Manufacturing Contracts in Shropshire

Manufacturing
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Shropshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 1.53% - 1.20%
As % of the General category 2.47% - 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £178
25th Percentile £253 - £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 - £323
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.86%
75th Percentile £258 - £430
90th Percentile - - £487
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £429 £500
% change year-on-year +10.79% -14.25% -

All General Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 81 50 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 61.83% 37.31% 58.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 84
10th Percentile £210 £248 £320
25th Percentile £332 £343 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £519 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% -3.89% +9.09%
75th Percentile £537 £535 £543
90th Percentile £541 £538 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -7.32% +0.49% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -81.05% -
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.85
% change year-on-year -4.58% +6.44% +5.00%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Shropshire

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in Shropshire.

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in Shropshire

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in Shropshire.

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in Shropshire

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Shrewsbury - 1 - - 8
Telford - 1 £255 - 12
Manufacturing
West Midlands

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) QAD