Manufacturing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Manufacturing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 94 63
Rank change year-on-year +59 -31 +39
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 77 51 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.10% 1.90% 3.17%
As % of the General category 8.00% 3.43% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 36 73
10th Percentile £444 £256 £271
25th Percentile £531 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £475 £590
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -19.49% +18.00%
75th Percentile £700 £555 £685
90th Percentile - £656 £735
South East median daily rate £581 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +45.31% -27.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 2
10th Percentile £26.76 £38.63 £22.05
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £22.13
Median hourly rate £50.75 £61.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +151.02% +44.12%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.13 £27.13
90th Percentile £69.87 £68.89 £27.35
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% -16.67% -

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 963 1,485 1,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 63.73% 55.29% 62.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 787 1,231
10th Percentile £265 £205 £303
25th Percentile £409 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £601
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 137 41
10th Percentile - £17.86 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.61 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.38 £48.40 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -45.50% +49.85% +84.57%
75th Percentile £61.37 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.71 £75.24 £75.75
South East median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the Thames Valley

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the Thames Valley

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the Thames Valley

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the Thames Valley

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in the Thames Valley

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +52 61 £638 +15.91% 179
Oxfordshire +10 12 £550 +29.41% 112
Buckinghamshire +13 4 £475 +1.33% 234
Manufacturing
South East

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (2.60%) CMS
1 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.30%) CATIA
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (16.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (14.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (2.60%) SAP EWM
4 1 (1.30%) Primavera
4 1 (1.30%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.39%) Azure
2 3 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.60%) Azure AKS
3 2 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (2.60%) PaaS
4 1 (1.30%) AWS
4 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.30%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) Firewall
1 3 (3.90%) LAN
1 3 (3.90%) Network Security
2 2 (2.60%) iSCSI
2 2 (2.60%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.60%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (2.60%) WAN
2 2 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.30%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.30%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.30%) DNS
3 1 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.30%) Junos
3 1 (1.30%) SSL
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
3 1 (1.30%) Wireless
3 1 (1.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) Power BI
2 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.30%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Git
1 4 (5.19%) Selenium
2 3 (3.90%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) SpecFlow
General
1 48 (62.34%) Finance
2 37 (48.05%) Public Sector
3 36 (46.75%) Electronics
3 36 (46.75%) Marketing
3 36 (46.75%) Telecoms
4 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
5 7 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.19%) Automotive
8 3 (3.90%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.60%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.60%) Aviation
9 2 (2.60%) Avionics
9 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (28.57%) Architect
2 21 (27.27%) Active Directory Architect
3 11 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 8 (10.39%) SAP Manager
5 6 (7.79%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) SAP Project Manager
6 5 (6.49%) Analyst
6 5 (6.49%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (6.49%) Test Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Lead
7 4 (5.19%) Senior
8 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Finance Manager
8 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (3.90%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Technical Manager
9 2 (2.60%) Integration Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) Gherkin
1 3 (3.90%) PySpark
2 2 (2.60%) YAML
3 1 (1.30%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.30%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.78%) Life Science
1 16 (20.78%) Renewable Energy
2 6 (7.79%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.60%) CCTV
4 2 (2.60%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.30%) CMDB
5 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (35.06%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (51.95%) Programme Management
2 39 (50.65%) Business Intelligence
3 36 (46.75%) Digital Marketing
4 33 (42.86%) Agile
5 24 (31.17%) Test Automation
6 21 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
7 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (14.29%) Project Management
10 10 (12.99%) Migration
11 9 (11.69%) Change Management
11 9 (11.69%) Time Management
12 8 (10.39%) Asset Management
12 8 (10.39%) Strategic Thinking
13 7 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
13 7 (9.09%) PRINCE2
14 6 (7.79%) CI/CD
14 6 (7.79%) ERP
14 6 (7.79%) Project Planning
14 6 (7.79%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.47%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.49%) Python
3 4 (5.19%) Bash
3 4 (5.19%) SQL
4 2 (2.60%) ABAP
4 2 (2.60%) Bicep
5 1 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 27 (35.06%) DV Cleared
3 11 (14.29%) Degree
4 8 (10.39%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.19%) PMI Certification
5 4 (5.19%) PMP
6 3 (3.90%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.30%) CCNP
8 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.30%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) PMBOK
2 3 (3.90%) QA
3 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) NIST
4 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.60%) NFS
2 2 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (3.90%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.60%) vRealize
2 2 (2.60%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (1.30%) Ansible
3 1 (1.30%) CASB
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 53 (68.83%) SAP
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.90%) Databricks
4 2 (2.60%) Cisco
4 2 (2.60%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.60%) VMware
5 1 (1.30%) Aruba
5 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.30%) Citrix
5 1 (1.30%) Dell
5 1 (1.30%) F5
5 1 (1.30%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.30%) HP
5 1 (1.30%) IBM
5 1 (1.30%) Juniper
5 1 (1.30%) NEC
5 1 (1.30%) Workday