Design for Manufacturing Jobs in England

Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Design for Manufacturing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Design for Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 589 805 881
Rank change year-on-year +216 +76 +259
Permanent jobs citing Design for Manufacturing 90 45 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.050% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.060% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 2 24 7
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,150 £47,250
25th Percentile £55,625 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +11.90% +14.13%
75th Percentile £70,625 £72,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £73,250 £87,500 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% +14.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Design for Manufacturing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Design for Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Design for Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Design for Manufacturing in England

Design for Manufacturing
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design for Manufacturing in England.

Salary trend for Design for Manufacturing in England

Design for Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design for Manufacturing in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Design for Manufacturing in England

Design for Manufacturing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design for Manufacturing within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
South East +88 36 £70,000 +19.66% 23
East of England - 30 £55,000 - 2
Midlands +75 14 - - 6
East Midlands - 13 - - 1
North of England +35 6 - - 6
North West +2 6 - - 6
South West +107 1 - - 5
West Midlands +53 1 - - 5
Design for Manufacturing
UK

Design for Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 4 (4.44%) AutoCAD
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) Ethernet
1 2 (2.22%) RS-485
2 1 (1.11%) 2G
2 1 (1.11%) 3G
2 1 (1.11%) 4G
2 1 (1.11%) 5G
2 1 (1.11%) Wireless
General
1 90 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 82 (91.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.44%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.33%) Electronics
5 2 (2.22%) Finance
5 2 (2.22%) Marketing
5 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (93.33%) Senior
2 5 (5.56%) Project Engineer
3 2 (2.22%) Design Engineer
3 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 2 (2.22%) Mechanical Engineer
3 2 (2.22%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
4 1 (1.11%) Digital Design Engineer
4 1 (1.11%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (1.11%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
4 1 (1.11%) Firmware Engineer
4 1 (1.11%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 1 (1.11%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (1.11%) FPGA/VHDL Design Engineer
4 1 (1.11%) Hardware Design Engineer
4 1 (1.11%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (1.11%) VHDL Design Engineer
4 1 (1.11%) VHDL Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.11%) FPGA
1 1 (1.11%) IoT
1 1 (1.11%) Life Science
1 1 (1.11%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (92.22%) CAD
2 82 (91.11%) Mentoring
3 4 (4.44%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
3 4 (4.44%) Finite Element Analysis
3 4 (4.44%) Validation
4 2 (2.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (2.22%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (2.22%) Digital Signal Processing
4 2 (2.22%) Programme Management
4 2 (2.22%) Signal Processing
5 1 (1.11%) Change Control
5 1 (1.11%) Design for Test
5 1 (1.11%) DMAIC
5 1 (1.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (1.11%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 89 (98.89%) Degree
2 7 (7.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (91.11%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) GMP
System Software
1 1 (1.11%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.11%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (3.33%) EMC
2 2 (2.22%) Freescale
2 2 (2.22%) SAP
3 1 (1.11%) Altera