Manufacturing Contracts in Hertfordshire

Manufacturing
East of England > Hertfordshire

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 38 47
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 +6
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Manufacturing 7 23 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.54% 3.45% 3.32%
As % of the General category 2.68% 6.02% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 9
10th Percentile - £263 £375
25th Percentile £300 £272 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £301 £313 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% -50.00% +56.25%
75th Percentile £301 £384 £638
90th Percentile - £463 £688
East of England median daily rate £538 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +34.38% -30.43% +43.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 8
10th Percentile £59.35 £23.95 £20.15
25th Percentile - £30.00 £42.13
Median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% - +103.70%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile - - £61.50
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -45.45% +12.24% +37.54%

All General Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 261 382 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 57.36% 57.36% 51.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 84 204
10th Percentile £218 £193 £231
25th Percentile £381 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £525
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £675
90th Percentile £695 £600 £775
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 172 79
10th Percentile £16.93 £16.46 £20.50
25th Percentile £25.32 £38.12 £49.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £43.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -31.20% +13.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.73 £65.00 £73.75
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £38.12 £17.72
% change year-on-year -17.00% +115.12% -10.55%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Hertfordshire

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in Hertfordshire

Manufacturing
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stevenage 0 7 £301 -22.45% 30
Manufacturing
East of England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (14.29%) PTC Creo
1 1 (14.29%) Windchill
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SpaceWire
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) C++ Software Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Electrical Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) FPGA
1 4 (57.14%) PCIe
1 4 (57.14%) State Machine
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Acquisition
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Concurrent Programming
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 4 (57.14%) Memory Management
2 4 (57.14%) Multithreading
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) PDM
3 1 (14.29%) System Testing
3 1 (14.29%) TestOps
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
1 4 (57.14%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Tcl
2 1 (14.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GMP
1 1 (14.29%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) EMC
1 1 (14.29%) PTC