Discrete Manufacturing Contracts

Discrete Manufacturing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Discrete Manufacturing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Discrete Manufacturing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 717 827
Rank change year-on-year +136 +110 -148
Contract jobs citing Discrete Manufacturing 5 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.008% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.009% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £402 - -
25th Percentile £406 £1,000 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £1,200 £676
Median % change year-on-year -64.90% +77.51% +28.76%
75th Percentile £428 £1,400 -
90th Percentile £429 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £676

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Discrete 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 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
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% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Discrete Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Discrete Manufacturing in the UK

Discrete Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Discrete Manufacturing in the UK

Discrete Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Discrete Manufacturing in the UK

Discrete 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 Discrete Manufacturing within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +122 4 £428 - 5
London - 3 £428 - 3
Work from Home +125 2 £414 - 4
UK excluding London +70 1 - - 3
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -

Discrete 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) SAP PP
2 1 (20.00%) SAP MII
2 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Consultant
1 5 (100.00%) SAP Consultant
2 4 (80.00%) SAP PP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) SAP Core Interface
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Order Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) ABAP
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft