Manufacturing Contracts in South London

Manufacturing
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 4.17% - -
As % of the General category 6.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £530 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.67% +4.35% +4.55%

All General Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 107 123 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 63.69% 54.67% 68.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 78 194
10th Percentile £280 £200 £316
25th Percentile £448 £401 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £675 £558 £675
90th Percentile £938 £611 £835
London median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 12
10th Percentile - £15.90 £18.75
25th Percentile - £17.06 £19.69
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% -53.39% +9.21%
75th Percentile £20.38 £69.13 £51.06
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £55.50
London median hourly rate £31.17 £30.00 £31.71
% change year-on-year +3.91% -5.39% -10.68%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in South London

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in South London

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in South London

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Croydon - 6 £450 - 1
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 - -
Manufacturing
London

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 1 (14.29%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) IaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (71.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Gradle
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (71.43%) JUnit
1 5 (71.43%) Liquibase
1 5 (71.43%) Mockito
General
1 6 (85.71%) Electronics
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Marketing
1 6 (85.71%) Public Sector
1 6 (85.71%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Java Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Control Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Kafka
1 5 (71.43%) OpenAPI
1 5 (71.43%) React
1 5 (71.43%) Spring
1 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
1 5 (71.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Digital Marketing
1 6 (85.71%) Programme Management
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Compliance Management
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Functional Safety
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) EMC
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Siemens
2 1 (14.29%) SonicWALL
2 1 (14.29%) VMware