Manufacturing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Manufacturing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 115 154
Rank change year-on-year +26 +39 -10
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 349 520 774
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.35% 2.10% 1.76%
As % of the General category 4.00% 3.59% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 358 593
10th Percentile £325 £354 £400
25th Percentile £422 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £741 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 33 21
10th Percentile £12.75 £33.11 £21.25
25th Percentile £30.03 £42.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £39.92 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% - -
75th Percentile £61.75 £50.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £62.00 £71.00 £65.30
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £37.83
% change year-on-year -22.22% +18.95% +5.08%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Manufacturing is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,734 14,467 23,953
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.90% 58.52% 54.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,742 10,193 17,417
10th Percentile £330 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 458 329 344
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.95 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.52 £25.95 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £33.45
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +49.48% +44.12%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £65.47
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.60 £22.45
% change year-on-year -10.72% +49.68% -0.22%

Manufacturing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Manufacturing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Manufacturing over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Manufacturing over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

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 10 (2.87%) Confluence
2 7 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.29%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.29%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 22 (6.30%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.86%) Simulink
5 3 (0.86%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.57%) Maya
6 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.57%) NUKE
6 2 (0.57%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.29%) CATIA
7 1 (0.29%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.29%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 25 (7.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 8 (2.29%) Sage 200
2 8 (2.29%) Sage 50
2 8 (2.29%) SAP FI-AP
3 5 (1.43%) SAP PP
3 5 (1.43%) Teamcenter
4 4 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.15%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.86%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.86%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.57%) Odoo
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.57%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.57%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.57%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.57%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.04%) Azure
2 18 (5.16%) AWS
3 16 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (3.44%) Power Platform
5 10 (2.87%) PaaS
6 9 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (2.58%) SaaS
7 8 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.72%) GCP
8 6 (1.72%) PowerApps
8 6 (1.72%) Smartsheet
9 5 (1.43%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.43%) GitHub
9 5 (1.43%) IaaS
10 4 (1.15%) OCI
10 4 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.57%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.30%) Firewall
2 13 (3.72%) Network Security
3 8 (2.29%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (2.01%) 3G
4 7 (2.01%) 4G
4 7 (2.01%) InfiniBand
5 5 (1.43%) Internet
5 5 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.15%) NAS
6 4 (1.15%) SAN
6 4 (1.15%) tcpdump
6 4 (1.15%) VPN
6 4 (1.15%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.86%) Wireless
8 2 (0.57%) HTTP
8 2 (0.57%) LAN
8 2 (0.57%) VLAN
8 2 (0.57%) WAN
8 2 (0.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.30%) Metadata
2 13 (3.72%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.15%) Power BI
4 6 (1.72%) Ingres
4 6 (1.72%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.72%) Tableau
5 5 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.15%) Apache Hive
6 4 (1.15%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.86%) GIS
8 2 (0.57%) Big Data
8 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.57%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.29%) Sisense
9 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 22 (6.30%) JIRA
2 12 (3.44%) ERwin
3 8 (2.29%) Git
4 7 (2.01%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.15%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.15%) IDA Disassembler
6 3 (0.86%) NUnit
6 3 (0.86%) Postman
6 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.29%) ClearCase
General
1 147 (42.12%) Finance
2 105 (30.09%) Marketing
3 92 (26.36%) Telecoms
4 91 (26.07%) Electronics
4 91 (26.07%) Public Sector
5 87 (24.93%) Social Skills
6 39 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (8.02%) Retail
8 20 (5.73%) Automotive
9 10 (2.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.29%) French Language
12 7 (2.01%) Legal
13 6 (1.72%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.43%) Italian Language
15 4 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.86%) German Language
16 3 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.86%) Military
16 3 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (15.47%) Architect
2 50 (14.33%) Consultant
3 42 (12.03%) Project Manager
4 33 (9.46%) Analyst
5 31 (8.88%) Lead
6 26 (7.45%) Developer
7 25 (7.16%) Senior
8 19 (5.44%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (4.87%) SAP Consultant
10 16 (4.58%) Data Architect
11 14 (4.01%) Enterprise Architect
11 14 (4.01%) Functional Consultant
12 11 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (3.15%) Enterprise Data Architect
12 11 (3.15%) Network Engineer
13 10 (2.87%) DBA
13 10 (2.87%) Sage Consultant
14 9 (2.58%) ERP Manager
14 9 (2.58%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.15%) .NET
2 8 (2.29%) EDI
2 8 (2.29%) IDoc
2 8 (2.29%) SAP Business Workflow
3 5 (1.43%) AngularJS
3 5 (1.43%) ASP.NET
3 5 (1.43%) Web Services
4 4 (1.15%) Middleware
4 4 (1.15%) OLE
4 4 (1.15%) RESTful
5 3 (0.86%) GraphQL
5 3 (0.86%) HTML
5 3 (0.86%) JSON
5 3 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.86%) Playwright
5 3 (0.86%) React
5 3 (0.86%) SAP TM
5 3 (0.86%) Smart Contracts
5 3 (0.86%) XML
6 2 (0.57%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
1 11 (3.15%) Life Science
1 11 (3.15%) Wiki
2 10 (2.87%) IoT
2 10 (2.87%) Renewable Energy
3 8 (2.29%) FMCG
4 7 (2.01%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.43%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (1.15%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.15%) NHS
7 4 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.15%) YARA
8 3 (0.86%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.86%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (0.86%) Industry 4.0
8 3 (0.86%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.16%) Linux
2 17 (4.87%) Windows
3 4 (1.15%) Windows 7
3 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.86%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (30.09%) Business Intelligence
2 94 (26.93%) Digital Marketing
3 91 (26.07%) Programme Management
4 58 (16.62%) Agile
5 46 (13.18%) Project Management
6 40 (11.46%) ERP
7 37 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (8.88%) Analytics
10 30 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (8.02%) Waterfall
12 27 (7.74%) DevOps
13 23 (6.59%) Migration
14 19 (5.44%) Data Modelling
14 19 (5.44%) Root Cause Analysis
15 18 (5.16%) Data Governance
15 18 (5.16%) Data Management
15 18 (5.16%) Roadmaps
15 18 (5.16%) Scrum
15 18 (5.16%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (8.02%) SQL
2 13 (3.72%) Python
3 10 (2.87%) ABAP
4 9 (2.58%) C#
4 9 (2.58%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.29%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.72%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.43%) Java
8 4 (1.15%) Bash
8 4 (1.15%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.86%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.29%) Bicep
11 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (12.61%) Security Cleared
2 38 (10.89%) Degree
3 26 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.02%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.43%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.15%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.15%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.15%) PMP
9 2 (0.57%) CEH
9 2 (0.57%) CISM
9 2 (0.57%) CISSP
9 2 (0.57%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.57%) CSSLP
9 2 (0.57%) MBA
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.87%) GDPR
2 16 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.58%) QA
4 7 (2.01%) SLA
5 6 (1.72%) NIST
6 5 (1.43%) PMO
7 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.57%) COBIT
8 2 (0.57%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (3.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.43%) Docker
3 4 (1.15%) Snort
3 4 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.86%) zsh
5 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.57%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (2.29%) Terraform
2 4 (1.15%) Grafana
2 4 (1.15%) Kibana
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.57%) Nessus
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.29%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 161 (46.13%) SAP
2 49 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.58%) Oracle
4 12 (3.44%) Cisco
4 12 (3.44%) Sparx
5 10 (2.87%) Sage
6 8 (2.29%) Google
6 8 (2.29%) OpenText
7 5 (1.43%) Qualys
7 5 (1.43%) VMware
8 4 (1.15%) Citrix
8 4 (1.15%) Computacenter
8 4 (1.15%) HP
8 4 (1.15%) IFS
8 4 (1.15%) Siemens
8 4 (1.15%) Splunk
8 4 (1.15%) Workday
9 3 (0.86%) ForeScout
9 3 (0.86%) IBM
9 3 (0.86%) Zscaler