Manufacturing Contracts in the South West

Manufacturing
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 40 48
Rank change year-on-year -17 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 56 134 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.30% 4.20% 4.49%
As % of the General category 5.79% 8.19% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 95 137
10th Percentile £308 £261 £320
25th Percentile £355 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +4.35% +10.58%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £675
90th Percentile £696 £788 £763
England median daily rate £530 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +6.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 6
10th Percentile £22.34 £29.50 £33.39
25th Percentile £28.55 £33.00 £37.08
Median hourly rate £40.84 £40.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% +1.14% +22.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £50.17
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.50 £51.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.94% -26.67% +26.76%

All General Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 968 1,637 1,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 57.04% 51.35% 49.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 974 1,307
10th Percentile £219 £213 £275
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £635
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 269 121
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £17.50
25th Percentile £25.84 £23.63 £37.50
Median hourly rate £58.75 £46.39 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.64% -22.68% +37.82%
75th Percentile £67.88 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.50 £87.50
England median hourly rate £27.70 £30.50 £32.40
% change year-on-year -9.18% -5.86% +50.70%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the South West

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the South West

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the South West

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the South West

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in the South West

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Bristol +8 34 £423 -25.88% 88
Wiltshire +4 7 £625 -16.67% 28
Gloucestershire -6 5 £750 +36.36% 110
Somerset +1 4 £250 -54.55% 59
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (5.36%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) CATIA
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.79%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) Azure
2 13 (23.21%) AWS
3 8 (14.29%) GCP
4 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.79%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.79%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.79%) OCI
6 1 (1.79%) SaaS
6 1 (1.79%) Serverless
6 1 (1.79%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) Firewall
1 3 (5.36%) Wireless
2 2 (3.57%) MPLS
2 2 (3.57%) VPN
3 1 (1.79%) DNS
3 1 (1.79%) LAN
3 1 (1.79%) Network Security
3 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Metadata
1 1 (1.79%) MySQL
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) JIRA
2 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.57%) NUnit
3 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.79%) Git
3 1 (1.79%) GitLab
3 1 (1.79%) Postman
3 1 (1.79%) Selenium
3 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (69.64%) Finance
2 38 (67.86%) Electronics
3 36 (64.29%) Telecoms
4 35 (62.50%) Marketing
4 35 (62.50%) Public Sector
5 26 (46.43%) Social Skills
6 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Advertising
8 1 (1.79%) Automotive
8 1 (1.79%) Aviation
8 1 (1.79%) Avionics
8 1 (1.79%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.79%) Legal
8 1 (1.79%) Military
8 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
1 8 (14.29%) Developer
1 8 (14.29%) Lead
1 8 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 7 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (12.50%) Applications Support
2 7 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
2 7 (12.50%) Azure Developer
2 7 (12.50%) C# Developer
2 7 (12.50%) Senior
3 6 (10.71%) Analyst
3 6 (10.71%) Applications Developer
3 6 (10.71%) C# Application Developer
3 6 (10.71%) Delivery Manager
3 6 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.14%) Architect
5 4 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.36%) Consultant
6 3 (5.36%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) .NET
2 8 (14.29%) CSS
2 8 (14.29%) HTML
3 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.57%) Playwright
5 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.79%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.79%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.79%) jQuery
5 1 (1.79%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.79%) Swagger
5 1 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.57%) FMCG
3 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.79%) CESG
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.79%) NHS
4 1 (1.79%) PKI
4 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (3.57%) Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Android
3 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (66.07%) Programme Management
2 35 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (62.50%) Digital Marketing
3 14 (25.00%) Agile
4 12 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 12 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 11 (19.64%) Project Management
5 11 (19.64%) Service Management
5 11 (19.64%) Software Delivery
6 10 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (17.86%) Software Engineering
6 10 (17.86%) TDD
7 9 (16.07%) Continuous Delivery
7 9 (16.07%) DevOps
8 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (14.29%) Service Delivery
8 8 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (14.29%) User Experience
8 8 (14.29%) Web Development
9 7 (12.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.86%) C#
2 9 (16.07%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.14%) SQL
5 2 (3.57%) Bash
5 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (21.43%) Degree
4 8 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 7 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 7 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (5.36%) CISSP
7 2 (3.57%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (3.57%) CLAS
8 1 (1.79%) ACCA
8 1 (1.79%) APMG
8 1 (1.79%) CEH
8 1 (1.79%) CIMA
8 1 (1.79%) CISA
8 1 (1.79%) CISM
8 1 (1.79%) CISMP
8 1 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.79%) Dell Certification
8 1 (1.79%) ISACA
8 1 (1.79%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) Accessibility
1 3 (5.36%) Government Security Classifications
1 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.36%) NIST
1 3 (5.36%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) JSP 440
2 2 (3.57%) RMADS
3 1 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.79%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.79%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Terraform
2 2 (3.57%) Ansible
2 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) Puppet
3 1 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (69.64%) SAP
2 8 (14.29%) Google
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (1.79%) Apple
4 1 (1.79%) Citrix
4 1 (1.79%) Dell
4 1 (1.79%) HP
4 1 (1.79%) Infor
4 1 (1.79%) Siemens
4 1 (1.79%) Splunk
4 1 (1.79%) VMware