Manufacturing Contracts in the North West

Manufacturing
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 82 104
Rank change year-on-year +29 +22 -35
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 88 72 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.15% 2.39% 1.96%
As % of the General category 5.99% 4.54% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 50 58
10th Percentile £405 £424 £443
25th Percentile £413 £450 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -11.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £590 £688 £666
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 5 12
10th Percentile £18.00 - £9.90
25th Percentile £24.12 £23.15 £14.66
Median hourly rate £32.95 £27.70 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.94% -4.48% +4.63%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £57.94
90th Percentile £47.81 £43.03 £96.21
England median hourly rate £32.12 £48.75 £39.50
% change year-on-year -34.12% +23.42% +13.60%

All General Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,468 1,586 2,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 52.58% 52.66% 50.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 1,099 1,403
10th Percentile £300 £312 £230
25th Percentile £392 £406 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £577 £588 £586
90th Percentile £659 £675 £662
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 81 112
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.75 £10.69
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.85 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.47 £23.15 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -0.31% +13.28%
75th Percentile £37.94 £35.00 £50.68
90th Percentile £51.88 £53.35 £64.80
England median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the North West

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the North West

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the North West

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the North West

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in the North West

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Cheshire +6 33 £480 +6.67% 93
Manchester +13 31 £500 -9.09% 134
Merseyside +24 11 £354 - 47
Lancashire +12 11 - - 90
Cumbria -24 2 £600 +23.46% 17
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (5.68%) Apache
1 5 (5.68%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.68%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.14%) CMS
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.55%) SAP PP
3 2 (2.27%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.14%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (1.14%) SAP EWM
4 1 (1.14%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.23%) AWS
2 7 (7.95%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (6.82%) Azure
3 6 (6.82%) Power Platform
3 6 (6.82%) Snowflake
4 5 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (5.68%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (5.68%) Amazon S3
4 5 (5.68%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.68%) Serverless
5 4 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.14%) GCP
7 1 (1.14%) Matillion
7 1 (1.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) FTP
2 2 (2.27%) Internet
2 2 (2.27%) MQTT
3 1 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.14%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.14%) Firewall
3 1 (1.14%) NAS
3 1 (1.14%) SAN
3 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) Power BI
2 5 (5.68%) Big Data
3 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.27%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.14%) MySQL
5 1 (1.14%) Navicat
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) JIRA
2 5 (5.68%) Git
General
1 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.59%) Pharmaceutical
3 12 (13.64%) Finance
4 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Automotive
5 5 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Electronics
6 4 (4.55%) Marketing
7 3 (3.41%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.27%) French Language
8 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.14%) Aeronautics
9 1 (1.14%) Aviation
9 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.14%) German Language
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (17.05%) Analyst
2 11 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 11 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 9 (10.23%) Architect
3 9 (10.23%) Senior
3 9 (10.23%) Trainer
4 6 (6.82%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Manufacturing Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Snowflake Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.68%) Support Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Administrator
6 4 (4.55%) Consultant
6 4 (4.55%) Data Architect
6 4 (4.55%) IT Support
6 4 (4.55%) Programmer
6 4 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) JSON
1 5 (5.68%) XML
2 2 (2.27%) RESTful
2 2 (2.27%) SOAP
3 1 (1.14%) Kafka
3 1 (1.14%) Laravel
3 1 (1.14%) Middleware
3 1 (1.14%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Industry 4.0
1 9 (10.23%) Robotics
2 7 (7.95%) IoT
3 6 (6.82%) Life Science
4 4 (4.55%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.27%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.27%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.27%) SCADA
6 1 (1.14%) Clustering
6 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.14%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.14%) iPhone
6 1 (1.14%) PMI
6 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.27%) Windows
2 1 (1.14%) Android
2 1 (1.14%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (14.77%) Analytics
1 13 (14.77%) Requirements Gathering
2 12 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (12.50%) Agile
3 11 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 11 (12.50%) Change Management
3 11 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (11.36%) Data Governance
4 10 (11.36%) Project Management
4 10 (11.36%) Validation
5 9 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (10.23%) ERP
5 9 (10.23%) Use Case
6 8 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (9.09%) Data Management
6 8 (9.09%) Software Engineering
7 7 (7.95%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (7.95%) Data Analysis
7 7 (7.95%) ETL
7 7 (7.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.77%) SQL
2 5 (5.68%) C#
2 5 (5.68%) Java
2 5 (5.68%) Python
3 2 (2.27%) C
3 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) Degree
2 6 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.68%) IIBA
4 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.14%) HNC
5 1 (1.14%) HND
5 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.50%) GxP
2 6 (6.82%) GDPR
3 5 (5.68%) GAMP
3 5 (5.68%) Good Clinical Practice
4 1 (1.14%) PMO
4 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.14%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (1.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (26.14%) SAP
2 5 (5.68%) Informatica
2 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.68%) Talend
3 2 (2.27%) Citrix
3 2 (2.27%) VMware
4 1 (1.14%) Allen-Bradley
4 1 (1.14%) Ariba
4 1 (1.14%) Cisco
4 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.14%) F5
4 1 (1.14%) Facebook
4 1 (1.14%) HP
4 1 (1.14%) IBM
4 1 (1.14%) Instagram
4 1 (1.14%) Meraki
4 1 (1.14%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle
4 1 (1.14%) Rockwell
4 1 (1.14%) Veeam