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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 26 89
Rank change year-on-year -29 +63 -40
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 153 245 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.51% 5.47% 2.37%
As % of the General category 6.79% 10.79% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 118 131 36
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,125 £32,500 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,375 £63,750 £69,375
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% +4.76%

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 2,254 2,270 1,655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 66.43% 50.70% 65.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,129 1,165 870
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £24,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,566 £50,000 £47,555
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +5.14% -4.89%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +13 38 £35,000 -22.22% 30
Essex -3 35 £57,500 +4.55% 51
Cambridgeshire +11 26 £47,000 -6.00% 52
Hertfordshire -34 23 £52,500 +14.75% 49
Suffolk -24 22 £36,250 +23.93% 13
Norfolk -14 9 £38,000 -24.00% 14
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (3.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.31%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.31%) InDesign
4 2 (1.31%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Infor M3
1 3 (1.96%) Primavera
2 2 (1.31%) Magento
2 2 (1.31%) Shopify
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.65%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.65%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 7 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (1.31%) AWS
2 2 (1.31%) Azure
2 2 (1.31%) BigCommerce
2 2 (1.31%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
3 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
3 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
3 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.27%) WAN
2 3 (1.96%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) Internet
3 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.31%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.31%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.65%) Big Data
2 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.65%) Metadata
2 1 (0.65%) Parquet
2 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.61%) GitLab
2 3 (1.96%) Git
3 2 (1.31%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 37 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.95%) Finance
3 20 (13.07%) Pharmaceutical
4 19 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (10.46%) Electronics
6 12 (7.84%) Marketing
7 10 (6.54%) Aerospace
7 10 (6.54%) Retail
8 8 (5.23%) Law
9 7 (4.58%) Advertising
9 7 (4.58%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.58%) Telecoms
10 6 (3.92%) Automotive
11 5 (3.27%) Games
12 4 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.96%) Banking
13 3 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.31%) Aviation
14 2 (1.31%) Legal
15 1 (0.65%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 24 (15.69%) Support Engineer
2 20 (13.07%) Technical Engineer
2 20 (13.07%) Technical Support
2 20 (13.07%) Technical Support Engineer
3 16 (10.46%) Applications Support
4 14 (9.15%) Automation Engineer
5 13 (8.50%) Senior
6 8 (5.23%) Analyst
7 7 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (4.58%) Software Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) C++ Software Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) ERP Manager
8 6 (3.92%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) Support Manager
9 5 (3.27%) ERP Support
9 5 (3.27%) IT Manager
9 5 (3.27%) Programmer
9 5 (3.27%) Support Analyst
10 4 (2.61%) Development Manager
10 4 (2.61%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.31%) HTML
2 1 (0.65%) FHIR
2 1 (0.65%) Hugging Face
2 1 (0.65%) JSON
2 1 (0.65%) LangChain
2 1 (0.65%) Pandas
2 1 (0.65%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.65%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.58%) Robotics
2 5 (3.27%) Social Media
3 4 (2.61%) Biopharmaceutical
4 3 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.31%) IoT
5 2 (1.31%) Life Science
5 2 (1.31%) SCADA
5 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.65%) ASIC
6 1 (0.65%) Blog
6 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.65%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (0.65%) Omics
6 1 (0.65%) PMI
6 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.65%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.58%) Windows
2 3 (1.96%) Linux
3 2 (1.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (20.92%) ERP
2 25 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (9.15%) CRM
4 14 (9.15%) Software Engineering
5 13 (8.50%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (7.84%) Project Delivery
7 11 (7.19%) E-Commerce
8 10 (6.54%) Digital Marketing
8 10 (6.54%) Logistics
8 10 (6.54%) Programme Management
8 10 (6.54%) Validation
9 8 (5.23%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (5.23%) Process Improvement
9 8 (5.23%) Project Management
9 8 (5.23%) Time Management
10 6 (3.92%) Business Development
10 6 (3.92%) Test Automation
11 5 (3.27%) People Management
11 5 (3.27%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.50%) C++
2 8 (5.23%) Python
3 5 (3.27%) C
4 4 (2.61%) SQL
5 3 (1.96%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.65%) Ada
6 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.65%) R
6 1 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 28 (18.30%) Degree
2 9 (5.88%) HNC
2 9 (5.88%) HND
2 9 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.58%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.96%) CISM
4 3 (1.96%) CISSP
4 3 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.96%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.96%) NVQ Level 3
4 3 (1.96%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.96%) PMP
5 2 (1.31%) City & Guilds
6 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.92%) SLA
2 4 (2.61%) NEBOSH
2 4 (2.61%) QA
3 3 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.96%) GMP
3 3 (1.96%) GxP
4 1 (0.65%) CDISC
4 1 (0.65%) DICOM
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.65%) HL7
4 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.65%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 5 (3.27%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.27%) Hyper-V
2 4 (2.61%) Firmware
3 2 (1.31%) Docker
4 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (7.84%) SAP
2 7 (4.58%) VMware
3 5 (3.27%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.96%) EMC
4 3 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.31%) Adobe
5 2 (1.31%) JD Edwards
5 2 (1.31%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.65%) Cadence
6 1 (0.65%) Instagram
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle
6 1 (0.65%) Siemens
6 1 (0.65%) Twitter