Manufacturing Contracts in the South East

Manufacturing
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 75 70
Rank change year-on-year +33 -5 +65
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 139 139 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.67% 2.54% 3.01%
As % of the General category 7.57% 5.04% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 71 115
10th Percentile £203 £200 £200
25th Percentile £425 £205 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +32.94% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £700 £544 £672
90th Percentile - £625 £737
England median daily rate £530 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 31 25
10th Percentile £22.88 £13.05 £22.34
25th Percentile £32.05 £19.23 £42.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £74.06 £59.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.55 £65.00 £53.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.94% -26.67% +38.48%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,836 2,760 3,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 61.74% 50.35% 58.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,524 2,265
10th Percentile £213 £205 £236
25th Percentile £375 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £660 £688 £719
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 333 169
10th Percentile £13.07 £12.88 £17.95
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.35 £22.23
Median hourly rate £22.00 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.11% -5.26% +137.50%
75th Percentile £59.69 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £73.80
England median hourly rate £27.19 £30.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.86% -6.15% +51.16%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the South East

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the South East

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the South East

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the South East

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in the South East

Manufacturing
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Thames Valley +50 74 £631 +32.89% 242
Berkshire +43 58 £650 +18.18% 102
Hampshire +21 33 £425 +102.38% 121
Oxfordshire +9 13 £550 +29.41% 106
Surrey +19 11 £195 -61.00% 27
Kent -6 7 £205 - 31
East Sussex - 4 - - 20
West Sussex +13 3 - - 28
Buckinghamshire +8 3 £475 +1.33% 55
Home Counties - 2 - -
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (7.91%) Confluence
2 3 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.44%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (8.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.72%) CATIA
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (10.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (8.63%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 3 (2.16%) Infor LN
4 2 (1.44%) SAP EWM
4 2 (1.44%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.72%) Primavera
5 1 (0.72%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.19%) Azure
2 5 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (2.88%) AWS
4 3 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.16%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.44%) Azure AKS
5 2 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.72%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.72%) OCI
6 1 (0.72%) PaaS
6 1 (0.72%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.32%) Firewall
1 6 (4.32%) LAN
2 5 (3.60%) WAN
3 4 (2.88%) DNS
4 3 (2.16%) DHCP
4 3 (2.16%) Network Security
4 3 (2.16%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (2.16%) VPN
4 3 (2.16%) Wireless
5 2 (1.44%) iSCSI
5 2 (1.44%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.72%) BGP
6 1 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.72%) IPsec
6 1 (0.72%) Junos
6 1 (0.72%) OSPF
6 1 (0.72%) SAN
6 1 (0.72%) SSL
6 1 (0.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.16%) Power BI
2 2 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.72%) MS Access
3 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (10.07%) JIRA
2 10 (7.19%) Visual Studio
3 5 (3.60%) Git
4 4 (2.88%) Selenium
5 3 (2.16%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.72%) Maven
General
1 92 (66.19%) Finance
2 65 (46.76%) Public Sector
3 62 (44.60%) Marketing
4 61 (43.88%) Electronics
4 61 (43.88%) Telecoms
5 42 (30.22%) Social Skills
6 10 (7.19%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (5.76%) Aerospace
9 5 (3.60%) Automotive
9 5 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.88%) Aviation
11 3 (2.16%) Avionics
11 3 (2.16%) Law
12 2 (1.44%) Agriculture
12 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.44%) Legal
13 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.72%) Military
13 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (18.71%) Architect
2 21 (15.11%) Active Directory Architect
3 13 (9.35%) Developer
3 13 (9.35%) Project Manager
4 10 (7.19%) Delphi Developer
4 10 (7.19%) SAP Manager
5 8 (5.76%) Support Engineer
6 7 (5.04%) Analyst
6 7 (5.04%) Desktop Engineer
6 7 (5.04%) Desktop Support
6 7 (5.04%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 7 (5.04%) Lead
7 6 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.32%) Consultant
7 6 (4.32%) IT Engineer
7 6 (4.32%) Network Engineer
7 6 (4.32%) SAP Project Manager
7 6 (4.32%) Senior
8 5 (3.60%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (3.60%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.16%) Gherkin
1 3 (2.16%) PySpark
2 2 (1.44%) CSS
2 2 (1.44%) HTML
2 2 (1.44%) YAML
3 1 (0.72%) .NET
3 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.72%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.72%) Google Maps API
3 1 (0.72%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (0.72%) Java EE
3 1 (0.72%) React
3 1 (0.72%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.72%) SAPUI5
3 1 (0.72%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.23%) Life Science
1 17 (12.23%) Renewable Energy
2 14 (10.07%) NHS
3 6 (4.32%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.16%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.16%) LIMS
5 2 (1.44%) CCTV
5 2 (1.44%) FPGA
5 2 (1.44%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.44%) Verilog
5 2 (1.44%) VHDL
6 1 (0.72%) ASIC
6 1 (0.72%) CMDB
6 1 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.72%) FMCG
6 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.72%) PMI
6 1 (0.72%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 45 (32.37%) Windows
2 7 (5.04%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (46.04%) Business Intelligence
1 64 (46.04%) Programme Management
2 61 (43.88%) Digital Marketing
3 42 (30.22%) Agile
4 38 (27.34%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (19.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (17.27%) Test Automation
7 21 (15.11%) Identity Access Management
8 20 (14.39%) Collaborative Working
8 20 (14.39%) ERP
9 18 (12.95%) Project Management
10 16 (11.51%) Migration
11 14 (10.07%) Root Cause Analysis
12 13 (9.35%) Change Management
12 13 (9.35%) Time Management
13 10 (7.19%) Functional Testing
13 10 (7.19%) PRINCE2
13 10 (7.19%) Risk Management
13 10 (7.19%) Strategic Thinking
14 9 (6.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.99%) PowerShell
2 16 (11.51%) SQL
3 11 (7.91%) C#
4 10 (7.19%) Delphi
4 10 (7.19%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.04%) Python
6 4 (2.88%) Bash
7 2 (1.44%) ABAP
7 2 (1.44%) Bicep
7 2 (1.44%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.72%) C
8 1 (0.72%) C++
8 1 (0.72%) Java
8 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (35.97%) Security Cleared
2 32 (23.02%) DV Cleared
3 19 (13.67%) Degree
4 17 (12.23%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.76%) PMP
6 5 (3.60%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.44%) CCNP
8 2 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.72%) CISMP
9 1 (0.72%) Dell Certification
9 1 (0.72%) HNC
9 1 (0.72%) HND
9 1 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.72%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.04%) QA
2 5 (3.60%) PMBOK
3 3 (2.16%) JSP 440
3 3 (2.16%) PMO
4 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.44%) DO-254
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.72%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) GLP
5 1 (0.72%) MIL-STD-1553
5 1 (0.72%) NIST
5 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (15.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.72%) NFS
2 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.16%) FortiGate
2 2 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.72%) Ansible
3 1 (0.72%) CASB
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.72%) vRealize
3 1 (0.72%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 83 (59.71%) SAP
2 20 (14.39%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.63%) Oracle
4 5 (3.60%) Cisco
5 3 (2.16%) Databricks
5 3 (2.16%) Dell
5 3 (2.16%) HP
5 3 (2.16%) Infor
5 3 (2.16%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.44%) Aruba
6 2 (1.44%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.44%) IBM
6 2 (1.44%) LogRhythm
6 2 (1.44%) NEC
6 2 (1.44%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.44%) Workday
7 1 (0.72%) EMC
7 1 (0.72%) Juniper
7 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.72%) VMware