Hybrid/Remote Discrete Manufacturing Contract Job Trends

Discrete Manufacturing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Discrete Manufacturing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 - 421
Rank change year-on-year - - +171
Contract jobs citing Discrete Manufacturing 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.062% - 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% - 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £543 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - £605
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.50%
75th Percentile £582 - -
90th Percentile £705 - -
UK median daily rate £578 - £605
% change year-on-year - - -10.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Discrete 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,893 11,028 18,148
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.21% 87.93% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,911 7,042 12,793
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 285 435
10th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £30.44 £25.98
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -18.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £82.10
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.69 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.09% -0.72% +48.79%

Discrete Manufacturing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Discrete Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Discrete Manufacturing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Discrete Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Discrete Manufacturing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Discrete Manufacturing

Discrete Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Discrete Manufacturing over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Discrete Manufacturing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Discrete Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (83.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
General
1 6 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (66.67%) Aerospace
2 4 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics AX Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Procure-to-Pay
1 4 (66.67%) Supplier Relationship Management
1 4 (66.67%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) API Management
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Information Management
3 1 (16.67%) Inventory Management
3 1 (16.67%) Product Information Management
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) SAP