Manufacturing Jobs

Manufacturing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 65 151
Rank change year-on-year +45 +86 -9
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 4,267 3,718 2,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.16% 3.80% 2.41%
As % of the General category 12.05% 6.34% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 996 2,370 1,256
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,027 £29,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +8.01%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +6.84%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,407 58,648 72,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.71% 59.88% 68.77%
Number of salaries quoted 18,445 39,565 38,877
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,001 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the UK

Manufacturing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Manufacturing in the UK

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in the UK

Manufacturing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +42 4,018 £54,793 +21.76% 3,532
UK excluding London +37 3,602 £52,500 +16.67% 3,027
North of England +34 1,376 £55,000 +22.22% 769
South East +35 1,067 £61,250 +44.80% 679
North West +45 952 £56,000 +17.89% 362
London +212 564 £65,000 -7.14% 731
Midlands -1 443 £47,500 +5.56% 706
Yorkshire +22 366 £45,000 +5.88% 325
East of England +24 349 £44,500 -15.24% 309
West Midlands +10 348 £50,000 +11.11% 368
Work from Home -2 344 £58,000 +5.45% 1,503
South West +16 198 £40,000 -5.88% 383
Scotland +90 108 £50,000 +5.26% 138
East Midlands -24 95 £43,750 +2.94% 328
North East +17 58 £45,000 +5.88% 88
Wales -21 44 £42,500 +21.43% 82
Northern Ireland +8 22 £42,500 +21.43% 46

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 70 (1.64%) SharePoint
2 59 (1.38%) Confluence
3 31 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.40%) OpenEdge
5 12 (0.28%) Kinematics
6 11 (0.26%) IBM Domino
7 10 (0.23%) nginx
8 8 (0.19%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.14%) CMS
10 5 (0.12%) Apache
11 3 (0.070%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.070%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.047%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.047%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.047%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.047%) WinCC
13 1 (0.023%) Mendix
13 1 (0.023%) MS Project Server
13 1 (0.023%) WordPress
Applications
1 231 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 206 (4.83%) Mathcad
3 134 (3.14%) Abaqus
4 98 (2.30%) SOLIDWORKS
5 59 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
6 21 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.37%) AutoCAD
8 12 (0.28%) Maya
9 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.094%) Revit
10 4 (0.094%) Simulink
11 3 (0.070%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.070%) CATIA
11 3 (0.070%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.047%) InDesign
12 2 (0.047%) MS Visio
12 2 (0.047%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 62 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
3 21 (0.49%) Sage 200
3 21 (0.49%) Sage 50
3 21 (0.49%) Teamcenter
4 20 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 13 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
6 10 (0.23%) Infor M3
6 10 (0.23%) SAP IBP
6 10 (0.23%) TrackWise
7 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.19%) SAP PP
9 6 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.094%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 4 (0.094%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.094%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.094%) Sprinklr
11 3 (0.070%) Magento
11 3 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 141 (3.30%) Azure
2 126 (2.95%) AWS
3 64 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (1.24%) Power Platform
5 33 (0.77%) GitHub
6 31 (0.73%) GCP
7 29 (0.68%) SaaS
8 20 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (0.47%) Entra ID
9 17 (0.40%) Serverless
10 16 (0.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (0.35%) Amazon S3
11 15 (0.35%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (0.33%) Amazon SageMaker
13 13 (0.30%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (0.28%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (0.26%) Microsoft Copilot
16 10 (0.23%) Azure Data Factory
17 9 (0.21%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.48%) Firewall
2 25 (0.59%) WAN
3 21 (0.49%) Internet
3 21 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (0.47%) DNS
4 20 (0.47%) LAN
4 20 (0.47%) Wireless
5 19 (0.45%) Network Security
6 18 (0.42%) VPN
7 16 (0.37%) Modbus
8 15 (0.35%) VoIP
9 14 (0.33%) SAN
10 12 (0.28%) DHCP
10 12 (0.28%) Ethernet
10 12 (0.28%) HTTP
10 12 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
10 12 (0.28%) Profibus
10 12 (0.28%) RS-232
11 11 (0.26%) RS-485
11 11 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (1.31%) SQL Server
2 51 (1.20%) Power BI
3 32 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (0.49%) NoSQL
6 20 (0.47%) MySQL
6 20 (0.47%) Relational Database
7 16 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (0.35%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.23%) MS Access
10 9 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (0.19%) Amazon QuickSight
11 8 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.19%) Metadata
11 8 (0.19%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.16%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.16%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.16%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 86 (2.02%) JIRA
2 34 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 29 (0.68%) Git
4 27 (0.63%) Visual Studio
5 12 (0.28%) LabVIEW
6 10 (0.23%) JUnit
7 9 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.21%) Maven
7 9 (0.21%) Selenium
7 9 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.21%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.19%) Mockito
8 8 (0.19%) Postman
8 8 (0.19%) TestNG
9 7 (0.16%) GitLab
9 7 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.14%) Subversion
11 3 (0.070%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.047%) Oracle Forms
General
1 804 (18.84%) Social Skills
2 508 (11.91%) Finance
3 456 (10.69%) Electronics
4 445 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
5 397 (9.30%) Marketing
6 277 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 247 (5.79%) Presentation Skills
8 154 (3.61%) Retail
9 136 (3.19%) Telecoms
10 123 (2.88%) Law
10 123 (2.88%) Public Sector
11 111 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
12 72 (1.69%) Automotive
13 56 (1.31%) Aerospace
14 45 (1.05%) Games
15 44 (1.03%) Legal
16 34 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
17 29 (0.68%) Aviation
17 29 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (0.45%) Banking
Job Titles
1 543 (12.73%) Senior
2 226 (5.30%) Technical Manager
3 219 (5.13%) Lead
3 219 (5.13%) Project Manager
4 163 (3.82%) Test Engineer
5 153 (3.59%) Architect
5 153 (3.59%) Electrical Engineer
6 152 (3.56%) Safety Engineer
7 139 (3.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 136 (3.19%) Help Desk Manager
9 134 (3.14%) Engineering Specialist
10 123 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
11 119 (2.79%) Technical Support
12 101 (2.37%) Products Support Manager
13 100 (2.34%) Developer
14 99 (2.32%) Support Technician
15 97 (2.27%) Support Manager
16 95 (2.23%) Analyst
17 83 (1.95%) Project Engineer
18 82 (1.92%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (1.78%) .NET
2 38 (0.89%) HTML
3 35 (0.82%) .NET Core
4 33 (0.77%) CSS
5 31 (0.73%) .NET Framework
6 27 (0.63%) REST
7 24 (0.56%) React
8 21 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
9 20 (0.47%) HTML5
9 20 (0.47%) React Native
10 18 (0.42%) jQuery
10 18 (0.42%) RESTful
11 17 (0.40%) ASP.NET
12 16 (0.37%) WPF
13 15 (0.35%) Middleware
13 15 (0.35%) Node.js
13 15 (0.35%) PyTorch
13 15 (0.35%) TensorFlow
14 14 (0.33%) Loki
15 13 (0.30%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 124 (2.91%) Management Information System
2 107 (2.51%) FMCG
3 74 (1.73%) IoT
4 50 (1.17%) Life Science
5 45 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
5 45 (1.05%) Robotics
6 42 (0.98%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 42 (0.98%) SCADA
7 36 (0.84%) Algorithms
8 35 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (0.80%) Operational Technology
10 31 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (0.73%) PMI
11 27 (0.63%) Blockchain
12 21 (0.49%) Embedded Systems
12 21 (0.49%) Product Ownership
13 18 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (0.40%) Driving Licence
14 17 (0.40%) Onboarding
15 16 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.55%) Windows
2 69 (1.62%) Linux
3 58 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.14%) Debian
8 5 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
9 4 (0.094%) Android
10 3 (0.070%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.070%) CentOS
10 3 (0.070%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.070%) Unix
11 2 (0.047%) AIX
11 2 (0.047%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.023%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.023%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,764 (41.34%) Service Delivery
2 573 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 450 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
4 402 (9.42%) ERP
5 368 (8.62%) Project Management
6 359 (8.41%) Coaching
7 350 (8.20%) CAD
8 316 (7.41%) Mathematics
9 252 (5.91%) Physics
10 212 (4.97%) Agile
11 206 (4.83%) Mentoring
12 190 (4.45%) Business Case
13 189 (4.43%) Project Delivery
14 183 (4.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 170 (3.98%) Business Intelligence
16 155 (3.63%) Customer Service
17 154 (3.61%) Finite Element Analysis
17 154 (3.61%) Safety Engineering
18 153 (3.59%) Logistics
19 147 (3.45%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 169 (3.96%) SQL
2 118 (2.77%) Python
3 94 (2.20%) C#
4 89 (2.09%) MATLAB
5 65 (1.52%) C++
6 58 (1.36%) C
6 58 (1.36%) JavaScript
7 36 (0.84%) Java
8 27 (0.63%) TypeScript
9 25 (0.59%) R
10 22 (0.52%) ABAP
10 22 (0.52%) Progress 4GL
11 16 (0.37%) VB
12 14 (0.33%) PHP
12 14 (0.33%) PowerShell
13 12 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.26%) Korn
15 10 (0.23%) Embedded C
15 10 (0.23%) VB.NET
16 9 (0.21%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,632 (38.25%) NVQ Level 3
2 1,120 (26.25%) Degree
3 529 (12.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 220 (5.16%) HND
5 191 (4.48%) Master's Degree
6 179 (4.19%) NVQ Level 4
7 151 (3.54%) Chartered Engineer
8 88 (2.06%) HNC
9 66 (1.55%) Security Cleared
10 51 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (1.03%) PMI Certification
12 42 (0.98%) DV Cleared
13 31 (0.73%) SC Cleared
14 27 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
14 27 (0.63%) PhD
15 25 (0.59%) PMP
16 22 (0.52%) CISA
16 22 (0.52%) ISACA
17 19 (0.45%) CISSP
18 14 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (5.32%) QA
2 103 (2.41%) GMP
3 90 (2.11%) ISO 9001
4 80 (1.87%) AQAP
5 33 (0.77%) SLA
6 30 (0.70%) NEBOSH
7 25 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 23 (0.54%) GDPR
9 22 (0.52%) ITGC
10 21 (0.49%) Accessibility
11 19 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 18 (0.42%) Data Quality
13 12 (0.28%) GxP
14 10 (0.23%) PMO
15 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (0.21%) Good Clinical Practice
15 9 (0.21%) NIST
16 8 (0.19%) GLP
17 4 (0.094%) GRC
18 3 (0.070%) ECSS
System Software
1 60 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 42 (0.98%) Docker
3 32 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.42%) Firmware
5 16 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.12%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.070%) Terminal Server
8 3 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.047%) KVM
9 2 (0.047%) Postfix
9 2 (0.047%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.047%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (1.24%) Kubernetes
2 40 (0.94%) Terraform
3 14 (0.33%) Grafana
3 14 (0.33%) Kustomize
4 12 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.23%) Ansible
5 10 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.19%) Packer
7 6 (0.14%) BMC PATROL
7 6 (0.14%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.094%) SCCM
9 2 (0.047%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.047%) Nagios
9 2 (0.047%) Nessus
9 2 (0.047%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.047%) Wonderware InTouch
10 1 (0.023%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.023%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.023%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.023%) QRadar
Vendors
1 399 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 340 (7.97%) SAP
3 111 (2.60%) Siemens
4 57 (1.34%) Oracle
5 44 (1.03%) Google
6 43 (1.01%) VMware
7 35 (0.82%) Rockwell
8 27 (0.63%) Sage
9 26 (0.61%) Cisco
10 22 (0.52%) Progress
11 21 (0.49%) Epicor
12 18 (0.42%) Salesforce
13 17 (0.40%) Fortinet
14 16 (0.37%) EMC
15 15 (0.35%) Infor
16 14 (0.33%) Veeam
17 12 (0.28%) NEC
18 11 (0.26%) Red Hat
19 10 (0.23%) IBM
20 9 (0.21%) Informatica