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 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 34 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +134
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 266 246 313
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 4.23% 8.65% 4.97%
As % of the General category 9.31% 12.42% 9.17%
Number of salaries quoted 135 94 225
10th Percentile £32,750 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,750
England median annual salary £49,500 £47,683 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.81% +5.96% -18.18%

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 2,856 1,981 3,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 45.39% 69.63% 54.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,622 849 2,473
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £31,997 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 May 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 May 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 +42 104 £50,000 -17.70% 29
Cambridgeshire -18 64 £55,000 +23.60% 25
Essex -26 47 £50,000 +25.00% 13
Norfolk - 26 £55,000 - 3
Bedfordshire -7 19 £55,000 +64.18% 10
Suffolk -4 6 £47,500 +43.40% 3
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 9 (3.38%) FactoryTalk
2 5 (1.88%) CMS
3 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.75%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.38%) CATIA
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.38%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.75%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (0.75%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.75%) SAP MDG
2 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.02%) SaaS
2 7 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (2.63%) Power Platform
3 4 (1.50%) Azure
3 4 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (1.50%) Azure Event Grid
3 4 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (0.75%) Power Automate
4 2 (0.75%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.38%) H2O.ai
5 1 (0.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.64%) Profibus
2 11 (4.14%) Ethernet
3 10 (3.76%) Wireless
4 8 (3.01%) Modbus
5 6 (2.26%) Bluetooth
5 6 (2.26%) RS-232
5 6 (2.26%) RS-485
5 6 (2.26%) ZigBee
6 2 (0.75%) Firewall
6 2 (0.75%) Intranet
6 2 (0.75%) Network Security
6 2 (0.75%) SSL
6 2 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.75%) Metadata
1 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Moq
2 4 (1.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.50%) LabVIEW
3 2 (0.75%) Git
3 2 (0.75%) JIRA
4 1 (0.38%) Qt Creator
4 1 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.38%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 68 (25.56%) Electronics
2 46 (17.29%) Social Skills
3 29 (10.90%) Aerospace
4 28 (10.53%) Finance
5 20 (7.52%) Marketing
6 19 (7.14%) Retail
7 14 (5.26%) Automotive
7 14 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (4.14%) Law
9 9 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.01%) French Language
11 7 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.88%) Legal
14 4 (1.50%) Swedish Language
15 3 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (13.16%) Test Engineer
2 28 (10.53%) Electronics Engineer
3 27 (10.15%) Software Engineer
4 23 (8.65%) Senior
5 22 (8.27%) Systems Engineer
6 19 (7.14%) Lead
7 18 (6.77%) Electronics Test Engineer
8 15 (5.64%) Business Development Manager
8 15 (5.64%) Business Manager
8 15 (5.64%) Development Manager
9 14 (5.26%) Lead Electronics Engineer
9 14 (5.26%) Lead Test Engineer
10 12 (4.51%) QA Manager
11 11 (4.14%) Embedded Engineer
11 11 (4.14%) Programmer
12 10 (3.76%) Control Systems Engineer
12 10 (3.76%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
12 10 (3.76%) Identity Management Engineer
12 10 (3.76%) QA Officer
12 10 (3.76%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.14%) .NET
2 6 (2.26%) .NET Framework
2 6 (2.26%) Entity Framework
2 6 (2.26%) XML
2 6 (2.26%) XSLT
3 5 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.75%) WPF
5 1 (0.38%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.38%) JSON
5 1 (0.38%) JSON-LD
5 1 (0.38%) Keras
5 1 (0.38%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.38%) Qt
5 1 (0.38%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.38%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.14%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.76%) Embedded Systems
4 9 (3.38%) Replication
4 9 (3.38%) Robotics
4 9 (3.38%) SCADA
5 8 (3.01%) Smart City
6 7 (2.63%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.26%) Acoustics
8 5 (1.88%) IoT
9 4 (1.50%) Verilog
9 4 (1.50%) VHDL
10 3 (1.13%) Analogue Electronics
11 2 (0.75%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.75%) Social Media
12 1 (0.38%) FMCG
12 1 (0.38%) Life Science
12 1 (0.38%) Linked Data
12 1 (0.38%) PMI
12 1 (0.38%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.26%) FreeRTOS
2 4 (1.50%) Windows
3 2 (0.75%) Linux
3 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (12.78%) Software Engineering
2 20 (7.52%) Business Development
2 20 (7.52%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (6.39%) Project Management
4 17 (6.39%) Prototyping
5 16 (6.02%) B2B
5 16 (6.02%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (5.64%) AI
6 15 (5.64%) Logistics
7 14 (5.26%) CRM
8 13 (4.89%) ERP
8 13 (4.89%) Test Automation
9 12 (4.51%) Load Testing
9 12 (4.51%) TDD
10 11 (4.14%) Validation
11 10 (3.76%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (3.76%) Knowledge Transfer
11 10 (3.76%) Software Testing
12 9 (3.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 27 (10.15%) C++
2 19 (7.14%) C
2 19 (7.14%) C#
3 15 (5.64%) SQL
4 13 (4.89%) Python
5 6 (2.26%) XAML
6 4 (1.50%) Clojure
6 4 (1.50%) Embedded C
6 4 (1.50%) Erlang
6 4 (1.50%) Java
6 4 (1.50%) Rust
6 4 (1.50%) Scala
7 2 (0.75%) VBA
8 1 (0.38%) Embedded C++
8 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.38%) SHACL
8 1 (0.38%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 50 (18.80%) Degree
2 14 (5.26%) HND
3 13 (4.89%) HNC
4 11 (4.14%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.26%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.75%) CCNA
7 2 (0.75%) CCNP
7 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CIPD
8 1 (0.38%) ISEB
8 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.77%) QA
2 13 (4.89%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.38%) HAZOP
4 4 (1.50%) DO-254
4 4 (1.50%) GDPR
5 3 (1.13%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.38%) COSHH
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (5.26%) Firmware
2 9 (3.38%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.38%) Wonderware InTouch
2 4 (1.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.76%) EMC
3 9 (3.38%) Allen-Bradley
3 9 (3.38%) Rockwell
3 9 (3.38%) Wonderware
4 8 (3.01%) Pardot
4 8 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.26%) HubSpot
6 5 (1.88%) Adobe
7 4 (1.50%) Cisco
7 4 (1.50%) Sage
7 4 (1.50%) SAP
8 3 (1.13%) IFS
9 2 (0.75%) IBM
9 2 (0.75%) Infor
9 2 (0.75%) Meraki
10 1 (0.38%) Databricks
10 1 (0.38%) Dell
10 1 (0.38%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.38%) Siemens