Manufacturing Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Manufacturing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 42 51
Rank change year-on-year -47 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.38% 0.94% 0.69%
As % of the General category 0.59% 1.42% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £155 - £435
25th Percentile £219 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £400 - £550
90th Percentile £445 - £565
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +31.25% -20.00% +5.26%

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 508 211 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 65.13% 66.35% 66.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 119 178
10th Percentile £320 £209 £400
25th Percentile £405 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £539
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -4.41% +2.62%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £667 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £501
% change year-on-year -2.50% -0.25% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £13.97 £12.79 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.35 £19.25
Median hourly rate £14.43 £18.10 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.28% -9.53% +5.26%
75th Percentile £14.71 £20.38 £35.00
90th Percentile £14.89 £21.05 £44.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -5.33% +18.42% -

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Manufacturing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Manufacturing job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Manufacturing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in South Yorkshire

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Manufacturing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Sheffield -47 1 £325 - 16
Barnsley - 1 £450 - 6
Doncaster - 1 £115 - 5
Manufacturing
Yorkshire

Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
1 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Installation Technician
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) FMCG
1 1 (33.33%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP