Manufacturing Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Manufacturing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 64 70
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +37
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.69% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the General category 1.17% 0.33% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £284 - £435
25th Percentile £558 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +32.94% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £438 £550
90th Percentile £645 - £565
West Yorkshire median daily rate £565 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +32.94% +6.25% -11.11%

All General Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 428 303 497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 59.36% 46.90% 52.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 180 329
10th Percentile £290 £313 £273
25th Percentile £400 £410 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +0.95%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £625
90th Percentile £638 £681 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 5
10th Percentile - £15.08 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £15.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -28.64% +32.82% -10.95%
75th Percentile £26.13 £33.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £27.63 £52.53 £21.70
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £30.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -26.20% +57.89% -11.63%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Manufacturing job vacancy trend in Leeds

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Leeds over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in Leeds

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Electronics
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) HR Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) HR Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) Expense Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Logistics
2 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Enablement
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ACCA
2 1 (20.00%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Computacenter
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) SAP