Manufacturing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 103 80
Rank change year-on-year +55 -23 +42
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 3,384 1,933 2,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.77% 3.21% 3.97%
As % of the General category 8.31% 4.67% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,189 911 1,491
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,600 £77,500 £68,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Manufacturing is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,700 41,380 42,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.36% 68.67% 60.02%
Number of salaries quoted 26,450 18,780 24,155
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Manufacturing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in the UK excluding London

Manufacturing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
North of England +92 801 £45,000 -2.17% 718
South East +48 801 £42,300 -19.43% 653
Midlands +10 703 £45,000 -18.18% 714
West Midlands +5 427 £45,000 -28.00% 437
South West +46 384 £42,500 -22.73% 422
North West +70 363 £47,500 +1.06% 367
Yorkshire +112 349 £42,500 - 272
East of England +127 311 £51,250 -6.82% 388
East Midlands +21 270 £42,500 -5.56% 276
Wales +97 182 £35,000 +7.69% 120
Scotland +1 145 £47,500 +5.56% 159
North East +34 89 £40,000 +14.29% 106
Northern Ireland +60 58 £35,000 -6.67% 31
Manufacturing
UK

Manufacturing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 138 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 67 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.50%) Confluence
4 13 (0.38%) Documentum
5 7 (0.21%) Apache
5 7 (0.21%) IIS
6 6 (0.18%) CMS
6 6 (0.18%) nginx
7 4 (0.12%) WordPress
8 3 (0.089%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.089%) Drupal
8 3 (0.089%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.059%) Resin
9 2 (0.059%) SAS
9 2 (0.059%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.059%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.030%) JBoss
10 1 (0.030%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.030%) Site Server
Applications
1 157 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 127 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (1.03%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.65%) SOLIDWORKS
7 13 (0.38%) OrCAD
7 13 (0.38%) Simulink
8 10 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.30%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.30%) Solid Edge
9 9 (0.27%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.27%) Siemens NX
10 8 (0.24%) EPLAN
11 7 (0.21%) Revit
12 5 (0.15%) CANalyzer
12 5 (0.15%) InfoPath
13 4 (0.12%) Doxygen
13 4 (0.12%) Fusion 360
14 3 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 41 (1.21%) Dynamics NAV
2 33 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 21 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.38%) Sage X3
5 13 (0.38%) TrackWise
6 11 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.30%) SAP QM
8 9 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 9 (0.27%) SAP PP
9 8 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
9 8 (0.24%) Sage 200
9 8 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.24%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.24%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
9 8 (0.24%) SAP IBP
10 7 (0.21%) Magento
10 7 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.21%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 262 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
2 221 (6.53%) Azure
3 138 (4.08%) Power Platform
4 94 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 66 (1.95%) Entra ID
6 61 (1.80%) SaaS
7 60 (1.77%) AWS
8 36 (1.06%) PowerApps
9 35 (1.03%) OneDrive
10 31 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (0.68%) Power Automate
12 20 (0.59%) GitHub
13 19 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (0.24%) WhatsApp
15 7 (0.21%) Azure API Management
15 7 (0.21%) Azure Event Grid
15 7 (0.21%) Azure Functions
15 7 (0.21%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (0.21%) Serverless
16 6 (0.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.57%) Wireless
2 79 (2.33%) Firewall
3 65 (1.92%) Ethernet
4 61 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
5 48 (1.42%) LAN
6 39 (1.15%) RS-232
7 38 (1.12%) WAN
8 30 (0.89%) DNS
8 30 (0.89%) TCP/IP
9 29 (0.86%) Internet
10 27 (0.80%) LTE
11 25 (0.74%) HTTP
11 25 (0.74%) VPN
12 20 (0.59%) DHCP
13 18 (0.53%) 4G
13 18 (0.53%) Network Security
14 17 (0.50%) SAN
15 15 (0.44%) Bluetooth
15 15 (0.44%) MQTT
16 14 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 118 (3.49%) Power BI
3 42 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (1.12%) MySQL
5 33 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 22 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 21 (0.62%) MongoDB
7 21 (0.62%) Tableau
8 18 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (0.53%) SQLite
9 14 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
10 13 (0.38%) MS Access
10 13 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (0.35%) Redis
12 8 (0.24%) Power Query
13 7 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (0.18%) GIS
14 6 (0.18%) NoSQL
14 6 (0.18%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 115 (3.40%) Git
2 52 (1.54%) LabVIEW
3 50 (1.48%) JIRA
4 40 (1.18%) Visual Studio
5 23 (0.68%) Subversion
6 13 (0.38%) Eclipse
7 12 (0.35%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.21%) CANoe
10 6 (0.18%) Maven
11 5 (0.15%) Selenium
12 4 (0.12%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.12%) GitLab
12 4 (0.12%) Postman
12 4 (0.12%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.12%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.089%) Rational Rhapsody
13 3 (0.089%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.089%) TestNG
13 3 (0.089%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 881 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 481 (14.21%) Electronics
3 462 (13.65%) Finance
4 380 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
5 263 (7.77%) Pharmaceutical
6 242 (7.15%) Marketing
7 204 (6.03%) Aerospace
8 177 (5.23%) Automotive
9 171 (5.05%) Retail
9 171 (5.05%) Telecoms
10 159 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 155 (4.58%) Public Sector
12 125 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
13 118 (3.49%) Law
14 113 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
15 110 (3.25%) Legal
16 82 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
17 45 (1.33%) Games
18 34 (1.00%) Military
19 31 (0.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 314 (9.28%) Senior
2 248 (7.33%) Analyst
3 243 (7.18%) Software Engineer
4 241 (7.12%) Developer
5 209 (6.18%) Lead
6 204 (6.03%) Graduate
7 201 (5.94%) Systems Engineer
8 200 (5.91%) Project Manager
9 156 (4.61%) Electronics Engineer
10 127 (3.75%) IT Engineer
11 126 (3.72%) Support Engineer
12 117 (3.46%) Embedded Engineer
13 112 (3.31%) IT Support
14 101 (2.98%) Junior
15 97 (2.87%) Technical Support
16 92 (2.72%) Quality Engineer
17 89 (2.63%) IT Manager
18 85 (2.51%) QA Manager
19 79 (2.33%) Automation Engineer
20 78 (2.30%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (3.37%) .NET
2 76 (2.25%) HTML
3 46 (1.36%) CSS
4 45 (1.33%) ASP.NET
4 45 (1.33%) React
5 37 (1.09%) .NET Framework
6 30 (0.89%) RESTful
7 27 (0.80%) Yocto
8 25 (0.74%) WPF
9 24 (0.71%) .NET Core
10 23 (0.68%) AngularJS
11 20 (0.59%) Blazor
12 19 (0.56%) Entity Framework
12 19 (0.56%) Flask
12 19 (0.56%) Node.js
13 18 (0.53%) ASP.NET MVC
13 18 (0.53%) Django
14 16 (0.47%) YAML
15 15 (0.44%) XML
16 14 (0.41%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 208 (6.15%) Management Information System
2 178 (5.26%) FMCG
3 113 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
4 72 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 70 (2.07%) IoT
6 54 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
7 51 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 51 (1.51%) Data Centre
8 47 (1.39%) Operational Technology
9 41 (1.21%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.15%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 35 (1.03%) FPGA
12 32 (0.95%) Life Science
13 30 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
14 28 (0.83%) Robotics
15 27 (0.80%) Biopharmaceutical
16 26 (0.77%) Analogue Electronics
17 24 (0.71%) SCADA
18 22 (0.65%) VHDL
19 20 (0.59%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 250 (7.39%) Windows
2 173 (5.11%) Linux
3 85 (2.51%) Windows Server
4 72 (2.13%) Windows 10
5 31 (0.92%) Android
6 29 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
7 18 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 18 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
8 16 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 9 (0.27%) VMS
12 8 (0.24%) Debian
13 4 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.12%) VxWorks
13 4 (0.12%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.089%) CatOS
15 2 (0.059%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
2 512 (15.13%) ERP
3 373 (11.02%) Project Management
4 343 (10.14%) Software Engineering
5 290 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 280 (8.27%) Business Intelligence
7 217 (6.41%) Computer Science
8 205 (6.06%) Agile
9 180 (5.32%) QMS
10 163 (4.82%) Mentoring
11 159 (4.70%) Programme Management
12 156 (4.61%) Logistics
13 153 (4.52%) Change Management
13 153 (4.52%) Customer Service
14 150 (4.43%) Coaching
15 146 (4.31%) Validation
16 141 (4.17%) Digital Marketing
17 123 (3.63%) Project Planning
18 121 (3.58%) Collaborative Working
19 116 (3.43%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 355 (10.49%) SQL
2 215 (6.35%) C#
3 204 (6.03%) C
4 179 (5.29%) Python
5 115 (3.40%) C++
6 112 (3.31%) JavaScript
7 60 (1.77%) Embedded C
8 46 (1.36%) Java
9 44 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 40 (1.18%) PowerShell
10 40 (1.18%) TypeScript
11 30 (0.89%) Bash
12 29 (0.86%) PHP
13 21 (0.62%) MATLAB
13 21 (0.62%) VB
14 20 (0.59%) XAML
15 18 (0.53%) VB.NET
15 18 (0.53%) VBA
16 11 (0.33%) Embedded C++
17 9 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 953 (28.16%) Degree
2 127 (3.75%) Security Cleared
3 105 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 71 (2.10%) HND
5 69 (2.04%) HNC
5 69 (2.04%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 68 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 42 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (1.03%) SC Cleared
9 27 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (0.59%) CCNA
12 19 (0.56%) PMI Certification
13 18 (0.53%) CISSP
14 14 (0.41%) CISA
15 11 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.30%) Azure Certification
16 10 (0.30%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.30%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.30%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 439 (12.97%) QA
2 199 (5.88%) GMP
3 47 (1.39%) ISO 9001
4 44 (1.30%) PMO
5 38 (1.12%) SLA
6 26 (0.77%) GDPR
7 25 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (0.56%) ISO 13485
9 16 (0.47%) Accessibility
10 14 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
10 14 (0.41%) GxP
10 14 (0.41%) ISO 14001
10 14 (0.41%) ISO 26262
11 10 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.30%) Data Quality
12 8 (0.24%) NIST
12 8 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 187 (5.53%) Firmware
2 156 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 121 (3.58%) Embedded Firmware
4 47 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 40 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 18 (0.53%) Docker
7 9 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.12%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.12%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.089%) KVM
12 2 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.41%) Terraform
3 7 (0.21%) FortiGate
3 7 (0.21%) Functional Safety
4 5 (0.15%) SCCM
4 5 (0.15%) WSUS
5 4 (0.12%) Puppet
6 3 (0.089%) Ansible
6 3 (0.089%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.059%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.059%) Nessus
7 2 (0.059%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 495 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 294 (8.69%) SAP
3 104 (3.07%) EMC
4 93 (2.75%) VMware
5 74 (2.19%) IFS
6 63 (1.86%) Oracle
7 41 (1.21%) Sage
8 36 (1.06%) Epicor
9 33 (0.98%) Veeam
10 31 (0.92%) Google
11 29 (0.86%) Siemens
12 28 (0.83%) Cisco
13 19 (0.56%) Citrix
13 19 (0.56%) Workday
14 18 (0.53%) HP
15 16 (0.47%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.38%) Adobe
17 12 (0.35%) Allen-Bradley
17 12 (0.35%) Aruba
18 10 (0.30%) IBM