Manufacturing Engineering Contract Job Trends in the South East

Manufacturing Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Manufacturing Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.029% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £625 - £463
% change year-on-year - - +8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Manufacturing Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,064 3,785 5,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.12% 82.48% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,271 3,374
10th Percentile £220 £256 £250
25th Percentile £380 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +2.53%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £656 £690 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 258 256
10th Percentile £13.48 £16.18 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £34.25 £23.06
Median hourly rate £20.58 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.12% +9.24% +61.54%
75th Percentile £50.00 £72.22 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £78.75 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

Manufacturing Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Manufacturing Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing Engineering in the South East

Manufacturing Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Manufacturing Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Manufacturing Engineering

Manufacturing Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Manufacturing Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Manufacturing Engineering

Manufacturing Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Berkshire - 1 - -
Thames Valley - 1 - -
Manufacturing Engineering
England

Manufacturing Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (100.00%) Teamcenter
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) PLM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens