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 13 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 71 83
Rank change year-on-year -37 +12 +36
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 10 33 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.65% 2.18% 1.68%
As % of the General category 1.03% 4.06% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 26
10th Percentile £111 £365 £400
25th Percentile £261 £397 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £603
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -25.31% +20.50%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £725
90th Percentile £575 - £869
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £26.13 £33.20
25th Percentile - £33.44 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +261.90%
75th Percentile - £42.50 £41.00
90th Percentile - - £42.80
England median hourly rate £33.91 £32.28 £43.33
% change year-on-year +5.05% -25.50% -3.71%

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 970 813 1,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 63.19% 53.66% 61.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 455 813
10th Percentile £220 £309 £280
25th Percentile £360 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £633 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 44 29
10th Percentile £14.43 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.06 £14.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £18.64 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -1.92% +1.60%
75th Percentile £31.33 £35.00 £22.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 £30.46
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.68 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.97% +40.64% +10.00%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -14 6 £545 +9.00% 49
South Yorkshire -16 3 £325 -43.48% 35
East Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 9
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) VoIP
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Lumira
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Electronics
2 3 (30.00%) Marketing
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Retail
2 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) HR Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) HR Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Installation Technician
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Data Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) FMCG
2 1 (10.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Logistics
3 2 (20.00%) Supplier Management
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) ERP
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ACCA
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) CIMA
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) IFRS
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Computacenter
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle