Manufacturing Jobs in the South West

Manufacturing
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 51 102
Rank change year-on-year +10 +51 -36
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 192 417 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.53% 4.33% 3.05%
As % of the General category 8.63% 8.19% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 100 284 128
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £34,688 £32,159 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -22.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £69,063
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,793 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.76% -18.18% +10.00%

All General Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,225 5,089 4,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 64.07% 52.80% 63.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 3,454 2,331
10th Percentile £25,267 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £33,500 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.45% +3.05%
75th Percentile £63,908 £60,918 £67,070
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,121 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -12.50% -

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the South West

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Manufacturing in the South West

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the South West over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in the South West

Manufacturing
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Bristol +18 47 £50,250 -8.64% 95
Devon +20 34 £46,000 +18.71% 36
Wiltshire +8 33 £40,000 -11.11% 24
Gloucestershire +7 30 £51,250 +36.67% 111
Somerset +8 20 £70,000 +47.37% 61
Dorset -3 18 £32,500 -23.53% 24
Cornwall -3 8 £50,000 +53.85% 11
Manufacturing
England

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 13 (6.77%) OpenEdge
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.52%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 23 (11.98%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.08%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (1.04%) Revit
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (7.81%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (3.13%) Sprinklr
3 5 (2.60%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.04%) SAP EWM
4 2 (1.04%) SAP PP
4 2 (1.04%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.52%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.94%) Azure
2 19 (9.90%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (9.38%) AWS
4 5 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (2.60%) Amazon S3
4 5 (2.60%) Entra ID
4 5 (2.60%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (2.08%) Serverless
6 3 (1.56%) SaaS
7 2 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.04%) Matillion
7 2 (1.04%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.52%) GCP
8 1 (0.52%) OCI
8 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.50%) Firewall
2 19 (9.90%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (7.81%) SAN
4 14 (7.29%) VoIP
5 10 (5.21%) MPLS
5 10 (5.21%) VLAN
6 8 (4.17%) WAN
7 7 (3.65%) SD-WAN
8 5 (2.60%) Internet
9 4 (2.08%) LAN
10 2 (1.04%) DHCP
10 2 (1.04%) DNS
10 2 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.04%) SSL
10 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.52%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.52%) Network Security
11 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.52%) VPN
11 1 (0.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.60%) Power BI
4 4 (2.08%) Data Mining
4 4 (2.08%) MySQL
4 4 (2.08%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.52%) Big Data
7 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.52%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (2.08%) LabVIEW
2 3 (1.56%) Git
3 2 (1.04%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.52%) CMake
4 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.52%) Subversion
4 1 (0.52%) WiX
General
1 39 (20.31%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.15%) Finance
3 27 (14.06%) Electronics
4 20 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.90%) Marketing
6 15 (7.81%) Pharmaceutical
7 14 (7.29%) Telecoms
8 13 (6.77%) Public Sector
9 11 (5.73%) Aerospace
10 10 (5.21%) Legal
11 9 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (4.69%) Retail
12 8 (4.17%) Automotive
13 5 (2.60%) Advertising
14 4 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.56%) Games
15 3 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (1.04%) Aviation
16 2 (1.04%) Local Government
16 2 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (16.15%) Technical Support
2 26 (13.54%) Support Technician
3 23 (11.98%) Developer
4 18 (9.38%) ERP Developer
4 18 (9.38%) Progress Developer
5 15 (7.81%) Analyst
5 15 (7.81%) Coordinator
5 15 (7.81%) Help Desk Coordinator
6 11 (5.73%) Senior
7 10 (5.21%) Administrator
8 9 (4.69%) IT Support
8 9 (4.69%) Systems Administrator
9 8 (4.17%) Lead
10 7 (3.65%) Architect
10 7 (3.65%) Infrastructure Manager
10 7 (3.65%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.65%) QA Manager
10 7 (3.65%) Quality Manager
11 6 (3.13%) Business Analyst
12 5 (2.60%) IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.08%) Node.js
2 3 (1.56%) Laravel
2 3 (1.56%) Symfony
3 2 (1.04%) HTML
3 2 (1.04%) Middleware
3 2 (1.04%) Spring
3 2 (1.04%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.52%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.52%) CSS
4 1 (0.52%) CSS3
4 1 (0.52%) EDI
4 1 (0.52%) HTML5
4 1 (0.52%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.52%) Qt
4 1 (0.52%) React
4 1 (0.52%) RESTful
4 1 (0.52%) Vue
4 1 (0.52%) Web Services
4 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.42%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (5.21%) CCTV
3 9 (4.69%) Renewable Energy
4 8 (4.17%) IoT
5 7 (3.65%) Operational Technology
6 6 (3.13%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.60%) FMCG
8 4 (2.08%) Analogue Electronics
8 4 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.08%) Robotics
8 4 (2.08%) SCADA
9 3 (1.56%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.04%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (1.04%) Social Media
11 1 (0.52%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (23.44%) Windows
2 22 (11.46%) Linux
3 21 (10.94%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.21%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (23.44%) Customer Service
3 44 (22.92%) ERP
4 36 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (14.06%) Service Delivery
6 26 (13.54%) Coaching
7 24 (12.50%) Customer Experience
7 24 (12.50%) Technical Analysis
8 20 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (9.90%) Time Management
10 15 (7.81%) Virtual Environments
11 14 (7.29%) Agile
11 14 (7.29%) Mentoring
12 13 (6.77%) Digital Marketing
12 13 (6.77%) Logistics
12 13 (6.77%) Process Improvement
12 13 (6.77%) Programme Management
12 13 (6.77%) Project Delivery
13 12 (6.25%) Computer Science
14 10 (5.21%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.42%) SQL
2 18 (9.38%) Progress 4GL
3 11 (5.73%) Python
4 7 (3.65%) C
5 5 (2.60%) Java
6 4 (2.08%) Embedded C
6 4 (2.08%) PHP
6 4 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.56%) C++
8 2 (1.04%) Bash
8 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.04%) VBA
8 2 (1.04%) X++
9 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (19.79%) Degree
2 24 (12.50%) NVQ Level 4
3 17 (8.85%) Security Cleared
4 11 (5.73%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.65%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.56%) CCNA
7 3 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.04%) CCNP
8 2 (1.04%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.52%) CISSP
9 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.52%) ISEB
9 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.52%) MBA
9 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.90%) SLA
2 15 (7.81%) QA
3 12 (6.25%) GMP
4 7 (3.65%) GLP
5 4 (2.08%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.04%) GDPR
7 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 19 (9.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.21%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.60%) Docker
5 2 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.60%) BMC PATROL
2 5 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.56%) SCCM
3 3 (1.56%) Terraform
4 2 (1.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 57 (29.69%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.54%) SAP
3 21 (10.94%) VMware
4 18 (9.38%) Progress
5 10 (5.21%) Google
5 10 (5.21%) Veeam
6 7 (3.65%) Cisco
6 7 (3.65%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.13%) NEC
8 5 (2.60%) Aruba
8 5 (2.60%) Okta
9 4 (2.08%) Citrix
10 3 (1.56%) IFS
10 3 (1.56%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.04%) NetApp
12 1 (0.52%) Adobe
12 1 (0.52%) Apple
12 1 (0.52%) Ariba
12 1 (0.52%) Informatica
12 1 (0.52%) Siemens