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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 8 34
Rank change year-on-year -37 +26 +117
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 234 348 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.68% 12.69% 5.06%
As % of the General category 7.84% 19.09% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 109 101 222
10th Percentile £36,000 £26,250 £27,050
25th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -14.15% -6.82%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -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 2,986 1,823 3,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 46.98% 66.46% 56.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,515 874 2,446
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £25,809
25th Percentile £31,746 £33,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £73,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.57%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -19 91 £50,000 -13.04% 30
Cambridgeshire -22 55 £55,000 +5.77% 16
Essex -37 40 £50,000 +25.00% 15
Norfolk +2 24 £47,500 -5.00% 7
Bedfordshire -11 19 £55,000 -21.43% 13
Suffolk -12 5 £65,000 +79.31% 4
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 (2.14%) CMS
1 5 (2.14%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (1.71%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.85%) SAP MDG
2 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.84%) SaaS
2 5 (2.14%) Power Platform
3 4 (1.71%) Azure
3 4 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (1.71%) Azure Event Grid
3 4 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (0.85%) H2O.ai
4 2 (0.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.85%) Profibus
2 8 (3.42%) Wireless
3 7 (2.99%) Ethernet
4 6 (2.56%) Modbus
5 4 (1.71%) Bluetooth
5 4 (1.71%) RS-232
5 4 (1.71%) RS-485
5 4 (1.71%) ZigBee
6 2 (0.85%) Firewall
6 2 (0.85%) Network Security
6 2 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.71%) Metadata
2 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.43%) Power BI
3 1 (0.43%) Redis
3 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Moq
2 4 (1.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.85%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) JIRA
3 2 (0.85%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.43%) Qt Creator
General
1 54 (23.08%) Electronics
2 41 (17.52%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.26%) Aerospace
3 24 (10.26%) Finance
4 20 (8.55%) Marketing
5 17 (7.26%) Retail
6 12 (5.13%) Automotive
7 10 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (3.85%) Law
9 8 (3.42%) French Language
10 7 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.71%) Swedish Language
13 3 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.28%) Legal
13 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.85%) Military
14 2 (0.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 42 (17.95%) Test Engineer
2 27 (11.54%) Electronics Engineer
3 21 (8.97%) Senior
4 18 (7.69%) Electronics Test Engineer
5 17 (7.26%) Software Engineer
6 16 (6.84%) Systems Engineer
7 15 (6.41%) Lead
8 14 (5.98%) Lead Electronics Engineer
8 14 (5.98%) Lead Test Engineer
9 11 (4.70%) Business Development Manager
9 11 (4.70%) Business Manager
9 11 (4.70%) Development Manager
9 11 (4.70%) Manufacturing Engineer
9 11 (4.70%) QA Manager
10 10 (4.27%) Consultant
10 10 (4.27%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
10 10 (4.27%) Support Engineer
10 10 (4.27%) Technical Engineer
10 10 (4.27%) Technical Support
10 10 (4.27%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.70%) .NET
2 6 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (2.56%) XML
3 5 (2.14%) .NET Framework
3 5 (2.14%) Entity Framework
3 5 (2.14%) XSLT
4 2 (0.85%) JSON
4 2 (0.85%) Keras
4 2 (0.85%) PyTorch
4 2 (0.85%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.43%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.43%) JSON-LD
5 1 (0.43%) MassTransit
5 1 (0.43%) Pandas
5 1 (0.43%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.27%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.42%) Smart City
3 7 (2.99%) Operational Technology
3 7 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.14%) Acoustics
4 5 (2.14%) Replication
4 5 (2.14%) Robotics
4 5 (2.14%) SCADA
5 4 (1.71%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (1.71%) Verilog
5 4 (1.71%) VHDL
6 3 (1.28%) IoT
7 2 (0.85%) Analogue Electronics
7 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.85%) Semantic Web
8 1 (0.43%) Linked Data
8 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.43%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.43%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.71%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (0.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (9.83%) Software Engineering
2 17 (7.26%) Business Development
2 17 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (6.84%) AI
3 16 (6.84%) B2B
3 16 (6.84%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (6.41%) Logistics
4 15 (6.41%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (6.41%) Prototyping
5 12 (5.13%) CRM
5 12 (5.13%) Load Testing
5 12 (5.13%) Project Management
6 11 (4.70%) ERP
7 10 (4.27%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (4.27%) Test Automation
7 10 (4.27%) Validation
8 9 (3.85%) Knowledge Transfer
8 9 (3.85%) TDD
9 8 (3.42%) Marketing Strategy
9 8 (3.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.26%) C++
2 16 (6.84%) C#
3 13 (5.56%) Python
3 13 (5.56%) SQL
4 10 (4.27%) C
5 5 (2.14%) XAML
6 4 (1.71%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.43%) Embedded C++
7 1 (0.43%) SHACL
7 1 (0.43%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 38 (16.24%) Degree
2 16 (6.84%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.27%) HND
4 9 (3.85%) HNC
5 7 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.99%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.85%) CCNA
7 2 (0.85%) CCNP
7 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.43%) CIPD
8 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.43%) ISEB
8 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.40%) QA
2 9 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.14%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.14%) HAZOP
4 4 (1.71%) DO-254
5 2 (0.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (0.43%) COSHH
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (2.99%) Firmware
2 4 (1.71%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.14%) Wonderware InTouch
2 4 (1.71%) Ansible
3 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.42%) Pardot
2 8 (3.42%) Salesforce
3 7 (2.99%) EMC
4 5 (2.14%) Adobe
4 5 (2.14%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (2.14%) Rockwell
4 5 (2.14%) SAP
4 5 (2.14%) Wonderware
5 4 (1.71%) HubSpot
5 4 (1.71%) Sage
6 3 (1.28%) IFS
7 2 (0.85%) Cisco
7 2 (0.85%) Databricks
7 2 (0.85%) Dell
7 2 (0.85%) IBM
7 2 (0.85%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.43%) Siemens