Design for Manufacturing Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
UK > Work from Home

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 572 653
Rank change year-on-year +143 +81 +177
Permanent jobs citing Design for Manufacturing 1 13 6
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.006% 0.038% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.042% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £47,875 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 -
90th Percentile - £101,250 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% +14.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Design for 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,670 30,949 40,734
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.39% 91.59% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,785 23,494 28,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Design for Manufacturing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Design for Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Design for Manufacturing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Design for Manufacturing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Design for Manufacturing.

Design for Manufacturing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Design for Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) RS-485
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA/VHDL Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Altera
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Freescale
1 1 (100.00%) SAP