Manufacturing Jobs in the South East

Manufacturing
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 93 98
Rank change year-on-year +49 +5 +37
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 795 479 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.77% 3.28% 3.33%
As % of the General category 8.40% 5.15% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 428 201 301
10th Percentile £27,350 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,300 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.43% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £55,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%

All General Skills
South East

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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,460 9,302 11,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 56.70% 63.69% 58.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,010 4,489 6,505
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,450 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,713 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,375
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the South East

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Manufacturing in the South East

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in the South East

Manufacturing
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 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
Hampshire +30 314 £42,300 -15.40% 122
Thames Valley +68 293 £45,000 -14.29% 244
Buckinghamshire +59 128 £42,500 -19.05% 80
Surrey 0 96 £47,500 -9.52% 40
Oxfordshire +40 93 £44,000 -16.19% 84
Berkshire +38 72 £55,000 +10.00% 81
Kent -19 32 £38,000 -10.59% 97
West Sussex +30 29 £60,000 - 41
East Sussex +32 16 £42,500 +41.67% 11
Sussex - 8 £32,500 - 2
Isle of Wight +2 4 £42,500 +77.08% 2
Middlesex - 3 - -
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 24 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.64%) Documentum
4 10 (1.26%) Confluence
5 6 (0.75%) Apache
5 6 (0.75%) nginx
6 3 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.25%) CMS
7 2 (0.25%) Drupal
7 2 (0.25%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
2 20 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.88%) OrCAD
6 6 (0.75%) SOLIDWORKS
7 5 (0.63%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.63%) Simulink
7 5 (0.63%) Solid Edge
8 4 (0.50%) Doxygen
9 2 (0.25%) CATIA
9 2 (0.25%) Fusion 360
9 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.13%) InDesign
10 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (2.01%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.64%) TrackWise
3 10 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.38%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.25%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.13%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.13%) Primavera
6 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 46 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (5.53%) Azure
3 22 (2.77%) Entra ID
3 22 (2.77%) Power Platform
4 12 (1.51%) AWS
5 11 (1.38%) OneDrive
5 11 (1.38%) SaaS
6 10 (1.26%) GitHub
7 7 (0.88%) PowerApps
8 6 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.50%) PaaS
11 2 (0.25%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (0.25%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.25%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.13%) GCP
12 1 (0.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.77%) Wireless
2 16 (2.01%) 4G
3 15 (1.89%) Firewall
3 15 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (1.38%) Intranet
4 11 (1.38%) VPN
5 10 (1.26%) DNS
5 10 (1.26%) Ethernet
5 10 (1.26%) LTE
6 9 (1.13%) HTTP
7 7 (0.88%) LAN
7 7 (0.88%) Modbus
7 7 (0.88%) NAS
7 7 (0.88%) Network Security
7 7 (0.88%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.75%) 3G
8 6 (0.75%) DSL
8 6 (0.75%) GPRS
9 5 (0.63%) VLAN
10 4 (0.50%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.77%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.51%) Power BI
4 11 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.75%) GIS
5 6 (0.75%) Redis
5 6 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.63%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.63%) SAP BW
7 4 (0.50%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.25%) MySQL
9 1 (0.13%) Metadata
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.13%) Spotfire
9 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (3.14%) Git
2 21 (2.64%) JIRA
3 7 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.88%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.75%) Maven
5 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.50%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.50%) GitLab
5 4 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.50%) Subversion
6 2 (0.25%) Selenium
6 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 233 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 221 (27.80%) Electronics
3 115 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (13.96%) Finance
5 79 (9.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 77 (9.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 67 (8.43%) Marketing
8 64 (8.05%) Telecoms
9 58 (7.30%) Public Sector
10 41 (5.16%) Legal
11 23 (2.89%) Aerospace
11 23 (2.89%) Automotive
12 20 (2.52%) Military
13 19 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (2.14%) Retail
15 13 (1.64%) Aviation
16 11 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (1.13%) Law
18 4 (0.50%) Games
18 4 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (11.19%) Electronics Engineer
2 85 (10.69%) Graduate
3 76 (9.56%) Junior
4 65 (8.18%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
5 63 (7.92%) Junior Electronics Engineer
5 63 (7.92%) Senior
6 61 (7.67%) Development Engineer
6 61 (7.67%) Graduate Development Engineer
7 52 (6.54%) Quality Engineer
8 51 (6.42%) Analyst
9 49 (6.16%) Software Engineer
10 44 (5.53%) Developer
10 44 (5.53%) Systems Engineer
11 37 (4.65%) Project Manager
12 33 (4.15%) QA Manager
13 32 (4.03%) Embedded Engineer
13 32 (4.03%) Support Engineer
14 31 (3.90%) Lead
15 26 (3.27%) QA Engineer
16 25 (3.14%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.64%) React
2 18 (2.26%) CSS
2 18 (2.26%) HTML
3 15 (1.89%) .NET
4 10 (1.26%) AngularJS
5 8 (1.01%) Svelte
6 6 (0.75%) Celery
6 6 (0.75%) Dask
6 6 (0.75%) Django
6 6 (0.75%) Flask
6 6 (0.75%) GeoJSON
6 6 (0.75%) GeoPandas
6 6 (0.75%) LAPP Stack
6 6 (0.75%) NumPy
6 6 (0.75%) Yocto
7 5 (0.63%) Google Maps API
7 5 (0.63%) HTML5 Canvas
7 5 (0.63%) Java EE
7 5 (0.63%) Node.js
7 5 (0.63%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 79 (9.94%) Management Information System
2 40 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (2.64%) Embedded Systems
4 18 (2.26%) Driving Licence
5 17 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.01%) Life Science
7 15 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (1.89%) Biopharmaceutical
8 14 (1.76%) FPGA
9 13 (1.64%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.64%) IoT
9 13 (1.64%) LIMS
10 12 (1.51%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.38%) Analogue Electronics
11 11 (1.38%) Smartphone
12 9 (1.13%) Molecular Biology
12 9 (1.13%) VHDL
13 7 (0.88%) NB-IoT
13 7 (0.88%) Product Ownership
13 7 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.42%) Linux
2 42 (5.28%) Windows
3 17 (2.14%) Android
3 17 (2.14%) Windows 10
4 13 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.13%) VMS
6 6 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
2 111 (13.96%) ERP
3 101 (12.70%) Project Management
4 85 (10.69%) Schematic Capture
5 82 (10.31%) Project Planning
6 81 (10.19%) Business Intelligence
7 75 (9.43%) Collaborative Working
8 70 (8.81%) Product Requirements
8 70 (8.81%) Software Engineering
9 65 (8.18%) QMS
10 64 (8.05%) Programme Management
11 58 (7.30%) Digital Marketing
11 58 (7.30%) Internal Audit
12 57 (7.17%) FMEA
13 50 (6.29%) Customer Service
13 50 (6.29%) Validation
14 49 (6.16%) Agile
15 48 (6.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 46 (5.79%) Computer Science
17 42 (5.28%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 66 (8.30%) SQL
2 57 (7.17%) Python
3 38 (4.78%) C#
4 37 (4.65%) C
5 33 (4.15%) C++
6 30 (3.77%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.64%) Java
8 11 (1.38%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.26%) Embedded C
9 10 (1.26%) MATLAB
10 8 (1.01%) Go
11 6 (0.75%) Assembly Language
12 5 (0.63%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.50%) Bash
13 4 (0.50%) Bicep
14 3 (0.38%) PHP
14 3 (0.38%) VB
14 3 (0.38%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.25%) Ladder Logic
16 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 274 (34.47%) Degree
2 33 (4.15%) Master's Degree
3 32 (4.03%) Security Cleared
4 27 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.76%) HND
6 12 (1.51%) HNC
7 11 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.01%) SC Cleared
9 7 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.75%) NVQ Level 3
11 4 (0.50%) PhD
12 3 (0.38%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.25%) CCIE
13 2 (0.25%) CCNP
13 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (21.01%) QA
2 62 (7.80%) GMP
3 14 (1.76%) Good Clinical Practice
3 14 (1.76%) GxP
4 12 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.51%) ISO 9001
5 8 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.01%) ISO 14001
6 6 (0.75%) GDPR
6 6 (0.75%) PMO
7 5 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.50%) Automotive SPICE
8 4 (0.50%) COSHH
8 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.50%) IEC 61131
8 4 (0.50%) ISO 26262
8 4 (0.50%) JTAG
9 3 (0.38%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.38%) NEBOSH
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 102 (12.83%) Firmware
2 77 (9.69%) Embedded Firmware
3 23 (2.89%) Active Directory
4 14 (1.76%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.88%) Docker
6 5 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (1.26%) Terraform
2 4 (0.50%) Functional Safety
2 4 (0.50%) WSUS
3 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 88 (11.07%) SAP
2 83 (10.44%) EMC
3 82 (10.31%) Microsoft
4 22 (2.77%) Oracle
5 20 (2.52%) Sage
6 18 (2.26%) IFS
7 14 (1.76%) Epicor
8 13 (1.64%) Veeam
9 12 (1.51%) Citrix
10 10 (1.26%) VMware
11 7 (0.88%) Xero
12 5 (0.63%) Google
12 5 (0.63%) Infor
13 4 (0.50%) Barracuda Networks
13 4 (0.50%) ESET
14 3 (0.38%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.38%) Siemens
14 3 (0.38%) Thales
15 2 (0.25%) NCR
15 2 (0.25%) NEC