Manufacturing Job Trends in the East of England

Manufacturing
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 14 36
Rank change year-on-year -38 +22 +73
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 150 382 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.08% 12.02% 5.22%
As % of the General category 6.28% 19.17% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 78 65 171
10th Percentile £39,625 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £59,375 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -15.18%

All General Skills
East of England

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 general skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,387 1,993 2,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 49.00% 62.69% 58.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,263 739 2,010
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,759
25th Percentile £30,750 £38,750 £31,309
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +7.30% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,725 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,800 £78,750 £75,100
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Manufacturing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Manufacturing job vacancy trend in the East of England

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Manufacturing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in the East of England

Manufacturing
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the East of England region over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -35 58 £60,000 +33.33% 43
Essex -17 28 £50,000 +53.85% 11
Norfolk +11 25 £46,250 -10.19% 6
Bedfordshire -12 19 £40,000 -42.86% 15
Cambridgeshire -22 16 £55,000 - 17
Suffolk -16 4 £65,000 +116.67% 5
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.67%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.33%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.67%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.67%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.00%) SaaS
2 4 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (2.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (2.00%) Azure
3 3 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (2.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 3 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (1.33%) H2O.ai
4 2 (1.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.67%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) SSL
1 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.67%) Metadata
2 2 (1.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.67%) Redis
3 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.33%) Git
3 1 (0.67%) JIRA
3 1 (0.67%) Qt Creator
General
1 24 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.67%) Electronics
3 17 (11.33%) Marketing
4 13 (8.67%) Aerospace
4 13 (8.67%) Finance
4 13 (8.67%) Retail
5 8 (5.33%) French Language
6 7 (4.67%) Swedish Language
7 6 (4.00%) Automotive
8 4 (2.67%) German Language
8 4 (2.67%) Law
8 4 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.00%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.33%) Military
11 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (20.67%) Test Engineer
2 13 (8.67%) Electronics Engineer
2 13 (8.67%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 12 (8.00%) Senior
4 10 (6.67%) QA Manager
4 10 (6.67%) Sales Representative
5 9 (6.00%) PLC Engineer
6 8 (5.33%) Developer
6 8 (5.33%) Electronics Test Engineer
7 7 (4.67%) Design Engineer
7 7 (4.67%) Programmer
7 7 (4.67%) Quality Manager
7 7 (4.67%) Support Engineer
7 7 (4.67%) Technical Engineer
7 7 (4.67%) Technical Support
7 7 (4.67%) Technical Support Engineer
7 7 (4.67%) Telesales Representative
8 6 (4.00%) .NET Software Developer
8 6 (4.00%) Electrical Design Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) PLC Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.00%) .NET
1 6 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (1.33%) JSON
2 2 (1.33%) Keras
2 2 (1.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (1.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.67%) IDoc
3 1 (0.67%) JSON-LD
3 1 (0.67%) MassTransit
3 1 (0.67%) Pandas
3 1 (0.67%) Qt
3 1 (0.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.67%) Mobile Computing
2 6 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.67%) IoT
4 4 (2.67%) Smart City
5 2 (1.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.33%) Semantic Web
6 1 (0.67%) ASIC
6 1 (0.67%) Linked Data
6 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.67%) Robotics
6 1 (0.67%) Social Media
6 1 (0.67%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (12.67%) B2B
2 16 (10.67%) Logistics
3 14 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (7.33%) Load Testing
4 11 (7.33%) Telesales
5 9 (6.00%) ERP
6 8 (5.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (5.33%) Contract Negotiation
6 8 (5.33%) CRM
6 8 (5.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (5.33%) Translating Business Requirements
7 7 (4.67%) AI
7 7 (4.67%) B2B Sales
8 6 (4.00%) Agile
8 6 (4.00%) Change Management
8 6 (4.00%) Customer Engagement
8 6 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (4.00%) Test Automation
8 6 (4.00%) Validation
9 5 (3.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.67%) C#
2 3 (2.00%) Python
2 3 (2.00%) SQL
3 2 (1.33%) C++
4 1 (0.67%) ABAP
4 1 (0.67%) Embedded C++
4 1 (0.67%) SHACL
4 1 (0.67%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 13 (8.67%) Degree
1 13 (8.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.67%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.00%) HND
5 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.67%) CCA
6 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.67%) HNC
6 1 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.33%) QA
2 5 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 2 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.00%) Ansible
2 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.00%) SAP
3 4 (2.67%) Adobe
3 4 (2.67%) Pardot
3 4 (2.67%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.00%) EMC
5 2 (1.33%) Databricks
5 2 (1.33%) Dell
5 2 (1.33%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.67%) Cadence
6 1 (0.67%) IBM