Smart Manufacturing Contracts in the North West

Smart Manufacturing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Smart Manufacturing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smart Manufacturing over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Smart Manufacturing 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Smart Manufacturing is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,380 2,948 3,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.58% 90.96% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,106 2,601
10th Percentile £306 £313 £229
25th Percentile £406 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £568
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £532
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.38% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 146 167
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.65
25th Percentile £13.11 £20.48 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +20.86%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.24 £43.89
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.17% +55.71% -0.19%

Smart Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart Manufacturing in the North West

Smart Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Smart Manufacturing in the North West

Smart 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 Smart Manufacturing within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 April 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 - 5 - -
Manchester - 2 - -
Smart Manufacturing
England

Smart 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:

Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Power BI
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Manufacturing Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) IT Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) IT Support
2 3 (42.86%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (71.43%) Data Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) Data Extraction
1 5 (71.43%) FMEA
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (71.43%) Process Improvement
1 5 (71.43%) Project Management
1 5 (71.43%) Test Scripting
1 5 (71.43%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Operational Stability
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) Scalability Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) GAMP
1 5 (71.43%) GxP
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
1 2 (28.57%) Siemens