Lean Manufacturing Jobs

Lean Manufacturing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Lean Manufacturing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Lean Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 603 759 943
Rank change year-on-year +156 +184 +295
Permanent jobs citing Lean Manufacturing 127 140 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.14% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.16% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 5
10th Percentile £28,118 £44,325 -
25th Percentile £28,898 £51,188 £27,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +74.60% -51.54%
75th Percentile £47,500 £56,875 £35,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £60,250 £37,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £31,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +74.60% -51.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Lean 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,380 85,029 95,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.31% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,622 59,821 55,996
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,079 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,375 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,810 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.62% -9.09% +4.76%

Lean Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Lean Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lean Manufacturing in the UK

Lean Manufacturing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lean Manufacturing.

Salary trend for Lean Manufacturing in the UK

Lean Manufacturing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lean Manufacturing over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lean Manufacturing in the UK

Lean Manufacturing
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lean Manufacturing within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England +242 127 £35,000 -36.36% 32
UK excluding London +203 116 £40,000 -27.27% 26
North of England +144 110 £35,000 - 7
North West - 82 £35,000 - 3
North East - 22 - - 1
London - 11 £28,898 - 9
Yorkshire +63 6 - - 3
South West +111 3 £67,500 +22.73% 2
South East +81 2 - - 7
Midlands +60 1 £45,000 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £45,000 -

Lean Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (3.94%) Kinematics
2 3 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (6.30%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.36%) Cloud Composer
1 3 (2.36%) GCP
1 3 (2.36%) GitHub
1 3 (2.36%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.36%) BigQuery
1 3 (2.36%) Data Lake
1 3 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (2.36%) Looker
Development Applications
1 3 (2.36%) CircleCI
1 3 (2.36%) Git
1 3 (2.36%) JIRA
General
1 127 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 30 (23.62%) Finance
3 10 (7.87%) Aviation
4 8 (6.30%) Aeronautics
4 8 (6.30%) Aerospace
4 8 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.72%) Retail
5 6 (4.72%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.94%) French Language
6 5 (3.94%) German Language
7 1 (0.79%) Automotive
7 1 (0.79%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 82 (64.57%) Lead
2 28 (22.05%) Project Manager
3 8 (6.30%) Support Engineer
3 8 (6.30%) Technical Engineer
3 8 (6.30%) Technical Support
3 8 (6.30%) Technical Support Engineer
4 3 (2.36%) DataOps Engineer
5 2 (1.57%) Industrial Engineer
5 2 (1.57%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (1.57%) Reliability Engineer
5 2 (1.57%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.05%) FMCG
1 28 (22.05%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.57%) Industry 4.0
2 2 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (1.57%) Robotics
3 1 (0.79%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (85.04%) Coaching
2 86 (67.72%) Six Sigma
3 80 (62.99%) CMMI
3 80 (62.99%) Zero Defects
4 33 (25.98%) Project Management
5 28 (22.05%) Budget Management
5 28 (22.05%) Budgeting
5 28 (22.05%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 28 (22.05%) PDCA
5 28 (22.05%) Quality Management
6 15 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (7.09%) ERP
8 8 (6.30%) CAD
9 6 (4.72%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (3.94%) Bill of Materials
10 5 (3.94%) Finite Element Analysis
11 3 (2.36%) Agile
11 3 (2.36%) Data Analytics
11 3 (2.36%) Data Governance
11 3 (2.36%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.30%) VB
2 5 (3.94%) Python
3 3 (2.36%) Bash
3 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.36%) SQL
4 2 (1.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 80 (62.99%) BPSS Clearance
1 80 (62.99%) HND
2 11 (8.66%) Degree
3 2 (1.57%) HNC
4 1 (0.79%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (64.57%) ISO 9001
2 80 (62.99%) AQAP
3 1 (0.79%) ISO 14001
3 1 (0.79%) ISO 9000
3 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (6.30%) Microsoft
1 8 (6.30%) SAP
2 3 (2.36%) Google
2 3 (2.36%) Snowplow