Manufacturing Engineering Jobs

Manufacturing Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Manufacturing Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 874 943
Rank change year-on-year +186 +69 +273
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing Engineering 23 36 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.035% 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.042% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 1 24 5
10th Percentile - £35,300 £29,600
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,938 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% +2.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £58,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% +2.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Manufacturing Engineering 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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Manufacturing Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing Engineering in the UK

Manufacturing Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Manufacturing Engineering in the UK

Manufacturing Engineering
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +144 20 £47,500 -5.00% 124
UK excluding London +177 19 £47,500 -5.00% 125
North of England +33 14 £47,500 -5.00% 27
North West +9 14 £47,500 +18.75% 13
London - 4 - - 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
South West - 2 - - 19
Wales - 1 - - 6

Manufacturing Engineering
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:

Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
1 4 (17.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) HTTP
2 1 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) LabVIEW
General
1 23 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 8 (34.78%) Electronics
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
4 3 (13.04%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.35%) Environmental Health
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Infrastructure Manager
1 13 (56.52%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
1 13 (56.52%) Operations Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Reliability Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Robotics Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
1 4 (17.39%) Robotics
1 4 (17.39%) SCADA
2 3 (13.04%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.35%) Digital Signage
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Business Case
2 13 (56.52%) Business Strategy
2 13 (56.52%) Requirements Management
2 13 (56.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
4 5 (21.74%) FMEA
4 5 (21.74%) Mathematics
4 5 (21.74%) Process Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) CAD
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) Data Analytics
5 4 (17.39%) Data Extraction
5 4 (17.39%) Lean Six Sigma
5 4 (17.39%) Mechatronics
5 4 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Six Sigma
5 4 (17.39%) Statistical Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Statistics
5 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) C
2 4 (17.39%) R
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 10 (43.48%) Degree
3 5 (21.74%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (13.04%) HND
6 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) SLA
2 2 (8.70%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft