Manufacturing Jobs in Staffordshire

Manufacturing
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies in Staffordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 23 41
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 -9
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 105 71 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 16.99% 6.55% 5.07%
As % of the General category 33.44% 11.85% 7.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4 31 13
10th Percentile £40,250 £29,000 £30,732
25th Percentile £48,125 £30,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -17.65% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £50,875 £48,750
90th Percentile - £53,750 £51,108
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -28.00% +35.87%

All General Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 314 599 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 50.81% 55.26% 69.79%
Number of salaries quoted 130 417 255
10th Percentile £26,700 £23,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.51% -3.89%
75th Percentile £53,688 £56,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,096 £62,500 £67,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +10.53%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in Staffordshire

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

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

Salary trend for Manufacturing in Staffordshire

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in Staffordshire

Manufacturing
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Lichfield +3 16 £55,000 -24.14% 2
Cannock +16 15 - -
Rugeley 0 15 - -
Leek - 15 - -
Burntwood - 15 - -
Burton-upon-Trent - 15 - -
Tamworth +19 6 - - 3
Stafford 0 4 £60,000 +71.43% 5
Stoke-on-Trent -6 1 £40,000 +33.33% 59
Manufacturing
West Midlands

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 3 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (1.90%) Azure
3 1 (0.95%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) Firewall
2 3 (2.86%) VPN
3 1 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.95%) DHCP
3 1 (0.95%) DNS
3 1 (0.95%) LAN
3 1 (0.95%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.95%) WAN
3 1 (0.95%) Wireless
3 1 (0.95%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.95%) Big Data
1 1 (0.95%) Power BI
1 1 (0.95%) Power Query
1 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.95%) Tableau
General
1 90 (85.71%) Retail
2 24 (22.86%) Dutch Language
2 24 (22.86%) Finnish Language
2 24 (22.86%) Norwegian Language
3 7 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.71%) Catalan Language
5 1 (0.95%) Finance
5 1 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 90 (85.71%) Trainer
2 2 (1.90%) Control Systems Engineer
2 2 (1.90%) IT Engineer
2 2 (1.90%) Project Engineer
2 2 (1.90%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (0.95%) Analyst
3 1 (0.95%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (0.95%) Data Analyst
3 1 (0.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (0.95%) IT Manager
3 1 (0.95%) Senior
3 1 (0.95%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (0.95%) Senior Data Analyst
3 1 (0.95%) Software Engineer
3 1 (0.95%) Support Engineer
3 1 (0.95%) Test Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.95%) .NET
1 1 (0.95%) .NET Core
1 1 (0.95%) ASP.NET
1 1 (0.95%) REST
1 1 (0.95%) WCF
1 1 (0.95%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 90 (85.71%) Robotics
2 3 (2.86%) Operational Technology
2 3 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
3 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.86%) Windows
1 3 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (86.67%) Machine Learning
2 90 (85.71%) Artificial Intelligence
2 90 (85.71%) Generative AI
2 90 (85.71%) LLM
2 90 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (85.71%) Red Team
3 66 (62.86%) Data Privacy
4 6 (5.71%) Biochemistry
4 6 (5.71%) Biology
4 6 (5.71%) Chemistry
5 5 (4.76%) Service Delivery
6 4 (3.81%) ITIL
7 3 (2.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (2.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (1.90%) ERP
8 2 (1.90%) Project Delivery
9 1 (0.95%) Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.95%) Project Management
9 1 (0.95%) Scrum
9 1 (0.95%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.95%) C#
1 1 (0.95%) Python
1 1 (0.95%) SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (86.67%) Degree
2 5 (4.76%) NVQ Level 3
3 1 (0.95%) CCNA
3 1 (0.95%) CCNP
3 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.86%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 90 (85.71%) Adobe
1 90 (85.71%) Databricks
1 90 (85.71%) Google
2 5 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.86%) Apple
3 3 (2.86%) Dell
3 3 (2.86%) HP
3 3 (2.86%) Sophos
3 3 (2.86%) Veeam
3 3 (2.86%) VMware
4 1 (0.95%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.95%) Cisco
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle
4 1 (0.95%) Peregrine
4 1 (0.95%) Remedy
4 1 (0.95%) SAP
4 1 (0.95%) Tagetik