Design for Manufacturing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Design for Manufacturing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Design for Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 708 724
Rank change year-on-year +226 +16 +95
Permanent jobs citing Design for Manufacturing 86 47 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.064% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.078% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 2 27 8
10th Percentile £53,750 £43,250 £47,625
25th Percentile £55,625 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +14.13%
75th Percentile £70,625 £72,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £73,250 £87,500 £56,625
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +14.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Design for Manufacturing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,974 60,639 55,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.75% 82.65% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,037 41,817 28,998
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Design for Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Design for Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Design for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Design for Manufacturing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Design for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Design for Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Design for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Design for Manufacturing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design for Manufacturing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
South East +95 35 £70,000 +19.66% 36
East of England - 30 £55,000 - 4
Midlands +75 14 - - 4
East Midlands - 13 - - 1
North of England +46 6 - - 5
North West -2 6 - - 4
Scotland - 2 - - 4
West Midlands +63 1 - - 3
Design for Manufacturing
UK

Design for Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 4 (4.65%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.16%) SOLIDWORKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) 2G
1 1 (1.16%) 3G
1 1 (1.16%) 4G
1 1 (1.16%) 5G
1 1 (1.16%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.16%) RS-485
1 1 (1.16%) Wireless
General
1 86 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 79 (91.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (5.81%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.33%) Electronics
6 1 (1.16%) Finance
6 1 (1.16%) Marketing
6 1 (1.16%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (94.19%) Senior
2 4 (4.65%) Project Engineer
3 2 (2.33%) Design Engineer
3 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 2 (2.33%) Mechanical Engineer
3 2 (2.33%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
4 1 (1.16%) Digital Design Engineer
4 1 (1.16%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 1 (1.16%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (1.16%) FPGA/VHDL Design Engineer
4 1 (1.16%) Hardware Design Engineer
4 1 (1.16%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (1.16%) Test Engineer
4 1 (1.16%) VHDL Design Engineer
4 1 (1.16%) VHDL Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.16%) FPGA
1 1 (1.16%) IoT
1 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (1.16%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (93.02%) CAD
2 79 (91.86%) Mentoring
3 4 (4.65%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
3 4 (4.65%) Finite Element Analysis
4 2 (2.33%) Validation
5 1 (1.16%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (1.16%) Design for Test
5 1 (1.16%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (1.16%) Digital Signal Processing
5 1 (1.16%) Programme Management
5 1 (1.16%) Signal Processing
Qualifications
1 85 (98.84%) Degree
2 6 (6.98%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (91.86%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (2.33%) EMC
2 1 (1.16%) Altera
2 1 (1.16%) Freescale
2 1 (1.16%) SAP