Manufacturing Jobs in the South East

Manufacturing
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 45 64
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 +65
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 633 613 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.84% 4.29% 4.50%
As % of the General category 8.97% 8.11% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 209 328 202
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £52,500 £64,714
90th Percentile £76,500 £70,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,054 7,557 6,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 65.05% 52.86% 61.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,290 4,165 3,725
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the South East

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Manufacturing in the South East

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the South East over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in the South East

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 Manufacturing within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 August 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 +22 312 £55,000 +29.41% 219
Buckinghamshire +33 184 £45,000 +20.00% 43
East Sussex +56 113 £55,000 +10.00% 16
Berkshire +49 99 £53,000 +17.78% 82
Hampshire -18 91 £40,000 -5.44% 87
Surrey +3 44 £40,000 -6.43% 34
Kent -15 37 £42,500 - 30
Oxfordshire -18 29 £62,500 +38.89% 100
Isle of Wight -51 21 £55,320 +30.16% 6
West Sussex -17 8 £47,500 -32.14% 15
Sussex +19 4 £42,500 -29.17% 17
Manufacturing
England

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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (1.42%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.16%) Confluence
3 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.16%) WinCC
Applications
1 24 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.63%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.47%) Windchill
6 1 (0.16%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.16%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.16%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (6.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.37%) NetSuite
3 11 (1.74%) Sage 200
3 11 (1.74%) Sage CRM
4 5 (0.79%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.79%) SAP PP
5 4 (0.63%) Sage 1000
6 3 (0.47%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 3 (0.47%) SAP EHS
7 2 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.16%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.16%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 26 (4.11%) Azure
2 15 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (2.05%) Power Platform
4 9 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (1.11%) SaaS
6 6 (0.95%) AWS
7 5 (0.79%) Collibra
7 5 (0.79%) Entra ID
7 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.63%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.63%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.32%) GitHub
9 2 (0.32%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.16%) Boomi
10 1 (0.16%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.16%) GCP
10 1 (0.16%) IaaS
10 1 (0.16%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.16%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.74%) Wireless
2 10 (1.58%) VPN
3 9 (1.42%) Ethernet
4 8 (1.26%) Modbus
4 8 (1.26%) MQTT
5 7 (1.11%) Firewall
6 5 (0.79%) 802.11
6 5 (0.79%) LAN
6 5 (0.79%) LTE
6 5 (0.79%) VSAT
7 4 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.63%) Network Security
8 3 (0.47%) DHCP
8 3 (0.47%) DNS
8 3 (0.47%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.32%) RS-485
10 1 (0.16%) HTTP
10 1 (0.16%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.16%) VoIP
10 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.05%) Power BI
1 13 (2.05%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.11%) Relational Database
3 5 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (0.47%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.16%) Big Data
5 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.16%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.16%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (1.90%) Git
2 9 (1.42%) JIRA
3 4 (0.63%) Subversion
4 2 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.32%) JMeter
4 2 (0.32%) Robot Framework
General
1 249 (39.34%) Retail
2 114 (18.01%) Social Skills
3 94 (14.85%) Finance
4 82 (12.95%) Electronics
5 64 (10.11%) Dutch Language
5 64 (10.11%) Finnish Language
5 64 (10.11%) Norwegian Language
6 57 (9.00%) Marketing
7 39 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
8 29 (4.58%) Aerospace
9 28 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (3.16%) Automotive
11 17 (2.69%) Public Sector
12 16 (2.53%) Catalan Language
12 16 (2.53%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.11%) Aviation
16 7 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 240 (37.91%) Trainer
2 51 (8.06%) Senior
3 50 (7.90%) Designer
3 50 (7.90%) PCB Designer
4 36 (5.69%) Lead
5 34 (5.37%) Analyst
5 34 (5.37%) Electronics Engineer
6 31 (4.90%) Design Engineer
7 26 (4.11%) Electronics Design Engineer
8 25 (3.95%) PCB Design Engineer
8 25 (3.95%) PCB Engineer
9 24 (3.79%) Associate Engineer
9 24 (3.79%) SAP Analyst
9 24 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
10 21 (3.32%) Support Engineer
10 21 (3.32%) Technical Engineer
11 19 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
11 19 (3.00%) Technical Support
12 18 (2.84%) Software Engineer
12 18 (2.84%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.74%) .NET
2 7 (1.11%) CSS
2 7 (1.11%) Middleware
3 5 (0.79%) 802.1X
3 5 (0.79%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.63%) EDI
4 4 (0.63%) HTML
5 3 (0.47%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.47%) REST
6 2 (0.32%) Entity Framework
6 2 (0.32%) Playwright
6 2 (0.32%) SAP XI
7 1 (0.16%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.16%) Material Design
7 1 (0.16%) Mongoose
7 1 (0.16%) Node-RED
7 1 (0.16%) OpenEmbedded
7 1 (0.16%) PySpark
7 1 (0.16%) SAP Basis
7 1 (0.16%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 247 (39.02%) Robotics
2 60 (9.48%) FPGA
3 30 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 24 (3.79%) SCADA
5 23 (3.63%) Renewable Energy
5 23 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (3.00%) Operational Technology
7 17 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.53%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 11 (1.74%) Biopharmaceutical
10 10 (1.58%) Industry 4.0
10 10 (1.58%) IoT
10 10 (1.58%) Life Science
11 8 (1.26%) FMCG
12 7 (1.11%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.11%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
13 4 (0.63%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.63%) CPLD
13 4 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.27%) Windows
2 18 (2.84%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.63%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.47%) Linux
4 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.32%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (51.82%) Problem-Solving
2 255 (40.28%) Artificial Intelligence
3 244 (38.55%) Machine Learning
4 240 (37.91%) Generative AI
4 240 (37.91%) LLM
4 240 (37.91%) Red Team
5 177 (27.96%) Data Privacy
6 54 (8.53%) ERP
7 50 (7.90%) FPGA Design
8 44 (6.95%) Business Intelligence
9 38 (6.00%) Quality Management
10 37 (5.85%) Logistics
10 37 (5.85%) Mentoring
10 37 (5.85%) User Acceptance Testing
11 36 (5.69%) Data Management
12 35 (5.53%) Project Management
13 31 (4.90%) Technical Leadership
14 29 (4.58%) Customer Service
14 29 (4.58%) Schematic Capture
14 29 (4.58%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 36 (5.69%) SQL
2 25 (3.95%) C#
3 19 (3.00%) Python
4 10 (1.58%) C++
5 8 (1.26%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.11%) C
7 6 (0.95%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.79%) VB.NET
9 4 (0.63%) Assembly Language
9 4 (0.63%) VBA
10 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.32%) R
10 2 (0.32%) X++
11 1 (0.16%) Bash
11 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 344 (54.34%) Degree
2 87 (13.74%) HND
3 55 (8.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (4.42%) Security Cleared
5 17 (2.69%) SC Cleared
6 16 (2.53%) HNC
7 14 (2.21%) Chartered Engineer
7 14 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.58%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.11%) CCNA
10 7 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.79%) GCSC
11 5 (0.79%) JNCIA
11 5 (0.79%) MBA
12 4 (0.63%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.47%) PMP
14 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.06%) ISO 9001
2 6 (0.95%) Data Quality
2 6 (0.95%) QA
3 5 (0.79%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 5 (0.79%) PMO
4 3 (0.47%) GRC
4 3 (0.47%) GxP
4 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.16%) ECSS
5 1 (0.16%) GLP
5 1 (0.16%) GMP
5 1 (0.16%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.16%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (2.05%) Firmware
2 12 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.58%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.95%) FortiGate
2 6 (0.95%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 242 (38.23%) Databricks
2 240 (37.91%) Adobe
2 240 (37.91%) Google
3 62 (9.79%) SAP
4 48 (7.58%) Microsoft
5 30 (4.74%) EMC
6 20 (3.16%) Siemens
7 16 (2.53%) Sage
8 15 (2.37%) VMware
9 14 (2.21%) Rockwell
10 7 (1.11%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.95%) AVEVA
12 5 (0.79%) Allen-Bradley
12 5 (0.79%) Freshdesk
12 5 (0.79%) Informatica
13 4 (0.63%) Agilent
13 4 (0.63%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.63%) Infor
13 4 (0.63%) Oracle
14 3 (0.47%) JD Edwards