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 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 74 83
Rank change year-on-year -42 +9 +42
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 12 26 26
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.66% 1.87% 1.38%
As % of the General category 1.10% 3.53% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 18
10th Percentile £111 - £397
25th Percentile £325 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £564 - £605
90th Percentile £575 - £663
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £26.13 £33.20
25th Percentile £49.25 £33.44 £35.00
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +5.26% +261.90%
75th Percentile £49.75 £42.50 £41.00
90th Percentile - - £42.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £30.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -2.44% -30.90% -1.11%

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 common skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,087 737 1,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 60.09% 53.06% 58.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 736 390 709
10th Percentile £257 £220 £227
25th Percentile £379 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £600
90th Percentile £647 £650 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 24
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.93 £13.85
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.25 £16.75
Median hourly rate £22.14 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +12.50% +6.95%
75th Percentile £29.91 £40.00 £23.58
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 £31.42
England median hourly rate £25.00 £31.97 £30.48
% change year-on-year -21.80% +4.91% +18.53%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 -12 5 £565 - 24
South Yorkshire -31 3 £325 - 15
East Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 6
North Yorkshire -3 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) 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%) Power Platform
1 2 (16.67%) Snowflake
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) VoIP
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
1 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (8.33%) Lumira
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau
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
4 2 (16.67%) Retail
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) HR Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) HR Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Installation Technician
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) PLC Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) PLC Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) SAP PP Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP QM Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Analyst
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 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Production Planning
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) ERP
4 1 (8.33%) ETL
4 1 (8.33%) Kanban
4 1 (8.33%) Logistics
4 1 (8.33%) Manual Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Quality Management
4 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Ladder Logic
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ACCA
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) CIMA
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Computacenter
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Ariba
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle