Manufacturing Contracts in the North East

Manufacturing
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 25 41
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 +10
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 14 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 4.42% 3.95% 2.59%
As % of the General category 7.65% 7.83% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 10
10th Percentile £332 £382 £226
25th Percentile £453 £401 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £431 £238
Median % change year-on-year +16.30% +81.47% +35.71%
75th Percentile £573 £693 £265
90th Percentile £581 £851 £489
England median daily rate £530 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £12.25 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.94% -26.67% +38.48%

All General Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 183 166 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 57.73% 50.46% 50.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 82 158
10th Percentile £202 £225 £225
25th Percentile £350 £401 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £625
90th Percentile £590 £720 £722
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 38 0
10th Percentile - £11.35 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £11.64 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.49% - -
75th Percentile £18.72 £48.06 -
90th Percentile £22.64 £52.13 -
England median hourly rate £27.19 £30.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.86% -6.15% +51.16%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the North East

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the North East

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the North East over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the North East

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the North East

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Durham +6 6 £475 - 12
Tyne and Wear -9 6 £501 +22.11% 24
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (14.29%) SAP PP
2 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (14.29%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (42.86%) Electronics
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
1 6 (42.86%) Marketing
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 6 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Consultant
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Lead DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle Manufacturing Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Network Operations Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Network Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) SAP QM Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) pytest
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) Jest
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Digital Marketing
1 6 (42.86%) Programme Management
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Quality Management
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.14%) BDD
5 1 (7.14%) Business Development
5 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.14%) ERP
5 1 (7.14%) Front End Development
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) SFIA
5 1 (7.14%) TDD
5 1 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Bicep
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) GMP
1 1 (7.14%) ISO 9001
1 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) SAP
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle