Manufacturing Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Manufacturing
West London > Hillingdon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Hillingdon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 10 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 6.17% - 6.85%
As % of the General category 8.20% - 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £705 - £535
25th Percentile £725 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £600
75th Percentile £850 - £650
90th Percentile £908 - £665
West London median daily rate £750 £555 £550
% change year-on-year +35.14% +0.91% -26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
West London median hourly rate £12.82 - £55.00

All General Skills
Hillingdon

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 general skills in Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 122 37 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 75.31% 44.58% 67.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 20 37
10th Percentile £459 £158 £262
25th Percentile £531 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £419 £475
Median % change year-on-year +67.16% -11.84% -24.00%
75th Percentile £788 £441 £550
90th Percentile £904 £451 £610
West London median daily rate £520 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +22.35% -5.56% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £16.08 - -
25th Percentile £19.89 £25.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.08 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.67% -54.41% -
75th Percentile £28.75 £46.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - £47.20 -
West London median hourly rate £22.44 £32.89 £34.05
% change year-on-year -31.78% -3.39% -48.42%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Manufacturing job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in Hillingdon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Hillingdon over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in Hillingdon

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Uxbridge - 1 - - 11
Manufacturing
West London

Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) CPLEX
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (100.00%) Aviation
2 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (60.00%) Retail
3 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Scientist
1 4 (40.00%) Research Scientist
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Data Scientist
2 3 (30.00%) Product Manager
2 3 (30.00%) SAP Support
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Scientist
2 3 (30.00%) Support Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Change Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Supply Chain Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Supply Chain Support
4 1 (10.00%) Engineering Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Transformation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Logistics
2 6 (60.00%) Data Science
2 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Constraint Programming
3 4 (40.00%) Decision Science
3 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (40.00%) Linear Programming
3 4 (40.00%) Mathematical Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 4 (40.00%) Operations Research
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (30.00%) Business Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) Change Management
4 3 (30.00%) Defect Management
4 3 (30.00%) Defect Tracking
4 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) SAP