Manufacturing Contracts in Reading

Manufacturing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 63 62
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 +36
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Manufacturing 26 28 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.42% 2.55% 2.19%
As % of the General category 7.03% 4.72% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 11
10th Percentile - £505 £356
25th Percentile £600 £613 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +64.71% -16.26%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £738
90th Percentile - £943 £750
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £565 £415
% change year-on-year +15.04% +36.14% -40.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £79.12 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.49% - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £52.25 £62.73 £61.25
% change year-on-year -16.70% +2.41% -0.41%

All General Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 370 593 672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 62.93% 53.91% 61.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 270 399
10th Percentile £350 £298 £300
25th Percentile £450 £460 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +11.54% +5.05%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £638
90th Percentile £700 £711 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 30 10
10th Percentile - £14.50 £18.33
25th Percentile £14.75 £49.63 £57.81
Median hourly rate £20.75 £61.60 £64.09
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% -3.88% +128.88%
75th Percentile £38.42 £76.46 £67.42
90th Percentile £60.50 £87.46 £74.13
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £56.06
% change year-on-year -47.97% +9.88% +149.16%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Reading

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Manufacturing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Reading over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in Reading

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Manufacturing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP QM
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) Modbus
1 1 (3.85%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
1 2 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 23 (88.46%) Marketing
2 22 (84.62%) Electronics
2 22 (84.62%) Finance
2 22 (84.62%) Public Sector
2 22 (84.62%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (73.08%) Active Directory Architect
1 19 (73.08%) Architect
2 2 (7.69%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 1 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (3.85%) Consultant
3 1 (3.85%) Desktop Support
3 1 (3.85%) Developer
3 1 (3.85%) IT Support
3 1 (3.85%) Lead
3 1 (3.85%) Network Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (3.85%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (3.85%) SAP QM Consultant
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 1 (3.85%) Team Leader
3 1 (3.85%) Test Leader
3 1 (3.85%) Test Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (3.85%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
1 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 21 (80.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Business Intelligence
1 22 (84.62%) Digital Marketing
1 22 (84.62%) Programme Management
2 19 (73.08%) Agile
2 19 (73.08%) Identity Access Management
2 19 (73.08%) Test Automation
3 3 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 2 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (7.69%) Migration
4 2 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (3.85%) Analytics
5 1 (3.85%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (3.85%) Data Protection
5 1 (3.85%) Discrete Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Inventory Management
5 1 (3.85%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (3.85%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.69%) Bash
2 2 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 21 (80.77%) Security Cleared
2 20 (76.92%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 19 (73.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 23 (88.46%) SAP
2 1 (3.85%) Aruba
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco
2 1 (3.85%) F5
2 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
2 1 (3.85%) HP
2 1 (3.85%) Juniper
2 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.85%) Siemens