Manufacturing Jobs 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 48 116
Rank change year-on-year +44 +68 -11
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 631 324 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.45% 4.59% 2.56%
As % of the General category 23.54% 8.78% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 60 143 58
10th Percentile £40,850 £31,000 £29,225
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £42,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £60,625
90th Percentile £81,375 £67,400 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £42,300 £52,500
% change year-on-year +53.66% -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 common skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,681 3,689 3,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 78.39% 52.31% 64.31%
Number of salaries quoted 763 2,212 1,670
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £80,050
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the Thames Valley

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Manufacturing in the Thames Valley

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
Buckinghamshire +24 281 £60,000 +54.84% 37
Berkshire +79 279 £55,000 +4.76% 60
Oxfordshire +13 71 £65,000 +44.44% 76
Manufacturing
South East

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (1.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.32%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 63 (9.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Blender
3 1 (0.16%) CATIA
3 1 (0.16%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (1.74%) NetSuite
1 11 (1.74%) Sage 200
1 11 (1.74%) Sage CRM
2 6 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.16%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (1.11%) AWS
2 6 (0.95%) Azure
3 5 (0.79%) Collibra
3 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.32%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (0.32%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.16%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (0.16%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.16%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.16%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.16%) Dropbox
6 1 (0.16%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.16%) GCP
6 1 (0.16%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.16%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.16%) Serverless
6 1 (0.16%) Slack
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.79%) Firewall
1 5 (0.79%) VPN
2 4 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (0.63%) Network Security
3 2 (0.32%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.32%) RS-485
4 1 (0.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.32%) MySQL
2 2 (0.32%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.16%) Big Data
3 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.16%) Power BI
3 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (0.79%) Git
1 5 (0.79%) JIRA
2 4 (0.63%) Subversion
3 1 (0.16%) GitLab
General
1 138 (21.87%) Retail
2 116 (18.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 47 (7.45%) Social Skills
4 41 (6.50%) Electronics
5 37 (5.86%) Finance
6 36 (5.71%) Dutch Language
6 36 (5.71%) Finnish Language
6 36 (5.71%) Norwegian Language
7 20 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (1.74%) Marketing
9 9 (1.43%) Catalan Language
10 8 (1.27%) Public Sector
10 8 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.79%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.79%) Law
12 4 (0.63%) Aviation
13 2 (0.32%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.32%) Legal
14 1 (0.16%) Automotive
14 1 (0.16%) Games
Job Titles
1 135 (21.39%) Trainer
2 60 (9.51%) Electrical Engineer
2 60 (9.51%) Safety Engineer
2 60 (9.51%) Test Engineer
3 53 (8.40%) Senior
4 28 (4.44%) Electronics Engineer
5 27 (4.28%) Design Engineer
6 26 (4.12%) PCB Design Engineer
6 26 (4.12%) PCB Engineer
7 24 (3.80%) Associate Engineer
7 24 (3.80%) Electronics Design Engineer
7 24 (3.80%) Technical Support
8 19 (3.01%) Support Technician
9 12 (1.90%) Senior Electrical Engineer
9 12 (1.90%) Senior Safety Engineer
9 12 (1.90%) Senior Test Engineer
10 11 (1.74%) Sage 200 Support
10 11 (1.74%) Sage Support
11 9 (1.43%) Software Engineer
12 8 (1.27%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.95%) Middleware
2 3 (0.48%) .NET
3 2 (0.32%) EDI
3 2 (0.32%) SAP XI
4 1 (0.16%) Django
4 1 (0.16%) Flask
4 1 (0.16%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (0.16%) Laravel
4 1 (0.16%) PySpark
4 1 (0.16%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.16%) React
4 1 (0.16%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.16%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 136 (21.55%) Robotics
2 11 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (1.11%) Onboarding
4 5 (0.79%) Algorithms
4 5 (0.79%) FMCG
4 5 (0.79%) FPGA
4 5 (0.79%) Operational Technology
5 4 (0.63%) CPLD
5 4 (0.63%) Molecular Biology
5 4 (0.63%) Security Posture
6 3 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.32%) LIMS
7 2 (0.32%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.32%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.16%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.16%) IoT
8 1 (0.16%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.16%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.95%) Windows
2 5 (0.79%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.48%) Debian
3 3 (0.48%) Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Android
4 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (47.70%) Service Delivery
2 164 (25.99%) Problem-Solving
3 143 (22.66%) Artificial Intelligence
4 137 (21.71%) Machine Learning
5 135 (21.39%) Generative AI
5 135 (21.39%) LLM
5 135 (21.39%) Red Team
6 99 (15.69%) Data Privacy
7 60 (9.51%) Safety Engineering
8 47 (7.45%) Mentoring
9 45 (7.13%) Coaching
10 36 (5.71%) CAD
11 33 (5.23%) Customer Service
11 33 (5.23%) Design for Manufacturing
12 30 (4.75%) ERP
13 28 (4.44%) Schematic Capture
14 25 (3.96%) Project Planning
15 24 (3.80%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (3.01%) Customer Experience
16 19 (3.01%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (2.38%) SQL
2 8 (1.27%) Python
3 7 (1.11%) C#
3 7 (1.11%) C++
4 5 (0.79%) C
5 3 (0.48%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.48%) VB.NET
6 2 (0.32%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.16%) ABAP
7 1 (0.16%) Java
7 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.16%) PHP
7 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 277 (43.90%) NVQ Level 3
2 269 (42.63%) Degree
3 26 (4.12%) NVQ Level 4
4 24 (3.80%) HND
5 14 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.79%) MBA
8 3 (0.48%) PhD
9 2 (0.32%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.32%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.32%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.16%) ACCA
10 1 (0.16%) CCA
10 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.91%) QA
2 5 (0.79%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.48%) GRC
5 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.16%) ECSS
6 1 (0.16%) GMP
6 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (0.79%) Hyper-V
1 5 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.48%) Firmware
3 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Docker
3 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.79%) FortiGate
2 2 (0.32%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.16%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 136 (21.55%) Databricks
2 135 (21.39%) Adobe
2 135 (21.39%) Google
3 71 (11.25%) Microsoft
4 27 (4.28%) EMC
5 13 (2.06%) SAP
6 11 (1.74%) Sage
7 5 (0.79%) Infor
7 5 (0.79%) Informatica
7 5 (0.79%) VMware
8 4 (0.63%) Agilent
8 4 (0.63%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.48%) Epicor
10 2 (0.32%) Freescale
11 1 (0.16%) Altera
11 1 (0.16%) Apple
11 1 (0.16%) Citrix
11 1 (0.16%) HP
11 1 (0.16%) Sophos
11 1 (0.16%) Veeam