Manufacturing Contracts in London

Manufacturing
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 181 290
Rank change year-on-year -23 +109 -35
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 149 237 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.20% 1.36% 0.83%
As % of the General category 1.77% 2.15% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 137 142
10th Percentile £358 £350 £412
25th Percentile £463 £428 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £648 £738 £647
90th Percentile £798 £925 £707
England median daily rate £530 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 £30.16 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +173.54% -51.74% +103.25%
75th Percentile £86.25 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile - £64.70 -
England median hourly rate £45.30 £32.95 £45.00
% change year-on-year +37.48% -26.78% +26.76%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,417 11,012 16,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.74% 63.01% 63.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,652 7,861 11,861
10th Percentile £344 £336 £380
25th Percentile £440 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £708 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 233 210
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.60 £16.56
25th Percentile £23.13 £18.13 £21.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £51.07 £44.75 £52.92
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.45 £30.12 £32.00
% change year-on-year -8.86% -5.88% +48.84%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in London

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in London.

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in London

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in London

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in London

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the London region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Central London +1 16 £525 -2.33% 27
South London - 7 £450 - 3
West London +4 4 £475 -13.64% 17
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.67%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (0.67%) WinCC
Applications
1 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) InVision
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.67%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (16.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (6.04%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (4.70%) SAP QM
4 5 (3.36%) SAP PP
5 4 (2.68%) SAP SD
6 3 (2.01%) SAP CO
6 3 (2.01%) SAP FI
6 3 (2.01%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (1.34%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (1.34%) SAP MM
7 2 (1.34%) SAP VC
8 1 (0.67%) Infor LN
8 1 (0.67%) SAP APO
8 1 (0.67%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.67%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.67%) SAP PS
8 1 (0.67%) SAP R/3
8 1 (0.67%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.67%) SAP SRM
8 1 (0.67%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 20 (13.42%) Azure
2 8 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (3.36%) AWS
4 5 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.68%) GCP
5 4 (2.68%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 3 (2.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (2.01%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.34%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.34%) Yammer
8 1 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.67%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.67%) IaaS
8 1 (0.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.03%) Firewall
2 3 (2.01%) WAN
3 2 (1.34%) DHCP
3 2 (1.34%) DNS
3 2 (1.34%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.67%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.67%) Internet
4 1 (0.67%) LAN
4 1 (0.67%) NAS
4 1 (0.67%) Network Security
4 1 (0.67%) SAN
4 1 (0.67%) VPN
4 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (7.38%) Relational Database
2 5 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.01%) Tableau
4 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.34%) Looker
4 2 (1.34%) Power BI
4 2 (1.34%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.67%) Big Data
5 1 (0.67%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.67%) DTS
5 1 (0.67%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.67%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.67%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.67%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 11 (7.38%) Gradle
1 11 (7.38%) Jenkins
1 11 (7.38%) JUnit
1 11 (7.38%) Liquibase
1 11 (7.38%) Mockito
2 6 (4.03%) GitLab
3 3 (2.01%) JIRA
4 2 (1.34%) LSMW
4 2 (1.34%) Selenium
5 1 (0.67%) Appium
5 1 (0.67%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.67%) ERwin
5 1 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
General
1 74 (49.66%) Finance
2 50 (33.56%) Marketing
3 47 (31.54%) Public Sector
3 47 (31.54%) Telecoms
4 46 (30.87%) Electronics
5 45 (30.20%) Social Skills
6 23 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (8.72%) Retail
8 10 (6.71%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (4.70%) Aerospace
10 5 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.68%) Automotive
11 4 (2.68%) Brand Awareness
12 3 (2.01%) Legal
13 2 (1.34%) Banking
13 2 (1.34%) Italian Language
13 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.67%) Aviation
14 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.67%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 21 (14.09%) Architect
2 20 (13.42%) Consultant
3 17 (11.41%) Developer
4 16 (10.74%) Lead
5 13 (8.72%) Senior
6 12 (8.05%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (6.71%) Analyst
7 10 (6.71%) Functional Consultant
7 10 (6.71%) Project Manager
8 9 (6.04%) SAP Architect
9 8 (5.37%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.70%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.03%) Oracle Consultant
11 6 (4.03%) Oracle Functional Consultant
11 6 (4.03%) React Developer
11 6 (4.03%) SAP Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 5 (3.36%) SAP Analyst
12 5 (3.36%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.05%) React
2 11 (7.38%) Kafka
2 11 (7.38%) OpenAPI
2 11 (7.38%) Spring
2 11 (7.38%) Spring Boot
2 11 (7.38%) Swagger
3 4 (2.68%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (2.01%) .NET
4 3 (2.01%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.01%) SAPUI5
4 3 (2.01%) Web Services
5 2 (1.34%) PySpark
6 1 (0.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.67%) BAPI
6 1 (0.67%) CSS
6 1 (0.67%) HTML
6 1 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.67%) OpenCL
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.37%) Life Science
1 8 (5.37%) Onboarding
2 7 (4.70%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.03%) FMCG
4 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.01%) LIMS
5 3 (2.01%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 3 (2.01%) Social Media
6 2 (1.34%) CCTV
6 2 (1.34%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.34%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.34%) FPGA
6 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.34%) IoT
6 2 (1.34%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.34%) PACS
6 2 (1.34%) SCADA
6 2 (1.34%) Verilog
6 2 (1.34%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.70%) Windows
2 4 (2.68%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.01%) Linux
4 2 (1.34%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.34%) Windows 8
4 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.34%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.67%) Android
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (34.23%) Business Intelligence
1 51 (34.23%) Programme Management
2 46 (30.87%) Digital Marketing
3 31 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (19.46%) Agile
4 29 (19.46%) Migration
5 26 (17.45%) ERP
6 22 (14.77%) Project Management
7 17 (11.41%) DevOps
8 15 (10.07%) Data Migration
9 14 (9.40%) CI/CD
9 14 (9.40%) Project Delivery
9 14 (9.40%) Software Engineering
9 14 (9.40%) TDD
10 13 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (8.72%) Risk Management
11 12 (8.05%) Change Management
11 12 (8.05%) Containerisation
11 12 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (7.38%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.45%) SQL
2 12 (8.05%) Java
3 11 (7.38%) TypeScript
4 6 (4.03%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.68%) C#
5 4 (2.68%) Python
6 3 (2.01%) ABAP
7 2 (1.34%) C++
7 2 (1.34%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.34%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.67%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.67%) VB
8 1 (0.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 22 (14.77%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.75%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.08%) Degree
4 5 (3.36%) PMI Certification
4 5 (3.36%) PMP
5 4 (2.68%) ACCA
5 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.68%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.68%) SAP Certification
6 2 (1.34%) CIMA
6 2 (1.34%) CISSP
6 2 (1.34%) PhD
6 2 (1.34%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.34%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.67%) CEH
7 1 (0.67%) CISM
7 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.37%) QA
2 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.34%) GDPR
4 2 (1.34%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.67%) GMP
5 1 (0.67%) GRC
5 1 (0.67%) GxP
5 1 (0.67%) IFRS
5 1 (0.67%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.67%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.67%) PMO
5 1 (0.67%) PSD2
5 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (8.72%) Docker
2 6 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.34%) Firmware
3 2 (1.34%) vSphere
3 2 (1.34%) XenApp
4 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.68%) CEMLI
1 4 (2.68%) Terraform
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.34%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (1.34%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (0.67%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 91 (61.07%) SAP
2 21 (14.09%) Microsoft
3 15 (10.07%) Oracle
4 11 (7.38%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.68%) Cisco
6 4 (2.68%) Splunk
6 4 (2.68%) VMware
7 3 (2.01%) Adobe
7 3 (2.01%) Citrix
7 3 (2.01%) Databricks
7 3 (2.01%) Dell
7 3 (2.01%) Google
7 3 (2.01%) Hitachi
7 3 (2.01%) IFS
7 3 (2.01%) Siemens
8 2 (1.34%) ConnectWise
8 2 (1.34%) ESET
8 2 (1.34%) Xerox
8 2 (1.34%) Zscaler