Manufacturing Jobs in Oxfordshire

Manufacturing
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies in Oxfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 31 69
Rank change year-on-year +19 +38 -29
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 95 93 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 12.68% 5.54% 3.66%
As % of the General category 17.59% 9.88% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 15 60 14
10th Percentile £32,650 - £27,300
25th Percentile £38,625 £31,250 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £44,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.07% -15.24% -1.87%
75th Percentile £71,250 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,500 £57,500 -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £42,300 £52,500
% change year-on-year +53.66% -19.43% -

All General Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 540 941 975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 72.10% 56.08% 63.81%
Number of salaries quoted 179 731 404
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £25,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,750 £29,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,293 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -2.03% -7.07%
75th Percentile £70,000 £59,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.42%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Oxfordshire

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Manufacturing in Oxfordshire

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in Oxfordshire

Manufacturing
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Oxford +13 34 £65,000 +18.18% 24
Henley-on-Thames - 24 - -
Witney +17 1 £70,000 +288.89% 7
Bicester -2 1 £130,000 +300.00% 4
Wantage - 1 - -
Manufacturing
South East

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 6 (6.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Zemax
2 1 (1.05%) Blender
2 1 (1.05%) CATIA
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.05%) SAP Business ByDesign
2 1 (1.05%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.05%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.37%) AWS
2 6 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (6.32%) Amazon ECR
2 6 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (6.32%) Amazon S3
2 6 (6.32%) Slack
2 6 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (2.11%) Azure
4 1 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.05%) GCP
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.05%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.32%) MongoDB
1 6 (6.32%) MySQL
2 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.05%) Power BI
2 1 (1.05%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Git
1 6 (6.32%) GitLab
1 6 (6.32%) JIRA
General
1 15 (15.79%) Electronics
2 13 (13.68%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.16%) Finance
5 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.05%) Automotive
5 1 (1.05%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.05%) Legal
5 1 (1.05%) Marketing
5 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (11.58%) Software Engineer
2 8 (8.42%) Support Technician
2 8 (8.42%) Technical Support
3 6 (6.32%) Developer
4 5 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
4 5 (5.26%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (5.26%) Software Developer
5 4 (4.21%) Technical Manager
6 3 (3.16%) Design Engineer
6 3 (3.16%) Electronics Engineer
6 3 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (2.11%) Associate Engineer
7 2 (2.11%) Business Development Manager
7 2 (2.11%) Business Manager
7 2 (2.11%) Development Manager
7 2 (2.11%) Electronics Design Engineer
7 2 (2.11%) PCB Design Engineer
7 2 (2.11%) PCB Engineer
8 1 (1.05%) FPGA/VHDL Design Engineer
8 1 (1.05%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.32%) Django
1 6 (6.32%) Flask
1 6 (6.32%) Lambda Expressions
1 6 (6.32%) React
2 1 (1.05%) PySpark
2 1 (1.05%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.58%) Molecular Biology
2 6 (6.32%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.11%) FPGA
4 2 (2.11%) LIMS
4 2 (2.11%) VHDL
5 1 (1.05%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.26%) Debian
1 5 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (63.16%) Service Delivery
2 12 (12.63%) Coaching
2 12 (12.63%) Software Engineering
3 11 (11.58%) Biology
3 11 (11.58%) Commercialisation
3 11 (11.58%) Disruptive Innovation
3 11 (11.58%) Informatics
4 9 (9.47%) Customer Service
5 8 (8.42%) Customer Experience
5 8 (8.42%) Technical Analysis
6 7 (7.37%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (7.37%) Systems Engineering
7 6 (6.32%) Batch Processing
7 6 (6.32%) Code Quality
7 6 (6.32%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (6.32%) Sprint Planning
8 5 (5.26%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (5.26%) Customer Analysis
8 5 (5.26%) Open Source
8 5 (5.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.79%) Python
2 6 (6.32%) JavaScript
2 6 (6.32%) TypeScript
3 3 (3.16%) C
3 3 (3.16%) C++
3 3 (3.16%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.05%) ABAP
4 1 (1.05%) SQL
4 1 (1.05%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (54.74%) NVQ Level 3
2 13 (13.68%) Degree
3 12 (12.63%) NVQ Level 4
4 9 (9.47%) Master's Degree
5 5 (5.26%) PhD
6 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.11%) HND
7 1 (1.05%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) ECSS
2 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.32%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.32%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 6 (6.32%) Sawtooth Software
2 3 (3.16%) EMC
2 3 (3.16%) SAP
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.05%) Alias
4 1 (1.05%) Altera
4 1 (1.05%) Databricks
4 1 (1.05%) Freescale