Manufacturing Jobs in County Antrim

Manufacturing
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies in County Antrim. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 28 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 +57 -40
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 16 45 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 8.16% 6.76% 1.84%
As % of the General category 10.60% 14.56% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5 30 10
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,150
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,563 £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 £37,250 £38,750
90th Percentile - £42,080 £39,625
Northern Ireland median annual salary £42,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% -6.25%

All General Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 151 309 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 77.04% 46.40% 56.62%
Number of salaries quoted 34 151 171
10th Percentile £24,253 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £33,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £71,875 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £92,125 £87,500 £76,250
Northern Ireland median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in County Antrim

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in County Antrim

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

Salary trend for Manufacturing in County Antrim

Manufacturing
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Belfast +16 14 £55,000 +57.14% 64
Ballymena - 2 - -
Manufacturing
Northern Ireland

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 (31.25%) nginx
1 5 (31.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Maximo
1 5 (31.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 5 (31.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (31.25%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (31.25%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (31.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Bitbucket
1 5 (31.25%) Cucumber
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
1 5 (31.25%) JUnit
1 5 (31.25%) Maven
1 5 (31.25%) Mockito
1 5 (31.25%) Postman
1 5 (31.25%) Selenium
1 5 (31.25%) SonarQube
1 5 (31.25%) TestNG
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
4 3 (18.75%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Java Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) QA Officer
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (31.25%) Gherkin
1 5 (31.25%) Guice
1 5 (31.25%) JAX-RS
1 5 (31.25%) Kafka
1 5 (31.25%) Mustache
1 5 (31.25%) OpenAPI
1 5 (31.25%) REST
1 5 (31.25%) RESTful
1 5 (31.25%) SAP Fiori
1 5 (31.25%) SAPUI5
1 5 (31.25%) Spring
1 5 (31.25%) Spring Boot
1 5 (31.25%) Swagger
1 5 (31.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Life Science
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
1 5 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Biopharmaceutical
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Innovative Thinking
2 5 (31.25%) BDD
2 5 (31.25%) Business Analysis
2 5 (31.25%) Business Continuity
2 5 (31.25%) Change Management
2 5 (31.25%) Customer Requirements
2 5 (31.25%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (31.25%) ERP
2 5 (31.25%) IT Strategy
2 5 (31.25%) Logistics
2 5 (31.25%) Multithreading
2 5 (31.25%) MVC
2 5 (31.25%) OO
2 5 (31.25%) OOP
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Process Improvement
2 5 (31.25%) Product Management
2 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
2 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) GDPR
2 3 (18.75%) GMP
2 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
1 5 (31.25%) Kustomize
1 5 (31.25%) Packer
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Red Hat
1 5 (31.25%) SAP