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 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 23 62
Rank change year-on-year -27 +39 +48
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 130 281 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 4.06% 6.69% 3.54%
As % of the General category 6.70% 12.40% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 93 94 52
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,200 £65,000 £66,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -

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 common skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,940 2,267 1,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 60.53% 53.94% 65.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,185 897 891
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 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
Bedfordshire +18 42 £35,000 -30.00% 7
Essex +16 32 £57,500 - 14
Hertfordshire -44 22 £52,500 +16.67% 49
Cambridgeshire -3 17 £47,000 -22.63% 21
Norfolk -12 12 £38,000 -24.00% 10
Suffolk -31 5 - - 9
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 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.77%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Infor M3
1 3 (2.31%) Primavera
2 2 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.77%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.77%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.77%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.77%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.77%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.77%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.77%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 5 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (1.54%) AWS
2 2 (1.54%) Azure
2 2 (1.54%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (0.77%) Amazon S3
3 1 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (0.77%) H2O.ai
3 1 (0.77%) OpenShift
3 1 (0.77%) Power Automate
3 1 (0.77%) PowerApps
3 1 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.31%) Network Security
1 3 (2.31%) WAN
2 1 (0.77%) Internet
2 1 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.54%) Metadata
1 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.54%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.77%) Big Data
2 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.77%) Parquet
2 1 (0.77%) Power BI
2 1 (0.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (3.08%) GitLab
2 3 (2.31%) Git
3 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.77%) JIRA
3 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.31%) Electronics
2 16 (12.31%) Finance
3 15 (11.54%) Pharmaceutical
4 14 (10.77%) Retail
5 13 (10.00%) Marketing
6 12 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.92%) Aerospace
8 8 (6.15%) Public Sector
8 8 (6.15%) Telecoms
9 7 (5.38%) Swedish Language
10 5 (3.85%) Automotive
10 5 (3.85%) Games
10 5 (3.85%) Law
11 4 (3.08%) German Language
11 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (2.31%) Advertising
13 2 (1.54%) Aviation
13 2 (1.54%) Legal
13 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (15.38%) Support Engineer
2 19 (14.62%) Technical Engineer
2 19 (14.62%) Technical Support
2 19 (14.62%) Technical Support Engineer
3 12 (9.23%) Automation Engineer
4 10 (7.69%) Sales Representative
5 7 (5.38%) Senior
5 7 (5.38%) Telesales Representative
6 6 (4.62%) ERP Manager
6 6 (4.62%) Test Engineer
7 5 (3.85%) ERP Support
7 5 (3.85%) IT Manager
7 5 (3.85%) Support Manager
8 4 (3.08%) Business Manager
8 4 (3.08%) Consultant
8 4 (3.08%) Development Manager
8 4 (3.08%) Manufacturing Engineer
8 4 (3.08%) PCB Engineer
8 4 (3.08%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (3.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.54%) HTML
1 2 (1.54%) PyTorch
1 2 (1.54%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.77%) .NET
2 1 (0.77%) FHIR
2 1 (0.77%) Hugging Face
2 1 (0.77%) IDoc
2 1 (0.77%) JSON
2 1 (0.77%) Keras
2 1 (0.77%) LangChain
2 1 (0.77%) MassTransit
2 1 (0.77%) Pandas
2 1 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.38%) Mobile Computing
2 5 (3.85%) Robotics
3 2 (1.54%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.54%) Life Science
3 2 (1.54%) SCADA
3 2 (1.54%) Social Media
4 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.77%) ASIC
4 1 (0.77%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (0.77%) IoT
4 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.77%) Omics
4 1 (0.77%) PMI
4 1 (0.77%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.77%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.85%) Windows
2 3 (2.31%) Linux
3 2 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (13.08%) Logistics
2 14 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (10.77%) ERP
3 12 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (9.23%) Project Delivery
4 11 (8.46%) Programme Management
4 11 (8.46%) Software Engineering
5 9 (6.92%) CRM
5 9 (6.92%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (5.38%) B2B
6 7 (5.38%) B2B Sales
6 7 (5.38%) Business Development
6 7 (5.38%) Project Management
6 7 (5.38%) Telesales
7 6 (4.62%) Change Management
7 6 (4.62%) Time Management
8 5 (3.85%) People Management
8 5 (3.85%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (3.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.92%) C++
2 8 (6.15%) Python
3 4 (3.08%) C
3 4 (3.08%) SQL
4 3 (2.31%) Embedded C
5 1 (0.77%) ABAP
5 1 (0.77%) C#
5 1 (0.77%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.77%) R
5 1 (0.77%) Rust
Qualifications
1 25 (19.23%) Degree
2 11 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.92%) HND
3 9 (6.92%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.15%) HNC
5 4 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.31%) CISM
6 3 (2.31%) CISSP
6 3 (2.31%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.31%) NVQ Level 3
6 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.31%) PMP
7 2 (1.54%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.77%) CCA
8 1 (0.77%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.62%) SLA
2 4 (3.08%) NEBOSH
3 3 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.77%) CDISC
4 1 (0.77%) DICOM
4 1 (0.77%) GDPR
4 1 (0.77%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.77%) HL7
4 1 (0.77%) QA
4 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.77%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (3.08%) Firmware
2 3 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.31%) Docker
2 3 (2.31%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (10.00%) SAP
2 9 (6.92%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.85%) VMware
4 3 (2.31%) EMC
4 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.54%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.77%) Cadence
6 1 (0.77%) Databricks
6 1 (0.77%) Dell
6 1 (0.77%) Instagram
6 1 (0.77%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle
6 1 (0.77%) Siemens
6 1 (0.77%) Twitter