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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 16 61
Rank change year-on-year -45 +45 +37
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 124 330 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.47% 7.82% 3.66%
As % of the General category 5.94% 14.44% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 87 95 52
10th Percentile £33,650 £30,000 £32,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,400 £64,700 £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 2,088 2,286 1,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 58.49% 54.18% 65.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,216 868 902
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,938 £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 £75,450 £82,500 £78,750
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 18 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 18 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 +13 35 £35,000 -26.32% 17
Essex +11 30 £57,500 - 14
Hertfordshire -55 25 £52,500 +16.67% 57
Cambridgeshire +2 15 £47,000 -21.67% 23
Norfolk -12 12 £38,000 -24.00% 11
Suffolk -21 7 - - 8
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 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.81%) Primavera
3 1 (0.81%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.81%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.81%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.81%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.81%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (1.61%) AWS
2 2 (1.61%) Azure
3 1 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (0.81%) Amazon S3
3 1 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (0.81%) H2O.ai
3 1 (0.81%) OpenShift
3 1 (0.81%) Power Automate
3 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.81%) PowerApps
3 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) Network Security
2 1 (0.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.81%) WAN
2 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.61%) Metadata
1 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.81%) Big Data
2 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.81%) Parquet
2 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (3.23%) GitLab
2 3 (2.42%) Git
3 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.81%) JIRA
General
1 25 (20.16%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.10%) Pharmaceutical
3 14 (11.29%) Finance
3 14 (11.29%) Retail
4 13 (10.48%) Marketing
5 12 (9.68%) Electronics
6 11 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (6.45%) Aerospace
7 8 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.45%) Telecoms
8 7 (5.65%) Swedish Language
9 5 (4.03%) Automotive
10 4 (3.23%) Games
10 4 (3.23%) German Language
10 4 (3.23%) Law
11 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.81%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.81%) Aviation
12 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (14.52%) Support Engineer
2 17 (13.71%) Technical Engineer
2 17 (13.71%) Technical Support
2 17 (13.71%) Technical Support Engineer
3 12 (9.68%) Automation Engineer
4 11 (8.87%) Test Engineer
5 10 (8.06%) Sales Representative
6 7 (5.65%) Manufacturing Engineer
6 7 (5.65%) Telesales Representative
7 6 (4.84%) Senior
8 5 (4.03%) ERP Manager
8 5 (4.03%) ERP Support
8 5 (4.03%) Support Manager
9 4 (3.23%) Business Development Manager
9 4 (3.23%) Business Manager
9 4 (3.23%) Consultant
9 4 (3.23%) IT Manager
9 4 (3.23%) Programmer
9 4 (3.23%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.23%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.61%) HTML
1 2 (1.61%) PyTorch
1 2 (1.61%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.81%) .NET
2 1 (0.81%) FHIR
2 1 (0.81%) Hugging Face
2 1 (0.81%) IDoc
2 1 (0.81%) JSON
2 1 (0.81%) Keras
2 1 (0.81%) LangChain
2 1 (0.81%) MassTransit
2 1 (0.81%) Pandas
2 1 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.65%) Mobile Computing
2 5 (4.03%) Robotics
3 2 (1.61%) SCADA
4 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.81%) ASIC
4 1 (0.81%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.81%) IoT
4 1 (0.81%) Life Science
4 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.81%) Omics
4 1 (0.81%) PMI
4 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.81%) Semantic Web
4 1 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.42%) Linux
2 2 (1.61%) Unix
2 2 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (12.90%) Logistics
2 13 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (10.48%) ERP
3 12 (9.68%) Project Delivery
4 11 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (8.87%) Software Engineering
5 10 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (7.26%) CRM
6 9 (7.26%) Digital Marketing
6 9 (7.26%) Programme Management
7 7 (5.65%) B2B
7 7 (5.65%) B2B Sales
7 7 (5.65%) Project Management
7 7 (5.65%) Telesales
8 6 (4.84%) Business Development
9 5 (4.03%) Agile
9 5 (4.03%) Change Management
9 5 (4.03%) People Management
9 5 (4.03%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (4.03%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.45%) Python
2 7 (5.65%) C++
3 4 (3.23%) C
3 4 (3.23%) SQL
4 3 (2.42%) Embedded C
5 1 (0.81%) ABAP
5 1 (0.81%) C#
5 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.81%) R
5 1 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (16.13%) Degree
2 14 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.26%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.65%) HNC
5 5 (4.03%) HND
6 4 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.42%) CISM
7 3 (2.42%) CISSP
7 3 (2.42%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.61%) City & Guilds
8 2 (1.61%) NVQ Level 3
8 2 (1.61%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.61%) PMP
9 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.81%) CCA
9 1 (0.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.84%) SLA
2 4 (3.23%) NEBOSH
3 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.61%) QA
5 1 (0.81%) CDISC
5 1 (0.81%) DICOM
5 1 (0.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.81%) HL7
5 1 (0.81%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (3.23%) Firmware
2 3 (2.42%) Docker
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (8.87%) SAP
2 6 (4.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.42%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.42%) VMware
4 1 (0.81%) Cadence
4 1 (0.81%) Databricks
4 1 (0.81%) Dell
4 1 (0.81%) JD Edwards
4 1 (0.81%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.81%) Siemens