Manufacturing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Manufacturing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 83 114
Rank change year-on-year -45 +31 +33
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 201 372 555
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.03% 2.42% 2.15%
As % of the General category 3.25% 4.12% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 218 382
10th Percentile £390 £325 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £643
90th Percentile £704 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +6.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 31 37
10th Percentile £36.65 £12.75 £36.33
25th Percentile £53.50 £30.03 £42.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £39.92 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.30% -11.29% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £61.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.03 £62.00 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +22.86% -22.22% +13.92%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Manufacturing falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,176 9,033 15,091
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.35% 58.87% 58.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,155 5,908 10,633
10th Percentile £325 £331 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 477 347
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.03 £19.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.61 £29.31
Median hourly rate £32.05 £38.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% -23.76% +61.29%
75th Percentile £64.69 £53.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.93 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Manufacturing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Manufacturing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Manufacturing.

Manufacturing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Manufacturing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Manufacturing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Manufacturing.

Manufacturing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Manufacturing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Manufacturing hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (6.97%) Confluence
2 8 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.00%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 17 (8.46%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.50%) InVision
4 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.50%) Sketch
4 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (19.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.98%) SAP PP
3 6 (2.99%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.99%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 5 (2.49%) Infor LN
5 4 (1.99%) SAP SD
6 3 (1.49%) SAP CO
6 3 (1.49%) SAP EWM
6 3 (1.49%) SAP FI
6 3 (1.49%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (1.49%) SAP LE
6 3 (1.49%) SAP WM
7 2 (1.00%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (1.00%) SAP IBP
7 2 (1.00%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.50%) Primavera
8 1 (0.50%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.50%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.94%) Azure
2 12 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (5.47%) AWS
4 9 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (3.98%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (1.99%) GCP
8 4 (1.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 4 (1.99%) Serverless
9 3 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.49%) GitHub
9 3 (1.49%) Yammer
10 2 (1.00%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.00%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.00%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.00%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.49%) Firewall
2 3 (1.49%) LAN
3 2 (1.00%) Network Security
3 2 (1.00%) WAN
3 2 (1.00%) Wireless
4 1 (0.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.50%) Intranet
4 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.50%) MQTT
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.98%) Power BI
2 5 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.00%) Big Data
3 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.00%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.50%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.50%) HBase
4 1 (0.50%) Impala
4 1 (0.50%) Looker
4 1 (0.50%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.46%) JIRA
2 11 (5.47%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.99%) Git
4 3 (1.49%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.49%) Selenium
5 2 (1.00%) NUnit
5 2 (1.00%) Postman
6 1 (0.50%) Appium
6 1 (0.50%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.50%) ERwin
6 1 (0.50%) Gatling
6 1 (0.50%) Hudson
6 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.50%) JMeter
6 1 (0.50%) JUnit
6 1 (0.50%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.50%) LSMW
6 1 (0.50%) Maven
6 1 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.50%) TestNG
General
1 90 (44.78%) Finance
2 81 (40.30%) Social Skills
3 36 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (17.41%) Electronics
4 35 (17.41%) Marketing
4 35 (17.41%) Public Sector
5 34 (16.92%) Telecoms
6 18 (8.96%) Automotive
7 11 (5.47%) Aerospace
7 11 (5.47%) Retail
8 10 (4.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.49%) Agriculture
12 3 (1.49%) Aviation
13 2 (1.00%) Banking
13 2 (1.00%) Billing
13 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (16.92%) Consultant
2 29 (14.43%) Developer
3 22 (10.95%) Project Manager
4 21 (10.45%) Lead
5 19 (9.45%) Analyst
6 17 (8.46%) Business Analyst
7 15 (7.46%) Senior
8 12 (5.97%) SAP Consultant
9 11 (5.47%) Architect
10 10 (4.98%) Delphi Developer
11 9 (4.48%) SAP Manager
12 7 (3.48%) IT Manager
13 6 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (2.49%) Data Analyst
14 5 (2.49%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 5 (2.49%) ERP Consultant
14 5 (2.49%) ERP Implementation Consultant
14 5 (2.49%) Implementation Consultant
14 5 (2.49%) Infor Consultant
14 5 (2.49%) SAP PP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.49%) .NET
2 4 (1.99%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.49%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (1.49%) React
3 3 (1.49%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.49%) Web Services
4 2 (1.00%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.00%) CSS
4 2 (1.00%) HTML
4 2 (1.00%) Hugging Face
4 2 (1.00%) Matplotlib
4 2 (1.00%) Pandas
4 2 (1.00%) Playwright
4 2 (1.00%) Plotly
4 2 (1.00%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.00%) SAPUI5
4 2 (1.00%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.00%) SpaCy
4 2 (1.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.94%) Life Science
2 15 (7.46%) Renewable Energy
3 11 (5.47%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.48%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.98%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.98%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 7 (3.48%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.99%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.49%) Social Media
9 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.00%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.00%) FMCG
9 2 (1.00%) IoT
9 2 (1.00%) Learning Management System
9 2 (1.00%) PMI
9 2 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.97%) Windows
2 3 (1.49%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (21.89%) Business Intelligence
3 43 (21.39%) Agile
4 40 (19.90%) Programme Management
5 39 (19.40%) ERP
6 38 (18.91%) Project Management
7 34 (16.92%) Digital Marketing
8 31 (15.42%) Migration
9 28 (13.93%) Change Management
9 28 (13.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (11.94%) Collaborative Working
11 20 (9.95%) Data Migration
12 19 (9.45%) DevOps
13 14 (6.97%) Decision-Making
13 14 (6.97%) Mentoring
13 14 (6.97%) Project Delivery
13 14 (6.97%) Quality Management
14 13 (6.47%) Analytics
15 12 (5.97%) Functional Testing
16 11 (5.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 26 (12.94%) SQL
2 15 (7.46%) C#
3 11 (5.47%) PL/SQL
3 11 (5.47%) Python
4 10 (4.98%) Delphi
5 7 (3.48%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.49%) ABAP
7 4 (1.99%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.49%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.49%) Java
8 3 (1.49%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.00%) Bicep
10 1 (0.50%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.50%) C
10 1 (0.50%) JCL
10 1 (0.50%) Natural
10 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (17.91%) Degree
2 32 (15.92%) Security Cleared
3 26 (12.94%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (5.97%) PMP
5 10 (4.98%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.48%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.49%) CISSP
9 2 (1.00%) ACCA
9 2 (1.00%) APMG
9 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.00%) CEH
9 2 (1.00%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.50%) GCIA
10 1 (0.50%) GCIH
10 1 (0.50%) GIAC
10 1 (0.50%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.46%) QA
2 4 (1.99%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.99%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.99%) PMO
3 3 (1.49%) GxP
4 2 (1.00%) NIST
4 2 (1.00%) PMBOK
5 1 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.49%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (1.99%) MOM
1 4 (1.99%) Terraform
2 3 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.50%) CASB
3 1 (0.50%) CEMLI
3 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (44.28%) SAP
2 40 (19.90%) Microsoft
3 21 (10.45%) Oracle
4 10 (4.98%) Salesforce
5 9 (4.48%) Ariba
6 5 (2.49%) Infor
7 4 (1.99%) Hitachi
7 4 (1.99%) Rockwell
7 4 (1.99%) Siemens
7 4 (1.99%) Splunk
7 4 (1.99%) Workday
8 3 (1.49%) Cisco
8 3 (1.49%) Google
8 3 (1.49%) Informatica
9 2 (1.00%) Facebook
9 2 (1.00%) IFS
9 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.00%) QAD
10 1 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.50%) Tenable