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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 61 79
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 +31
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Manufacturing 46 29 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.48% 2.40% 1.69%
As % of the General category 7.37% 4.61% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 21
10th Percentile £413 £433 £450
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £619 £575 £688
90th Percentile £638 £838 £738
North West median daily rate £530 £500 £486
% change year-on-year +6.00% +2.88% -7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 1
10th Percentile £17.59 £20.81 -
25th Percentile £30.79 £28.25 £34.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% +52.69%
75th Percentile £43.44 £53.75 £36.25
90th Percentile £67.63 £62.50 -
North West median hourly rate £35.25 £32.90 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.16% -6.01% +20.69%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 624 629 873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 60.82% 51.98% 50.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 380 611
10th Percentile £300 £325 £225
25th Percentile £395 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £689 £713 £684
North West median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.10% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 29 37
10th Percentile - £16.62 £14.39
25th Percentile £13.00 £23.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £21.32 £35.00 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -39.10% +97.74% +0.25%
75th Percentile £55.12 £57.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.95 £64.25
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £34.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -15.44% +30.77% +29.16%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Manchester over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in Manchester

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in Manchester over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in Manchester

Manufacturing
DemandTrendContract 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 24 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
Bolton -2 17 £610 - 11
Cheadle - 2 £550 - 5
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 4 (8.70%) Resin
2 2 (4.35%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (8.70%) PTC Creo
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle ASCP
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (2.17%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.17%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.17%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (2.17%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.35%) Azure
1 2 (4.35%) Smartsheet
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
2 1 (2.17%) AWS
2 1 (2.17%) GCP
2 1 (2.17%) GitHub
2 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (2.17%) Lucidchart
2 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.17%) SaaS
2 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (21.74%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.17%) MySQL
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) Redis
2 1 (2.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 10 (21.74%) Gradle
2 10 (21.74%) JUnit
2 10 (21.74%) Liquibase
2 10 (21.74%) Mockito
3 5 (10.87%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.17%) Git
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Rational DOORS
General
1 20 (43.48%) Finance
2 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
3 14 (30.43%) Electronics
3 14 (30.43%) Public Sector
4 12 (26.09%) Marketing
4 12 (26.09%) Telecoms
5 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (10.87%) Aerospace
7 2 (4.35%) Retail
8 1 (2.17%) Games
8 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Law
8 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Developer
2 5 (10.87%) Java Developer
2 5 (10.87%) Java Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) React Developer
2 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Software Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (4.35%) Analyst
4 2 (4.35%) Design Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (4.35%) Test Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Architect
5 1 (2.17%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.17%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (2.17%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
5 1 (2.17%) Software Tester
5 1 (2.17%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (2.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) Kafka
1 10 (21.74%) OpenAPI
1 10 (21.74%) React
1 10 (21.74%) Spring
1 10 (21.74%) Spring Boot
1 10 (21.74%) Swagger
2 1 (2.17%) Bootstrap
2 1 (2.17%) HTML
2 1 (2.17%) Laravel
2 1 (2.17%) Node.js
2 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Fibre Optics
2 5 (10.87%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 4 (8.70%) 3D Printing
3 4 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.35%) Analogue Electronics
4 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.35%) SCADA
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Life Science
5 1 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) Programme Management
2 12 (26.09%) Agile
2 12 (26.09%) CI/CD
2 12 (26.09%) DevOps
2 12 (26.09%) Digital Marketing
3 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
3 11 (23.91%) Microservices
3 11 (23.91%) Software Engineering
4 10 (21.74%) Migration
4 10 (21.74%) TDD
5 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (13.04%) Instructional Design
7 6 (13.04%) Knowledge Transfer
7 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.87%) Build Automation
8 5 (10.87%) Clean Code
8 5 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (10.87%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Java
2 10 (21.74%) SQL
2 10 (21.74%) TypeScript
3 2 (4.35%) C
3 2 (4.35%) C++
4 1 (2.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (45.65%) Security Cleared
2 20 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.35%) PMP
5 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) HNC
5 1 (2.17%) HND
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) IEC 61508
2 2 (4.35%) ISO 26262
2 2 (4.35%) PMO
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) IEC 62304
3 1 (2.17%) PMBOK
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (39.13%) SAP
2 5 (10.87%) AVEVA
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Rockwell
4 2 (4.35%) Siemens
5 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.17%) Google