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 13 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 26 32
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +142
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 248 289 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 4.02% 9.67% 5.08%
As % of the General category 8.92% 14.15% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 120 108 224
10th Percentile £34,625 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £31,250 £32,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -21.95% -6.82%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,563 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +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 2,780 2,043 3,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 45.07% 68.37% 55.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,549 902 2,455
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,809
25th Percentile £31,900 £32,533 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,400 £73,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +22 97 £50,000 -13.04% 34
Cambridgeshire -17 58 £55,000 +5.77% 21
Essex -28 45 £50,000 +25.00% 21
Norfolk +5 25 £55,000 +46.67% 4
Bedfordshire -7 18 £55,000 -18.52% 14
Suffolk -16 5 £56,250 +69.81% 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 6 (2.42%) FactoryTalk
2 5 (2.02%) CMS
3 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) CATIA
5 1 (0.40%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.81%) SAP MDG
2 2 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.45%) SaaS
2 6 (2.42%) Power Platform
3 5 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (1.61%) Azure
4 4 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (1.61%) Azure Event Grid
4 4 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (0.40%) H2O.ai
5 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.03%) Profibus
2 8 (3.23%) Ethernet
2 8 (3.23%) Wireless
3 6 (2.42%) Modbus
4 4 (1.61%) Bluetooth
4 4 (1.61%) RS-232
4 4 (1.61%) RS-485
4 4 (1.61%) ZigBee
5 2 (0.81%) Firewall
5 2 (0.81%) Network Security
5 2 (0.81%) SSL
6 1 (0.40%) Intranet
6 1 (0.40%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.21%) Metadata
2 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.40%) Power BI
2 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (2.42%) Moq
2 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.61%) LabVIEW
3 2 (0.81%) Git
3 2 (0.81%) JIRA
4 1 (0.40%) Qt Creator
General
1 61 (24.60%) Electronics
2 42 (16.94%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.89%) Aerospace
4 25 (10.08%) Finance
5 20 (8.06%) Marketing
6 17 (6.85%) Retail
7 13 (5.24%) Automotive
8 12 (4.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (4.03%) Law
11 8 (3.23%) French Language
12 7 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.61%) Legal
14 4 (1.61%) Swedish Language
15 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.21%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.81%) Public Sector
17 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 39 (15.73%) Test Engineer
2 28 (11.29%) Electronics Engineer
3 22 (8.87%) Senior
3 22 (8.87%) Software Engineer
4 19 (7.66%) Electronics Test Engineer
5 17 (6.85%) Lead
5 17 (6.85%) Systems Engineer
6 14 (5.65%) Lead Electronics Engineer
6 14 (5.65%) Lead Test Engineer
7 13 (5.24%) Business Development Manager
7 13 (5.24%) Business Manager
7 13 (5.24%) Development Manager
8 11 (4.44%) QA Manager
9 10 (4.03%) Consultant
9 10 (4.03%) Identity Management Engineer
9 10 (4.03%) Programmer
9 10 (4.03%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.03%) Technical Engineer
9 10 (4.03%) Technical Support
9 10 (4.03%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.44%) .NET
2 7 (2.82%) XML
3 6 (2.42%) .NET Framework
3 6 (2.42%) Entity Framework
3 6 (2.42%) XSLT
4 5 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.81%) JSON
6 1 (0.40%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.40%) JSON-LD
6 1 (0.40%) Keras
6 1 (0.40%) Pandas
6 1 (0.40%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.40%) Qt
6 1 (0.40%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.40%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (3.63%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.23%) Smart City
4 7 (2.82%) Operational Technology
4 7 (2.82%) Robotics
5 6 (2.42%) Acoustics
5 6 (2.42%) Replication
5 6 (2.42%) SCADA
6 5 (2.02%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.61%) Verilog
7 4 (1.61%) VHDL
8 3 (1.21%) IoT
9 2 (0.81%) Analogue Electronics
9 2 (0.81%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.81%) Semantic Web
10 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.40%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.40%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.61%) FreeRTOS
2 3 (1.21%) Windows
3 2 (0.81%) Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (11.29%) Software Engineering
2 18 (7.26%) Business Development
3 17 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (6.85%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (6.45%) B2B
4 16 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (6.45%) Project Management
5 15 (6.05%) AI
5 15 (6.05%) Logistics
5 15 (6.05%) Prototyping
6 13 (5.24%) CRM
7 12 (4.84%) ERP
7 12 (4.84%) Load Testing
7 12 (4.84%) Test Automation
8 10 (4.03%) Identity Access Management
8 10 (4.03%) Knowledge Transfer
8 10 (4.03%) TDD
8 10 (4.03%) Validation
9 9 (3.63%) Software Testing
10 8 (3.23%) Marketing Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.87%) C++
2 18 (7.26%) C#
3 15 (6.05%) SQL
4 14 (5.65%) C
4 14 (5.65%) Python
5 6 (2.42%) XAML
6 4 (1.61%) Embedded C
7 2 (0.81%) Clojure
7 2 (0.81%) Erlang
7 2 (0.81%) Java
7 2 (0.81%) Rust
7 2 (0.81%) Scala
8 1 (0.40%) Embedded C++
8 1 (0.40%) SHACL
8 1 (0.40%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (16.53%) Degree
2 14 (5.65%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.44%) HND
4 10 (4.03%) HNC
5 7 (2.82%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.81%) CCNA
7 2 (0.81%) CCNP
7 2 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.40%) CIPD
8 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) ISEB
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.68%) QA
2 10 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.42%) HAZOP
4 4 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.61%) DO-254
5 3 (1.21%) GDPR
6 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.40%) COSHH
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (3.63%) Firmware
2 5 (2.02%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.42%) Wonderware InTouch
2 4 (1.61%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (4.44%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.23%) Pardot
2 8 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 7 (2.82%) EMC
4 6 (2.42%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (2.42%) Rockwell
4 6 (2.42%) Wonderware
5 5 (2.02%) Adobe
5 5 (2.02%) HubSpot
5 5 (2.02%) SAP
6 4 (1.61%) Sage
7 3 (1.21%) Cisco
7 3 (1.21%) IFS
8 2 (0.81%) IBM
9 1 (0.40%) Databricks
9 1 (0.40%) Dell
9 1 (0.40%) Infor
9 1 (0.40%) Meraki
9 1 (0.40%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.40%) Siemens