Manufacturing Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Manufacturing
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 28 14
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 +20
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 2 7 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 1.21% 5.65% 9.20%
As % of the General category 3.51% 6.93% 17.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £27,125 £28,950 -
25th Percentile £28,438 £32,875 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,250 £45,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% +50.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £33,438 £47,500 £32,500
90th Percentile £34,375 £48,500 -
Staffordshire median annual salary £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -10.00% +25.00%

All General Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 general skills in Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 57 101 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 34.55% 81.45% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 29 75 74
10th Percentile £26,824 £30,000 £21,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £25,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -28.21%
75th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £66,750 £56,300 £61,250
Staffordshire median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -15.79%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Manufacturing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Manufacturing job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Manufacturing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support
2 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB
1 1 (50.00%) VBA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Symantec