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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 143 138
Rank change year-on-year +81 -5 +11
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 3,946 2,476 4,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.85% 2.54% 2.96%
As % of the General category 6.55% 3.74% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,489 1,201 2,247
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £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 £73,750 £86,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -

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 60,283 66,144 108,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.75% 67.94% 64.98%
Number of salaries quoted 39,987 35,943 51,825
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,426 £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 28 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 28 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 +59 3,520 £45,000 -10.00% 3,367
England +79 3,417 £45,000 -18.18% 3,510
North of England +86 840 £45,000 -2.17% 787
South East +46 819 £42,300 -17.46% 684
Work from Home +53 776 £55,000 - 629
Midlands +7 726 £45,000 -18.18% 765
West Midlands +4 439 £45,000 -28.00% 452
South West +54 420 £42,500 -22.73% 494
North West +67 374 £47,500 - 404
Yorkshire +98 371 £42,500 +6.25% 293
East of England +128 314 £51,250 -6.82% 444
East Midlands +19 281 £42,500 -5.56% 311
London +71 260 £66,250 +1.92% 282
Wales +99 189 £32,500 +8.33% 138
Scotland +5 149 £47,500 - 177
North East +31 95 £40,000 +6.67% 114
Northern Ireland +57 64 £35,000 -6.67% 27

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 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 78 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (0.46%) Confluence
4 13 (0.33%) Documentum
4 13 (0.33%) IIS
5 8 (0.20%) Apache
6 7 (0.18%) CMS
7 6 (0.15%) nginx
7 6 (0.15%) SAS
8 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.10%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.10%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.10%) WordPress
9 3 (0.076%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.076%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.076%) Drupal
9 3 (0.076%) JBoss
10 2 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.051%) Resin
10 2 (0.051%) WebLogic
Applications
1 161 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 129 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (0.89%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.56%) SOLIDWORKS
7 13 (0.33%) Simulink
8 12 (0.30%) OrCAD
9 10 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 10 (0.25%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.25%) Solid Edge
10 9 (0.23%) Siemens NX
11 8 (0.20%) EPLAN
11 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
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 44 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 41 (1.04%) Dynamics NAV
4 29 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 23 (0.58%) SAP PP
6 17 (0.43%) SAP IBP
7 14 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 13 (0.33%) Sage X3
8 13 (0.33%) TrackWise
9 11 (0.28%) Sage 200
9 11 (0.28%) Teamcenter
10 10 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
10 10 (0.25%) SAP ERP
10 10 (0.25%) SAP SCM
11 9 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
11 9 (0.23%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.23%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 8 (0.20%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 287 (7.27%) Azure
2 281 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
3 164 (4.16%) Power Platform
4 127 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
5 80 (2.03%) AWS
6 69 (1.75%) Entra ID
7 65 (1.65%) SaaS
8 47 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (1.09%) PowerApps
10 37 (0.94%) OneDrive
11 31 (0.79%) Power Automate
12 22 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (0.56%) GitHub
13 18 (0.46%) Serverless
14 17 (0.43%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.33%) PaaS
16 11 (0.28%) GCP
16 11 (0.28%) WhatsApp
17 7 (0.18%) Azure Event Grid
17 7 (0.18%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 92 (2.33%) Firewall
2 91 (2.31%) Wireless
3 59 (1.50%) Ethernet
4 58 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
5 50 (1.27%) LAN
6 40 (1.01%) WAN
7 38 (0.96%) RS-232
8 34 (0.86%) DNS
9 33 (0.84%) Internet
9 33 (0.84%) Network Security
9 33 (0.84%) TCP/IP
10 29 (0.73%) VPN
11 27 (0.68%) LTE
12 25 (0.63%) HTTP
13 21 (0.53%) DHCP
14 19 (0.48%) SAN
15 17 (0.43%) 4G
16 16 (0.41%) VLAN
17 15 (0.38%) Bluetooth
17 15 (0.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 136 (3.45%) Power BI
3 45 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (0.96%) MySQL
4 38 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 30 (0.76%) MongoDB
6 28 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (0.63%) Tableau
8 24 (0.61%) Relational Database
9 18 (0.46%) SQLite
10 14 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (0.35%) Crystal Reports
10 14 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.33%) MS Access
12 12 (0.30%) Redis
13 9 (0.23%) Metadata
14 8 (0.20%) OLAP
14 8 (0.20%) Power Query
15 7 (0.18%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 119 (3.02%) Git
2 58 (1.47%) JIRA
3 54 (1.37%) LabVIEW
4 45 (1.14%) Visual Studio
5 21 (0.53%) Subversion
6 16 (0.41%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.30%) Eclipse
7 12 (0.30%) GitLab
8 10 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.18%) CANoe
10 6 (0.15%) Maven
11 5 (0.13%) Postman
11 5 (0.13%) Selenium
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%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.076%) Appium
13 3 (0.076%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,039 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 638 (16.17%) Finance
3 520 (13.18%) Electronics
4 402 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 329 (8.34%) Pharmaceutical
6 284 (7.20%) Marketing
7 264 (6.69%) Retail
8 242 (6.13%) Aerospace
9 209 (5.30%) Telecoms
10 205 (5.20%) Automotive
11 190 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 189 (4.79%) Public Sector
13 180 (4.56%) Influencing Skills
14 177 (4.49%) Law
15 170 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
16 121 (3.07%) Legal
17 80 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
18 52 (1.32%) Games
19 42 (1.06%) Military
20 33 (0.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 400 (10.14%) Senior
2 271 (6.87%) Analyst
3 270 (6.84%) Software Engineer
4 258 (6.54%) Developer
5 254 (6.44%) Graduate
6 246 (6.23%) Project Manager
7 241 (6.11%) Lead
8 207 (5.25%) Systems Engineer
9 175 (4.43%) IT Engineer
10 158 (4.00%) Electronics Engineer
11 139 (3.52%) Consultant
12 135 (3.42%) Support Engineer
13 129 (3.27%) Embedded Engineer
14 126 (3.19%) Automation Engineer
15 120 (3.04%) IT Graduate
16 117 (2.97%) IT Support
17 115 (2.91%) Graduate IT Engineer
18 104 (2.64%) Architect
18 104 (2.64%) Junior
18 104 (2.64%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (3.37%) .NET
2 82 (2.08%) HTML
3 52 (1.32%) CSS
4 46 (1.17%) ASP.NET
4 46 (1.17%) React
5 44 (1.12%) .NET Framework
6 38 (0.96%) RESTful
7 34 (0.86%) AngularJS
8 29 (0.73%) .NET Core
9 26 (0.66%) Django
9 26 (0.66%) Yocto
10 24 (0.61%) WPF
11 23 (0.58%) Node.js
12 20 (0.51%) Blazor
12 20 (0.51%) Flask
13 19 (0.48%) Entity Framework
13 19 (0.48%) XML
14 18 (0.46%) ASP.NET MVC
15 16 (0.41%) YAML
16 15 (0.38%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 249 (6.31%) FMCG
2 224 (5.68%) Management Information System
3 128 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
4 91 (2.31%) Driving Licence
5 89 (2.26%) IoT
6 66 (1.67%) Operational Technology
7 59 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
8 53 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 50 (1.27%) Data Centre
9 50 (1.27%) Life Science
10 41 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 39 (0.99%) Industrial Internet of Things
12 38 (0.96%) FPGA
12 38 (0.96%) Robotics
13 35 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
14 27 (0.68%) PMI
15 26 (0.66%) SCADA
16 25 (0.63%) Analogue Electronics
16 25 (0.63%) Onboarding
16 25 (0.63%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 285 (7.22%) Windows
2 181 (4.59%) Linux
3 93 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.95%) Windows 10
5 36 (0.91%) Android
6 32 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
7 26 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
9 17 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.38%) VMS
11 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.20%) Debian
12 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
12 8 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.13%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.10%) VxWorks
15 3 (0.076%) CatOS
15 3 (0.076%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
2 549 (13.91%) ERP
3 444 (11.25%) Project Management
4 391 (9.91%) Software Engineering
5 356 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 330 (8.36%) Business Intelligence
7 270 (6.84%) Agile
8 262 (6.64%) Computer Science
9 219 (5.55%) QMS
10 218 (5.52%) Mentoring
11 189 (4.79%) Coaching
12 187 (4.74%) Programme Management
13 173 (4.38%) Logistics
14 167 (4.23%) Customer Service
14 167 (4.23%) Digital Marketing
15 159 (4.03%) Six Sigma
16 158 (4.00%) Change Management
17 148 (3.75%) Validation
18 142 (3.60%) Cybersecurity
19 140 (3.55%) Lean Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 399 (10.11%) SQL
2 238 (6.03%) C#
3 218 (5.52%) C
4 200 (5.07%) Python
5 129 (3.27%) C++
6 124 (3.14%) JavaScript
7 63 (1.60%) Embedded C
8 59 (1.50%) Java
9 48 (1.22%) PowerShell
10 46 (1.17%) T-SQL
10 46 (1.17%) TypeScript
11 35 (0.89%) Bash
12 28 (0.71%) PHP
13 22 (0.56%) VBA
13 22 (0.56%) XAML
14 21 (0.53%) MATLAB
15 20 (0.51%) VB
16 19 (0.48%) VB.NET
17 13 (0.33%) Embedded C++
17 13 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1,123 (28.46%) Degree
2 166 (4.21%) Security Cleared
3 129 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 116 (2.94%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 80 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 76 (1.93%) HND
7 74 (1.88%) HNC
8 55 (1.39%) SC Cleared
9 45 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 33 (0.84%) CISSP
13 32 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (0.61%) CCNA
15 17 (0.43%) PMP
16 15 (0.38%) Azure Certification
16 15 (0.38%) CISA
16 15 (0.38%) NVQ Level 3
17 14 (0.35%) CISM
17 14 (0.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 514 (13.03%) QA
2 250 (6.34%) GMP
3 47 (1.19%) ISO 9001
4 44 (1.12%) SLA
5 42 (1.06%) PMO
6 30 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.71%) GDPR
8 19 (0.48%) ISO 13485
9 16 (0.41%) GxP
10 15 (0.38%) Data Quality
10 15 (0.38%) ISO 14001
11 14 (0.35%) Good Clinical Practice
11 14 (0.35%) NIST
12 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.33%) ISO 26262
13 9 (0.23%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.20%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.18%) GLP
15 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.15%) GAMP
System Software
1 193 (4.89%) Firmware
2 170 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 121 (3.07%) Embedded Firmware
4 50 (1.27%) Hyper-V
5 49 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 32 (0.81%) 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 (0.076%) KVM
12 2 (0.051%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.051%) NFS
13 1 (0.025%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (0.46%) Terraform
3 11 (0.28%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.20%) SCCM
5 7 (0.18%) FortiGate
5 7 (0.18%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.13%) WSUS
7 4 (0.10%) Puppet
8 3 (0.076%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.076%) Ansible
8 3 (0.076%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.076%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.051%) Nessus
10 1 (0.025%) systemd
10 1 (0.025%) vRealize
Vendors
1 547 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 360 (9.12%) SAP
3 104 (2.64%) EMC
4 102 (2.58%) VMware
5 79 (2.00%) Oracle
6 76 (1.93%) IFS
7 47 (1.19%) Sage
8 39 (0.99%) Epicor
9 38 (0.96%) Google
10 34 (0.86%) Veeam
11 33 (0.84%) Siemens
12 32 (0.81%) Cisco
13 22 (0.56%) Citrix
14 19 (0.48%) HP
14 19 (0.48%) Workday
15 18 (0.46%) Salesforce
16 15 (0.38%) IBM
17 14 (0.35%) Allen-Bradley
17 14 (0.35%) Aruba
18 13 (0.33%) Adobe