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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 6 35
Rank change year-on-year -45 +29 +101
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 189 366 288
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.34% 14.17% 5.13%
As % of the General category 6.92% 22.13% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 93 91 209
10th Percentile £36,750 £27,500 £27,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,125 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -16.36%

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 2,732 1,654 3,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 48.29% 64.03% 57.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,421 849 2,322
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,809
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +7.30% -12.04%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -13.11%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -27 77 £50,000 - 32
Cambridgeshire -29 34 £55,000 - 40
Essex -31 33 £50,000 +5.26% 20
Norfolk +6 24 £47,500 -5.00% 7
Bedfordshire -24 17 £55,000 -21.43% 10
Suffolk -12 4 £65,000 +79.31% 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 5 (2.65%) CMS
2 1 (0.53%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.53%) CATIA
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.06%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.53%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.53%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.53%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 16 (8.47%) SaaS
2 4 (2.12%) Azure
2 4 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (2.12%) Azure Event Grid
2 4 (2.12%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Copilot
2 4 (2.12%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.06%) H2O.ai
3 2 (1.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.59%) Ethernet
1 3 (1.59%) Modbus
2 2 (1.06%) Firewall
2 2 (1.06%) Network Security
2 2 (1.06%) Profibus
2 2 (1.06%) SSL
3 1 (0.53%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.53%) RS-232
3 1 (0.53%) RS-485
3 1 (0.53%) Wireless
3 1 (0.53%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.12%) Metadata
2 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.53%) Redis
3 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.06%) Git
2 2 (1.06%) JIRA
3 1 (0.53%) Qt Creator
General
1 41 (21.69%) Electronics
2 33 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 23 (12.17%) Marketing
4 19 (10.05%) Aerospace
4 19 (10.05%) Finance
5 11 (5.82%) Retail
6 8 (4.23%) French Language
7 7 (3.70%) Automotive
7 7 (3.70%) Law
7 7 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.17%) Swedish Language
9 4 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.12%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.59%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.06%) Military
12 1 (0.53%) German Language
12 1 (0.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (21.16%) Test Engineer
2 25 (13.23%) Electronics Engineer
3 18 (9.52%) Senior
4 16 (8.47%) Electronics Test Engineer
5 12 (6.35%) Lead
5 12 (6.35%) Manufacturing Engineer
6 11 (5.82%) Lead Electronics Engineer
6 11 (5.82%) Lead Test Engineer
6 11 (5.82%) QA Manager
6 11 (5.82%) Systems Engineer
7 10 (5.29%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
7 10 (5.29%) Identity Management Engineer
7 10 (5.29%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.29%) Technical Engineer
7 10 (5.29%) Technical Support
7 10 (5.29%) Technical Support Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) PLC Engineer
9 8 (4.23%) Marketing Manager
9 8 (4.23%) Programmer
9 8 (4.23%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.17%) .NET
1 6 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (1.06%) JSON
2 2 (1.06%) Keras
2 2 (1.06%) PyTorch
2 2 (1.06%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.53%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.53%) IDoc
3 1 (0.53%) JSON-LD
3 1 (0.53%) MassTransit
3 1 (0.53%) Pandas
3 1 (0.53%) Qt
3 1 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.23%) Smart City
2 6 (3.17%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.12%) Operational Technology
3 4 (2.12%) Robotics
4 3 (1.59%) IoT
4 3 (1.59%) Mobile Computing
4 3 (1.59%) Verilog
4 3 (1.59%) VHDL
5 2 (1.06%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (1.06%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.06%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (1.06%) Semantic Web
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.53%) Linked Data
6 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.53%) Replication
6 1 (0.53%) SCADA
6 1 (0.53%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (0.53%) Linux
1 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (10.05%) B2B
2 16 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (7.41%) AI
3 14 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (7.41%) Logistics
3 14 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (6.35%) Load Testing
5 11 (5.82%) ERP
5 11 (5.82%) Project Management
6 10 (5.29%) CRM
6 10 (5.29%) Identity Access Management
6 10 (5.29%) Prototyping
7 9 (4.76%) Software Engineering
7 9 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (4.76%) Validation
8 8 (4.23%) Marketing Automation
8 8 (4.23%) Marketing Strategy
8 8 (4.23%) Telesales
8 8 (4.23%) Test Automation
8 8 (4.23%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.29%) C#
2 9 (4.76%) Python
3 6 (3.17%) C++
3 6 (3.17%) SQL
4 4 (2.12%) C
5 3 (1.59%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.53%) ABAP
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded C++
6 1 (0.53%) SHACL
6 1 (0.53%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 19 (10.05%) Degree
2 17 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.23%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.59%) HND
6 2 (1.06%) CCNA
6 2 (1.06%) CCNP
6 2 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.06%) HNC
6 2 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.53%) CCA
7 1 (0.53%) CIPD
7 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) ISEB
7 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.94%) QA
2 5 (2.65%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.65%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.59%) DO-254
4 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.53%) COSHH
5 1 (0.53%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (1.06%) Docker
1 2 (1.06%) Firmware
2 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.12%) Ansible
2 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.53%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 11 (5.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.23%) Pardot
2 8 (4.23%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.17%) SAP
4 5 (2.65%) Adobe
5 4 (2.12%) EMC
6 2 (1.06%) Cisco
6 2 (1.06%) Databricks
6 2 (1.06%) Dell
6 2 (1.06%) IBM
6 2 (1.06%) IFS
6 2 (1.06%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.53%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (0.53%) Rockwell
7 1 (0.53%) Siemens
7 1 (0.53%) Wonderware