Manufacturing Jobs 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 32 155
Rank change year-on-year -9 +123 -98
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 245 345 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.70% 5.16% 1.21%
As % of the General category 9.97% 9.92% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 110 242 32
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% -3.85% +9.47%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £69,375
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,675 £84,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%

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 2,458 3,477 3,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 67.21% 51.97% 69.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,055 2,507 1,190
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,809 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,308 £31,149 £34,490
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -12.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,625 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the East of England.

Salary trend for Manufacturing in the East of England

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 July 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 +8 101 £35,000 -22.22% 88
Essex +5 51 £47,500 +35.71% 83
Cambridgeshire -2 39 £44,500 -22.61% 164
Suffolk -13 34 £33,125 -11.67% 36
Hertfordshire -27 19 £57,500 - 131
Norfolk -17 1 - - 36
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 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.22%) CMS
2 3 (1.22%) EPiServer
Applications
1 50 (20.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.82%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.82%) InDesign
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.82%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.41%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.41%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (2.04%) Infor M3
2 3 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.22%) Primavera
3 2 (0.82%) Magento
3 2 (0.82%) Shopify
4 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (4.49%) AWS
1 11 (4.49%) Power Platform
2 9 (3.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 7 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (1.22%) Google Analytics
5 3 (1.22%) Stripe
6 2 (0.82%) Azure
6 2 (0.82%) BigCommerce
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.41%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.04%) WAN
2 4 (1.63%) Wireless
3 3 (1.22%) Bluetooth
3 3 (1.22%) Modbus
3 3 (1.22%) Profibus
3 3 (1.22%) RS-232
3 3 (1.22%) RS-485
3 3 (1.22%) ZigBee
4 1 (0.41%) Firewall
4 1 (0.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.41%) MQTT
4 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.49%) Power BI
2 4 (1.63%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.63%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.22%) Looker
4 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.41%) Git
General
1 80 (32.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 51 (20.82%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.92%) Finance
4 27 (11.02%) Pharmaceutical
5 18 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.53%) Electronics
7 14 (5.71%) Marketing
8 7 (2.86%) Advertising
8 7 (2.86%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.45%) Retail
10 5 (2.04%) Automotive
10 5 (2.04%) Games
10 5 (2.04%) Law
11 4 (1.63%) Legal
11 4 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.22%) Banking
12 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Aviation
13 2 (0.82%) Military
14 1 (0.41%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 50 (20.41%) Senior
2 47 (19.18%) Electrical Engineer
2 47 (19.18%) Safety Engineer
2 47 (19.18%) Test Engineer
3 23 (9.39%) Applications Support
4 18 (7.35%) Support Engineer
5 16 (6.53%) Analyst
6 15 (6.12%) Technical Support
7 13 (5.31%) Automation Engineer
7 13 (5.31%) Technical Engineer
7 13 (5.31%) Technical Support Engineer
8 12 (4.90%) Software Engineer
9 10 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (2.86%) Support Technician
11 6 (2.45%) E-Commerce Manager
11 6 (2.45%) Senior Electrical Engineer
11 6 (2.45%) Senior Safety Engineer
11 6 (2.45%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (2.04%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 5 (2.04%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.67%) Keras
1 9 (3.67%) NumPy
1 9 (3.67%) PyTorch
1 9 (3.67%) scikit-learn
1 9 (3.67%) TensorFlow
2 3 (1.22%) EDI
3 1 (0.41%) .NET
3 1 (0.41%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.41%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.41%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.41%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.41%) HTML
3 1 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.08%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.63%) Robotics
2 4 (1.63%) Social Media
3 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (1.22%) Biopharmaceutical
3 3 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (0.82%) FMCG
4 2 (0.82%) FPGA
4 2 (0.82%) IoT
4 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.82%) Verilog
4 2 (0.82%) VHDL
5 1 (0.41%) Analogue Electronics
5 1 (0.41%) Blog
5 1 (0.41%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.41%) Life Science
5 1 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.41%) SCADA
5 1 (0.41%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.67%) Windows
2 3 (1.22%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.41%) Android
3 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (20.41%) ERP
2 47 (19.18%) Safety Engineering
3 42 (17.14%) Mentoring
4 37 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (11.84%) CAD
6 29 (11.84%) Design for Manufacturing
7 22 (8.98%) Software Engineering
8 21 (8.57%) Validation
9 20 (8.16%) Analytics
10 19 (7.76%) E-Commerce
11 16 (6.53%) Data Analytics
12 15 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence
12 15 (6.12%) Service Delivery
13 14 (5.71%) Collaborative Working
13 14 (5.71%) Computer Science
13 14 (5.71%) CRM
14 13 (5.31%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (5.31%) Coaching
15 12 (4.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.71%) C++
2 11 (4.49%) SQL
3 10 (4.08%) Python
4 9 (3.67%) C
5 3 (1.22%) Ada
6 1 (0.41%) C#
6 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.41%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 109 (44.49%) Degree
2 14 (5.71%) NVQ Level 3
3 10 (4.08%) PhD
4 5 (2.04%) HND
5 3 (1.22%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.82%) HNC
6 2 (0.82%) NVQ Level 4
6 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.82%) PMP
7 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.88%) QA
2 7 (2.86%) GxP
3 4 (1.63%) NEBOSH
4 3 (1.22%) GDPR
4 3 (1.22%) GMP
5 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.41%) PMO
5 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.04%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (1.63%) Firmware
4 1 (0.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.41%) QRadar
Vendors
1 51 (20.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.67%) SAP
3 5 (2.04%) IFS
3 5 (2.04%) Infor
3 5 (2.04%) VMware
4 4 (1.63%) EMC
5 3 (1.22%) Google
5 3 (1.22%) HubSpot
5 3 (1.22%) PayPal
6 2 (0.82%) Adobe
6 2 (0.82%) JD Edwards
6 2 (0.82%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.41%) Facebook
7 1 (0.41%) Instagram
7 1 (0.41%) Intel
7 1 (0.41%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.41%) Microsemi
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle
7 1 (0.41%) Splunk
7 1 (0.41%) Xilinx