Industry 4.0 Job Trends in Merseyside

Industry 4.0
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Industry 4.0 in permanent job vacancies in Merseyside. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Industry 4.0 over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Industry 4.0 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.080% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,587 - -
North West median annual salary £40,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.94% -15.00%

All Generic Skills
Merseyside

Industry 4.0 falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 235 234 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 18.74% 43.82% 27.24%
Number of salaries quoted 150 84 187
10th Percentile £28,475 £25,455 £27,300
25th Percentile £34,550 £30,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,051 £43,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% -14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £71,250 £60,625 £66,875
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,954
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.58% -7.91%

Industry 4.0
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Industry 4.0 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Industry 4.0 job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Industry 4.0
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node-RED
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Innovation
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering