Smart Manufacturing Jobs

Smart Manufacturing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Smart Manufacturing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Smart Manufacturing over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 712 812 818
Rank change year-on-year +100 +6 +387
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Smart Manufacturing 6 10 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.011% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.014% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £43,750 £32,500 £62,000
25th Percentile £46,563 £34,375 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -52.50% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65,938 £57,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £66,250 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% -52.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Smart 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,557 70,933 68,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.91% 81.54% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 28,773 42,836 46,192
10th Percentile £26,929 £31,250 £33,740
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Smart Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart Manufacturing in the UK

Smart Manufacturing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Smart Manufacturing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Smart Manufacturing

Smart Manufacturing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Smart Manufacturing over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Smart Manufacturing in the UK

Smart Manufacturing
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Manufacturing within the UK over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +98 6 £60,000 +26.32% 15
England +87 4 £61,250 +28.95% 15
South East - 4 £61,250 - 1
Wales - 2 £47,500 - 2

Smart 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
General
1 6 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Manufacturing Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Industry 4.0
1 4 (66.67%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 4 (66.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Analytics
1 5 (83.33%) Data Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Predictive Maintenance
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C#
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Allen-Bradley
1 4 (66.67%) Siemens