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 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 18 44
Rank change year-on-year -39 +26 +56
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 118 325 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.85% 9.10% 4.48%
As % of the General category 5.63% 14.50% 7.15%
Number of salaries quoted 79 79 67
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -2.13%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £66,901 £90,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -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 general skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,097 2,242 1,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 50.65% 62.80% 62.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,132 827 939
10th Percentile £27,275 £28,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,938 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +1.93% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,400 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -49 31 £52,500 +16.67% 35
Essex -10 28 £50,000 +30.72% 15
Bedfordshire +19 26 £40,000 -42.86% 6
Norfolk -3 15 £38,000 -24.00% 2
Cambridgeshire -12 15 £47,000 -14.55% 13
Suffolk -32 3 - - 5
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:

Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.85%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.85%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.85%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.85%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.85%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 7 (5.93%) SaaS
2 2 (1.69%) Azure
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
3 1 (0.85%) AWS
3 1 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (0.85%) H2O.ai
3 1 (0.85%) OpenShift
3 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
3 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.85%) PowerApps
3 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.54%) Network Security
2 1 (0.85%) Internet
2 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.39%) Metadata
2 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.85%) Big Data
4 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.85%) Parquet
4 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Git
1 4 (3.39%) GitLab
2 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.85%) JIRA
General
1 21 (17.80%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.71%) Finance
2 15 (12.71%) Marketing
3 14 (11.86%) Retail
4 13 (11.02%) Electronics
5 11 (9.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 10 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 10 (8.47%) Telecoms
7 7 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.93%) French Language
7 7 (5.93%) Swedish Language
8 5 (4.24%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.39%) German Language
10 3 (2.54%) Games
10 3 (2.54%) Law
11 2 (1.69%) Automotive
11 2 (1.69%) Military
11 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (17.80%) Test Engineer
2 13 (11.02%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 10 (8.47%) Sales Representative
4 9 (7.63%) Support Engineer
5 8 (6.78%) Senior
5 8 (6.78%) Technical Engineer
5 8 (6.78%) Technical Support
5 8 (6.78%) Technical Support Engineer
6 7 (5.93%) Telesales Representative
7 6 (5.08%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) ERP Manager
8 5 (4.24%) ERP Support
8 5 (4.24%) QA Manager
8 5 (4.24%) Support Manager
9 4 (3.39%) Consultant
9 4 (3.39%) Developer
9 4 (3.39%) Electronics Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.54%) JSON
2 2 (1.69%) Pandas
2 2 (1.69%) PyTorch
2 2 (1.69%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.69%) XML
3 1 (0.85%) .NET
3 1 (0.85%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.85%) FHIR
3 1 (0.85%) HTML
3 1 (0.85%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.85%) IDoc
3 1 (0.85%) JSON-LD
3 1 (0.85%) Keras
3 1 (0.85%) LangChain
3 1 (0.85%) MassTransit
3 1 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.93%) Mobile Computing
2 3 (2.54%) Semantic Web
3 2 (1.69%) Reference Data
3 2 (1.69%) Robotics
3 2 (1.69%) SCADA
4 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.85%) ASIC
4 1 (0.85%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.85%) IoT
4 1 (0.85%) Life Science
4 1 (0.85%) Linked Data
4 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.85%) Omics
4 1 (0.85%) PMI
4 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.85%) Social Media
4 1 (0.85%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.54%) Linux
2 2 (1.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (12.71%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (11.86%) B2B
3 12 (10.17%) ERP
3 12 (10.17%) Logistics
4 11 (9.32%) Digital Marketing
4 11 (9.32%) Project Delivery
5 10 (8.47%) Programme Management
5 10 (8.47%) Software Engineering
6 9 (7.63%) CRM
7 7 (5.93%) B2B Sales
7 7 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (5.93%) Contract Negotiation
7 7 (5.93%) Telesales
8 6 (5.08%) Validation
9 5 (4.24%) Agile
9 5 (4.24%) Customer Service
9 5 (4.24%) People Management
9 5 (4.24%) Test Automation
10 4 (3.39%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (3.39%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.63%) Python
2 5 (4.24%) C++
2 5 (4.24%) SQL
3 4 (3.39%) C
4 3 (2.54%) Embedded C
5 1 (0.85%) ABAP
5 1 (0.85%) C#
5 1 (0.85%) R
5 1 (0.85%) Rust
5 1 (0.85%) SHACL
5 1 (0.85%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 17 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.71%) Degree
3 11 (9.32%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.93%) HNC
5 4 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.39%) HND
6 3 (2.54%) CISM
6 3 (2.54%) CISSP
6 3 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.69%) City & Guilds
7 2 (1.69%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.85%) CCA
8 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.85%) PhD
8 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) QA
2 6 (5.08%) SLA
3 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) CDISC
4 1 (0.85%) DICOM
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.85%) HL7
4 1 (0.85%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (3.39%) Docker
1 4 (3.39%) Firmware
2 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (10.17%) SAP
2 5 (4.24%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.54%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.69%) VMware
5 1 (0.85%) Cadence
5 1 (0.85%) Databricks
5 1 (0.85%) Dell
5 1 (0.85%) NVIDIA