Manufacturing Jobs in Northern Ireland

Manufacturing
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 9 21 82
Rank change year-on-year +12 +61 -49
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 30 64 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 11.67% 8.58% 2.40%
As % of the General category 14.93% 17.34% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 10 32 16
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60,000 £37,500 £47,500
90th Percentile - £42,720 £50,625
UK median annual salary £54,793 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.76% -18.18% +10.00%

All General Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 201 369 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 78.21% 49.46% 58.01%
Number of salaries quoted 47 181 185
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,250 £33,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £69,125 £62,200 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,833 £87,500 £75,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Northern Ireland

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Manufacturing in Northern Ireland

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in Northern Ireland

Manufacturing
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim +11 16 £55,000 +57.14% 72
County Londonderry -2 6 £30,000 - 1
County Armagh +2 4 £30,000 - 1
County Down -1 3 - -
County Tyrone +6 1 - - 2
Manufacturing
UK

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (16.67%) nginx
1 5 (16.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Maximo
1 5 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (16.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 5 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 5 (16.67%) JUnit
1 5 (16.67%) Maven
1 5 (16.67%) Mockito
1 5 (16.67%) Postman
1 5 (16.67%) Selenium
1 5 (16.67%) SonarQube
1 5 (16.67%) TestNG
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (16.67%) Retail
5 4 (13.33%) Marketing
6 3 (10.00%) Aerospace
6 3 (10.00%) Electronics
6 3 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) QA Officer
5 1 (3.33%) Compliance Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) IT Security Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Security Compliance Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Security Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Senior
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (16.67%) Gherkin
1 5 (16.67%) Guice
1 5 (16.67%) JAX-RS
1 5 (16.67%) Kafka
1 5 (16.67%) Mustache
1 5 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 5 (16.67%) REST
1 5 (16.67%) RESTful
1 5 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
1 5 (16.67%) SAPUI5
1 5 (16.67%) Spring
1 5 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 5 (16.67%) Swagger
1 5 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) FMCG
1 5 (16.67%) Life Science
1 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 5 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.33%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
2 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 5 (16.67%) BDD
3 5 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 5 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 5 (16.67%) Change Management
3 5 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
3 5 (16.67%) ERP
3 5 (16.67%) Logistics
3 5 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 5 (16.67%) MVC
3 5 (16.67%) OO
3 5 (16.67%) OOP
3 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 5 (16.67%) Product Management
3 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (10.00%) GMP
2 3 (10.00%) ISO 9001
2 3 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) ISO 14001
3 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Ansible
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (16.67%) Kustomize
1 5 (16.67%) Packer
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) SAP
2 5 (16.67%) Google
2 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft