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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 47 107
Rank change year-on-year +33 +60 -32
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 3,899 3,430 1,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.79% 4.79% 3.26%
As % of the General category 14.56% 8.38% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 878 2,208 909
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,700
25th Percentile £35,313 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,467 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,650 £79,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +10.00%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 26,771 40,940 40,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.25% 57.17% 68.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,250 26,522 18,466
10th Percentile £25,265 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,851 £32,500 £37,284
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 19 May 2025.

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 19 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
North of England +30 1,423 £54,793 +21.76% 544
South East +37 1,227 £65,000 +53.66% 557
North West +33 862 £55,500 +16.84% 295
Midlands +14 658 £47,500 +5.56% 463
Yorkshire +23 503 £42,500 - 194
West Midlands +11 358 £55,000 +22.22% 254
East Midlands +13 300 £45,000 +5.88% 199
East of England -7 266 £40,000 -21.95% 273
South West +5 190 £40,000 -5.88% 350
Scotland +58 78 £50,000 +5.26% 114
North East +9 58 £45,000 +12.50% 66
Wales -27 41 £48,750 +50.00% 84
Northern Ireland +7 24 £42,500 +21.43% 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 68 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 65 (1.67%) Confluence
3 32 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.44%) IBM Domino
5 14 (0.36%) OpenEdge
6 7 (0.18%) nginx
7 6 (0.15%) CMS
8 5 (0.13%) Apache
8 5 (0.13%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.077%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.051%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.051%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.051%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.051%) WinCC
11 1 (0.026%) Mendix
11 1 (0.026%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 227 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
2 141 (3.62%) Mathcad
3 101 (2.59%) Abaqus
4 51 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
5 46 (1.18%) SOLIDWORKS
6 19 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.077%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.077%) Autodesk Inventor
9 3 (0.077%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.077%) EPLAN
9 3 (0.077%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.077%) Revit
9 3 (0.077%) Simulink
9 3 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.051%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.051%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.051%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 37 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (0.77%) Sage 200
3 29 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
4 22 (0.56%) Teamcenter
5 20 (0.51%) SAP ERP
6 18 (0.46%) Sage 50
7 16 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
7 16 (0.41%) NetSuite
8 13 (0.33%) Sage CRM
9 9 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.21%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.10%) Sprinklr
12 3 (0.077%) Magento
12 3 (0.077%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.077%) Primavera
12 3 (0.077%) SAP SD
13 2 (0.051%) SAP FI
13 2 (0.051%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 2 (0.051%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 122 (3.13%) Azure
2 86 (2.21%) AWS
3 71 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (1.18%) Power Platform
5 29 (0.74%) GitHub
6 22 (0.56%) SaaS
7 21 (0.54%) Entra ID
8 14 (0.36%) Amazon SageMaker
9 13 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (0.33%) Amazon S3
9 13 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (0.31%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (0.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.23%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (0.23%) Serverless
14 8 (0.21%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (0.18%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (0.18%) GCP
15 7 (0.18%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.51%) Firewall
2 28 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
3 25 (0.64%) WAN
4 20 (0.51%) VPN
5 19 (0.49%) Internet
5 19 (0.49%) LAN
6 18 (0.46%) SAN
7 17 (0.44%) Modbus
8 16 (0.41%) Ethernet
8 16 (0.41%) VoIP
8 16 (0.41%) Wireless
9 15 (0.38%) Profibus
10 14 (0.36%) DNS
11 12 (0.31%) Network Security
11 12 (0.31%) RS-232
11 12 (0.31%) VLAN
12 11 (0.28%) RS-485
13 10 (0.26%) MPLS
14 9 (0.23%) Bluetooth
14 9 (0.23%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (1.51%) SQL Server
2 45 (1.15%) Power BI
3 22 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (0.44%) MySQL
5 14 (0.36%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.26%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (0.21%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.18%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.18%) MS Access
9 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (0.13%) Big Data
10 5 (0.13%) Crystal Reports
10 5 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.13%) SQLite
10 5 (0.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (2.13%) JIRA
2 25 (0.64%) Jenkins
2 25 (0.64%) Visual Studio
3 24 (0.62%) Git
4 11 (0.28%) LabVIEW
5 8 (0.21%) TeamCity
6 6 (0.15%) GitLab
6 6 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (0.15%) Subversion
7 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.13%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.13%) JUnit
7 5 (0.13%) Maven
7 5 (0.13%) Mockito
7 5 (0.13%) Postman
7 5 (0.13%) Selenium
7 5 (0.13%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.13%) TestNG
8 2 (0.051%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.051%) Robot Framework
General
1 834 (21.39%) Retail
2 664 (17.03%) Social Skills
3 432 (11.08%) Electronics
4 400 (10.26%) Finance
5 332 (8.52%) Marketing
6 330 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
7 299 (7.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 242 (6.21%) Presentation Skills
9 194 (4.98%) Dutch Language
10 192 (4.92%) Finnish Language
10 192 (4.92%) Norwegian Language
11 90 (2.31%) Legal
12 86 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 72 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
14 70 (1.80%) Law
14 70 (1.80%) Telecoms
15 58 (1.49%) Automotive
16 53 (1.36%) Public Sector
17 48 (1.23%) Catalan Language
18 46 (1.18%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 721 (18.49%) Trainer
2 462 (11.85%) Senior
3 215 (5.51%) Lead
4 172 (4.41%) Project Manager
5 163 (4.18%) Technical Manager
6 154 (3.95%) Test Engineer
7 142 (3.64%) Electrical Engineer
8 140 (3.59%) Safety Engineer
9 138 (3.54%) Architect
10 136 (3.49%) Help Desk Manager
11 123 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
12 111 (2.85%) Technical Support
13 105 (2.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 101 (2.59%) Engineering Specialist
14 101 (2.59%) Products Support Manager
15 97 (2.49%) Analyst
16 93 (2.39%) Support Technician
17 84 (2.15%) Support Manager
18 77 (1.97%) Product Manager
19 73 (1.87%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (1.69%) .NET
2 33 (0.85%) HTML
3 29 (0.74%) CSS
4 28 (0.72%) .NET Core
5 27 (0.69%) .NET Framework
6 19 (0.49%) React
7 17 (0.44%) React Native
7 17 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
8 16 (0.41%) HTML5
9 15 (0.38%) ASP.NET
9 15 (0.38%) jQuery
10 14 (0.36%) Loki
10 14 (0.36%) RESTful
10 14 (0.36%) WPF
11 13 (0.33%) EDI
12 12 (0.31%) Node.js
12 12 (0.31%) PyTorch
12 12 (0.31%) TensorFlow
13 11 (0.28%) Keras
13 11 (0.28%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 756 (19.39%) Robotics
2 139 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 118 (3.03%) FMCG
4 65 (1.67%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 63 (1.62%) Operational Technology
6 59 (1.51%) IoT
7 44 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
8 43 (1.10%) SCADA
9 35 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
10 34 (0.87%) Algorithms
11 23 (0.59%) Blockchain
12 22 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
13 20 (0.51%) Life Science
14 19 (0.49%) Video Conferencing
15 17 (0.44%) Driving Licence
16 16 (0.41%) Onboarding
17 15 (0.38%) CCTV
18 14 (0.36%) Analogue Electronics
18 14 (0.36%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.85%) Windows
2 61 (1.56%) Windows Server
3 58 (1.49%) Linux
4 19 (0.49%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.13%) Debian
8 4 (0.10%) Android
9 3 (0.077%) CentOS
9 3 (0.077%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.077%) Unix
10 2 (0.051%) AIX
10 2 (0.051%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.051%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.026%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,085 (27.83%) Problem-Solving
2 932 (23.90%) Service Delivery
3 804 (20.62%) Artificial Intelligence
4 768 (19.70%) Machine Learning
5 729 (18.70%) Generative AI
6 720 (18.47%) LLM
6 720 (18.47%) Red Team
7 529 (13.57%) Data Privacy
8 468 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 386 (9.90%) ERP
10 347 (8.90%) Mathematics
11 322 (8.26%) CAD
12 290 (7.44%) Project Management
13 277 (7.10%) Coaching
14 251 (6.44%) Physics
15 211 (5.41%) Mentoring
16 161 (4.13%) Agile
17 155 (3.98%) PLM
18 154 (3.95%) Customer Service
19 142 (3.64%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 158 (4.05%) SQL
2 86 (2.21%) C#
3 80 (2.05%) Python
4 63 (1.62%) C++
5 52 (1.33%) C
6 48 (1.23%) MATLAB
7 47 (1.21%) JavaScript
8 27 (0.69%) Java
9 26 (0.67%) TypeScript
10 19 (0.49%) ABAP
10 19 (0.49%) Progress 4GL
11 13 (0.33%) R
12 12 (0.31%) PHP
12 12 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.28%) Korn
13 11 (0.28%) PowerShell
14 10 (0.26%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.26%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.23%) C-shell
15 9 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,765 (45.27%) Degree
2 829 (21.26%) NVQ Level 3
3 580 (14.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 233 (5.98%) HND
5 146 (3.74%) Master's Degree
6 139 (3.57%) Chartered Engineer
7 109 (2.80%) NVQ Level 4
8 101 (2.59%) HNC
9 64 (1.64%) Numerate Degree
10 42 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 26 (0.67%) PhD
12 25 (0.64%) Security Cleared
13 22 (0.56%) CISA
13 22 (0.56%) ISACA
14 16 (0.41%) PMP
15 15 (0.38%) SC Cleared
16 13 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
16 13 (0.33%) PMI Certification
17 10 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (3.80%) QA
2 92 (2.36%) ISO 9001
3 80 (2.05%) AQAP
4 41 (1.05%) GMP
5 30 (0.77%) NEBOSH
6 22 (0.56%) ITGC
6 22 (0.56%) SLA
7 18 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 18 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (0.33%) GxP
10 12 (0.31%) Data Quality
10 12 (0.31%) GDPR
11 9 (0.23%) PMO
12 8 (0.21%) GLP
13 5 (0.13%) NIST
14 4 (0.10%) GRC
15 3 (0.077%) ECSS
16 2 (0.051%) 21 CFR Part 11
16 2 (0.051%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 61 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (0.59%) Docker
4 20 (0.51%) Firmware
5 18 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
7 12 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.13%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.051%) KVM
11 2 (0.051%) Postfix
11 2 (0.051%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.051%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.026%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (0.90%) Kubernetes
2 23 (0.59%) Terraform
3 14 (0.36%) Grafana
4 13 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.26%) Kustomize
7 8 (0.21%) Ansible
8 7 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.15%) BMC PATROL
10 5 (0.13%) Packer
11 4 (0.10%) SCCM
12 2 (0.051%) Functional Safety
12 2 (0.051%) Nagios
12 2 (0.051%) Nessus
12 2 (0.051%) Wonderware InTouch
13 1 (0.026%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.026%) Marathon
13 1 (0.026%) QRadar
Vendors
1 747 (19.16%) Google
2 724 (18.57%) Adobe
3 723 (18.54%) Databricks
4 359 (9.21%) Microsoft
5 252 (6.46%) SAP
6 151 (3.87%) Siemens
7 66 (1.69%) Rockwell
8 54 (1.38%) EMC
9 53 (1.36%) Oracle
10 48 (1.23%) VMware
11 37 (0.95%) Sage
12 24 (0.62%) Cisco
13 20 (0.51%) Progress
14 17 (0.44%) Salesforce
15 16 (0.41%) Veeam
16 15 (0.38%) Fortinet
17 13 (0.33%) Epicor
17 13 (0.33%) Infor
18 12 (0.31%) NEC
19 10 (0.26%) Informatica