Production Planning Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Production Planning
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Production Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs citing Production Planning 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.050% - 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% - 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
North West median daily rate £600 £155 -
% change year-on-year +287.10% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Production Planning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,658 897 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.44% 89.79% 87.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 587 596
10th Percentile £313 £311 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -5.60% -
75th Percentile £600 £581 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
North West median daily rate £500 £455 £488
% change year-on-year +9.89% -6.81% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 65 33
10th Percentile £19.60 £15.06 £15.94
25th Percentile £32.73 £19.07 £22.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +154.09% -35.34% +81.82%
75th Percentile £75.00 £35.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £79.63 £67.50 £89.30
North West median hourly rate £47.12 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +87.39% -40.84% +21.43%

Production Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Production Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Production Planning job vacancy trend in Manchester

Production Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Production Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Production Planning

Production Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Production Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Production Planning

Production Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft