Smart Manufacturing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Smart Manufacturing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Smart Manufacturing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smart Manufacturing over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 - 511
Rank change year-on-year - - -66
Contract jobs citing Smart Manufacturing 11 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% - 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £850
75th Percentile - - £875
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate - - £850
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.67 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Smart Manufacturing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Smart Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Smart Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Smart Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Smart Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smart Manufacturing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Smart Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Smart Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Smart Manufacturing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Smart Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Smart Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Smart Manufacturing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Smart Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Smart Manufacturing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Manufacturing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
North West - 8 - -
North of England - 8 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Smart Manufacturing
UK

Smart Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Power BI
General
1 8 (72.73%) Manufacturing
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Games
4 3 (27.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Manufacturing Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Communications Officer
2 3 (27.27%) Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) IT Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Support
2 3 (27.27%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Life Science
2 3 (27.27%) Driving Licence
2 3 (27.27%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Project Management
2 5 (45.45%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (45.45%) Data Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) Data Extraction
2 5 (45.45%) FMEA
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Process Improvement
2 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
2 5 (45.45%) Validation
3 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
3 3 (27.27%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (27.27%) Nanotechnology
3 3 (27.27%) Operational Stability
3 3 (27.27%) Prototyping
3 3 (27.27%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) GAMP
1 5 (45.45%) GxP
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) SAP
1 3 (27.27%) Siemens
1 3 (27.27%) Twitter