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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 63 146
Rank change year-on-year +42 +83 -6
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 4,243 3,731 2,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.13% 3.79% 2.46%
As % of the General category 12.06% 6.34% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 2,381 1,264
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,050 £29,575
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% +8.17%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 35,192 58,854 71,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.47% 59.84% 68.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18,374 39,596 38,382
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
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 30 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 30 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 +43 3,996 £55,000 +22.22% 2,611
UK excluding London +37 3,584 £52,500 +16.67% 2,337
North of England +34 1,369 £55,000 +22.22% 614
South East +38 1,068 £62,500 +47.75% 560
North West +46 945 £56,000 +17.89% 296
London +213 558 £65,000 -7.14% 386
Midlands 0 436 £47,500 +5.56% 627
Yorkshire +22 366 £45,000 +5.88% 262
East of England +26 350 £44,000 -14.15% 159
Work from Home +4 343 £58,500 +6.36% 1,226
West Midlands +12 340 £55,000 +22.22% 316
South West +20 195 £40,000 -5.88% 267
Scotland +90 105 £50,000 +5.26% 94
East Midlands -27 96 £45,000 +5.88% 308
North East +16 58 £45,000 +5.88% 63
Wales -23 44 £42,500 +21.43% 45
Northern Ireland +7 22 £42,500 +21.43% 30

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 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 67 (1.58%) 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 (0.24%) nginx
8 8 (0.19%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.14%) CMS
10 5 (0.12%) Apache
11 3 (0.071%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.071%) 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 (0.024%) Mendix
13 1 (0.024%) MS Project Server
13 1 (0.024%) WordPress
Applications
1 233 (5.49%) Microsoft Office
2 190 (4.48%) Mathcad
3 126 (2.97%) Abaqus
4 82 (1.93%) SOLIDWORKS
5 58 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
6 21 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.33%) 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 (0.071%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.071%) CATIA
11 3 (0.071%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.047%) GNU Octave
12 2 (0.047%) InDesign
12 2 (0.047%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 62 (1.46%) 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 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.26%) SAP IBP
7 10 (0.24%) Infor M3
8 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
9 8 (0.19%) SAP PP
10 7 (0.16%) TrackWise
11 6 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.094%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 4 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
12 4 (0.094%) Salesforce CRM
12 4 (0.094%) Sprinklr
13 3 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
13 3 (0.071%) NetSuite
13 3 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 142 (3.35%) Azure
2 125 (2.95%) AWS
3 64 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (1.23%) Power Platform
5 33 (0.78%) GitHub
6 31 (0.73%) GCP
7 28 (0.66%) SaaS
8 20 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (0.47%) Entra ID
9 17 (0.40%) Serverless
10 15 (0.35%) Amazon S3
10 15 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (0.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (0.35%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (0.33%) Amazon SageMaker
12 13 (0.31%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (0.26%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (0.24%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (0.21%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.48%) Firewall
2 24 (0.57%) WAN
3 22 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
4 21 (0.49%) Internet
5 20 (0.47%) LAN
6 19 (0.45%) Network Security
7 18 (0.42%) DNS
7 18 (0.42%) VPN
7 18 (0.42%) Wireless
8 16 (0.38%) Modbus
8 16 (0.38%) VoIP
9 15 (0.35%) SAN
10 13 (0.31%) Ethernet
10 13 (0.31%) Profibus
11 12 (0.28%) HTTP
11 12 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
11 12 (0.28%) RS-232
11 12 (0.28%) VLAN
12 11 (0.26%) MPLS
12 11 (0.26%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (1.34%) SQL Server
2 50 (1.18%) Power BI
3 32 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (0.52%) Relational Database
6 21 (0.49%) NoSQL
7 20 (0.47%) MySQL
8 16 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (0.35%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (0.21%) MS Access
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%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 93 (2.19%) JIRA
2 34 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 32 (0.75%) Git
4 27 (0.64%) Visual Studio
5 12 (0.28%) LabVIEW
6 10 (0.24%) 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 (0.071%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.047%) Oracle Forms
General
1 801 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 503 (11.85%) Finance
3 457 (10.77%) Electronics
4 419 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 396 (9.33%) Marketing
6 277 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 245 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
8 152 (3.58%) Retail
9 133 (3.13%) Telecoms
10 121 (2.85%) Public Sector
11 109 (2.57%) Law
12 104 (2.45%) Pharmaceutical
13 71 (1.67%) Automotive
14 56 (1.32%) Aerospace
15 54 (1.27%) Legal
16 45 (1.06%) Games
17 38 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
18 35 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
19 28 (0.66%) Aviation
20 18 (0.42%) Banking
Job Titles
1 522 (12.30%) Senior
2 228 (5.37%) Lead
3 225 (5.30%) Technical Manager
4 219 (5.16%) Project Manager
5 168 (3.96%) Architect
6 164 (3.87%) Test Engineer
7 153 (3.61%) Electrical Engineer
8 152 (3.58%) Safety Engineer
9 139 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
10 136 (3.21%) Help Desk Manager
11 131 (3.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 126 (2.97%) Engineering Specialist
13 119 (2.80%) Technical Support
14 101 (2.38%) Products Support Manager
15 99 (2.33%) Support Technician
16 98 (2.31%) Developer
16 98 (2.31%) Support Manager
17 95 (2.24%) Analyst
18 81 (1.91%) Product Manager
19 78 (1.84%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (1.77%) .NET
2 38 (0.90%) HTML
3 34 (0.80%) .NET Core
4 33 (0.78%) CSS
5 31 (0.73%) .NET Framework
6 26 (0.61%) REST
7 24 (0.57%) 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 16 (0.38%) ASP.NET
12 15 (0.35%) Middleware
12 15 (0.35%) Node.js
12 15 (0.35%) PyTorch
12 15 (0.35%) TensorFlow
12 15 (0.35%) WPF
13 14 (0.33%) Loki
14 13 (0.31%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 124 (2.92%) Management Information System
2 107 (2.52%) FMCG
3 71 (1.67%) IoT
4 48 (1.13%) Life Science
5 46 (1.08%) SCADA
6 45 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
6 45 (1.06%) Robotics
7 41 (0.97%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 37 (0.87%) Operational Technology
9 36 (0.85%) Algorithms
10 35 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 31 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (0.73%) PMI
12 27 (0.64%) Blockchain
13 22 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
14 21 (0.49%) Product Ownership
15 18 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
16 17 (0.40%) Onboarding
16 17 (0.40%) Video Conferencing
17 16 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 108 (2.55%) Windows
2 66 (1.56%) Linux
3 57 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.28%) 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 (0.071%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.071%) CentOS
10 3 (0.071%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.071%) Unix
11 2 (0.047%) AIX
11 2 (0.047%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.024%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.024%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,765 (41.60%) Service Delivery
2 570 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 454 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
4 421 (9.92%) ERP
5 367 (8.65%) Project Management
6 359 (8.46%) Coaching
7 358 (8.44%) CAD
8 324 (7.64%) Mathematics
9 252 (5.94%) Physics
10 215 (5.07%) Agile
11 209 (4.93%) Mentoring
12 186 (4.38%) Project Delivery
13 184 (4.34%) Stakeholder Management
14 176 (4.15%) Business Case
15 167 (3.94%) Business Intelligence
16 160 (3.77%) PLM
17 154 (3.63%) Safety Engineering
18 153 (3.61%) Customer Service
19 144 (3.39%) Finite Element Analysis
19 144 (3.39%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 168 (3.96%) SQL
2 121 (2.85%) Python
3 96 (2.26%) C#
4 73 (1.72%) MATLAB
5 65 (1.53%) C++
6 60 (1.41%) C
7 58 (1.37%) JavaScript
8 35 (0.82%) Java
9 27 (0.64%) TypeScript
10 24 (0.57%) R
11 22 (0.52%) ABAP
11 22 (0.52%) Progress 4GL
12 15 (0.35%) VB
13 14 (0.33%) PHP
13 14 (0.33%) PowerShell
14 12 (0.28%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.26%) Korn
16 10 (0.24%) Embedded C
16 10 (0.24%) VB.NET
17 9 (0.21%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 1,632 (38.46%) NVQ Level 3
2 1,085 (25.57%) Degree
3 554 (13.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 212 (5.00%) HND
5 181 (4.27%) Master's Degree
6 179 (4.22%) NVQ Level 4
7 143 (3.37%) Chartered Engineer
8 88 (2.07%) HNC
9 63 (1.48%) Security Cleared
10 51 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 45 (1.06%) PMI Certification
12 42 (0.99%) DV Cleared
13 36 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
14 29 (0.68%) SC Cleared
15 27 (0.64%) PhD
16 26 (0.61%) PMP
17 22 (0.52%) CISA
17 22 (0.52%) ISACA
18 20 (0.47%) CISSP
19 11 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (5.16%) QA
2 94 (2.22%) GMP
3 90 (2.12%) ISO 9001
4 80 (1.89%) AQAP
5 33 (0.78%) SLA
6 30 (0.71%) NEBOSH
7 25 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 24 (0.57%) GDPR
9 22 (0.52%) ITGC
10 21 (0.49%) Accessibility
11 18 (0.42%) Data Quality
11 18 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 12 (0.28%) GxP
13 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.24%) PMO
14 9 (0.21%) NIST
15 8 (0.19%) GLP
16 6 (0.14%) Good Clinical Practice
17 4 (0.094%) GRC
18 3 (0.071%) ECSS
System Software
1 59 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 41 (0.97%) Docker
3 31 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.47%) Firmware
5 16 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.12%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.071%) Terminal Server
9 3 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.047%) KVM
10 2 (0.047%) Postfix
10 2 (0.047%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 52 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 40 (0.94%) Terraform
3 14 (0.33%) Grafana
3 14 (0.33%) Kustomize
4 12 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.24%) Ansible
5 10 (0.24%) 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%) Wonderware InTouch
10 1 (0.024%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.024%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.024%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.024%) Marathon
10 1 (0.024%) QRadar
Vendors
1 399 (9.40%) Microsoft
2 347 (8.18%) SAP
3 123 (2.90%) Siemens
4 56 (1.32%) Oracle
5 42 (0.99%) Google
5 42 (0.99%) VMware
6 39 (0.92%) Rockwell
7 27 (0.64%) Sage
8 25 (0.59%) Cisco
9 22 (0.52%) Progress
10 21 (0.49%) Epicor
11 19 (0.45%) Salesforce
12 17 (0.40%) Fortinet
13 15 (0.35%) EMC
13 15 (0.35%) Veeam
14 14 (0.33%) Infor
15 12 (0.28%) NEC
16 11 (0.26%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.24%) Ariba
17 10 (0.24%) IBM