Manufacturing Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Manufacturing
South East > West Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in West Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 21 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 8 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 3.10% 4.00% 3.13%
As % of the General category 5.00% 7.69% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £265 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £800 £200
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +300.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 - £360
90th Percentile £675 - £648
South East median daily rate £448 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -18.64% +29.41% -26.09%

All General Skills
West Sussex

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 general skills in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 160 65 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 62.02% 52.00% 53.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 49 83
10th Percentile £149 £189 £198
25th Percentile £275 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - -11.83%
75th Percentile £537 £630 £550
90th Percentile £684 £738 £696
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 10
10th Percentile - - £15.16
25th Percentile £12.63 - £18.20
Median hourly rate £18.12 £24.66 £20.44
Median % change year-on-year -26.52% +20.66% -7.77%
75th Percentile £54.38 - £22.25
90th Percentile £67.50 - £22.92
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +16.44% -18.89%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Manufacturing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Manufacturing job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Manufacturing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in West Sussex over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in West Sussex

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Manufacturing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 12 February 2026. 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
Crawley - 3 £400 - 3
Worthing -9 2 £650 -18.75% 2
Manufacturing
South East

Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) BGP
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) Junos
1 3 (37.50%) OSPF
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
General
1 6 (75.00%) Electronics
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
1 6 (75.00%) Marketing
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
1 6 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Juniper Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Juniper Specialist
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Network Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Change Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Communications Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Change Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) NHS
2 2 (25.00%) CMDB
2 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (25.00%) SCADA
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Digital Marketing
1 6 (75.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (37.50%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (37.50%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (25.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (25.00%) Data Entry
3 2 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Identification
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Map
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) JNCIA
1 3 (37.50%) JNCIP
1 3 (37.50%) JNCIS
2 2 (25.00%) APMG
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) SAP
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow