Manufacturing Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Manufacturing
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 39 49
Rank change year-on-year -45 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.14% 1.03% 0.53%
As % of the General category 0.21% 1.54% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £435
25th Percentile - - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile - - £550
90th Percentile - - £565
South Yorkshire median daily rate £325 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All General Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 478 195 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 65.93% 66.78% 67.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 108 165
10th Percentile £317 £246 £400
25th Percentile £403 £447 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £547 £600 £610
90th Percentile £675 £668 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £514 £539
% change year-on-year -7.06% -4.64% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £13.97 £12.79 £18.65
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.35 £18.88
Median hourly rate £14.43 £18.10 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.28% -7.21% +2.63%
75th Percentile £14.71 £20.38 £19.88
90th Percentile £14.89 £21.05 £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.43 £18.10 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.28% -9.53% +5.26%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Manufacturing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Manufacturing job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FMCG
1 1 (100.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle