Manufacturing Contracts in Manchester

Manufacturing
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 58 87
Rank change year-on-year +10 +29 +19
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 33 34 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.44% 2.37% 1.53%
As % of the General category 5.89% 4.70% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 21
10th Percentile £406 £413 £431
25th Percentile £500 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £545 £563 £650
90th Percentile - £723 £688
North West median daily rate £550 £500 £486
% change year-on-year +10.00% +2.88% -11.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 1
10th Percentile £16.21 £22.83 -
25th Percentile £23.37 £24.12 £26.85
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +22.74% +19.14%
75th Percentile £36.06 £58.13 £28.55
90th Percentile £50.63 £63.14 -
North West median hourly rate £39.30 £32.90 £34.00
% change year-on-year +19.46% -3.25% +17.24%

All General Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 560 723 913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 58.46% 50.35% 50.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 456 649
10th Percentile £273 £313 £298
25th Percentile £375 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £551 £575 £594
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £460 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -6.60% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 58 35
10th Percentile - £12.74 £14.00
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.66 £16.31
Median hourly rate £19.20 £25.25 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -23.96% +42.49% -11.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £41.56 £27.28
90th Percentile £75.75 £59.00 £53.75
North West median hourly rate £29.54 £23.48 £24.08
% change year-on-year +25.81% -2.49% +2.93%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Manchester

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in Manchester

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in Manchester

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in Manchester

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in Manchester

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Bolton -5 9 - - 34
Manufacturing
North West

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (9.09%) Resin
2 2 (6.06%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (9.09%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.03%) SAP CO
2 1 (3.03%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.03%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (3.03%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.03%) Azure
1 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
1 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (30.30%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) Gradle
1 10 (30.30%) Jenkins
1 10 (30.30%) JUnit
1 10 (30.30%) Liquibase
1 10 (30.30%) Mockito
2 5 (15.15%) GitLab
General
1 15 (45.45%) Finance
2 12 (36.36%) Electronics
3 10 (30.30%) Marketing
3 10 (30.30%) Public Sector
3 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 10 (30.30%) Telecoms
4 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Aerospace
6 2 (6.06%) Retail
7 1 (3.03%) Automotive
7 1 (3.03%) Games
7 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Law
7 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Java Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Java Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) React Developer
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
3 2 (6.06%) Analyst
3 2 (6.06%) Consultant
3 2 (6.06%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (6.06%) Test Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Programme Director
4 1 (3.03%) SAP CO Consultant
4 1 (3.03%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (3.03%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
4 1 (3.03%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) Kafka
1 10 (30.30%) OpenAPI
1 10 (30.30%) React
1 10 (30.30%) Spring
1 10 (30.30%) Spring Boot
1 10 (30.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.09%) 3D Printing
4 2 (6.06%) Analogue Electronics
4 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.06%) SCADA
5 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 11 (33.33%) DevOps
1 11 (33.33%) Migration
2 10 (30.30%) Agile
2 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
2 10 (30.30%) Containerisation
2 10 (30.30%) Digital Marketing
2 10 (30.30%) Microservices
2 10 (30.30%) Programme Management
2 10 (30.30%) Software Engineering
2 10 (30.30%) TDD
3 5 (15.15%) Build Automation
3 5 (15.15%) Clean Code
3 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (15.15%) Event-Driven
3 5 (15.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (9.09%) Data Cleansing
4 3 (9.09%) Data Extraction
4 3 (9.09%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) SQL
2 10 (30.30%) Java
2 10 (30.30%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) SC Cleared
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.03%) HNC
4 1 (3.03%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.03%) PMO
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Docker
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) SAP
2 5 (15.15%) AVEVA
3 2 (6.06%) Rockwell
3 2 (6.06%) Siemens
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle