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 advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 82 104
Rank change year-on-year +28 +22 -30
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 93 75 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.42% 2.37% 1.91%
As % of the General category 6.37% 4.58% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 49 58
10th Percentile £405 £324 £453
25th Percentile £416 £425 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £486 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% -11.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £597 £540 £648
90th Percentile £738 £668 £738
England median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 8 10
10th Percentile £23.80 £23.15 £9.90
25th Percentile £30.07 £25.93 £12.06
Median hourly rate £35.00 £41.08 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.80% +53.56% +3.89%
75th Percentile £43.75 £45.05 £80.63
90th Percentile £54.34 £48.79 £96.23
England median hourly rate £33.00 £45.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year -26.67% +25.87% -0.69%

All General Skills
North West

Manufacturing is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,460 1,639 2,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.72% 51.88% 49.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 1,132 1,408
10th Percentile £300 £305 £218
25th Percentile £400 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.95%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 80 114
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.17 £11.21
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.14 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £26.60 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.38% +33.00% -10.11%
75th Percentile £36.72 £37.66 £43.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £53.02 £53.59
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.20% +51.16% -4.44%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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 +14 34 £510 +13.33% 92
Manchester +22 33 £579 +15.75% 167
Merseyside +31 16 £258 -44.02% 34
Lancashire +12 7 - - 58
Cumbria -29 2 £600 +23.46% 15
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 5 (5.38%) Apache
1 5 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) CMS
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (9.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) SAP PP
1 3 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.15%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.15%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.08%) SAP EWM
3 1 (1.08%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.08%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.90%) AWS
2 8 (8.60%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (7.53%) Azure
3 7 (7.53%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (7.53%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (7.53%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.45%) Snowflake
5 5 (5.38%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (5.38%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.38%) Serverless
6 3 (3.23%) IaaS
6 3 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.23%) PaaS
6 3 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.08%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.38%) FTP
2 3 (3.23%) InfiniBand
3 2 (2.15%) MQTT
4 1 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.08%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.08%) Firewall
4 1 (1.08%) NAS
4 1 (1.08%) SAN
4 1 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.53%) Power BI
2 5 (5.38%) Big Data
3 4 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.30%) Metadata
4 3 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.08%) MySQL
5 1 (1.08%) Navicat
5 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Git
1 5 (5.38%) JIRA
2 4 (4.30%) ERwin
3 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (27.96%) Finance
2 21 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 16 (17.20%) Pharmaceutical
4 14 (15.05%) Electronics
5 12 (12.90%) Marketing
5 12 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 12 (12.90%) Telecoms
6 7 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.38%) Retail
8 3 (3.23%) Automotive
8 3 (3.23%) French Language
9 2 (2.15%) Aeronautics
10 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.08%) Aviation
10 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.08%) German Language
10 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (15.05%) Analyst
2 13 (13.98%) Architect
2 13 (13.98%) Project Manager
3 10 (10.75%) Business Analyst
4 9 (9.68%) Senior
4 9 (9.68%) Trainer
5 8 (8.60%) Consultant
5 8 (8.60%) Data Architect
6 6 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) ERP Manager
7 5 (5.38%) ERP Project Manager
7 5 (5.38%) Manufacturing Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (5.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Administrator
8 4 (4.30%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (4.30%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 4 (4.30%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.38%) JSON
1 5 (5.38%) XML
2 2 (2.15%) RESTful
2 2 (2.15%) SOAP
3 1 (1.08%) Kafka
3 1 (1.08%) Laravel
3 1 (1.08%) Middleware
3 1 (1.08%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Robotics
2 9 (9.68%) Industry 4.0
3 7 (7.53%) IoT
4 6 (6.45%) Life Science
5 4 (4.30%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.30%) Taxonomies
5 4 (4.30%) Wiki
6 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.15%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.15%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.08%) Clustering
8 1 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.08%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.08%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.08%) FMCG
8 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.08%) iPhone
8 1 (1.08%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.08%) Android
2 1 (1.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (21.51%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (15.05%) Data Governance
2 14 (15.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (13.98%) Analytics
4 12 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (12.90%) Data Management
4 12 (12.90%) Digital Marketing
4 12 (12.90%) ERP
4 12 (12.90%) Programme Management
4 12 (12.90%) Requirements Gathering
5 11 (11.83%) Change Management
5 11 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (11.83%) Software Engineering
6 10 (10.75%) Business Analysis
6 10 (10.75%) Roadmaps
7 9 (9.68%) Agile
7 9 (9.68%) Data Protection
7 9 (9.68%) Project Management
7 9 (9.68%) Use Case
8 8 (8.60%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.05%) SQL
2 5 (5.38%) C#
2 5 (5.38%) Java
2 5 (5.38%) Python
3 3 (3.23%) MATLAB
4 2 (2.15%) C
4 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.08%) ABAP
5 1 (1.08%) PHP
5 1 (1.08%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (12.90%) Degree
2 9 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.38%) IIBA
3 5 (5.38%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.30%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.08%) HNC
5 1 (1.08%) HND
5 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.83%) GDPR
1 11 (11.83%) GxP
2 5 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.38%) GAMP
2 5 (5.38%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (1.08%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.23%) Firmware
3 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.23%) Dell DRAC
1 3 (3.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.08%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (1.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (32.26%) SAP
2 5 (5.38%) Informatica
2 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.38%) Talend
3 4 (4.30%) Sparx
4 3 (3.23%) Dell
4 3 (3.23%) Isilon
4 3 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.15%) BMC
5 2 (2.15%) Citrix
5 2 (2.15%) VMware
6 1 (1.08%) Allen-Bradley
6 1 (1.08%) Ariba
6 1 (1.08%) Cisco
6 1 (1.08%) F5
6 1 (1.08%) Facebook
6 1 (1.08%) HP
6 1 (1.08%) IBM
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle
6 1 (1.08%) Veeam