Smart Manufacturing Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Smart Manufacturing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Smart Manufacturing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Smart Manufacturing 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,051 1,063 2,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 73.22% 95.17% 86.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,384 685 1,869
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £39,938 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £69,914
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

Smart Manufacturing
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Manufacturing within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 April 2026. 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
Batley - 1 - -
Huddersfield - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -
Smart Manufacturing
Yorkshire

Smart Manufacturing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (100.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 3 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 3 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) ERP
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Six Sigma
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Rockwell