Manufacturing Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Manufacturing
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 31 56
Rank change year-on-year -10 +25 -21
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 9 11 6
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.03% 3.67% 1.00%
As % of the General category 4.23% 6.63% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile £413 £175 £383
25th Percentile £451 £190 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £195 £565
Median % change year-on-year +171.79% -65.49% -1.74%
75th Percentile £563 £256 £685
90th Percentile £574 £503 £784
South East median daily rate £450 £600 £350
% change year-on-year -25.00% +71.43% -39.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £23.75 -
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £50.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year -59.03% +35.33% -16.67%

All General Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 213 166 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 47.97% 55.33% 50.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 102 213
10th Percentile £204 £175 £222
25th Percentile £313 £217 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £411 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -13.42% -6.40%
75th Percentile £600 £534 £594
90th Percentile £688 £637 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 29
10th Percentile £16.24 £16.37 £12.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £12.78
Median hourly rate £54.00 £24.18 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +123.33% +31.77% -59.22%
75th Percentile £64.50 £26.50 £26.73
90th Percentile £75.00 £29.25 £39.00
South East median hourly rate £33.75 £27.76 £30.83
% change year-on-year +21.58% -9.94% -31.50%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Manufacturing job vacancy trend in Surrey

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Manufacturing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Surrey over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in Surrey

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Manufacturing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 18 March 2026. 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
Camberley - 2 - -
Guildford - 1 £425 - 4
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
Manufacturing
South East

Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (11.11%) SAP ERP
2 1 (11.11%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Lucidchart
1 1 (11.11%) OCI
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 3 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Military
4 1 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) German Language
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) IT Manager
2 2 (22.22%) IT Services Delivery Manager
2 2 (22.22%) IT Services Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Service Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Cabling Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Change Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (11.11%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Change Management
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 3 (33.33%) Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) Change Advisory Board
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
2 2 (22.22%) Discrete Manufacturing
2 2 (22.22%) ERP
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Service Management
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Supplier Relationship Management
2 2 (22.22%) Workflow
3 1 (11.11%) BPR
3 1 (11.11%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
3 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
3 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) PMO
2 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle