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 26 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 105 71
Rank change year-on-year +2 -34 +10
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 50 10 33
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.75% 0.65% 2.14%
As % of the General category 3.34% 1.04% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 16
10th Percentile £393 £111 £375
25th Percentile £403 £261 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% -11.11% -25.00%
75th Percentile £511 £564 £500
90th Percentile £775 £575 £575
England median daily rate £540 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +1.89% +6.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 3
10th Percentile £18.06 - -
25th Percentile £35.00 - £37.50
Median hourly rate £36.07 - £40.00
75th Percentile £36.61 - £42.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.13 £33.91 £32.95
% change year-on-year +0.63% +2.92% -25.96%

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 1,495 963 819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 52.35% 63.02% 53.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 945 609 448
10th Percentile £313 £235 £313
25th Percentile £406 £364 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -7.40% -7.24%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £669 £634 £663
England median daily rate £525 £505 £538
% change year-on-year +3.96% -6.05% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 40 57
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.66 £12.15
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.48 £13.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +51.38% -23.03%
75th Percentile £36.61 £27.45 £25.83
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £41.00
England median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +26.94% -34.02% +35.80%

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 26 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in Yorkshire

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 26 August 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 -10 20 £490 +50.77% 34
West Yorkshire -8 16 £400 -26.61% 44
North Yorkshire - 6 £750 - 18
East Yorkshire -2 3 - - 14
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 3 (6.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (6.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.00%) SAP CRM
2 1 (2.00%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (12.00%) Azure
3 4 (8.00%) AWS
4 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.00%) OCI
5 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Modbus
1 1 (2.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (10.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Hudson
2 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (28.00%) Aerospace
2 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Finance
4 7 (14.00%) Retail
5 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Electronics
6 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.00%) Cyber-Physical System
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) QA Engineer
1 14 (28.00%) Quality Engineer
2 12 (24.00%) Project Manager
3 9 (18.00%) Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Report Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Senior
6 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 2 (4.00%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) IT Manager
7 2 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Lead
7 2 (4.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Network Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Network Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (4.00%) SAPUI5
1 2 (4.00%) XSLT
2 1 (2.00%) Kafka
2 1 (2.00%) REST
2 1 (2.00%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.00%) SAP PI
2 1 (2.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Operational Technology
1 5 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.00%) FMCG
4 1 (2.00%) CCTV
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Life Science
4 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) ERP
2 12 (24.00%) Logistics
3 11 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (16.00%) Agile
5 6 (12.00%) Analytics
5 6 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
6 5 (10.00%) Data Development
6 5 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 5 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 5 (10.00%) Inventory Control
6 5 (10.00%) Inventory Management
6 5 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
6 5 (10.00%) Project Management
6 5 (10.00%) Waterfall
7 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.00%) SDLC
7 4 (8.00%) Six Sigma
7 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.00%) ABAP
1 2 (4.00%) SQL
1 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (2.00%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 1 (2.00%) APMG
1 1 (2.00%) Degree
1 1 (2.00%) HNC
1 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.00%) QA
2 4 (8.00%) GxP
3 2 (4.00%) COSHH
4 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.00%) NIST
4 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (2.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) SAP
3 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.00%) Siemens
4 2 (4.00%) SYSPRO
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) VMware