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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 48 121
Rank change year-on-year +44 +73 -22
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 626 298 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.48% 4.44% 2.39%
As % of the General category 24.10% 8.40% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 65 138 55
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £27,100
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -1.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £67,150 £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 2,598 3,547 3,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 76.71% 52.85% 64.55%
Number of salaries quoted 761 2,211 1,714
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,363 £34,000 £35,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,536 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,800 £73,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%

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 13 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 13 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
Berkshire +84 320 £67,500 +22.73% 81
Buckinghamshire +20 210 £60,000 +50.00% 46
Oxfordshire +21 96 £65,000 +46.07% 84
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 8 (1.28%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.96%) Confluence
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 67 (10.70%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.32%) Zemax
4 1 (0.16%) Blender
4 1 (0.16%) CATIA
4 1 (0.16%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.32%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.32%) Sage CRM
3 1 (0.16%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.16%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (2.08%) AWS
2 8 (1.28%) Azure
3 7 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (1.12%) Amazon S3
4 6 (0.96%) Amazon ECR
4 6 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (0.96%) Slack
4 6 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (0.80%) Collibra
5 5 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (0.32%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.16%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.16%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.16%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.16%) Dropbox
7 1 (0.16%) GCP
7 1 (0.16%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.16%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.96%) Firewall
2 5 (0.80%) VPN
3 4 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (0.64%) Network Security
4 3 (0.48%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.16%) Internet
5 1 (0.16%) Modbus
5 1 (0.16%) Profibus
5 1 (0.16%) RS-485
5 1 (0.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.12%) MongoDB
1 7 (1.12%) MySQL
2 5 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.32%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.16%) Big Data
4 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.16%) Power BI
4 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (1.60%) Git
1 10 (1.60%) JIRA
2 6 (0.96%) GitLab
3 4 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 116 (18.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 61 (9.74%) Retail
3 55 (8.79%) Social Skills
4 49 (7.83%) Electronics
5 31 (4.95%) Finance
6 18 (2.88%) Dutch Language
6 18 (2.88%) Finnish Language
6 18 (2.88%) Norwegian Language
7 14 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (1.92%) Marketing
9 8 (1.28%) Public Sector
9 8 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.80%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.80%) Law
11 4 (0.64%) Aviation
12 2 (0.32%) Automotive
12 2 (0.32%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.32%) Legal
13 1 (0.16%) Advertising
13 1 (0.16%) German Language
Job Titles
1 60 (9.58%) Electrical Engineer
1 60 (9.58%) Safety Engineer
1 60 (9.58%) Test Engineer
2 54 (8.63%) Trainer
3 53 (8.47%) Senior
4 29 (4.63%) Electronics Engineer
5 28 (4.47%) Design Engineer
6 26 (4.15%) PCB Design Engineer
6 26 (4.15%) PCB Engineer
7 24 (3.83%) Associate Engineer
7 24 (3.83%) Electronics Design Engineer
8 22 (3.51%) Technical Support
9 19 (3.04%) Support Technician
10 16 (2.56%) Software Engineer
10 16 (2.56%) Technical Manager
11 12 (1.92%) Senior Electrical Engineer
11 12 (1.92%) Senior Safety Engineer
11 12 (1.92%) Senior Test Engineer
12 7 (1.12%) Developer
12 7 (1.12%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.96%) Django
1 6 (0.96%) Flask
1 6 (0.96%) Lambda Expressions
1 6 (0.96%) Middleware
1 6 (0.96%) React
2 5 (0.80%) .NET
3 2 (0.32%) EDI
3 2 (0.32%) SAP XI
4 1 (0.16%) Laravel
4 1 (0.16%) PySpark
4 1 (0.16%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.16%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.16%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.79%) Robotics
2 11 (1.76%) Molecular Biology
3 10 (1.60%) Onboarding
4 8 (1.28%) Algorithms
5 6 (0.96%) FMCG
5 6 (0.96%) FPGA
6 5 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (0.80%) Operational Technology
7 4 (0.64%) CPLD
7 4 (0.64%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.32%) CMDB
9 2 (0.32%) LIMS
9 2 (0.32%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.32%) VHDL
10 1 (0.16%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.16%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.16%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.16%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.12%) Windows
2 6 (0.96%) Linux
3 5 (0.80%) Debian
3 5 (0.80%) Windows Server
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
1 364 (58.15%) Service Delivery
2 85 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (9.90%) Artificial Intelligence
4 60 (9.58%) Safety Engineering
5 56 (8.95%) Machine Learning
6 54 (8.63%) Generative AI
6 54 (8.63%) LLM
6 54 (8.63%) Red Team
7 53 (8.47%) Coaching
8 49 (7.83%) Mentoring
9 36 (5.75%) CAD
9 36 (5.75%) Data Privacy
10 33 (5.27%) Design for Manufacturing
11 29 (4.63%) Project Planning
12 28 (4.47%) Schematic Capture
13 26 (4.15%) Customer Service
14 24 (3.83%) ERP
15 20 (3.19%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (3.04%) Customer Experience
16 19 (3.04%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (2.72%) Python
2 10 (1.60%) C#
2 10 (1.60%) C++
3 8 (1.28%) C
3 8 (1.28%) SQL
4 6 (0.96%) JavaScript
4 6 (0.96%) TypeScript
5 5 (0.80%) VB.NET
6 4 (0.64%) MATLAB
6 4 (0.64%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.16%) ABAP
7 1 (0.16%) Java
7 1 (0.16%) PHP
7 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 339 (54.15%) NVQ Level 3
2 192 (30.67%) Degree
3 34 (5.43%) NVQ Level 4
4 24 (3.83%) HND
5 15 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.80%) MBA
7 5 (0.80%) PhD
7 5 (0.80%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.16%) ACCA
8 1 (0.16%) CCA
8 1 (0.16%) CCNP
8 1 (0.16%) CCSE
8 1 (0.16%) CCSM
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.16%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.95%) QA
2 6 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (0.80%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.80%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.48%) ECSS
5 3 (0.48%) GRC
6 2 (0.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.16%) GMP
7 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.80%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.16%) Docker
4 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (1.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.96%) Kustomize
3 5 (0.80%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 74 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 55 (8.79%) Databricks
3 54 (8.63%) Adobe
3 54 (8.63%) Google
4 26 (4.15%) EMC
5 17 (2.72%) SAP
6 6 (0.96%) Infor
6 6 (0.96%) Sawtooth Software
6 6 (0.96%) VMware
7 5 (0.80%) Epicor
7 5 (0.80%) Fortinet
7 5 (0.80%) Informatica
8 4 (0.64%) Agilent
9 2 (0.32%) Sage
10 1 (0.16%) Apple
10 1 (0.16%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.16%) Citrix
10 1 (0.16%) Dell
10 1 (0.16%) HP
10 1 (0.16%) Sophos