72%

Lean Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Lean Manufacturing job vacancy trend in England

Lean Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Lean Manufacturing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Lean Manufacturing

Lean Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Lean Manufacturing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Lean Manufacturing

Lean Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lean Manufacturing within the England region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. 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
London - 4 - -
Midlands - 2 £550 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
North of England -74 1 £500 - 7
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
Lean Manufacturing
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Lean Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP EHS
1 1 (14.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
1 4 (57.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) IBM UrbanCode
1 4 (57.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) GCP DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Lean Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Node.js
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Industry 4.0
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Commercial Awareness
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) Kanban
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Systems Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) BDD
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) APMG
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Rancher
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) SAP