Manufacturing Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Manufacturing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 4 46
Rank change year-on-year -39 +42 +59
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 186 667 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.27% 19.62% 4.70%
As % of the General category 7.40% 25.19% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 140 72 141
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,375 £31,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £84,750 £67,000
South East median annual salary £53,750 £58,750 £42,300
% change year-on-year -8.51% +38.89% -19.43%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,515 2,648 3,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 44.25% 77.91% 53.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,584 776 2,193
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,353 £35,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £60,323
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,800 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £50,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.50% +5.79% -9.52%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Manufacturing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Manufacturing job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Manufacturing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Manufacturing

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in the Thames Valley

Manufacturing
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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
Oxfordshire -5 82 £60,000 -7.69% 35
Berkshire -50 56 £70,000 +27.27% 18
Buckinghamshire -43 48 £50,000 -16.67% 15
Manufacturing
South East

Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.54%) Resin
Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (4.84%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.54%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.54%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 25 (13.44%) Azure
2 17 (9.14%) Power Platform
3 14 (7.53%) AWS
4 8 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.23%) SaaS
6 3 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (1.61%) GCP
7 2 (1.08%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.08%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.54%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.54%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.54%) GitHub
8 1 (0.54%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.54%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.76%) DNS
2 5 (2.69%) DHCP
2 5 (2.69%) Modbus
3 4 (2.15%) Firewall
3 4 (2.15%) MQTT
3 4 (2.15%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.08%) SSL
5 1 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.54%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.54%) RS-232
5 1 (0.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.14%) Power BI
2 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.08%) SAP BW
2 2 (1.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.54%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.69%) GitLab
2 3 (1.61%) LabVIEW
3 2 (1.08%) Git
4 1 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.54%) Subversion
4 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (21.51%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.90%) Finance
4 23 (12.37%) Aerospace
5 12 (6.45%) Electronics
6 10 (5.38%) Agriculture
7 9 (4.84%) Retail
8 4 (2.15%) Automotive
9 3 (1.61%) Legal
9 3 (1.61%) Marketing
9 3 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Aeronautics
10 2 (1.08%) Law
11 1 (0.54%) Advertising
11 1 (0.54%) Aviation
11 1 (0.54%) Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Games
11 1 (0.54%) Military
11 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (18.82%) Software Engineer
2 20 (10.75%) Business Development Manager
2 20 (10.75%) Business Manager
2 20 (10.75%) Development Manager
3 17 (9.14%) Lead
4 15 (8.06%) C# Software Engineer
4 15 (8.06%) Developer
5 13 (6.99%) Senior
6 12 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 12 (6.45%) IT Manager
6 12 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (5.91%) Programmer
8 10 (5.38%) Business Developer
8 10 (5.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 10 (5.38%) C++ Software Engineer
8 10 (5.38%) Power BI Developer
8 10 (5.38%) Python Engineer
8 10 (5.38%) Python Software Engineer
8 10 (5.38%) Senior C# Software Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) IT Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.91%) .NET
2 10 (5.38%) WPF
3 9 (4.84%) SAP CO-PA
4 5 (2.69%) Blazor
5 4 (2.15%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.61%) RESTful
7 1 (0.54%) Django
7 1 (0.54%) gRPC
7 1 (0.54%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.54%) LangChain
7 1 (0.54%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.54%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.54%) Next.js
7 1 (0.54%) Node.js
7 1 (0.54%) NumPy
7 1 (0.54%) Pandas
7 1 (0.54%) Qt
7 1 (0.54%) REST
7 1 (0.54%) SAPUI5
7 1 (0.54%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (2.69%) IoT
2 5 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (2.69%) Life Science
2 5 (2.69%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 5 (2.69%) SCADA
2 5 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (2.69%) Virtual Team
3 4 (2.15%) 3D Printing
3 4 (2.15%) Arduino
4 3 (1.61%) Client/Server
4 3 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.61%) FMCG
4 3 (1.61%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.61%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.61%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.45%) Linux
1 12 (6.45%) Windows
2 4 (2.15%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.08%) Android
3 2 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (26.88%) Software Engineering
2 34 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (12.37%) Decision-Making
4 22 (11.83%) Business Development
4 22 (11.83%) Computer Science
5 21 (11.29%) Visualisation
6 17 (9.14%) Analytics
6 17 (9.14%) ERP
7 16 (8.60%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (8.06%) Agile
8 15 (8.06%) Data Integration
8 15 (8.06%) Machine Learning
9 14 (7.53%) Data Visualisation
10 12 (6.45%) Business Strategy
10 12 (6.45%) Design Patterns
11 11 (5.91%) CI/CD
11 11 (5.91%) Data Analytics
11 11 (5.91%) ETL
11 11 (5.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (13.44%) Python
2 22 (11.83%) C#
3 18 (9.68%) SQL
4 12 (6.45%) C++
5 10 (5.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (3.76%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.23%) C
7 6 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.69%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.15%) Bash
10 3 (1.61%) Java
10 3 (1.61%) Pascal
11 2 (1.08%) Go
12 1 (0.54%) ABAP
12 1 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (23.66%) Degree
2 15 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.53%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.84%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.23%) HNC
7 5 (2.69%) PhD
8 4 (2.15%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.08%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.08%) MCSE
9 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.08%) PMP
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.54%) CCNP
10 1 (0.54%) CCSE
10 1 (0.54%) CCSM
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.91%) QA
2 10 (5.38%) GDPR
3 3 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.61%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.61%) PMO
3 3 (1.61%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.08%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.54%) MISRA
5 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.69%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.15%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.61%) Docker
4 2 (1.08%) Firmware
5 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (4.30%) Terraform
2 3 (1.61%) Ansible
2 3 (1.61%) Grafana
2 3 (1.61%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.61%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.54%) MOM
Vendors
1 15 (8.06%) SAP
2 14 (7.53%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.69%) VMware
4 4 (2.15%) Google
5 3 (1.61%) Motorola
6 2 (1.08%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle
6 2 (1.08%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.08%) Siemens
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco
7 1 (0.54%) Citrix
7 1 (0.54%) EMC
7 1 (0.54%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.54%) Sage
7 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.54%) Workday