Design for Manufacturing Contracts

Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Design for Manufacturing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design for Manufacturing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 695 849
Rank change year-on-year +121 +154 -168
Contract jobs citing Design for Manufacturing 20 21 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.035% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.039% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - £300
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile £673 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 21 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £42.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £45.00
75th Percentile - £47.50 £48.13
90th Percentile - - £49.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Design for Manufacturing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Design for Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Design for Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Design for Manufacturing in the UK

Design for Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design for Manufacturing.

Daily rate trend for Design for Manufacturing in the UK

Design for Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design for Manufacturing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design for Manufacturing in the UK

Design for Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design for Manufacturing.

Hourly rate trend for Design for Manufacturing in the UK

Design for Manufacturing
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design for Manufacturing within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +62 18 £450 - 86
England +113 17 £663 - 96
South East +18 15 - - 33
Wales - 3 £450 - 1
London - 2 £663 - 9
Work from Home +106 1 £470 - 19

Design for Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 15 (75.00%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 17 (85.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 15 (75.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 15 (75.00%) Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) Design Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Mechanical Design Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Mechanical Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (75.00%) Analogue Electronics
1 15 (75.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Systems Engineering
2 15 (75.00%) Prototyping
2 15 (75.00%) Requirements Management
3 3 (15.00%) Change Management
3 3 (15.00%) Knowledge Management
4 2 (10.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (10.00%) SysML
4 2 (10.00%) UML
4 2 (10.00%) V-Model
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Firmware