Manufacturing Jobs in Belfast

Manufacturing
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies in Belfast. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 31 83
Rank change year-on-year +12 +52 -46
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 9 30 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 5.17% 5.92% 1.49%
As % of the General category 7.03% 13.22% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5 23 9
10th Percentile - £31,500 £33,700
25th Percentile £50,000 £33,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60,000 £36,500 £38,750
90th Percentile - £42,000 £40,500
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +57.14% -6.67% -6.25%

All General Skills
Belfast

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 128 227 413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 73.56% 44.77% 55.81%
Number of salaries quoted 29 118 170
10th Percentile £45,500 £29,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £33,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £87,500 £69,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £70,625
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +8.70%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Belfast

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Manufacturing in Belfast

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 5 (55.56%) nginx
1 5 (55.56%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (55.56%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Bitbucket
1 5 (55.56%) Cucumber
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
1 5 (55.56%) JUnit
1 5 (55.56%) Maven
1 5 (55.56%) Mockito
1 5 (55.56%) Postman
1 5 (55.56%) Selenium
1 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
1 5 (55.56%) TestNG
General
1 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
3 3 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Java Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) QA Officer
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (55.56%) Gherkin
1 5 (55.56%) Guice
1 5 (55.56%) JAX-RS
1 5 (55.56%) Kafka
1 5 (55.56%) Mustache
1 5 (55.56%) OpenAPI
1 5 (55.56%) REST
1 5 (55.56%) RESTful
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
1 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
1 5 (55.56%) Swagger
1 5 (55.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Biopharmaceutical
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Auto-Scaling
1 5 (55.56%) BDD
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) Code Quality
1 5 (55.56%) Dependency Injection
1 5 (55.56%) Innovative Thinking
1 5 (55.56%) Multithreading
1 5 (55.56%) MVC
1 5 (55.56%) OO
1 5 (55.56%) OOP
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
1 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) CAPA
3 2 (22.22%) QMS
4 1 (11.11%) Change Control
4 1 (11.11%) Chemistry
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GMP
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
1 5 (55.56%) Kustomize
1 5 (55.56%) Packer
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Red Hat