Design for Manufacturing Jobs in the South East

Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Design for Manufacturing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Design for Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 370 393
Rank change year-on-year +105 +23 +83
Permanent jobs citing Design for Manufacturing 36 26 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.38% 0.15% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.18% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +19.05% +3.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £53,750
90th Percentile - £72,500 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% +14.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Design for Manufacturing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,814 14,237 13,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.85% 84.30% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,314 9,877 7,859
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Design for Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Design for Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Design for Manufacturing in the South East

Design for Manufacturing
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design for Manufacturing in the South East.

Salary trend for Design for Manufacturing in the South East

Design for Manufacturing
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design for Manufacturing within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Thames Valley +65 33 £70,000 +12.00% 18
Buckinghamshire +56 31 - - 4
Oxfordshire +36 2 £70,000 +28.44% 9
West Sussex - 2 - - 2
East Sussex - 1 - -
Design for Manufacturing
England

Design for Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.78%) RS-485
General
1 36 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 34 (94.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.56%) Electronics
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (94.44%) Senior
2 1 (2.78%) Design Engineer
2 1 (2.78%) Digital Design Engineer
2 1 (2.78%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (2.78%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
2 1 (2.78%) FPGA Design Engineer
2 1 (2.78%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (2.78%) FPGA/VHDL Design Engineer
2 1 (2.78%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (2.78%) VHDL Design Engineer
2 1 (2.78%) VHDL Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) FPGA
1 2 (5.56%) VHDL
2 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.78%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (97.22%) Mentoring
2 34 (94.44%) CAD
3 1 (2.78%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (2.78%) Design for Test
3 1 (2.78%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (2.78%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (2.78%) Motion Capture
3 1 (2.78%) Programme Management
3 1 (2.78%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (2.78%) Signal Processing
3 1 (2.78%) Validation
Qualifications
1 36 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (94.44%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (2.78%) Altera
1 1 (2.78%) EMC
1 1 (2.78%) Freescale
1 1 (2.78%) SAP