Manufacturing Contracts in Reading

Manufacturing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 77 61
Rank change year-on-year +45 -16 +34
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 32 18 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.50% 1.49% 2.43%
As % of the General category 8.65% 2.58% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 16
10th Percentile £570 £325 £378
25th Percentile £600 £575 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £590
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +14.41% +5.36%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £722
90th Percentile - £1,025 £750
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £555 £444
% change year-on-year +17.12% +25.07% -29.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £73.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £52.25 £62.00 £52.10
% change year-on-year -15.73% +19.00% -6.55%

All General Skills
Reading

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 370 697 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 63.57% 57.51% 60.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 304 397
10th Percentile £350 £213 £350
25th Percentile £450 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £542
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -3.14% +8.40%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £717
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £501 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 49 10
10th Percentile - £16.90 £18.33
25th Percentile £14.75 £49.00 £48.13
Median hourly rate £24.13 £60.46 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -60.09% -6.52% +130.98%
75th Percentile £40.69 £76.99 £67.37
90th Percentile £61.88 £87.53 £70.40
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £60.76 £40.00
% change year-on-year -38.64% +51.89% +77.78%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Reading

Manufacturing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Manufacturing in Reading

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Reading over the 6 months to 11 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manufacturing in Reading

Manufacturing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Manufacturing in Reading

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (3.13%) AWS
2 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) Junos
2 1 (3.13%) Modbus
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.13%) SSL
2 1 (3.13%) VLAN
2 1 (3.13%) WAN
2 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
1 4 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 28 (87.50%) Marketing
2 27 (84.38%) Electronics
2 27 (84.38%) Finance
2 27 (84.38%) Public Sector
2 27 (84.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (65.63%) Active Directory Architect
1 21 (65.63%) Architect
2 3 (9.38%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) IT Support
4 1 (3.13%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Lead
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 1 (3.13%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Senior
4 1 (3.13%) Senior Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (3.13%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (3.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 25 (78.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (84.38%) Business Intelligence
1 27 (84.38%) Digital Marketing
1 27 (84.38%) Programme Management
2 22 (68.75%) Test Automation
3 21 (65.63%) Agile
3 21 (65.63%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (6.25%) DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Migration
6 1 (3.13%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 1 (3.13%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 1 (3.13%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (3.13%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (3.13%) Remediation Plan
6 1 (3.13%) Resource Allocation
6 1 (3.13%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (78.13%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.63%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (3.13%) Apex Code
4 1 (3.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (68.75%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (65.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Ansible
1 1 (3.13%) CASB
1 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
1 1 (3.13%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 27 (84.38%) SAP
2 3 (9.38%) Cisco
3 2 (6.25%) Aruba
3 2 (6.25%) F5
3 2 (6.25%) Juniper
4 1 (3.13%) Citrix
4 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.13%) HP
4 1 (3.13%) NEC
4 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) Siemens