Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 29 July 2021

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 29 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Manufacturing
UK > England
6 months to
29 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 151 220 181
Rank change year-on-year +69 -39 -5
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 2,352 982 2,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.35% 1.55% 2.00%
As % of the General category 4.16% 2.87% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,642 711 1,928
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,625 £79,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%

Manufacturing is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

All General Skills
England
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 56,552 34,230 75,186
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England 56.58% 53.89% 56.49%
Number of salaries quoted 36,464 27,047 57,720
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.73% +4.76% +5.00%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in England

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Manufacturing in England

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in England over the 6 months to 29 July 2021.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in England

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 Manufacturing within the England region over the 6 months to 29 July 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
London +119 714 £75,000 +30.43% 124
North of England +36 418 £45,000 -10.00% 299
South East -15 328 £47,500 -1.04% 205
Midlands +49 300 £45,000 -5.26% 304
South West +5 296 £47,500 -11.63% 164
North West +24 239 £50,000 -13.04% 151
East of England +24 184 £47,500 +5.56% 158
West Midlands +29 175 £45,000 -5.26% 158
Yorkshire +22 159 £45,000 +20.00% 112
East Midlands +43 124 £45,000 -5.26% 146
North East -28 20 £27,000 -58.46% 36
Manufacturing
UK

For the 6 months to 29 July 2021, IT jobs citing Manufacturing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region with a requirement for Manufacturing.

1 975 (41.45%) Finance
2 905 (38.48%) SAP
3 828 (35.20%) Business Intelligence
4 798 (33.93%) Marketing
5 772 (32.82%) Telecoms
6 763 (32.44%) Electronics
7 761 (32.36%) Public Sector
8 708 (30.10%) Digital Marketing
9 702 (29.85%) Programme Management
10 534 (22.70%) Social Skills
11 532 (22.62%) Agile Software Development
12 449 (19.09%) Degree
13 437 (18.58%) Microsoft
14 400 (17.01%) ERP
15 369 (15.69%) SQL
16 364 (15.48%) Azure
17 347 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
18 306 (13.01%) JavaScript
19 294 (12.50%) Python
20 260 (11.05%) Software Engineering
21 259 (11.01%) AWS
22 250 (10.63%) DevOps
23 242 (10.29%) Retail
23 242 (10.29%) Windows
24 218 (9.27%) Computer Science
25 214 (9.10%) Project Management
26 200 (8.50%) HTML
27 197 (8.38%) Linux
28 196 (8.33%) Scrum
29 190 (8.08%) Analytical Skills

Manufacturing
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 62 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.40%) Confluence
3 19 (0.81%) MS Exchange
4 15 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.51%) Apache
5 12 (0.51%) IIS
5 12 (0.51%) Tomcat
6 10 (0.43%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.38%) JBoss
7 9 (0.38%) Mule
7 9 (0.38%) Mule ESB
8 8 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
8 8 (0.34%) ThingWorx
9 7 (0.30%) nginx
10 6 (0.26%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
13 3 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 139 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.02%) SOLIDWORKS
5 20 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.64%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.55%) Siemens NX
8 9 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.26%) Solid Edge
10 4 (0.17%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.13%) Figma
11 3 (0.13%) Simulink
12 2 (0.085%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.085%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.085%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.085%) OmniGraffle
12 2 (0.085%) Sketch
13 1 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.043%) InDesign
13 1 (0.043%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 60 (2.55%) Dynamics AX
2 42 (1.79%) NetSuite
3 38 (1.62%) Dynamics NAV
3 38 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 28 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 21 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
6 18 (0.77%) SAP Business One
7 15 (0.64%) SAP ERP
7 15 (0.64%) Teamcenter
8 14 (0.60%) SAP MM
9 13 (0.55%) Magento
10 12 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
11 11 (0.47%) Shopify
12 10 (0.43%) Primavera
13 8 (0.34%) SAP IBP
13 8 (0.34%) Sentinel
14 7 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
15 6 (0.26%) SAP GTS
15 6 (0.26%) SAP SCM
15 6 (0.26%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 364 (15.48%) Azure
2 259 (11.01%) AWS
3 178 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
4 147 (6.25%) GCP
5 118 (5.02%) SaaS
6 98 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 88 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
8 48 (2.04%) Serverless
9 36 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (1.15%) Azure Functions
11 23 (0.98%) Kong
12 19 (0.81%) Cloud Functions
12 19 (0.81%) Firebase
12 19 (0.81%) PowerApps
13 16 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (0.64%) Apigee
14 15 (0.64%) PaaS
15 14 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (0.43%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 103 (4.38%) Firewall
2 71 (3.02%) WAN
3 63 (2.68%) LAN
4 47 (2.00%) VPN
5 43 (1.83%) Network Security
5 43 (1.83%) Wireless
6 42 (1.79%) DNS
7 37 (1.57%) Ethernet
8 28 (1.19%) DHCP
9 27 (1.15%) TCP/IP
10 25 (1.06%) Internet
10 25 (1.06%) VoIP
11 24 (1.02%) Modbus
12 18 (0.77%) RS-422
13 16 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (0.55%) RS-232
15 11 (0.47%) Intranet
15 11 (0.47%) Skype
15 11 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (0.38%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 95 (4.04%) Power BI
3 77 (3.27%) NoSQL
4 69 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
5 65 (2.76%) MongoDB
6 63 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 52 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 50 (2.13%) MySQL
9 47 (2.00%) Relational Database
9 47 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 47 (2.00%) Tableau
10 40 (1.70%) Big Data
11 28 (1.19%) Crystal Reports
12 27 (1.15%) Hadoop
13 24 (1.02%) QlikView
13 24 (1.02%) RDBMS
14 18 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 16 (0.68%) Amazon DynamoDB
16 15 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (0.64%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 121 (5.14%) JIRA
2 117 (4.97%) Git (software)
3 44 (1.87%) Visual Studio
4 20 (0.85%) IntelliJ
4 20 (0.85%) JUnit
5 19 (0.81%) Selenium
6 17 (0.72%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
8 14 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.60%) Cypress.io
8 14 (0.60%) Eclipse
9 13 (0.55%) Maven
9 13 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (0.47%) gulp
11 10 (0.43%) GCC
11 10 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
11 10 (0.43%) Postman
12 9 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.34%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 975 (41.45%) Finance
2 798 (33.93%) Marketing
3 772 (32.82%) Telecoms
4 763 (32.44%) Electronics
5 761 (32.36%) Public Sector
6 534 (22.70%) Social Skills
7 242 (10.29%) Retail
8 190 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
9 130 (5.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 98 (4.17%) Automotive
11 77 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
12 68 (2.89%) Legal
13 50 (2.13%) Law
14 46 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
15 45 (1.91%) Games
16 44 (1.87%) Banking
17 36 (1.53%) Aerospace
18 35 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
19 26 (1.11%) French Language
20 21 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 455 (19.35%) Developer
2 277 (11.78%) Analyst
3 171 (7.27%) Software Engineer
4 149 (6.34%) Consultant
5 113 (4.80%) Senior Developer
6 112 (4.76%) Architect
7 105 (4.46%) Business Analyst
8 98 (4.17%) Project Manager
9 92 (3.91%) IT Manager
10 72 (3.06%) Software Developer
11 60 (2.55%) Java Developer
12 57 (2.42%) Design Engineer
13 52 (2.21%) ERP Analyst
14 51 (2.17%) Senior Software Engineer
15 50 (2.13%) IT Support
16 49 (2.08%) IT Engineer
17 47 (2.00%) .NET Developer
17 47 (2.00%) Full Stack Developer
18 45 (1.91%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
19 44 (1.87%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (8.50%) HTML
2 181 (7.70%) .NET
3 168 (7.14%) CSS
4 151 (6.42%) AngularJS
5 128 (5.44%) React
6 89 (3.78%) ASP.NET
7 76 (3.23%) Node.js
8 65 (2.76%) REST
9 55 (2.34%) HTML5
10 54 (2.30%) Vue.js
11 49 (2.08%) .NET Core
12 45 (1.91%) jQuery
12 45 (1.91%) Web Services
13 43 (1.83%) CSS3
14 40 (1.70%) Spring
15 37 (1.57%) SOAP
16 35 (1.49%) JSON
17 33 (1.40%) XML
18 30 (1.28%) Django
19 28 (1.19%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 83 (3.53%) Management Information System
2 80 (3.40%) User Experience
3 77 (3.27%) Cloud Native
4 76 (3.23%) Life Science
5 72 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 66 (2.81%) Algorithms
7 50 (2.13%) Robotics
8 49 (2.08%) Data Structures
9 48 (2.04%) FMCG
10 45 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
10 45 (1.91%) Mobile App
11 42 (1.79%) Data Centre
12 35 (1.49%) Social Media
13 29 (1.23%) Industry 4.0
14 26 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
15 22 (0.94%) Analogue Electronics
16 19 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
16 19 (0.81%) SCADA
17 17 (0.72%) Acoustics
17 17 (0.72%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 242 (10.29%) Windows
2 197 (8.38%) Linux
3 89 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.38%) Windows 10
5 42 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 33 (1.40%) Unix
6 33 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 30 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (0.98%) Windows 7
9 20 (0.85%) Android
10 12 (0.51%) Mac OS
11 10 (0.43%) CentOS
12 8 (0.34%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.34%) VMS
12 8 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
13 7 (0.30%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.30%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.21%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (35.20%) Business Intelligence
2 708 (30.10%) Digital Marketing
3 702 (29.85%) Programme Management
4 532 (22.62%) Agile Software Development
5 400 (17.01%) ERP
6 347 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
7 260 (11.05%) Software Engineering
8 250 (10.63%) DevOps
9 218 (9.27%) Computer Science
10 214 (9.10%) Project Management
11 196 (8.33%) Scrum
12 180 (7.65%) Analytics
13 178 (7.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 156 (6.63%) Cybersecurity
15 149 (6.34%) Logistics
16 125 (5.31%) ITIL
17 123 (5.23%) Mentoring
18 116 (4.93%) Continuous Improvement
19 113 (4.80%) Microservices
20 110 (4.68%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 369 (15.69%) SQL
2 306 (13.01%) JavaScript
3 294 (12.50%) Python
4 185 (7.87%) Java
5 164 (6.97%) C++
6 160 (6.80%) C#
7 132 (5.61%) C
8 101 (4.29%) Go
9 85 (3.61%) TypeScript
10 66 (2.81%) PHP
11 51 (2.17%) PowerShell
12 46 (1.96%) Ruby
13 42 (1.79%) T-SQL
14 31 (1.32%) VB.NET
15 25 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 25 (1.06%) VB
16 18 (0.77%) R
17 16 (0.68%) Elixir
17 16 (0.68%) ML
17 16 (0.68%) PHP 7
Qualifications
1 449 (19.09%) Degree
2 91 (3.87%) Security Cleared
3 87 (3.70%) Master's Degree
4 70 (2.98%) SC Cleared
5 52 (2.21%) PhD
6 45 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (0.85%) CCNP
9 16 (0.68%) CISSP
10 15 (0.64%) HNC
11 14 (0.60%) CEH
11 14 (0.60%) CISM
11 14 (0.60%) MBA
11 14 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
11 14 (0.60%) OSCP
11 14 (0.60%) PMP
12 12 (0.51%) GIAC
12 12 (0.51%) HND
12 12 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (4.97%) QA
2 81 (3.44%) GDPR
3 51 (2.17%) NIST
4 47 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (1.87%) GMP
6 31 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 21 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.72%) SLA
9 13 (0.55%) ISO 9001
10 11 (0.47%) Data Quality
10 11 (0.47%) GRC
11 10 (0.43%) GLP
11 10 (0.43%) GxP
11 10 (0.43%) PMO
12 9 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.26%) COBIT
13 6 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 5 (0.21%) ISO 13485
15 4 (0.17%) COSHH
15 4 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 160 (6.80%) Active Directory
1 160 (6.80%) Docker
2 67 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (2.25%) Hyper-V
4 33 (1.40%) Firmware
5 13 (0.55%) VMware Server
6 11 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 8 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (0.34%) vSphere
8 7 (0.30%) Snort
8 7 (0.30%) Squid
8 7 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.21%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.13%) XenApp
11 2 (0.085%) NFS
11 2 (0.085%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.085%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 155 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 59 (2.51%) Terraform
3 35 (1.49%) Ansible
4 22 (0.94%) SCCM
5 17 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.68%) Puppet
7 12 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (0.43%) Nessus
9 8 (0.34%) Argo
9 8 (0.34%) Istio
9 8 (0.34%) Knative
9 8 (0.34%) linkerd
10 7 (0.30%) Nexpose
10 7 (0.30%) Suricata
11 6 (0.26%) Mesos
11 6 (0.26%) Opscode Chef
12 4 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.17%) CASB
12 4 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.13%) MaaS360
Vendors
1 905 (38.48%) SAP
2 437 (18.58%) Microsoft
3 136 (5.78%) Oracle
4 127 (5.40%) Google
5 111 (4.72%) VMware
6 94 (4.00%) Cisco
7 64 (2.72%) JD Edwards
8 63 (2.68%) Salesforce.com
9 60 (2.55%) Instagram
10 31 (1.32%) IFS
11 30 (1.28%) Sage
12 28 (1.19%) Infor
13 21 (0.89%) Siemens
14 18 (0.77%) EMC
14 18 (0.77%) IBM
15 17 (0.72%) Citrix
15 17 (0.72%) CyberArk
15 17 (0.72%) ForgeRock
15 17 (0.72%) HP
16 16 (0.68%) Palo Alto