Manufacturing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 140 139
Rank change year-on-year +78 -1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 3,889 2,493 4,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.85% 2.53% 2.96%
As % of the General category 6.50% 3.71% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,459 1,212 2,209
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,534 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +2.22%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,832 67,156 106,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.28% 68.18% 64.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39,796 36,292 51,369
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing.

Salary trend for Manufacturing in the UK

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in the UK

Manufacturing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +60 3,461 £45,000 -10.00% 3,422
England +77 3,370 £45,000 -18.18% 3,562
North of England +89 828 £45,000 -2.17% 806
South East +48 799 £42,300 -19.43% 759
Work from Home +56 773 £55,000 - 663
Midlands +8 719 £45,000 -14.29% 746
West Midlands +5 436 £45,000 -28.00% 428
South West +52 409 £42,500 -22.73% 489
North West +64 372 £47,500 - 404
Yorkshire +103 362 £42,500 +6.25% 302
East of England +129 313 £50,000 -9.09% 445
East Midlands +21 277 £42,500 -5.56% 307
London +65 263 £67,500 +1.89% 347
Wales +100 185 £33,750 +12.50% 139
Scotland +4 146 £47,500 +2.70% 174
North East +32 94 £40,000 +6.67% 121
Northern Ireland +62 63 £35,000 -6.67% 18

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
1 146 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 79 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (0.46%) Confluence
4 14 (0.36%) IIS
5 13 (0.33%) Documentum
6 8 (0.21%) Apache
7 7 (0.18%) CMS
8 6 (0.15%) nginx
8 6 (0.15%) SAS
9 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.10%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.10%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.10%) WordPress
10 3 (0.077%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.077%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.077%) Drupal
10 3 (0.077%) JBoss
11 2 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.051%) Resin
11 2 (0.051%) WildFly
Applications
1 162 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 129 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (0.90%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.57%) SOLIDWORKS
7 13 (0.33%) Simulink
8 12 (0.31%) OrCAD
9 10 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
9 10 (0.26%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.26%) Solid Edge
10 9 (0.23%) MS Visio
10 9 (0.23%) Siemens NX
11 8 (0.21%) EPLAN
12 7 (0.18%) Revit
13 5 (0.13%) CANalyzer
13 5 (0.13%) InfoPath
14 4 (0.10%) Doxygen
14 4 (0.10%) Fusion 360
14 4 (0.10%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 41 (1.05%) Dynamics NAV
4 29 (0.75%) NetSuite
5 22 (0.57%) SAP PP
6 17 (0.44%) SAP IBP
7 14 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
8 13 (0.33%) Sage X3
8 13 (0.33%) TrackWise
9 11 (0.28%) Teamcenter
10 10 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
10 10 (0.26%) Sage 200
10 10 (0.26%) SAP CO
10 10 (0.26%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.26%) SAP QM
10 10 (0.26%) SAP SCM
11 9 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
11 9 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 8 (0.21%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 283 (7.28%) Azure
2 278 (7.15%) Microsoft 365
3 160 (4.11%) Power Platform
4 126 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
5 80 (2.06%) AWS
6 68 (1.75%) Entra ID
7 64 (1.65%) SaaS
8 46 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (1.08%) PowerApps
10 37 (0.95%) OneDrive
11 31 (0.80%) Power Automate
12 23 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (0.57%) GitHub
14 18 (0.46%) Serverless
15 16 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.33%) PaaS
17 11 (0.28%) GCP
17 11 (0.28%) WhatsApp
18 7 (0.18%) Azure Event Grid
18 7 (0.18%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 92 (2.37%) Firewall
2 90 (2.31%) Wireless
3 59 (1.52%) Ethernet
3 59 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
4 50 (1.29%) LAN
5 40 (1.03%) WAN
6 37 (0.95%) RS-232
7 35 (0.90%) DNS
8 34 (0.87%) Internet
9 33 (0.85%) Network Security
9 33 (0.85%) TCP/IP
10 30 (0.77%) VPN
11 26 (0.67%) HTTP
12 25 (0.64%) LTE
13 21 (0.54%) DHCP
14 19 (0.49%) SAN
15 17 (0.44%) 4G
16 16 (0.41%) VLAN
17 15 (0.39%) Bluetooth
17 15 (0.39%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 134 (3.45%) Power BI
3 45 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (0.98%) MySQL
5 37 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (0.77%) MongoDB
7 28 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 23 (0.59%) Tableau
10 18 (0.46%) SQLite
11 14 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
11 14 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (0.33%) MS Access
13 12 (0.31%) Redis
14 9 (0.23%) Metadata
15 8 (0.21%) OLAP
15 8 (0.21%) Power Query
16 7 (0.18%) NoSQL
16 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 119 (3.06%) Git
2 56 (1.44%) JIRA
3 53 (1.36%) LabVIEW
4 44 (1.13%) Visual Studio
5 21 (0.54%) Subversion
6 16 (0.41%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.31%) Eclipse
7 12 (0.31%) GitLab
8 10 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.18%) CANoe
10 6 (0.15%) Maven
10 6 (0.15%) Selenium
11 5 (0.13%) Postman
11 5 (0.13%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.10%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.10%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.077%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,037 (26.66%) Social Skills
2 640 (16.46%) Finance
3 518 (13.32%) Electronics
4 401 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
5 326 (8.38%) Pharmaceutical
6 283 (7.28%) Marketing
7 263 (6.76%) Retail
8 244 (6.27%) Aerospace
9 212 (5.45%) Telecoms
10 206 (5.30%) Automotive
11 193 (4.96%) Public Sector
12 189 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 180 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
14 177 (4.55%) Law
15 171 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
16 121 (3.11%) Legal
17 83 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
18 48 (1.23%) Games
19 42 (1.08%) Military
20 33 (0.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 385 (9.90%) Senior
2 270 (6.94%) Analyst
3 257 (6.61%) Software Engineer
4 255 (6.56%) Developer
5 254 (6.53%) Graduate
6 244 (6.27%) Project Manager
7 236 (6.07%) Lead
8 204 (5.25%) Systems Engineer
9 174 (4.47%) IT Engineer
10 157 (4.04%) Electronics Engineer
11 141 (3.63%) Consultant
12 132 (3.39%) Support Engineer
13 127 (3.27%) Automation Engineer
14 121 (3.11%) Embedded Engineer
15 120 (3.09%) IT Graduate
16 117 (3.01%) IT Support
17 115 (2.96%) Graduate IT Engineer
18 103 (2.65%) Architect
18 103 (2.65%) Junior
19 101 (2.60%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (3.45%) .NET
2 83 (2.13%) HTML
3 52 (1.34%) CSS
4 47 (1.21%) ASP.NET
5 45 (1.16%) React
6 44 (1.13%) .NET Framework
7 38 (0.98%) RESTful
8 34 (0.87%) AngularJS
9 29 (0.75%) .NET Core
10 26 (0.67%) Yocto
11 25 (0.64%) Django
12 24 (0.62%) WPF
13 22 (0.57%) Node.js
14 20 (0.51%) Blazor
14 20 (0.51%) Flask
15 19 (0.49%) Entity Framework
15 19 (0.49%) XML
16 18 (0.46%) ASP.NET MVC
17 16 (0.41%) YAML
18 15 (0.39%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 251 (6.45%) FMCG
2 224 (5.76%) Management Information System
3 125 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
4 91 (2.34%) Driving Licence
5 87 (2.24%) IoT
6 66 (1.70%) Operational Technology
7 59 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
8 53 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 50 (1.29%) Data Centre
10 49 (1.26%) Life Science
11 41 (1.05%) Algorithms
12 39 (1.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 37 (0.95%) FPGA
14 36 (0.93%) Robotics
15 35 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
16 28 (0.72%) PMI
17 27 (0.69%) Biopharmaceutical
18 26 (0.67%) Onboarding
18 26 (0.67%) SCADA
19 25 (0.64%) Analogue Electronics
Operating Systems
1 286 (7.35%) Windows
2 179 (4.60%) Linux
3 93 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.98%) Windows 10
5 36 (0.93%) Android
6 30 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
7 26 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
9 17 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 14 (0.36%) VMS
11 12 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 8 (0.21%) Debian
13 8 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.13%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.10%) VxWorks
16 3 (0.077%) CatOS
16 3 (0.077%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
2 550 (14.14%) ERP
3 438 (11.26%) Project Management
4 374 (9.62%) Software Engineering
5 352 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 330 (8.49%) Business Intelligence
7 263 (6.76%) Agile
8 258 (6.63%) Computer Science
9 219 (5.63%) QMS
10 218 (5.61%) Mentoring
11 190 (4.89%) Programme Management
12 189 (4.86%) Coaching
13 174 (4.47%) Logistics
14 169 (4.35%) Digital Marketing
15 166 (4.27%) Customer Service
16 157 (4.04%) Change Management
16 157 (4.04%) Six Sigma
17 150 (3.86%) Validation
18 142 (3.65%) Cybersecurity
19 140 (3.60%) Lean Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 399 (10.26%) SQL
2 239 (6.15%) C#
3 215 (5.53%) C
4 199 (5.12%) Python
5 126 (3.24%) C++
6 124 (3.19%) JavaScript
7 62 (1.59%) Embedded C
8 59 (1.52%) Java
9 48 (1.23%) PowerShell
10 45 (1.16%) T-SQL
10 45 (1.16%) TypeScript
11 35 (0.90%) Bash
12 28 (0.72%) PHP
13 22 (0.57%) VBA
13 22 (0.57%) XAML
14 21 (0.54%) MATLAB
15 20 (0.51%) VB
16 19 (0.49%) VB.NET
17 13 (0.33%) Embedded C++
17 13 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1,119 (28.77%) Degree
2 164 (4.22%) Security Cleared
3 127 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 116 (2.98%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 80 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 75 (1.93%) HND
7 73 (1.88%) HNC
8 55 (1.41%) SC Cleared
9 44 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 43 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.03%) PMI Certification
12 34 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (0.87%) CISSP
13 26 (0.67%) CCNA
14 17 (0.44%) PMP
15 16 (0.41%) CISA
16 15 (0.39%) CISM
16 15 (0.39%) NVQ Level 3
17 14 (0.36%) Azure Certification
18 13 (0.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 508 (13.06%) QA
2 249 (6.40%) GMP
3 45 (1.16%) ISO 9001
4 42 (1.08%) PMO
4 42 (1.08%) SLA
5 31 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (0.72%) GDPR
7 19 (0.49%) ISO 13485
8 16 (0.41%) GxP
9 14 (0.36%) Data Quality
9 14 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
9 14 (0.36%) ISO 14001
9 14 (0.36%) NIST
10 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.33%) ISO 26262
11 9 (0.23%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.21%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.15%) GAMP
System Software
1 190 (4.89%) Firmware
2 170 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 121 (3.11%) Embedded Firmware
4 51 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 49 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 32 (0.82%) Docker
7 13 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.10%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.10%) VMware Server
10 4 (0.10%) vSphere
11 3 (0.077%) KVM
11 3 (0.077%) NFS
12 2 (0.051%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.026%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (0.46%) Terraform
3 11 (0.28%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.21%) SCCM
5 7 (0.18%) FortiGate
5 7 (0.18%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.13%) WSUS
7 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.10%) Puppet
8 3 (0.077%) Ansible
8 3 (0.077%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.077%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.051%) Nessus
10 1 (0.026%) systemd
10 1 (0.026%) vRealize
Vendors
1 544 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 364 (9.36%) SAP
3 103 (2.65%) EMC
4 102 (2.62%) VMware
5 79 (2.03%) Oracle
6 76 (1.95%) IFS
7 46 (1.18%) Sage
8 39 (1.00%) Epicor
9 38 (0.98%) Google
10 34 (0.87%) Cisco
10 34 (0.87%) Veeam
11 33 (0.85%) Siemens
12 22 (0.57%) Citrix
13 19 (0.49%) HP
13 19 (0.49%) Workday
14 18 (0.46%) Salesforce
15 15 (0.39%) Aruba
16 14 (0.36%) IBM
17 13 (0.33%) Adobe
17 13 (0.33%) Allen-Bradley