Manufacturing Contracts in the North of England

Manufacturing
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 52 118
Rank change year-on-year -9 +66 +12
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 119 158 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.60% 3.34% 1.73%
As % of the General category 6.09% 6.11% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 76 73
10th Percentile £305 £373 £231
25th Percentile £448 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +4.17% -12.73%
75th Percentile £580 £556 £550
90th Percentile £623 £706 £747
England median daily rate £530 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +6.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 34 8
10th Percentile £19.73 £12.13 £23.15
25th Percentile £22.98 £21.44 £25.93
Median hourly rate £43.09 £32.90 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +30.99% -19.92% +67.66%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £45.05
90th Percentile £62.00 £46.13 £48.79
England median hourly rate £47.75 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +44.70% -26.67% +25.87%

All General Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,953 2,587 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.15% 54.76% 55.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,520 2,211
10th Percentile £256 £256 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £501
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% -1.15% +5.37%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £600
90th Percentile £663 £669 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 311 92
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.13 £14.56
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.22 £16.06 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.00% -37.02% +36.18%
75th Percentile £41.97 £28.22 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.75 £48.75 £53.31
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.14 £33.39
% change year-on-year -8.76% -9.72% +56.74%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the North of England

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the North of England

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the North of England

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the North of England

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in the North of England

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 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
North West +7 91 £550 +7.84% 347
North East -4 16 £481 +13.77% 88
Yorkshire -23 12 £425 -5.56% 318
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (1.68%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (4.20%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.84%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 30 (25.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (9.24%) SAP PP
3 5 (4.20%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (4.20%) SAP LE
4 2 (1.68%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.84%) BambooHR
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.84%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.84%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.84%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.84%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.61%) Azure
2 7 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.04%) AWS
4 5 (4.20%) Snowflake
5 4 (3.36%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (3.36%) Azure AI
5 4 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.36%) GCP
5 4 (3.36%) Google Gemini
6 2 (1.68%) Kong
6 2 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.68%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.68%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.20%) LAN
1 5 (4.20%) VPN
2 2 (1.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.84%) DHCP
3 1 (0.84%) DNS
3 1 (0.84%) Network Security
3 1 (0.84%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (8.40%) Relational Database
2 7 (5.88%) Power BI
3 5 (4.20%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.36%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.84%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.84%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.40%) Gradle
1 10 (8.40%) Jenkins
1 10 (8.40%) JUnit
1 10 (8.40%) Liquibase
1 10 (8.40%) Mockito
2 9 (7.56%) GitLab
3 8 (6.72%) Git
4 3 (2.52%) JIRA
5 2 (1.68%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.68%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.68%) Selenium
6 1 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 40 (33.61%) Finance
2 36 (30.25%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 20 (16.81%) Electronics
5 19 (15.97%) Marketing
5 19 (15.97%) Pharmaceutical
5 19 (15.97%) Telecoms
6 11 (9.24%) Legal
7 9 (7.56%) Aerospace
7 9 (7.56%) Automotive
8 6 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.20%) Retail
10 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Law
11 1 (0.84%) Banking
11 1 (0.84%) Games
11 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (15.97%) Consultant
2 12 (10.08%) Developer
2 12 (10.08%) SAP Consultant
3 10 (8.40%) Analyst
4 9 (7.56%) Senior
5 8 (6.72%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.88%) Lead
6 7 (5.88%) SAP PP Consultant
7 6 (5.04%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.20%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Desktop Support
8 5 (4.20%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.20%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) SAP QM Consultant
8 5 (4.20%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.40%) Kafka
1 10 (8.40%) OpenAPI
1 10 (8.40%) React
1 10 (8.40%) Spring
1 10 (8.40%) Spring Boot
1 10 (8.40%) Swagger
2 4 (3.36%) PyTorch
2 4 (3.36%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.68%) CSS
3 2 (1.68%) HTML
3 2 (1.68%) Jest
3 2 (1.68%) Node.js
3 2 (1.68%) pytest
3 2 (1.68%) Sass
4 1 (0.84%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.84%) Middleware
4 1 (0.84%) OLE
4 1 (0.84%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.84%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.24%) Life Science
1 11 (9.24%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 10 (8.40%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.04%) Industry 4.0
3 6 (5.04%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.36%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.52%) SCADA
6 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.68%) FMCG
6 2 (1.68%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.68%) Tandem
7 1 (0.84%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.84%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.56%) Windows
2 7 (5.88%) Windows XP
3 5 (4.20%) Windows 10
3 5 (4.20%) Windows 8
3 5 (4.20%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.20%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (4.20%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (4.20%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (4.20%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.68%) Linux
4 2 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.84%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (22.69%) Agile
3 24 (20.17%) Quality Management
4 22 (18.49%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (16.81%) Programme Management
5 20 (16.81%) Project Management
6 19 (15.97%) Digital Marketing
6 19 (15.97%) ERP
7 18 (15.13%) Migration
8 17 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 16 (13.45%) DevOps
10 15 (12.61%) Decision-Making
11 14 (11.76%) Containerisation
11 14 (11.76%) Logistics
12 12 (10.08%) Change Management
12 12 (10.08%) TDD
13 11 (9.24%) Analytics
13 11 (9.24%) Data Modelling
13 11 (9.24%) Mentoring
14 10 (8.40%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.92%) Java
2 11 (9.24%) SQL
3 10 (8.40%) TypeScript
4 6 (5.04%) Python
5 3 (2.52%) Scala
6 2 (1.68%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.84%) Bash
7 1 (0.84%) Bicep
7 1 (0.84%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (24.37%) Security Cleared
2 26 (21.85%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.29%) Degree
4 11 (9.24%) Master's Degree
5 10 (8.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.68%) CCNA
8 2 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.72%) QA
2 5 (4.20%) PMO
3 4 (3.36%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.68%) GDPR
4 2 (1.68%) WCAG
5 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.84%) GMP
5 1 (0.84%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 16 (13.45%) Docker
2 5 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.04%) MOM
3 5 (4.20%) SCCM
4 4 (3.36%) Terraform
5 2 (1.68%) Grafana
5 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.84%) Ansible
6 1 (0.84%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 65 (54.62%) SAP
2 11 (9.24%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.72%) Rockwell
3 8 (6.72%) Siemens
4 7 (5.88%) Ariba
5 5 (4.20%) AVEVA
5 5 (4.20%) Canon
5 5 (4.20%) Oracle
6 2 (1.68%) Anaplan
6 2 (1.68%) Cisco
6 2 (1.68%) Hyperion
6 2 (1.68%) Meraki
6 2 (1.68%) Sage
7 1 (0.84%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.84%) Workday