Manufacturing Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Manufacturing
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 58 75
Rank change year-on-year -72 +17 +42
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 11 22 30
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.53% 2.41% 1.63%
As % of the General category 0.91% 4.11% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 22
10th Percentile - £257 £220
25th Percentile £185 £297 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.42% -17.50% -
75th Percentile £470 £488 £519
90th Percentile £535 £499 £531
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £49.25 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £49.50 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +120.00% - -
75th Percentile £49.75 £23.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.91 £33.27 £36.05
% change year-on-year -28.13% -7.70% -19.90%

All General Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,213 535 1,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 58.18% 58.60% 56.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 306 635
10th Percentile £284 £250 £199
25th Percentile £402 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £686 £638 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 46
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.84 £11.24
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.25 £12.53
Median hourly rate £21.30 £22.50 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +55.01% -29.00%
75th Percentile £49.75 £34.15 £15.25
90th Percentile £57.55 £41.90 £22.36
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.28% +18.38% -12.61%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Manufacturing job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Manufacturing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in Yorkshire

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Manufacturing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
South Yorkshire -60 4 £190 -45.32% 22
West Yorkshire -25 3 £550 +29.41% 30
North Yorkshire -6 1 - - 6
East Yorkshire -15 1 - - 8
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (9.09%) SAP MM
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (9.09%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) LAN
1 4 (36.36%) WAN
1 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) 2nd Line Support
1 4 (36.36%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) IT Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) IT Support
1 4 (36.36%) IT Support Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Development Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Development Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SAP PP Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) Robotics
1 1 (9.09%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Android
1 4 (36.36%) Apple iOS
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
1 4 (36.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) B2B
1 2 (18.18%) Change Management
1 2 (18.18%) Production Planning
1 2 (18.18%) Project Governance
1 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (9.09%) Agile
2 1 (9.09%) Business Development
2 1 (9.09%) Business Transformation
2 1 (9.09%) Cost Control
2 1 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
2 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
2 1 (9.09%) Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Order Management
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Implementation
2 1 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) Technology Enablement
2 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
2 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Ladder Logic
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Ariba