Smart Manufacturing Contracts

Smart Manufacturing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Smart Manufacturing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smart 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 573 - 843
Rank change year-on-year - - -113
Contract jobs citing Smart Manufacturing 11 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% - 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% - 0.006%
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 excluding London 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 excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Smart Manufacturing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Smart Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart Manufacturing in the UK

Smart Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Smart Manufacturing in the UK

Smart Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Smart Manufacturing in the UK

Smart Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Smart Manufacturing in the UK

Smart Manufacturing
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 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
UK excluding London - 11 - - 6
North of England - 8 - - 2
North West - 8 - - 1
England - 8 - - 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - -

Smart 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:

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%) Nanotechnology
3 3 (27.27%) Operational Stability
3 3 (27.27%) Prototyping
3 3 (27.27%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
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