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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 57 116
Rank change year-on-year -7 +59 +17
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 109 144 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.29% 3.11% 1.89%
As % of the General category 5.56% 5.66% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 68 81
10th Percentile £308 £384 £231
25th Percentile £463 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +2.88% -11.64%
75th Percentile £580 £533 £575
90th Percentile £624 £604 £738
England median daily rate £530 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 5
10th Percentile £19.70 £12.13 -
25th Percentile £22.24 £21.44 £23.15
Median hourly rate £45.30 £32.90 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +37.70% +18.75% +31.90%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £63.50 £46.13 £43.03
England median hourly rate £45.30 £32.95 £45.00
% change year-on-year +37.48% -26.78% +26.76%

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 1,962 2,546 3,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.20% 54.93% 55.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 1,495 2,144
10th Percentile £239 £270 £300
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £600
90th Percentile £652 £669 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 310 94
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.11 £14.08
25th Percentile £16.19 £13.30 £16.85
Median hourly rate £24.67 £16.06 £24.08
Median % change year-on-year +53.63% -33.29% +25.90%
75th Percentile £45.66 £33.91 £35.02
90th Percentile £72.75 £48.75 £53.24
England median hourly rate £27.45 £30.12 £32.00
% change year-on-year -8.86% -5.88% +48.84%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +9 84 £550 +7.84% 296
North East -4 14 £501 +16.30% 64
Yorkshire -18 11 £425 -5.56% 193
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 (1.83%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (4.59%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.92%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 23 (21.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (8.26%) SAP PP
3 5 (4.59%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (4.59%) SAP LE
4 2 (1.83%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.92%) BambooHR
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.92%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.92%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.92%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.92%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.92%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.92%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.92%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.76%) Azure
2 7 (6.42%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.50%) AWS
4 5 (4.59%) Snowflake
5 4 (3.67%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (3.67%) Azure AI
5 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.67%) GCP
5 4 (3.67%) Google Gemini
6 2 (1.83%) Kong
6 2 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.83%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.83%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) LAN
1 5 (4.59%) VPN
2 2 (1.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.92%) DHCP
3 1 (0.92%) DNS
3 1 (0.92%) Network Security
3 1 (0.92%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (9.17%) Relational Database
2 7 (6.42%) Power BI
3 5 (4.59%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.67%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.92%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.92%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (9.17%) Gradle
1 10 (9.17%) Jenkins
1 10 (9.17%) JUnit
1 10 (9.17%) Liquibase
1 10 (9.17%) Mockito
2 9 (8.26%) GitLab
3 6 (5.50%) Git
4 3 (2.75%) JIRA
5 2 (1.83%) Selenium
6 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.92%) REST Assured
General
1 39 (35.78%) Finance
2 30 (27.52%) Social Skills
3 21 (19.27%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (17.43%) Pharmaceutical
5 18 (16.51%) Electronics
5 18 (16.51%) Public Sector
6 17 (15.60%) Marketing
6 17 (15.60%) Telecoms
7 11 (10.09%) Legal
8 9 (8.26%) Aerospace
9 6 (5.50%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (4.59%) Retail
11 3 (2.75%) Automotive
12 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.83%) Law
13 1 (0.92%) Banking
13 1 (0.92%) Games
13 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (16.51%) Consultant
2 11 (10.09%) Developer
2 11 (10.09%) SAP Consultant
3 10 (9.17%) Analyst
4 9 (8.26%) Senior
5 7 (6.42%) Lead
6 6 (5.50%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.50%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.59%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.59%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Desktop Support
7 5 (4.59%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Java Developer
7 5 (4.59%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) SAP PP Consultant
7 5 (4.59%) SAP QM Consultant
7 5 (4.59%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.17%) Kafka
1 10 (9.17%) OpenAPI
1 10 (9.17%) React
1 10 (9.17%) Spring
1 10 (9.17%) Spring Boot
1 10 (9.17%) Swagger
2 4 (3.67%) PyTorch
2 4 (3.67%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.83%) pytest
4 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.92%) CSS
4 1 (0.92%) HTML
4 1 (0.92%) Jest
4 1 (0.92%) Middleware
4 1 (0.92%) Node.js
4 1 (0.92%) OLE
4 1 (0.92%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.92%) SAPUI5
4 1 (0.92%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Life Science
2 10 (9.17%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.50%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 4 (3.67%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.75%) SCADA
7 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.83%) FMCG
7 2 (1.83%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.83%) Tandem
8 1 (0.92%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.92%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.26%) Windows
2 7 (6.42%) Windows XP
3 5 (4.59%) Windows 10
3 5 (4.59%) Windows 8
3 5 (4.59%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.59%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (4.59%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (4.59%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (4.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.83%) Linux
4 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.92%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (18.35%) Agile
2 20 (18.35%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (16.51%) Migration
3 18 (16.51%) Programme Management
3 18 (16.51%) Quality Management
4 17 (15.60%) CI/CD
4 17 (15.60%) DevOps
4 17 (15.60%) Digital Marketing
5 14 (12.84%) Containerisation
5 14 (12.84%) Logistics
6 13 (11.93%) Project Management
7 12 (11.01%) ERP
8 11 (10.09%) Change Management
8 11 (10.09%) Inventory Management
8 11 (10.09%) TDD
9 10 (9.17%) Microservices
9 10 (9.17%) Software Engineering
9 10 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (8.26%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.01%) Java
2 11 (10.09%) SQL
3 10 (9.17%) TypeScript
4 6 (5.50%) Python
5 3 (2.75%) Scala
6 1 (0.92%) Bash
6 1 (0.92%) Bicep
6 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.92%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.92%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (22.94%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.10%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.09%) Degree
4 5 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.59%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.83%) CCNA
5 2 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) QA
2 5 (4.59%) PMO
3 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.83%) GDPR
5 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.92%) GMP
5 1 (0.92%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (14.68%) Docker
2 5 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (7.34%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.59%) SCCM
3 4 (3.67%) Terraform
4 2 (1.83%) Grafana
4 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.92%) Ansible
5 1 (0.92%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 55 (50.46%) SAP
2 11 (10.09%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.50%) Ariba
4 5 (4.59%) AVEVA
4 5 (4.59%) Canon
4 5 (4.59%) Oracle
5 2 (1.83%) Anaplan
5 2 (1.83%) Cisco
5 2 (1.83%) Hyperion
5 2 (1.83%) Meraki
5 2 (1.83%) Rockwell
5 2 (1.83%) Sage
5 2 (1.83%) Siemens
6 1 (0.92%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.92%) Workday