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 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 56 73
Rank change year-on-year -62 +17 +42
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 12 27 29
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.61% 2.82% 1.58%
As % of the General category 1.05% 4.86% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 23
10th Percentile £171 £252 £400
25th Percentile £185 £263 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £573 £438 £525
90th Percentile £593 £505 £531
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -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 £23.83 £33.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -27.80% -9.59% -18.89%

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 1,139 555 1,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 57.85% 57.93% 56.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 312 646
10th Percentile £275 £239 £213
25th Percentile £400 £374 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £571 £573 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 43
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.40 £11.20
25th Percentile £15.06 £15.75 £12.58
Median hourly rate £21.30 £18.64 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.30% +28.52% -32.56%
75th Percentile £56.69 £34.15 £17.63
90th Percentile £65.53 £41.90 £25.97
England median hourly rate £22.54 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.88% +15.38% +0.30%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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
West Yorkshire -21 4 £565 +61.43% 32
South Yorkshire -52 4 £190 -13.64% 21
North Yorkshire -6 1 - - 16
East Yorkshire -14 1 - - 9
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (8.33%) SAP MM
2 1 (8.33%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) LAN
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
1 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
1 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
1 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Electronics
3 3 (25.00%) Marketing
3 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) IT Support
1 2 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Senior
1 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Business Development Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Business Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Installation Technician
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile Test Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) PLC Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) PLC Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) SAP QM Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Senior IT Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) FMCG
2 1 (8.33%) PDA
2 1 (8.33%) Robotics
2 1 (8.33%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (16.67%) Android
3 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
1 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Production Planning
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Business Transformation
3 1 (8.33%) Cost Control
3 1 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (8.33%) Order Management
3 1 (8.33%) Product Backlog
3 1 (8.33%) Project Governance
3 1 (8.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (8.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Technology Enablement
3 1 (8.33%) User Stories
3 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Ladder Logic
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) SAP
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Computacenter
4 1 (8.33%) Ariba
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle