Manufacturing Contracts

Manufacturing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 137 179
Rank change year-on-year +55 +42 -18
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 1,105 1,124 1,431
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.59% 1.95% 1.62%
As % of the General category 4.46% 3.33% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 763 1,027
10th Percentile £220 £244 £368
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +5.47%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £650
90th Percentile £780 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.48% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 60 52
10th Percentile £13.05 £23.09 £13.33
25th Percentile £19.09 £39.55 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £35.83
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +25.59% -0.47%
75th Percentile £51.50 £51.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £63.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £45.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year -26.67% +33.34% -4.94%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,779 33,735 49,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.07% 58.52% 56.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,628 23,387 34,464
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,929 1,026 1,428
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £34.00 £22.19
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +53.22% -1.38%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £65.40 £72.50 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +57.89% -4.76%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the UK

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in the UK

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in the UK

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in the UK

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manufacturing over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Manufacturing in the UK

Manufacturing
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +53 947 £500 -4.76% 3,287
UK excluding London +22 704 £475 -9.09% 3,190
Work from Home +24 352 £525 - 628
London +95 242 £600 +4.35% 288
North of England +49 147 £500 +2.88% 769
South East -5 138 £425 -18.07% 671
South West +4 132 £600 +4.35% 442
East of England +41 122 £425 -17.19% 382
Midlands +5 100 £450 -10.00% 744
North West +35 89 £510 +4.94% 402
West Midlands +4 60 £433 -9.42% 454
Scotland +56 44 £425 +1.49% 162
Yorkshire +42 42 £450 -18.18% 282
East Midlands +5 34 £463 -11.90% 289
North East +15 13 £431 +81.47% 108
Northern Ireland +3 11 - - 26
Wales -3 11 £450 -23.21% 136

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 39 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.90%) Confluence
3 18 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.54%) Apache
5 5 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.45%) CMS
6 3 (0.27%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.18%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.090%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.090%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.090%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.81%) Autodesk Inventor
7 6 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.45%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.36%) Windchill
10 3 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.27%) CANalyzer
10 3 (0.27%) CATIA
10 3 (0.27%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.27%) Simulink
10 3 (0.27%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.18%) Maya
11 2 (0.18%) NUKE
12 1 (0.090%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.090%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 67 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.54%) Teamcenter
3 16 (1.45%) SAP PP
4 10 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.81%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.72%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 8 (0.72%) Sage 200
6 8 (0.72%) Sage 50
6 8 (0.72%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.72%) SAP FI-AP
7 7 (0.63%) Oracle Manufacturing
7 7 (0.63%) SAP EWM
7 7 (0.63%) SAP MDG
7 7 (0.63%) SAP MII
8 6 (0.54%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.54%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.54%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.45%) Maximo
9 5 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 95 (8.60%) Azure
2 51 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (4.43%) Power Platform
4 44 (3.98%) AWS
5 39 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
6 24 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
7 21 (1.90%) PaaS
8 16 (1.45%) SaaS
9 13 (1.18%) GCP
10 11 (1.00%) IaaS
10 11 (1.00%) OCI
10 11 (1.00%) Snowflake
11 10 (0.90%) Entra ID
12 8 (0.72%) PowerApps
13 7 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.54%) Serverless
14 6 (0.54%) Smartsheet
15 5 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (0.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.17%) Firewall
2 20 (1.81%) Network Security
3 19 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.54%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (1.09%) DNS
5 12 (1.09%) FTP
5 12 (1.09%) HTTP
6 11 (1.00%) VPN
7 10 (0.90%) LAN
8 9 (0.81%) 4G
8 9 (0.81%) WAN
8 9 (0.81%) Wireless
9 8 (0.72%) InfiniBand
9 8 (0.72%) Internet
10 7 (0.63%) 3G
10 7 (0.63%) SAN
11 6 (0.54%) VLAN
12 5 (0.45%) MQTT
12 5 (0.45%) NAS
12 5 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (3.71%) Metadata
1 41 (3.71%) Power BI
2 31 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 23 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 21 (1.90%) Data Vault
5 16 (1.45%) Metadata Repository
6 12 (1.09%) Tableau
7 11 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
10 8 (0.72%) Hadoop
10 8 (0.72%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.63%) Big Data
11 7 (0.63%) GIS
11 7 (0.63%) QlikView
12 6 (0.54%) Ingres
12 6 (0.54%) Pentaho
12 6 (0.54%) Qlik Sense
13 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 43 (3.89%) JIRA
2 14 (1.27%) Git
3 12 (1.09%) ERwin
3 12 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.45%) Eclipse
4 5 (0.45%) PyCharm
5 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.36%) IDA Disassembler
6 3 (0.27%) CANoe
6 3 (0.27%) NUnit
6 3 (0.27%) Postman
6 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.18%) JMeter
7 2 (0.18%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.090%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.090%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.090%) GitLab
8 1 (0.090%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.090%) Selenium
General
1 414 (37.47%) Finance
2 342 (30.95%) Electronics
3 320 (28.96%) Marketing
4 303 (27.42%) Social Skills
5 299 (27.06%) Telecoms
6 298 (26.97%) Public Sector
7 100 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
8 69 (6.24%) Aerospace
8 69 (6.24%) Pharmaceutical
9 58 (5.25%) Automotive
10 45 (4.07%) Retail
11 29 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (1.54%) French Language
15 10 (0.90%) Legal
16 9 (0.81%) Publishing
17 7 (0.63%) Italian Language
18 6 (0.54%) Games
18 6 (0.54%) German Language
Job Titles
1 156 (14.12%) Architect
2 111 (10.05%) Project Manager
3 110 (9.95%) Analyst
4 98 (8.87%) Lead
5 93 (8.42%) Consultant
6 72 (6.52%) Business Analyst
7 57 (5.16%) Support Engineer
8 56 (5.07%) Senior
9 44 (3.98%) Developer
10 42 (3.80%) Data Architect
10 42 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
11 33 (2.99%) SAP Consultant
11 33 (2.99%) Test Architect
12 32 (2.90%) Administrator
13 24 (2.17%) ERP Manager
14 23 (2.08%) Network Engineer
14 23 (2.08%) Trainer
15 21 (1.90%) Change Manager
15 21 (1.90%) Desktop Support
15 21 (1.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.54%) .NET
2 13 (1.18%) JSON
3 11 (1.00%) XML
4 9 (0.81%) EDI
4 9 (0.81%) RESTful
5 8 (0.72%) CSS
5 8 (0.72%) IDoc
5 8 (0.72%) SAP Business Workflow
5 8 (0.72%) Web Services
6 7 (0.63%) HTML
6 7 (0.63%) LDAP
7 6 (0.54%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.54%) React
8 5 (0.45%) ASP.NET
8 5 (0.45%) Middleware
8 5 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.45%) REST
8 5 (0.45%) SAP TM
9 4 (0.36%) NumPy
9 4 (0.36%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 40 (3.62%) NHS
2 33 (2.99%) Analogue Electronics
3 32 (2.90%) Life Science
4 27 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.35%) IoT
6 22 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.90%) Reference Data
8 18 (1.63%) Operational Technology
9 17 (1.54%) FMCG
9 17 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
10 15 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.09%) Industry 4.0
11 12 (1.09%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.09%) Robotics
12 11 (1.00%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.00%) Wiki
13 8 (0.72%) CESG
13 8 (0.72%) LIMS
14 7 (0.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.42%) Windows
2 37 (3.35%) Linux
3 26 (2.35%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.63%) Android
6 6 (0.54%) Unix
7 5 (0.45%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.27%) VMS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.090%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.090%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (29.77%) Business Intelligence
2 305 (27.60%) Programme Management
3 301 (27.24%) Digital Marketing
4 173 (15.66%) Project Management
5 126 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 125 (11.31%) ERP
7 123 (11.13%) Problem-Solving
8 118 (10.68%) Agile
9 83 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (6.24%) Change Management
11 68 (6.15%) Data Governance
12 67 (6.06%) Logistics
13 66 (5.97%) Migration
14 59 (5.34%) Analytics
14 59 (5.34%) Project Delivery
15 53 (4.80%) Roadmaps
16 52 (4.71%) Process Improvement
17 49 (4.43%) Data Modelling
18 46 (4.16%) DevOps
19 45 (4.07%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (5.88%) SQL
2 46 (4.16%) Python
3 27 (2.44%) JavaScript
4 22 (1.99%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.90%) C#
6 17 (1.54%) Java
7 13 (1.18%) ABAP
8 10 (0.90%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (0.63%) C
10 7 (0.63%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.45%) Bash
11 5 (0.45%) Groovy
12 4 (0.36%) C++
12 4 (0.36%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.27%) VBA
14 1 (0.090%) Rust
14 1 (0.090%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 184 (16.65%) Security Cleared
2 131 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 124 (11.22%) Degree
4 52 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 22 (1.99%) Master's Degree
6 20 (1.81%) CISSP
7 18 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.45%) PMP
9 15 (1.36%) PMI Certification
10 14 (1.27%) CISM
11 13 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.09%) IIBA
13 10 (0.90%) CEH
13 10 (0.90%) CISA
14 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.72%) CISMP
15 8 (0.72%) ISACA
15 8 (0.72%) MCSE
15 8 (0.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.98%) GDPR
2 26 (2.35%) GxP
2 26 (2.35%) QA
3 22 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 21 (1.90%) PMO
5 20 (1.81%) NIST
6 18 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.54%) Good Clinical Practice
8 13 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.18%) SLA
9 9 (0.81%) GMP
10 8 (0.72%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.72%) HL7
11 7 (0.63%) GAMP
12 6 (0.54%) NEBOSH
13 5 (0.45%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.45%) RMADS
14 4 (0.36%) Accessibility
15 2 (0.18%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 45 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.72%) Firmware
2 8 (0.72%) NFS
3 7 (0.63%) Docker
3 7 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.36%) HDFS
5 4 (0.36%) Snort
6 3 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.27%) zsh
7 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.090%) IAG
Systems Management
1 10 (0.90%) Terraform
2 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.54%) Grafana
4 5 (0.45%) Kibana
5 4 (0.36%) Ansible
5 4 (0.36%) Functional Safety
5 4 (0.36%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.36%) Nessus
5 4 (0.36%) Puppet
6 3 (0.27%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.18%) CA Service Virtualization
7 2 (0.18%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.18%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.090%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.090%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.090%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.090%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.090%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.090%) VxRail
Vendors
1 482 (43.62%) SAP
2 151 (13.67%) Microsoft
3 42 (3.80%) Oracle
4 27 (2.44%) Cisco
5 21 (1.90%) Sparx
6 19 (1.72%) Ariba
7 15 (1.36%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.36%) VMware
8 14 (1.27%) Sage
9 12 (1.09%) Dell
9 12 (1.09%) Informatica
10 11 (1.00%) Citrix
10 11 (1.00%) Google
10 11 (1.00%) Siemens
11 10 (0.90%) IFS
12 9 (0.81%) Autodesk
12 9 (0.81%) HP
12 9 (0.81%) Salesforce
13 8 (0.72%) OpenText
14 7 (0.63%) Palo Alto