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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 78 83
Rank change year-on-year -36 +5 +42
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 12 26 36
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.72% 1.77% 1.76%
As % of the General category 1.17% 3.32% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 26
10th Percentile £113 - £400
25th Percentile £283 £400 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £603
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -21.16% +30.27%
75th Percentile £555 £575 £725
90th Percentile £573 - £869
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
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 £32.28 £44.50
% change year-on-year -7.06% -27.46% -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 1,029 783 1,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 61.47% 53.41% 59.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 423 772
10th Percentile £235 £280 £260
25th Percentile £375 £414 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £613
90th Percentile £638 £652 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 31 25
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.06 £13.33
25th Percentile £17.63 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +18.42% +1.60%
75th Percentile £40.02 £40.00 £22.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 £31.23
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.36% +16.67% +20.00%

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 13 October 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 October 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 -15 6 £545 -0.91% 31
South Yorkshire -26 3 £325 - 9
North Yorkshire -5 1 - - 10
East Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 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
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (8.33%) SAP MM
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%) Retail
3 3 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data 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%) Network Engineer
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 S/4HANA Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 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%) Logistics
3 2 (16.67%) Supplier Management
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Change Management
4 1 (8.33%) ERP
4 1 (8.33%) ETL
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL
4 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
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
1 1 (8.33%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) 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