Manufacturing Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Manufacturing
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 2.27% - 2.70%
As % of the General category 12.50% - 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £369
75th Percentile £475 - £378
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £345 £475 £397
% change year-on-year -27.37% +19.67% +5.84%

All General Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 general skills in Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 8 9 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 18.18% 81.82% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 11
10th Percentile £359 £294 £250
25th Percentile £414 £350 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £473 £325
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% +45.38% -36.27%
75th Percentile £596 £534 £376
90th Percentile £634 £713 £413
Staffordshire median daily rate £506 £350 £374
% change year-on-year +44.64% -6.42% -28.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.78 -
Staffordshire median hourly rate £19.95 £30.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year -33.50% -11.58% +23.38%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Manufacturing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Manufacturing job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Manufacturing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality