Manufacturing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Manufacturing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 124 161
Rank change year-on-year +27 +37 -12
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 338 477 754
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.29% 2.00% 1.72%
As % of the General category 3.91% 3.41% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 330 551
10th Percentile £358 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £760 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 31 30
10th Percentile £13.30 £26.25 £28.23
25th Percentile £29.91 £40.63 £40.00
Median hourly rate £39.92 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% - -4.26%
75th Percentile £62.00 £54.38 £59.19
90th Percentile £67.40 £72.50 £67.02
UK median hourly rate £32.90 £47.82 £39.75
% change year-on-year -31.20% +20.29% +10.42%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Manufacturing falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,646 13,984 24,171
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.55% 58.60% 55.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,690 9,883 17,673
10th Percentile £325 £363 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £776 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 315 341
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.66 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.86 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +44.54% +52.57%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.45 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £31.92 £22.75
% change year-on-year -6.02% +40.31% +8.08%

Manufacturing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Manufacturing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Manufacturing.

Manufacturing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Manufacturing over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Manufacturing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Manufacturing.

Manufacturing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Manufacturing over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Manufacturing hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (2.96%) Confluence
2 7 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.59%) CMS
4 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.30%) Magnolia
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.30%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 26 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.89%) Simulink
4 3 (0.89%) Stateflow
5 2 (0.59%) Maya
5 2 (0.59%) NUKE
5 2 (0.59%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.30%) CATIA
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 26 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.37%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 8 (2.37%) Sage 200
2 8 (2.37%) Sage 50
2 8 (2.37%) SAP FI-AP
3 5 (1.48%) SAP PP
3 5 (1.48%) Teamcenter
4 4 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (1.18%) SAP EWM
4 4 (1.18%) SAP MDG
4 4 (1.18%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.89%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.59%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.59%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 46 (13.61%) Azure
2 20 (5.92%) AWS
3 18 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
4 15 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (2.66%) SaaS
7 8 (2.37%) PaaS
7 8 (2.37%) Power Platform
8 6 (1.78%) GCP
8 6 (1.78%) PowerApps
8 6 (1.78%) Smartsheet
9 5 (1.48%) Azure AI
9 5 (1.48%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.18%) GitHub
10 4 (1.18%) OCI
10 4 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (0.89%) IaaS
12 2 (0.59%) Adobe Analytics
12 2 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.03%) Firewall
2 13 (3.85%) Network Security
3 9 (2.66%) 4G
4 8 (2.37%) 3G
4 8 (2.37%) Cisco ISE
5 7 (2.07%) InfiniBand
5 7 (2.07%) Internet
6 6 (1.78%) VPN
7 5 (1.48%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.18%) LAN
8 4 (1.18%) NAS
8 4 (1.18%) SAN
8 4 (1.18%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.18%) tcpdump
8 4 (1.18%) WAN
8 4 (1.18%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.89%) Extranet
9 3 (0.89%) Wireless
10 2 (0.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.37%) Power BI
2 7 (2.07%) Relational Database
2 7 (2.07%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.78%) Ingres
4 5 (1.48%) Metadata
4 5 (1.48%) Tableau
5 4 (1.18%) Apache Hive
5 4 (1.18%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.89%) GIS
7 2 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.59%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.30%) Big Data
8 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.30%) MySQL
8 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (5.92%) JIRA
2 7 (2.07%) Git
3 5 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.18%) IDA Disassembler
5 3 (0.89%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.89%) ERwin
5 3 (0.89%) NUnit
5 3 (0.89%) Postman
5 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.30%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.30%) fastlane
6 1 (0.30%) LSMW
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
General
1 131 (38.76%) Finance
2 90 (26.63%) Marketing
2 90 (26.63%) Social Skills
3 76 (22.49%) Electronics
3 76 (22.49%) Telecoms
4 74 (21.89%) Public Sector
5 38 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.10%) Retail
7 18 (5.33%) Automotive
8 11 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (2.37%) French Language
10 6 (1.78%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.48%) Italian Language
11 5 (1.48%) Legal
12 4 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.89%) German Language
13 3 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.89%) Military
13 3 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (14.50%) Consultant
2 44 (13.02%) Architect
3 41 (12.13%) Project Manager
4 37 (10.95%) Analyst
5 29 (8.58%) Lead
6 26 (7.69%) Developer
7 24 (7.10%) Senior
8 20 (5.92%) Business Analyst
8 20 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (5.03%) SAP Consultant
10 16 (4.73%) Functional Consultant
11 13 (3.85%) Network Engineer
12 10 (2.96%) SAP Architect
13 9 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (2.66%) ERP Manager
13 9 (2.66%) Sage Consultant
13 9 (2.66%) Security Engineer
13 9 (2.66%) Software Engineer
13 9 (2.66%) Technical Architect
14 8 (2.37%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.25%) .NET
2 8 (2.37%) EDI
2 8 (2.37%) IDoc
2 8 (2.37%) SAP Business Workflow
3 5 (1.48%) AngularJS
3 5 (1.48%) ASP.NET
3 5 (1.48%) Web Services
4 4 (1.18%) Middleware
4 4 (1.18%) OLE
4 4 (1.18%) RESTful
4 4 (1.18%) XML
5 3 (0.89%) GraphQL
5 3 (0.89%) HTML
5 3 (0.89%) JSON
5 3 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.89%) Playwright
5 3 (0.89%) SAP TM
5 3 (0.89%) Smart Contracts
6 2 (0.59%) Hugging Face
6 2 (0.59%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.25%) Life Science
2 10 (2.96%) IoT
3 9 (2.66%) FMCG
3 9 (2.66%) Renewable Energy
4 8 (2.37%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.78%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.48%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.48%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (1.18%) YARA
8 3 (0.89%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.89%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.89%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.89%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.89%) Robotics
8 3 (0.89%) Tandem
8 3 (0.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.33%) Linux
2 17 (5.03%) Windows
3 4 (1.18%) Windows 7
3 4 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.89%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (25.15%) Business Intelligence
2 78 (23.08%) Digital Marketing
3 75 (22.19%) Programme Management
4 58 (17.16%) Agile
5 43 (12.72%) Project Management
6 39 (11.54%) ERP
7 38 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (8.58%) Waterfall
10 26 (7.69%) Analytics
11 24 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (7.10%) DevOps
12 23 (6.80%) Migration
13 20 (5.92%) Root Cause Analysis
14 19 (5.62%) Supply Chain Management
15 18 (5.33%) Logistics
15 18 (5.33%) Scrum
16 17 (5.03%) Change Management
16 17 (5.03%) Roadmaps
17 16 (4.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 22 (6.51%) SQL
2 12 (3.55%) Python
3 10 (2.96%) ABAP
4 9 (2.66%) C#
4 9 (2.66%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.37%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.78%) Java
6 6 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.48%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.89%) Bash
8 3 (0.89%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.30%) Bicep
10 1 (0.30%) R
10 1 (0.30%) Ruby
10 1 (0.30%) Swift
10 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (12.13%) Degree
2 38 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 23 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.21%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.66%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.48%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.18%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.89%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.89%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.89%) PMP
11 2 (0.59%) CEH
11 2 (0.59%) CISM
11 2 (0.59%) CISSP
11 2 (0.59%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.59%) CSSLP
11 2 (0.59%) HND
11 2 (0.59%) MBA
12 1 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.96%) GDPR
2 9 (2.66%) QA
2 9 (2.66%) SLA
3 8 (2.37%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.78%) NIST
4 6 (1.78%) PMO
5 3 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.59%) COBIT
6 2 (0.59%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 11 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.78%) Docker
3 4 (1.18%) Snort
3 4 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.59%) Firmware
4 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.59%) vSphere
4 2 (0.59%) zsh
Systems Management
1 6 (1.78%) Terraform
2 4 (1.18%) Grafana
2 4 (1.18%) Kibana
2 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.89%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.89%) Nessus
4 1 (0.30%) Ansible
4 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 145 (42.90%) SAP
2 48 (14.20%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.33%) Oracle
4 12 (3.55%) Cisco
5 9 (2.66%) Google
5 9 (2.66%) Sage
6 8 (2.37%) OpenText
7 5 (1.48%) Qualys
7 5 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.48%) Splunk
7 5 (1.48%) VMware
8 4 (1.18%) Citrix
8 4 (1.18%) Computacenter
8 4 (1.18%) HP
8 4 (1.18%) IFS
8 4 (1.18%) Workday
9 3 (0.89%) ESRI
9 3 (0.89%) ForeScout
9 3 (0.89%) MathWorks
9 3 (0.89%) Siemens