Production Planning Job Trends in the South East

Production Planning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Production Planning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 346 280
Rank change year-on-year +69 -66 +196
Permanent jobs citing Production Planning 11 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.12% 0.016% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.019% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £67,000 - -
25th Percentile £70,000 £99,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £103,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +37.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £106,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £81,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% +14.29% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Production Planning 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 7,851 10,294 7,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 88.23% 81.42% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,192 5,500 5,604
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,975 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £66,433 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +2.50%

Production Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Production Planning in the South East

Production Planning
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Production Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Production Planning

Production Planning
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 Production Planning within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Berkshire - 6 - - 1
Thames Valley - 6 - - 1
Surrey - 5 £75,000 -
Production Planning
England

Production Planning
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:

Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) SAP IBP
1 5 (45.45%) SAP PP
1 5 (45.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (27.27%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
1 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) SAP BW
2 6 (54.55%) Data Lake
2 6 (54.55%) Power BI
General
1 5 (45.45%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (45.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
1 6 (54.55%) Report Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SAP PP Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Analytics
1 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Data Cleansing
1 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
1 6 (54.55%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 6 (54.55%) Decision-Making
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (45.45%) Quality Management
2 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
3 3 (27.27%) OOD
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) SAP