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 29 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 48 43
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 71 119 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.74% 4.05% 4.58%
As % of the General category 6.56% 7.96% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 78 127
10th Percentile £275 £260 £305
25th Percentile £355 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.37% +4.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £734 £675
90th Percentile £738 £816 £768
England median daily rate £537 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +5.29% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 11
10th Percentile - £23.10 £33.00
25th Percentile £13.50 - £36.28
Median hourly rate £14.55 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.91% -26.67% +38.89%
75th Percentile £28.40 - £60.50
90th Percentile £44.51 £42.50 £69.50
England median hourly rate £34.46 £33.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +4.41% -32.31% +8.33%

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 1,083 1,495 1,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 57.03% 50.85% 47.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 914 1,116
10th Percentile £213 £250 £294
25th Percentile £355 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +1.45%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £647
90th Percentile £675 £720 £723
England median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 229 134
10th Percentile £13.46 £13.69 £15.19
25th Percentile £15.25 £28.00 £30.71
Median hourly rate £22.74 £47.50 £56.29
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% -15.62% +25.31%
75th Percentile £53.99 £72.50 £69.50
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.50 £89.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £30.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +27.07% +23.20%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -9 31 £370 -35.65% 61
Wiltshire +21 21 £650 -10.34% 22
Gloucestershire +17 12 £725 +31.82% 77
Somerset -8 5 £350 -6.67% 46
Avon - 2 £275 - 35
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 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) CATIA
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.41%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) Azure
2 13 (18.31%) AWS
3 8 (11.27%) GCP
4 5 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.82%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.41%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.41%) OCI
7 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.41%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.86%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) MPLS
2 2 (2.82%) Wireless
3 1 (1.41%) DNS
3 1 (1.41%) Network Security
3 1 (1.41%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.41%) VPN
3 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) Metadata
1 1 (1.41%) MS Access
1 1 (1.41%) MySQL
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.41%) Power BI
1 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) GitLab
1 1 (1.41%) GoCD
1 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (59.15%) Finance
2 41 (57.75%) Electronics
3 40 (56.34%) Telecoms
4 38 (53.52%) Marketing
4 38 (53.52%) Public Sector
5 19 (26.76%) Social Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Aviation
7 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Military
7 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Automotive
8 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.41%) Legal
8 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (15.49%) Consultant
2 10 (14.08%) Developer
2 10 (14.08%) Security Consultant
3 9 (12.68%) Azure Developer
3 9 (12.68%) C# Developer
3 9 (12.68%) Support Engineer
4 8 (11.27%) Applications Engineer
4 8 (11.27%) Architect
4 8 (11.27%) IT Support
5 7 (9.86%) Applications Support
5 7 (9.86%) Applications Support Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Lead
6 6 (8.45%) Applications Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) C# Application Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Analyst
9 3 (4.23%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.49%) .NET
2 7 (9.86%) CSS
2 7 (9.86%) HTML
3 3 (4.23%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.41%) Kafka
4 1 (1.41%) ODBC
4 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.63%) FMCG
3 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.82%) Robotics
5 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.41%) CMDB
5 1 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.41%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.08%) Windows
2 6 (8.45%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.82%) Linux
3 2 (2.82%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.41%) Android
4 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (54.93%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (53.52%) Digital Marketing
2 38 (53.52%) Programme Management
3 11 (15.49%) CI/CD
4 10 (14.08%) Continuous Delivery
4 10 (14.08%) Service Management
4 10 (14.08%) TDD
5 9 (12.68%) Cloud Security
5 9 (12.68%) Collaborative Working
5 9 (12.68%) Risk Management
6 8 (11.27%) Test Automation
7 7 (9.86%) Computer Science
7 7 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (9.86%) Project Delivery
7 7 (9.86%) Service Delivery
7 7 (9.86%) Software Delivery
7 7 (9.86%) Software Engineering
7 7 (9.86%) User Experience
7 7 (9.86%) Web Development
8 6 (8.45%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.90%) C#
2 9 (12.68%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.04%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.04%) SQL
4 4 (5.63%) Python
5 1 (1.41%) Bash
5 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.41%) VB
5 1 (1.41%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.41%) VB6
5 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (36.62%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 16 (22.54%) DV Cleared
4 10 (14.08%) CESG Certified Professional
4 10 (14.08%) CISSP
5 9 (12.68%) Degree
6 7 (9.86%) Azure Certification
6 7 (9.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (7.04%) CISM
7 5 (7.04%) CLAS
7 5 (7.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (1.41%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (14.08%) RMADS
2 7 (9.86%) JSP 440
2 7 (9.86%) NCSC
3 5 (7.04%) NIST
4 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.82%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (2.82%) QA
6 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.41%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Terraform
2 2 (2.82%) Ansible
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.41%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.41%) FreeIPA
3 1 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.41%) Puppet
3 1 (1.41%) SCOM
3 1 (1.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (60.56%) SAP
2 10 (14.08%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.27%) Google
4 4 (5.63%) Oracle
5 2 (2.82%) Cisco
5 2 (2.82%) Citrix
5 2 (2.82%) Meraki
5 2 (2.82%) MobileIron
5 2 (2.82%) VMware
6 1 (1.41%) Apple
6 1 (1.41%) IFS
6 1 (1.41%) Infor
6 1 (1.41%) Qualys
6 1 (1.41%) Remedy
6 1 (1.41%) Siemens
6 1 (1.41%) Splunk
6 1 (1.41%) webMethods