Manufacturing Contracts in the North West

Manufacturing
England > North West

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 53 87
Rank change year-on-year +9 +34 +19
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 87 93 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.43% 3.45% 2.46%
As % of the General category 7.71% 6.42% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 38 51
10th Percentile £487 £405 £325
25th Percentile £508 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £486
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +4.94% -11.64%
75th Percentile £596 £597 £540
90th Percentile £699 £738 £688
England median daily rate £530 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +6.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 8
10th Percentile £19.73 £23.80 £23.15
25th Percentile £22.98 £30.07 £25.93
Median hourly rate £43.09 £35.00 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +23.11% -14.80% +53.56%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £45.05
90th Percentile £62.00 £54.34 £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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,129 1,449 1,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.46% 53.69% 52.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 888 1,144
10th Percentile £274 £300 £305
25th Percentile £381 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 190 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £16.15
25th Percentile £17.72 £14.50 £19.04
Median hourly rate £29.23 £17.72 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year +64.95% -34.85% +36.00%
75th Percentile £52.63 £36.95 £38.03
90th Percentile £75.50 £51.91 £53.06
England median hourly rate £27.57 £30.16 £32.30
% change year-on-year -8.59% -6.63% +50.23%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the North West

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the North West

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the North West

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the North West

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in the North West

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Cheshire -2 33 £550 +7.84% 83
Manchester +8 27 £520 -10.15% 149
Lancashire +3 9 - - 72
Cumbria +7 6 £741 +23.42% 14
Merseyside -12 2 - - 85
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (2.30%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (5.75%) MS Visio
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.15%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 23 (26.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (10.34%) SAP PP
3 5 (5.75%) SAP LE
4 2 (2.30%) SAP MM
5 1 (1.15%) BambooHR
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (1.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (1.15%) SAP QM
5 1 (1.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.64%) Azure
2 7 (8.05%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.75%) Snowflake
4 4 (4.60%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (4.60%) AWS
4 4 (4.60%) Azure AI
4 4 (4.60%) GCP
4 4 (4.60%) Google Gemini
5 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.30%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) LAN
1 5 (5.75%) VPN
2 2 (2.30%) Firewall
3 1 (1.15%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (11.49%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.05%) Power BI
3 5 (5.75%) Data Lake
3 5 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.60%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.15%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Gradle
1 10 (11.49%) Jenkins
1 10 (11.49%) JUnit
1 10 (11.49%) Liquibase
1 10 (11.49%) Mockito
2 5 (5.75%) GitLab
3 4 (4.60%) Git
4 2 (2.30%) JIRA
5 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 27 (31.03%) Finance
2 26 (29.89%) Social Skills
3 20 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (21.84%) Pharmaceutical
5 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
6 11 (12.64%) Electronics
7 10 (11.49%) Legal
7 10 (11.49%) Marketing
7 10 (11.49%) Telecoms
8 9 (10.34%) Aerospace
9 5 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (4.60%) Automotive
10 4 (4.60%) Retail
11 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.15%) Games
12 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (16.09%) Consultant
2 11 (12.64%) SAP Consultant
3 10 (11.49%) Developer
4 8 (9.20%) Analyst
5 7 (8.05%) Senior
6 6 (6.90%) SAP PP Consultant
6 6 (6.90%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Desktop Support
7 5 (5.75%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.49%) Kafka
1 10 (11.49%) OpenAPI
1 10 (11.49%) React
1 10 (11.49%) Spring
1 10 (11.49%) Spring Boot
1 10 (11.49%) Swagger
2 4 (4.60%) PyTorch
2 4 (4.60%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.15%) Middleware
3 1 (1.15%) OLE
3 1 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.15%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.64%) Life Science
2 10 (11.49%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.05%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 6 (6.90%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.60%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.45%) SCADA
7 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.30%) FMCG
7 2 (2.30%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.30%) Tandem
8 1 (1.15%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Windows
2 7 (8.05%) Windows XP
3 5 (5.75%) Windows 10
3 5 (5.75%) Windows 8
3 5 (5.75%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.75%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (5.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (5.75%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (5.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (21.84%) Agile
3 18 (20.69%) Quality Management
4 17 (19.54%) Migration
5 14 (16.09%) CI/CD
5 14 (16.09%) Containerisation
6 13 (14.94%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (14.94%) Logistics
7 12 (13.79%) DevOps
7 12 (13.79%) Project Management
8 10 (11.49%) Digital Marketing
8 10 (11.49%) Inventory Management
8 10 (11.49%) Microservices
8 10 (11.49%) Programme Management
8 10 (11.49%) Software Engineering
8 10 (11.49%) TDD
9 9 (10.34%) ERP
10 8 (9.20%) Change Management
10 8 (9.20%) Decision-Making
10 8 (9.20%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.64%) SQL
2 10 (11.49%) Java
2 10 (11.49%) TypeScript
3 4 (4.60%) Python
4 3 (3.45%) Scala
5 1 (1.15%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.15%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 23 (26.44%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.49%) Degree
4 7 (8.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (8.05%) Master's Degree
5 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.30%) CCNA
6 2 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.60%) PMO
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (16.09%) Docker
2 5 (5.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.75%) SCCM
2 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.30%) MOM
4 1 (1.15%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 47 (54.02%) SAP
2 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.05%) Ariba
4 5 (5.75%) AVEVA
4 5 (5.75%) Canon
5 4 (4.60%) Rockwell
5 4 (4.60%) Siemens
6 2 (2.30%) Anaplan
6 2 (2.30%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle
7 1 (1.15%) Sage
7 1 (1.15%) Workday