Manufacturing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 108 84
Rank change year-on-year +59 -24 +35
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 3,323 1,954 2,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.74% 3.16% 3.81%
As % of the General category 8.25% 4.56% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,156 925 1,523
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.38% +4.44%
75th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £68,100
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,845
% change year-on-year -18.18% +8.17% -3.15%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Manufacturing is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,269 42,823 42,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.49% 69.30% 59.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,334 19,314 24,106
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,216
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £82,500 £78,575
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

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 Manufacturing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +51 792 £42,300 -15.40% 647
North of England +98 783 £45,000 -2.17% 731
Midlands +13 688 £45,000 -18.18% 689
West Midlands +4 421 £45,000 -28.00% 424
South West +48 375 £42,500 -19.05% 418
North West +77 358 £47,500 +1.06% 376
Yorkshire +105 340 £42,500 - 277
East of England +118 306 £51,250 -6.82% 403
East Midlands +23 260 £42,500 -5.56% 265
Wales +99 180 £35,000 +7.69% 138
Scotland -1 143 £47,500 -2.56% 164
North East +31 85 £42,500 +21.43% 109
Northern Ireland +61 57 £35,000 -6.67% 31
Manufacturing
UK

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:

Application Platforms
1 129 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 59 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.51%) Confluence
4 10 (0.30%) Documentum
5 7 (0.21%) Apache
5 7 (0.21%) IIS
6 6 (0.18%) CMS
6 6 (0.18%) nginx
7 4 (0.12%) WordPress
8 3 (0.090%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.090%) Drupal
8 3 (0.090%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.060%) Resin
9 2 (0.060%) SAS
9 2 (0.060%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.060%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.030%) JBoss
10 1 (0.030%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.030%) Site Server
Applications
1 158 (4.75%) Microsoft Office
2 127 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (1.05%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.66%) SOLIDWORKS
7 13 (0.39%) Simulink
8 11 (0.33%) OrCAD
9 10 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
9 10 (0.30%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.30%) Solid Edge
10 9 (0.27%) Siemens NX
11 8 (0.24%) EPLAN
11 8 (0.24%) MS Visio
12 7 (0.21%) Revit
13 5 (0.15%) CANalyzer
14 4 (0.12%) Doxygen
14 4 (0.12%) Fusion 360
14 4 (0.12%) InfoPath
15 3 (0.090%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 40 (1.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 33 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.39%) SAP QM
6 12 (0.36%) Sage X3
7 11 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (0.30%) SAP PP
8 10 (0.30%) TrackWise
9 9 (0.27%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
10 8 (0.24%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
10 8 (0.24%) Sage 200
10 8 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.24%) SAP IBP
11 7 (0.21%) Magento
11 7 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.18%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 251 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
2 213 (6.41%) Azure
3 138 (4.15%) Power Platform
4 91 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
5 63 (1.90%) SaaS
6 61 (1.84%) AWS
6 61 (1.84%) Entra ID
7 36 (1.08%) PowerApps
8 32 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (0.93%) OneDrive
10 23 (0.69%) Power Automate
11 20 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (0.60%) GitHub
12 8 (0.24%) WhatsApp
13 7 (0.21%) Azure API Management
13 7 (0.21%) Azure Event Grid
13 7 (0.21%) Azure Functions
13 7 (0.21%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (0.21%) Serverless
14 6 (0.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.47%) Firewall
1 82 (2.47%) Wireless
2 63 (1.90%) Ethernet
3 59 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
4 46 (1.38%) LAN
5 38 (1.14%) WAN
6 35 (1.05%) RS-232
7 29 (0.87%) Internet
8 28 (0.84%) DNS
9 27 (0.81%) HTTP
9 27 (0.81%) LTE
9 27 (0.81%) TCP/IP
10 24 (0.72%) VPN
11 19 (0.57%) DHCP
11 19 (0.57%) SAN
12 18 (0.54%) Network Security
13 16 (0.48%) MQTT
14 15 (0.45%) 4G
15 14 (0.42%) Intranet
15 14 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (4.30%) SQL Server
2 118 (3.55%) Power BI
3 43 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (1.23%) MySQL
5 33 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 22 (0.66%) Relational Database
7 21 (0.63%) MongoDB
7 21 (0.63%) Tableau
8 19 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (0.54%) SQLite
10 14 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
11 13 (0.39%) MS Access
11 13 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (0.36%) Redis
13 10 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.24%) Power Query
15 7 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (0.18%) GIS
16 6 (0.18%) NoSQL
16 6 (0.18%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 115 (3.46%) Git
2 51 (1.53%) LabVIEW
3 50 (1.50%) JIRA
4 40 (1.20%) Visual Studio
5 24 (0.72%) Subversion
6 13 (0.39%) Eclipse
7 12 (0.36%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.21%) CANoe
10 6 (0.18%) Maven
11 5 (0.15%) Selenium
12 4 (0.12%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.12%) GitLab
12 4 (0.12%) Postman
12 4 (0.12%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.12%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.090%) Rational Rhapsody
13 3 (0.090%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.090%) TestNG
13 3 (0.090%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 878 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 479 (14.41%) Electronics
3 472 (14.20%) Finance
4 387 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
5 258 (7.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 239 (7.19%) Marketing
7 199 (5.99%) Aerospace
8 177 (5.33%) Automotive
9 170 (5.12%) Telecoms
10 168 (5.06%) Retail
11 159 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 156 (4.69%) Public Sector
13 123 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
14 113 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
15 112 (3.37%) Law
16 105 (3.16%) Legal
17 87 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
18 42 (1.26%) Games
19 33 (0.99%) Military
20 31 (0.93%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 308 (9.27%) Senior
2 250 (7.52%) Analyst
3 245 (7.37%) Developer
4 235 (7.07%) Software Engineer
5 208 (6.26%) Lead
6 206 (6.20%) Graduate
7 198 (5.96%) Project Manager
8 196 (5.90%) Systems Engineer
9 154 (4.63%) Electronics Engineer
10 126 (3.79%) IT Engineer
11 124 (3.73%) Support Engineer
12 110 (3.31%) Embedded Engineer
12 110 (3.31%) IT Support
13 103 (3.10%) Junior
14 98 (2.95%) Technical Support
15 90 (2.71%) Quality Engineer
16 83 (2.50%) IT Manager
17 82 (2.47%) QA Manager
18 80 (2.41%) Automation Engineer
19 79 (2.38%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (3.43%) .NET
2 76 (2.29%) HTML
3 49 (1.47%) React
4 47 (1.41%) CSS
5 46 (1.38%) ASP.NET
6 38 (1.14%) .NET Framework
7 30 (0.90%) RESTful
8 26 (0.78%) WPF
9 25 (0.75%) Yocto
10 24 (0.72%) .NET Core
10 24 (0.72%) AngularJS
11 21 (0.63%) Flask
12 20 (0.60%) Blazor
13 19 (0.57%) Django
13 19 (0.57%) Entity Framework
13 19 (0.57%) Node.js
14 18 (0.54%) ASP.NET MVC
15 16 (0.48%) YAML
16 15 (0.45%) XML
17 13 (0.39%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 207 (6.23%) Management Information System
2 173 (5.21%) FMCG
3 115 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
4 70 (2.11%) Driving Licence
4 70 (2.11%) IoT
5 53 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
6 51 (1.53%) Data Centre
7 50 (1.50%) Operational Technology
8 49 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 41 (1.23%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.17%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 32 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
12 31 (0.93%) FPGA
12 31 (0.93%) Life Science
13 29 (0.87%) Biopharmaceutical
14 28 (0.84%) Robotics
15 26 (0.78%) Analogue Electronics
16 24 (0.72%) SCADA
17 23 (0.69%) Onboarding
18 20 (0.60%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 248 (7.46%) Windows
2 172 (5.18%) Linux
3 87 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 68 (2.05%) Windows 10
5 31 (0.93%) Android
6 25 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
7 18 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 18 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
8 15 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.27%) VMS
10 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.24%) Debian
12 4 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.12%) VxWorks
12 4 (0.12%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.090%) CatOS
14 2 (0.060%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
2 507 (15.26%) ERP
3 364 (10.95%) Project Management
4 338 (10.17%) Software Engineering
5 292 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 280 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
7 220 (6.62%) Computer Science
8 205 (6.17%) Agile
9 174 (5.24%) QMS
10 162 (4.88%) Programme Management
11 160 (4.81%) Mentoring
12 152 (4.57%) Customer Service
13 148 (4.45%) Change Management
13 148 (4.45%) Logistics
14 146 (4.39%) Coaching
15 143 (4.30%) Validation
16 141 (4.24%) Digital Marketing
17 123 (3.70%) Project Planning
18 120 (3.61%) Collaborative Working
19 114 (3.43%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 361 (10.86%) SQL
2 216 (6.50%) C#
3 202 (6.08%) C
4 184 (5.54%) Python
5 117 (3.52%) JavaScript
6 114 (3.43%) C++
7 56 (1.69%) Embedded C
8 48 (1.44%) Java
9 45 (1.35%) T-SQL
10 40 (1.20%) TypeScript
11 36 (1.08%) PowerShell
12 30 (0.90%) Bash
12 30 (0.90%) PHP
13 21 (0.63%) VB
14 20 (0.60%) MATLAB
14 20 (0.60%) XAML
15 18 (0.54%) VB.NET
15 18 (0.54%) VBA
16 10 (0.30%) Embedded C++
17 8 (0.24%) RPG
Qualifications
1 950 (28.59%) Degree
2 127 (3.82%) Security Cleared
3 107 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (2.08%) HNC
4 69 (2.08%) HND
4 69 (2.08%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 66 (1.99%) Master's Degree
6 40 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 35 (1.05%) SC Cleared
8 26 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (0.60%) CCNA
11 19 (0.57%) PMI Certification
12 18 (0.54%) CISSP
13 14 (0.42%) CISA
14 10 (0.30%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.30%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.30%) DV Cleared
14 10 (0.30%) MCSE
15 9 (0.27%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 437 (13.15%) QA
2 191 (5.75%) GMP
3 47 (1.41%) ISO 9001
4 42 (1.26%) PMO
5 39 (1.17%) SLA
6 26 (0.78%) GDPR
6 26 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (0.57%) ISO 13485
8 16 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.42%) ISO 14001
9 14 (0.42%) ISO 26262
10 11 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
10 11 (0.33%) GxP
11 10 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.30%) Data Quality
12 9 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.24%) NIST
14 7 (0.21%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 181 (5.45%) Firmware
2 154 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 118 (3.55%) Embedded Firmware
4 44 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 42 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (0.51%) Docker
7 10 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.12%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.12%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.090%) KVM
12 2 (0.060%) vSphere
13 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 20 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.42%) Terraform
3 7 (0.21%) FortiGate
3 7 (0.21%) Functional Safety
4 5 (0.15%) WSUS
5 4 (0.12%) Puppet
5 4 (0.12%) SCCM
6 3 (0.090%) Ansible
6 3 (0.090%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.060%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.060%) Nessus
7 2 (0.060%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 486 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 297 (8.94%) SAP
3 103 (3.10%) EMC
4 94 (2.83%) VMware
5 73 (2.20%) IFS
6 63 (1.90%) Oracle
7 40 (1.20%) Sage
8 33 (0.99%) Epicor
9 32 (0.96%) Google
9 32 (0.96%) Veeam
10 29 (0.87%) Siemens
11 27 (0.81%) Cisco
12 19 (0.57%) Workday
13 18 (0.54%) HP
14 17 (0.51%) Citrix
15 16 (0.48%) Salesforce
16 14 (0.42%) IBM
17 12 (0.36%) Adobe
17 12 (0.36%) Aruba
18 10 (0.30%) BT