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

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 31 139
Rank change year-on-year -20 +108 -78
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 211 331 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.53% 5.14% 1.24%
As % of the General category 8.31% 9.75% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 123 226 32
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £28,775
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £71,750 £72,500 £87,250
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 2,538 3,394 2,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 66.49% 52.71% 68.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,152 2,392 1,169
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,809 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £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 12 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 12 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 +7 58 £35,000 -22.22% 39
Essex +4 56 £50,000 +60.00% 38
Cambridgeshire -2 41 £45,000 -25.00% 85
Suffolk -16 33 £33,125 +0.38% 12
Hertfordshire -35 21 £50,000 -13.04% 62
Norfolk -8 2 £37,500 +25.00% 29
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 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.42%) CMS
2 3 (1.42%) EPiServer
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.42%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.95%) InDesign
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.95%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (2.37%) Infor M3
2 3 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.42%) Primavera
3 2 (0.95%) Magento
3 2 (0.95%) Shopify
4 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (5.21%) AWS
1 11 (5.21%) Power Platform
2 9 (4.27%) Amazon SageMaker
3 7 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (1.42%) Google Analytics
5 3 (1.42%) Stripe
6 2 (0.95%) Azure
6 2 (0.95%) BigCommerce
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.47%) Figma
7 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.37%) WAN
2 3 (1.42%) Wireless
3 2 (0.95%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.95%) Modbus
3 2 (0.95%) Profibus
3 2 (0.95%) RS-232
3 2 (0.95%) RS-485
3 2 (0.95%) ZigBee
4 1 (0.47%) MQTT
4 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.21%) Power BI
2 5 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.42%) Looker
5 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.47%) Big Data
6 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.47%) Git
General
1 50 (23.70%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.48%) Finance
3 33 (15.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (14.22%) Pharmaceutical
5 19 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.11%) Electronics
7 14 (6.64%) Marketing
8 9 (4.27%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.32%) Advertising
9 7 (3.32%) Automotive
10 6 (2.84%) Law
10 6 (2.84%) Retail
11 5 (2.37%) Games
12 4 (1.90%) Legal
13 3 (1.42%) Banking
13 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.95%) Aviation
14 2 (0.95%) Military
15 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (21.80%) Senior
2 23 (10.90%) Applications Support
3 20 (9.48%) Support Engineer
4 17 (8.06%) Technical Support
5 16 (7.58%) Analyst
6 15 (7.11%) Automation Engineer
6 15 (7.11%) Technical Engineer
6 15 (7.11%) Technical Support Engineer
7 13 (6.16%) Software Engineer
8 11 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (3.32%) Support Technician
10 6 (2.84%) C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (2.84%) E-Commerce Manager
10 6 (2.84%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 5 (2.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 5 (2.37%) IT Support
11 5 (2.37%) Programmer
11 5 (2.37%) Support Analyst
11 5 (2.37%) Support Manager
12 4 (1.90%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.27%) Keras
1 9 (4.27%) NumPy
1 9 (4.27%) PyTorch
1 9 (4.27%) scikit-learn
1 9 (4.27%) TensorFlow
2 3 (1.42%) EDI
3 2 (0.95%) HTML
4 1 (0.47%) .NET
4 1 (0.47%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.47%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.47%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.47%) FHIR
4 1 (0.47%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.47%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.74%) Algorithms
2 8 (3.79%) Robotics
3 4 (1.90%) Biopharmaceutical
3 4 (1.90%) Social Media
4 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (0.95%) FMCG
5 2 (0.95%) FPGA
5 2 (0.95%) IoT
5 2 (0.95%) Life Science
5 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.95%) Verilog
5 2 (0.95%) VHDL
6 1 (0.47%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (0.47%) Blog
6 1 (0.47%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.47%) Omics
6 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.27%) Windows
2 2 (0.95%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.47%) Android
3 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (23.70%) ERP
2 38 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (17.06%) Mentoring
4 30 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (13.74%) CAD
5 29 (13.74%) Design for Manufacturing
6 25 (11.85%) Software Engineering
7 22 (10.43%) Validation
8 20 (9.48%) Analytics
9 19 (9.00%) E-Commerce
10 16 (7.58%) Data Analytics
11 15 (7.11%) Artificial Intelligence
11 15 (7.11%) Computer Science
12 14 (6.64%) Collaborative Working
12 14 (6.64%) CRM
13 13 (6.16%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (6.16%) Service Delivery
14 12 (5.69%) User Experience
15 11 (5.21%) Logistics
15 11 (5.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.06%) C++
2 12 (5.69%) SQL
3 11 (5.21%) Python
4 8 (3.79%) C
5 3 (1.42%) Ada
6 1 (0.47%) C#
6 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.47%) R
6 1 (0.47%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 64 (30.33%) Degree
2 12 (5.69%) NVQ Level 3
3 10 (4.74%) PhD
4 5 (2.37%) HND
5 3 (1.42%) HNC
5 3 (1.42%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.95%) NVQ Level 4
6 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.95%) PMP
7 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.47%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (16.11%) QA
2 7 (3.32%) GxP
3 4 (1.90%) GDPR
3 4 (1.90%) NEBOSH
4 3 (1.42%) GMP
5 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.47%) CDISC
6 1 (0.47%) DICOM
6 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.47%) HL7
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.47%) PMO
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (4.74%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.37%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.42%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.42%) Firmware
4 2 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.95%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (4.27%) SAP
2 5 (2.37%) IFS
2 5 (2.37%) Infor
2 5 (2.37%) VMware
3 4 (1.90%) EMC
3 4 (1.90%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.42%) Google
4 3 (1.42%) HubSpot
4 3 (1.42%) PayPal
5 2 (0.95%) Adobe
5 2 (0.95%) JD Edwards
5 2 (0.95%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.47%) Facebook
6 1 (0.47%) Instagram
6 1 (0.47%) Intel
6 1 (0.47%) Microsemi
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle
6 1 (0.47%) Siemens
6 1 (0.47%) Twitter
6 1 (0.47%) Xilinx