Manufacturing Execution System Contracts in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing Execution System
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing Execution System in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing Execution System over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 370 424
Rank change year-on-year 0 +54 +87
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing Execution System 10 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.038% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.13% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £378 - £540
25th Percentile £406 £475 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -23.08% -3.85%
75th Percentile £613 £525 £744
90th Percentile £681 - £800
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £588
% change year-on-year - -14.89% -13.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £21.50 -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Manufacturing Execution System falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,221 5,281 6,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.12% 28.86% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,068 3,150 4,580
10th Percentile £230 £217 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £608 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 411 494 306
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.15 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £17.72 £20.13
Median hourly rate £29.27 £45.00 £40.46
Median % change year-on-year -34.96% +11.23% +88.17%
75th Percentile £61.12 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £29.27 £45.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -34.96% +24.14% +36.79%

Manufacturing Execution System
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Manufacturing Execution System as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing Execution System in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing Execution System
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing Execution System in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing Execution System in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing Execution System
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing Execution System in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing Execution System in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing Execution System
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing Execution System in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing Execution System in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing Execution System
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing Execution System within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
North West -6 5 £413 - 3
North of England -15 5 £413 - 5
Midlands -8 4 £625 - 2
East Midlands -6 3 £663 - 2
South West - 1 £350 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £525 -
Manufacturing Execution System
UK

Manufacturing Execution System
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (20.00%) FactoryTalk
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) ERP Manager
3 1 (10.00%) ERP Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) SCADA
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ERP
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (20.00%) Change Control
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) PLM
3 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (20.00%) PMP
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) AVEVA
2 2 (20.00%) Rockwell
2 2 (20.00%) Siemens
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow