Smart Manufacturing Contracts

Smart Manufacturing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Smart Manufacturing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smart Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 586 -
Rank change year-on-year +67 - -
Contract jobs citing Smart Manufacturing 1 12 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.028% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.032% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £461 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 - -
75th Percentile £483 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £42.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £42.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Smart Manufacturing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,648 37,562 53,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.33% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,170 24,188 37,115
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,066 2,451 1,742
10th Percentile £14.35 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.26 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%

Smart Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart Manufacturing in the UK

Smart Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Smart Manufacturing in the UK

Smart Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Smart Manufacturing in the UK

Smart Manufacturing
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Manufacturing within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London +50 1 £472 - 81
Scotland - 1 £472 - 5

Smart 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (100.00%) Industry 4.0
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Contract Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) IEC 61508