Manufacturing Jobs in England

Manufacturing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 57 137
Rank change year-on-year +35 +80 -5
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 4,121 3,441 2,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.42% 3.85% 2.66%
As % of the General category 12.04% 6.61% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 870 2,203 1,070
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £30,623
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £54,793 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.76% -18.18% +10.00%

All General Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 34,227 52,053 58,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 69.91% 58.18% 67.97%
Number of salaries quoted 15,922 36,043 32,120
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
North of England +27 1,343 £54,793 +21.76% 1,307
South East +33 1,150 £65,000 +53.66% 1,439
North West +33 779 £55,500 +16.84% 609
Midlands +16 643 £47,500 +5.56% 1,184
London +201 527 £65,000 - 432
Yorkshire +24 503 £41,250 -2.94% 553
West Midlands +16 342 £55,000 +22.22% 628
East Midlands +15 301 £45,000 +5.88% 488
East of England -5 251 £36,875 -28.05% 899
South West +8 199 £46,000 +8.24% 720
North East +13 61 £48,750 +21.88% 153
Manufacturing
UK

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:

Application Platforms
1 62 (1.50%) Confluence
2 58 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.51%) IBM Domino
5 13 (0.32%) OpenEdge
6 8 (0.19%) Kinematics
7 6 (0.15%) CMS
8 5 (0.12%) nginx
9 4 (0.097%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.073%) Apache
10 3 (0.073%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.073%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.049%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.049%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.049%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.049%) WinCC
12 1 (0.024%) Mendix
12 1 (0.024%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.024%) WordPress
Applications
1 234 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (2.06%) Mathcad
3 77 (1.87%) Abaqus
4 57 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 23 (0.56%) SOLIDWORKS
6 14 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 12 (0.29%) Maya
8 9 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
9 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.17%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.073%) CATIA
11 3 (0.073%) EPLAN
11 3 (0.073%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.073%) Revit
11 3 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.049%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.049%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 50 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.53%) Teamcenter
4 18 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 18 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 16 (0.39%) Sage 200
5 16 (0.39%) Sage CRM
6 13 (0.32%) SAP IBP
7 10 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.22%) Infor M3
9 6 (0.15%) SAP PP
9 6 (0.15%) Sprinklr
10 4 (0.097%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 4 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.097%) SAP EWM
10 4 (0.097%) SAP WM
11 3 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.073%) Sage 50
11 3 (0.073%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 122 (2.96%) Azure
2 96 (2.33%) AWS
3 75 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (1.21%) Power Platform
5 26 (0.63%) GCP
6 20 (0.49%) SaaS
7 19 (0.46%) Entra ID
8 14 (0.34%) Amazon SageMaker
8 14 (0.34%) GitHub
8 14 (0.34%) Serverless
9 13 (0.32%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (0.29%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (0.29%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (0.29%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (0.27%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (0.24%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (0.22%) Amazon S3
14 8 (0.19%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (0.17%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (0.17%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.53%) Firewall
2 26 (0.63%) WAN
2 26 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
3 21 (0.51%) VPN
4 20 (0.49%) Modbus
5 19 (0.46%) LAN
5 19 (0.46%) SAN
6 17 (0.41%) Network Security
6 17 (0.41%) VoIP
7 16 (0.39%) Ethernet
8 15 (0.36%) Internet
8 15 (0.36%) Profibus
9 13 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
9 13 (0.32%) Wireless
10 11 (0.27%) RS-485
10 11 (0.27%) VLAN
11 10 (0.24%) MPLS
12 9 (0.22%) DHCP
12 9 (0.22%) DNS
13 8 (0.19%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (1.31%) SQL Server
2 48 (1.16%) Power BI
3 33 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 20 (0.49%) NoSQL
7 13 (0.32%) MySQL
8 11 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.22%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.22%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (0.22%) RDBMS
9 9 (0.22%) SAP BW
10 8 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.17%) Metadata
11 7 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.15%) Big Data
12 6 (0.15%) Looker
13 5 (0.12%) Tableau
14 4 (0.097%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 78 (1.89%) JIRA
2 28 (0.68%) Git
3 10 (0.24%) TeamCity
4 9 (0.22%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (0.15%) Subversion
7 5 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.12%) LabVIEW
7 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.097%) GitLab
8 4 (0.097%) JUnit
8 4 (0.097%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.073%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.073%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.073%) Maven
9 3 (0.073%) Mockito
9 3 (0.073%) Postman
9 3 (0.073%) Selenium
9 3 (0.073%) TestNG
10 2 (0.049%) Robot Framework
General
1 847 (20.55%) Retail
2 642 (15.58%) Social Skills
3 478 (11.60%) Finance
4 449 (10.90%) Electronics
5 376 (9.12%) Marketing
6 324 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
7 304 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 244 (5.92%) Presentation Skills
9 198 (4.80%) Dutch Language
10 196 (4.76%) Finnish Language
10 196 (4.76%) Norwegian Language
11 121 (2.94%) Telecoms
12 101 (2.45%) Public Sector
13 99 (2.40%) Legal
14 91 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
15 85 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
16 62 (1.50%) Law
17 54 (1.31%) Automotive
18 49 (1.19%) Catalan Language
18 49 (1.19%) Games
Job Titles
1 736 (17.86%) Trainer
2 422 (10.24%) Senior
3 204 (4.95%) Lead
4 166 (4.03%) Test Engineer
5 157 (3.81%) Project Manager
6 154 (3.74%) Electrical Engineer
7 152 (3.69%) Safety Engineer
8 149 (3.62%) Technical Manager
9 143 (3.47%) Architect
10 136 (3.30%) Help Desk Manager
11 135 (3.28%) Technical Support
12 120 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
13 115 (2.79%) Analyst
14 102 (2.48%) Support Technician
15 101 (2.45%) Products Support Manager
16 98 (2.38%) Support Manager
17 87 (2.11%) Automation Engineer
18 80 (1.94%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
19 77 (1.87%) Engineering Specialist
19 77 (1.87%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (1.09%) .NET
2 21 (0.51%) React
3 19 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
4 18 (0.44%) CSS
4 18 (0.44%) HTML
4 18 (0.44%) REST
5 16 (0.39%) Middleware
6 14 (0.34%) Node.js
7 13 (0.32%) ASP.NET
7 13 (0.32%) FastAPI
7 13 (0.32%) RESTful
8 12 (0.29%) .NET Core
8 12 (0.29%) .NET Framework
8 12 (0.29%) Loki
9 11 (0.27%) Flask
10 10 (0.24%) EDI
10 10 (0.24%) TensorFlow
11 9 (0.22%) scikit-learn
11 9 (0.22%) Spring
11 9 (0.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 777 (18.85%) Robotics
2 154 (3.74%) Management Information System
3 118 (2.86%) FMCG
4 78 (1.89%) Operational Technology
5 61 (1.48%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 54 (1.31%) IoT
7 44 (1.07%) SCADA
8 42 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
9 40 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (0.68%) Blockchain
11 26 (0.63%) Life Science
12 25 (0.61%) Algorithms
12 25 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (0.49%) Video Conferencing
14 19 (0.46%) Embedded Systems
15 16 (0.39%) Onboarding
16 15 (0.36%) Biopharmaceutical
16 15 (0.36%) CCTV
16 15 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 108 (2.62%) Windows
2 55 (1.33%) Windows Server
3 52 (1.26%) Linux
4 17 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
7 4 (0.097%) Debian
8 3 (0.073%) Android
9 2 (0.049%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.049%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.024%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.024%) Solaris
10 1 (0.024%) Unix
10 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,182 (28.68%) Service Delivery
2 1,128 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
3 837 (20.31%) Artificial Intelligence
4 786 (19.07%) Machine Learning
5 740 (17.96%) Generative AI
6 735 (17.84%) LLM
6 735 (17.84%) Red Team
7 540 (13.10%) Data Privacy
8 442 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 413 (10.02%) ERP
10 350 (8.49%) Mathematics
11 308 (7.47%) CAD
12 286 (6.94%) Project Management
13 272 (6.60%) Coaching
14 251 (6.09%) Physics
15 216 (5.24%) Mentoring
16 179 (4.34%) Agile
17 167 (4.05%) Business Intelligence
18 163 (3.96%) Customer Service
19 158 (3.83%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 152 (3.69%) SQL
2 102 (2.48%) Python
3 59 (1.43%) C#
4 41 (0.99%) C
4 41 (0.99%) C++
5 40 (0.97%) JavaScript
6 31 (0.75%) TypeScript
7 25 (0.61%) Java
8 18 (0.44%) ABAP
9 17 (0.41%) Progress 4GL
10 13 (0.32%) PHP
10 13 (0.32%) R
10 13 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 12 (0.29%) PowerShell
12 11 (0.27%) MATLAB
13 10 (0.24%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.24%) VB
14 7 (0.17%) C-shell
14 7 (0.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1,736 (42.13%) Degree
2 1,062 (25.77%) NVQ Level 3
3 513 (12.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 209 (5.07%) HND
5 118 (2.86%) Master's Degree
6 114 (2.77%) Chartered Engineer
7 99 (2.40%) NVQ Level 4
8 92 (2.23%) HNC
9 77 (1.87%) Numerate Degree
10 44 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 43 (1.04%) Security Cleared
12 30 (0.73%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.68%) PMP
14 27 (0.66%) DV Cleared
15 22 (0.53%) CISA
15 22 (0.53%) ISACA
15 22 (0.53%) SC Cleared
16 21 (0.51%) CISSP
17 20 (0.49%) PhD
18 13 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (4.80%) QA
2 88 (2.14%) ISO 9001
3 80 (1.94%) AQAP
4 63 (1.53%) GMP
5 31 (0.75%) NEBOSH
6 29 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 29 (0.70%) GDPR
7 23 (0.56%) SLA
8 22 (0.53%) ITGC
9 17 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (0.34%) Accessibility
11 14 (0.34%) Data Quality
12 12 (0.29%) GxP
13 10 (0.24%) NIST
14 8 (0.19%) GLP
15 7 (0.17%) PMO
16 4 (0.097%) GRC
17 2 (0.049%) PCI DSS
17 2 (0.049%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 35 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (0.75%) Docker
4 17 (0.41%) Firmware
5 16 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.12%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.024%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.024%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (0.87%) Kubernetes
1 36 (0.87%) Terraform
2 13 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.29%) Grafana
3 12 (0.29%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.17%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.15%) Ansible
5 6 (0.15%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.12%) Kustomize
7 4 (0.097%) SCCM
8 3 (0.073%) BMC PATROL
8 3 (0.073%) Packer
9 2 (0.049%) Wonderware InTouch
10 1 (0.024%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.024%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.024%) Kibana
10 1 (0.024%) Marathon
10 1 (0.024%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (0.024%) QRadar
Vendors
1 776 (18.83%) Google
2 742 (18.01%) Adobe
3 740 (17.96%) Databricks
4 376 (9.12%) Microsoft
5 322 (7.81%) SAP
6 154 (3.74%) Siemens
7 70 (1.70%) Rockwell
8 57 (1.38%) Oracle
9 49 (1.19%) VMware
10 48 (1.16%) EMC
11 25 (0.61%) Sage
12 23 (0.56%) Cisco
13 21 (0.51%) Salesforce
14 18 (0.44%) Progress
15 15 (0.36%) Veeam
16 14 (0.34%) Fortinet
16 14 (0.34%) NEC
17 13 (0.32%) Infor
18 11 (0.27%) Allen-Bradley
18 11 (0.27%) Ariba