Manufacturing Contracts in the South West

Manufacturing
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 45 50
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 133 158 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.19% 4.46% 4.50%
As % of the General category 8.26% 9.11% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 133 140
10th Percentile £261 £325 £224
25th Percentile £463 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £620
90th Percentile £788 £763 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 4
10th Percentile £29.50 £33.39 £17.90
25th Percentile £33.00 £37.08 £26.74
Median hourly rate £40.00 £39.55 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +22.07% +75.14%
75th Percentile £42.50 £50.17 £36.16
90th Percentile £72.50 £51.50 £41.59
England median hourly rate £33.00 £45.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year -26.67% +33.34% -4.94%

All General Skills
South West

Manufacturing is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,611 1,735 1,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 50.80% 48.93% 51.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 959 1,281 1,309
10th Percentile £213 £275 £228
25th Percentile £410 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £493
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +11.17% +6.49%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 119 136
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.45 -
25th Percentile £23.63 £36.88 £15.90
Median hourly rate £46.39 £60.00 £43.54
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +37.82% +8.84%
75th Percentile £70.66 £69.38 £55.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £86.65 £64.50
England median hourly rate £30.27 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.59% +50.70% -4.10%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the South West

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the South West

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the South West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the South West

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the South West

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing in the South West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in the South West

Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Bristol +9 54 £570 -1.72% 96
Wiltshire -18 35 £750 +25.00% 36
Gloucestershire +12 27 £550 +51.72% 69
Somerset +6 9 £550 +22.91% 91
Devon -4 4 £400 - 76
Dorset +6 1 £275 -31.25% 37
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 3 (2.26%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.01%) Windchill
3 3 (2.26%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (2.26%) Photoshop
3 3 (2.26%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.75%) CATIA
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Teamcenter
2 3 (2.26%) ENOVIA
2 3 (2.26%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.75%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.75%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.03%) Azure
2 7 (5.26%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.26%) AWS
4 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.50%) SaaS
6 1 (0.75%) IaaS
6 1 (0.75%) PaaS
6 1 (0.75%) Serverless
6 1 (0.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.53%) Firewall
2 13 (9.77%) Cisco ISE
3 10 (7.52%) Network Security
4 7 (5.26%) 3G
4 7 (5.26%) 4G
5 3 (2.26%) Wireless
6 2 (1.50%) FTP
6 2 (1.50%) LAN
6 2 (1.50%) SAN
6 2 (1.50%) VPN
6 2 (1.50%) WAN
7 1 (0.75%) Internet
7 1 (0.75%) VLAN
7 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.75%) Metadata
2 1 (0.75%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
1 1 (0.75%) ERwin
1 1 (0.75%) Git
1 1 (0.75%) GitLab
1 1 (0.75%) GoCD
1 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.75%) JIRA
1 1 (0.75%) NUnit
1 1 (0.75%) Postman
1 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (52.63%) Electronics
2 66 (49.62%) Public Sector
3 64 (48.12%) Finance
3 64 (48.12%) Marketing
3 64 (48.12%) Telecoms
4 35 (26.32%) Social Skills
5 10 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.76%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.26%) Advertising
9 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (24.81%) Architect
2 23 (17.29%) Lead
3 15 (11.28%) Lead Architect
4 13 (9.77%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (7.52%) Project Manager
6 9 (6.77%) Change Manager
6 9 (6.77%) Technical Architect
7 7 (5.26%) Analyst
7 7 (5.26%) Change and Release Manager
7 7 (5.26%) Consultant
7 7 (5.26%) ITIL Change Manager
7 7 (5.26%) ITIL Manager
7 7 (5.26%) ITIL Release Manager
7 7 (5.26%) Network Engineer
7 7 (5.26%) Release Manager
7 7 (5.26%) Senior
8 6 (4.51%) Developer
8 6 (4.51%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.76%) Security Consultant
10 4 (3.01%) Information Assurance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.76%) .NET
2 2 (1.50%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.50%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.50%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.50%) Web Services
3 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.75%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.75%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.75%) NumPy
3 1 (0.75%) Pandas
3 1 (0.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.02%) CESG
2 4 (3.01%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.26%) Life Science
3 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.26%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.50%) Credit Risk
4 2 (1.50%) IoT
4 2 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.50%) NHS
4 2 (1.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.50%) Replication
5 1 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.76%) Linux
1 5 (3.76%) Windows
2 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (49.62%) Programme Management
2 64 (48.12%) Business Intelligence
2 64 (48.12%) Digital Marketing
3 18 (13.53%) Agile
3 18 (13.53%) Project Management
4 15 (11.28%) Change Management
4 15 (11.28%) ITIL
4 15 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (10.53%) ERP
6 13 (9.77%) Security Operations
6 13 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (9.02%) Information Assurance
8 11 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (8.27%) SIEM
9 10 (7.52%) Log Correlation
9 10 (7.52%) Security Architecture
9 10 (7.52%) Use Case
10 9 (6.77%) Information Security
11 8 (6.02%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.01%) SQL
2 3 (2.26%) C#
3 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.50%) Python
4 1 (0.75%) Bash
4 1 (0.75%) Bicep
4 1 (0.75%) Java
4 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (49.62%) Security Cleared
2 45 (33.83%) SC Cleared
3 28 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 13 (9.77%) CISSP
5 12 (9.02%) Degree
6 8 (6.02%) CEH
6 8 (6.02%) CISA
6 8 (6.02%) CISM
6 8 (6.02%) CISMP
6 8 (6.02%) CompTIA Security+
6 8 (6.02%) ISACA
6 8 (6.02%) SSCP
7 5 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.76%) CESG Certified Professional
8 4 (3.01%) CLAS
9 3 (2.26%) AAT
9 3 (2.26%) HNC
10 2 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (1.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (9.02%) NIST
3 8 (6.02%) GDPR
3 8 (6.02%) HIPAA
3 8 (6.02%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.76%) JSP 440
4 5 (3.76%) RMADS
5 4 (3.01%) QA
6 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.26%) GMP
7 2 (1.50%) PMO
8 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.75%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 2 (1.50%) Docker
1 2 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (1.50%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.75%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (2.26%) Ansible
1 3 (2.26%) Terraform
2 2 (1.50%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.75%) Grafana
3 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.75%) Puppet
3 1 (0.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 70 (52.63%) SAP
2 25 (18.80%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.77%) Cisco
4 3 (2.26%) Adobe
4 3 (2.26%) BiZZdesign
4 3 (2.26%) PTC
4 3 (2.26%) VMware
5 2 (1.50%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.50%) Dell
5 2 (1.50%) Hyperion
5 2 (1.50%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.50%) Pegasus
5 2 (1.50%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.50%) Veeam
6 1 (0.75%) Citrix
6 1 (0.75%) ForeScout
6 1 (0.75%) Foundry
6 1 (0.75%) IBM
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle