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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 105 78
Rank change year-on-year +58 -27 +43
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 3,430 1,936 2,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.79% 3.27% 4.02%
As % of the General category 8.38% 4.77% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,209 916 1,494
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,625 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £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 £79,375 £70,000
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 40,954 40,592 43,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.17% 68.61% 60.67%
Number of salaries quoted 26,521 18,547 24,261
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,418 £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 £75,000 £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 19 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 19 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 +92 824 £45,000 -2.17% 776
South East +42 790 £42,300 -19.43% 721
Midlands +10 710 £45,000 -16.28% 766
West Midlands +2 432 £45,000 -26.53% 468
South West +59 401 £42,500 -22.73% 453
North West +66 369 £47,500 - 394
Yorkshire +105 362 £42,500 +6.25% 310
East of England +126 313 £51,250 -6.82% 423
East Midlands +18 272 £42,500 -5.56% 297
Wales +94 184 £32,500 +8.33% 147
Scotland -10 146 £47,500 +2.70% 168
North East +34 93 £40,000 +14.29% 93
Northern Ireland +57 63 £35,000 -6.67% 19
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 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 69 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.50%) Confluence
4 13 (0.38%) Documentum
5 7 (0.20%) Apache
5 7 (0.20%) IIS
6 6 (0.17%) CMS
6 6 (0.17%) nginx
7 4 (0.12%) WordPress
8 3 (0.087%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.087%) Drupal
8 3 (0.087%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.058%) Resin
9 2 (0.058%) SAS
9 2 (0.058%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.058%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.029%) JBoss
10 1 (0.029%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.029%) Site Server
Applications
1 155 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
2 126 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (1.02%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.64%) SOLIDWORKS
7 13 (0.38%) OrCAD
7 13 (0.38%) Simulink
8 10 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.29%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.29%) Solid Edge
9 9 (0.26%) Siemens NX
10 8 (0.23%) EPLAN
10 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
11 7 (0.20%) Revit
12 5 (0.15%) CANalyzer
12 5 (0.15%) InfoPath
13 4 (0.12%) Doxygen
13 4 (0.12%) Fusion 360
14 3 (0.087%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 41 (1.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 33 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.38%) Sage X3
5 13 (0.38%) TrackWise
6 11 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 9 (0.26%) SAP PP
7 9 (0.26%) SAP QM
8 8 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
8 8 (0.23%) Sage 200
8 8 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 8 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 8 (0.23%) SAP IBP
9 7 (0.20%) Magento
9 7 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.20%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 263 (7.67%) Microsoft 365
2 228 (6.65%) Azure
3 137 (3.99%) Power Platform
4 95 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
5 68 (1.98%) Entra ID
6 62 (1.81%) AWS
7 61 (1.78%) SaaS
8 37 (1.08%) OneDrive
9 36 (1.05%) PowerApps
10 33 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (0.67%) Power Automate
12 20 (0.58%) GitHub
13 19 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (0.29%) WhatsApp
15 8 (0.23%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (0.20%) Azure API Management
16 7 (0.20%) Azure Event Grid
16 7 (0.20%) Azure Functions
16 7 (0.20%) Azure Service Bus
16 7 (0.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 86 (2.51%) Wireless
2 81 (2.36%) Firewall
3 60 (1.75%) Ethernet
4 59 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
5 48 (1.40%) LAN
6 38 (1.11%) WAN
7 37 (1.08%) RS-232
8 30 (0.87%) DNS
9 29 (0.85%) Internet
10 28 (0.82%) LTE
11 27 (0.79%) TCP/IP
12 26 (0.76%) VPN
13 24 (0.70%) HTTP
14 21 (0.61%) Network Security
15 19 (0.55%) DHCP
16 17 (0.50%) 4G
16 17 (0.50%) SAN
17 15 (0.44%) Bluetooth
17 15 (0.44%) MQTT
18 14 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 119 (3.47%) Power BI
3 42 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (1.05%) MySQL
5 34 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 23 (0.67%) Relational Database
7 21 (0.61%) MongoDB
7 21 (0.61%) Tableau
8 20 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (0.52%) SQLite
10 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
11 13 (0.38%) MS Access
11 13 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (0.35%) Redis
13 8 (0.23%) OLAP
13 8 (0.23%) Power Query
14 7 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (0.17%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 115 (3.35%) Git
2 53 (1.55%) LabVIEW
3 50 (1.46%) JIRA
4 40 (1.17%) Visual Studio
5 23 (0.67%) Subversion
6 13 (0.38%) Eclipse
7 12 (0.35%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.20%) CANoe
10 6 (0.17%) 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 (0.087%) Rational Rhapsody
13 3 (0.087%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.087%) TestNG
13 3 (0.087%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 876 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 478 (13.94%) Electronics
3 458 (13.35%) Finance
4 365 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 295 (8.60%) Pharmaceutical
6 239 (6.97%) Marketing
7 209 (6.09%) Aerospace
8 178 (5.19%) Automotive
9 173 (5.04%) Retail
10 166 (4.84%) Telecoms
11 159 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 150 (4.37%) Public Sector
13 125 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
14 120 (3.50%) Law
15 113 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
16 111 (3.24%) Legal
17 79 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
18 45 (1.31%) Games
19 35 (1.02%) Military
20 31 (0.90%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 340 (9.91%) Senior
2 247 (7.20%) Software Engineer
3 245 (7.14%) Analyst
4 240 (7.00%) Developer
5 210 (6.12%) Lead
6 203 (5.92%) Graduate
7 202 (5.89%) Systems Engineer
8 194 (5.66%) Project Manager
9 157 (4.58%) Electronics Engineer
10 128 (3.73%) Support Engineer
11 127 (3.70%) IT Engineer
12 116 (3.38%) Embedded Engineer
13 113 (3.29%) IT Support
14 103 (3.00%) Junior
15 98 (2.86%) Technical Support
16 92 (2.68%) Quality Engineer
17 89 (2.59%) IT Manager
18 85 (2.48%) QA Manager
19 80 (2.33%) Automation Engineer
20 77 (2.24%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (3.27%) .NET
2 76 (2.22%) HTML
3 46 (1.34%) CSS
4 43 (1.25%) ASP.NET
4 43 (1.25%) React
5 37 (1.08%) .NET Framework
6 31 (0.90%) RESTful
7 25 (0.73%) WPF
7 25 (0.73%) Yocto
8 24 (0.70%) .NET Core
9 23 (0.67%) AngularJS
10 21 (0.61%) Node.js
11 20 (0.58%) Blazor
11 20 (0.58%) Django
11 20 (0.58%) Flask
12 19 (0.55%) Entity Framework
13 18 (0.52%) ASP.NET MVC
14 16 (0.47%) YAML
15 15 (0.44%) XML
16 14 (0.41%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 210 (6.12%) Management Information System
2 180 (5.25%) FMCG
3 112 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
4 72 (2.10%) Driving Licence
5 71 (2.07%) IoT
6 53 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
7 52 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 50 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 47 (1.37%) Operational Technology
10 41 (1.20%) Algorithms
11 39 (1.14%) Industrial Internet of Things
12 36 (1.05%) FPGA
13 32 (0.93%) Life Science
14 31 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
15 30 (0.87%) Robotics
16 27 (0.79%) Biopharmaceutical
17 26 (0.76%) Analogue Electronics
18 24 (0.70%) SCADA
19 23 (0.67%) VHDL
20 20 (0.58%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 254 (7.41%) Windows
2 171 (4.99%) Linux
3 84 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 73 (2.13%) Windows 10
5 31 (0.90%) Android
6 28 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
7 20 (0.58%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
9 16 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 9 (0.26%) VMS
11 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.23%) 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 (0.087%) CatOS
14 3 (0.087%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
2 506 (14.75%) ERP
3 361 (10.52%) Project Management
4 347 (10.12%) Software Engineering
5 289 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 278 (8.10%) Business Intelligence
7 220 (6.41%) Computer Science
8 208 (6.06%) QMS
9 205 (5.98%) Agile
10 191 (5.57%) Mentoring
11 178 (5.19%) Coaching
12 154 (4.49%) Logistics
13 153 (4.46%) Customer Service
14 152 (4.43%) Programme Management
15 148 (4.31%) Change Management
16 144 (4.20%) Validation
17 137 (3.99%) Digital Marketing
18 122 (3.56%) Project Planning
19 118 (3.44%) CAD
19 118 (3.44%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 353 (10.29%) SQL
2 213 (6.21%) C#
3 201 (5.86%) C
4 179 (5.22%) Python
5 118 (3.44%) C++
6 110 (3.21%) JavaScript
7 60 (1.75%) Embedded C
8 46 (1.34%) Java
9 44 (1.28%) T-SQL
10 41 (1.20%) TypeScript
11 37 (1.08%) PowerShell
12 30 (0.87%) Bash
13 27 (0.79%) PHP
14 21 (0.61%) MATLAB
14 21 (0.61%) VB
15 20 (0.58%) XAML
16 18 (0.52%) VBA
17 17 (0.50%) VB.NET
18 12 (0.35%) Embedded C++
19 9 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 971 (28.31%) Degree
2 128 (3.73%) Security Cleared
3 106 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 70 (2.04%) HND
5 69 (2.01%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 68 (1.98%) HNC
6 68 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 41 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (0.99%) SC Cleared
9 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (0.61%) CCNA
12 20 (0.58%) PMI Certification
13 19 (0.55%) CISSP
14 14 (0.41%) CISA
15 10 (0.29%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.29%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.29%) DV Cleared
15 10 (0.29%) MCSE
15 10 (0.29%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 464 (13.53%) QA
2 228 (6.65%) GMP
3 46 (1.34%) ISO 9001
4 41 (1.20%) PMO
5 38 (1.11%) SLA
6 26 (0.76%) GDPR
6 26 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (0.55%) ISO 13485
8 14 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
8 14 (0.41%) GxP
8 14 (0.41%) ISO 14001
9 13 (0.38%) Data Quality
9 13 (0.38%) ISO 26262
10 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.23%) NIST
12 7 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.17%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 190 (5.54%) Firmware
2 158 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 122 (3.56%) Embedded Firmware
4 49 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 40 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 18 (0.52%) Docker
7 9 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.12%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.12%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.087%) KVM
12 2 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.058%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.41%) Terraform
3 7 (0.20%) FortiGate
3 7 (0.20%) Functional Safety
4 5 (0.15%) SCCM
4 5 (0.15%) WSUS
5 4 (0.12%) Puppet
6 3 (0.087%) Ansible
6 3 (0.087%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.058%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.058%) Nessus
7 2 (0.058%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 495 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 286 (8.34%) SAP
3 104 (3.03%) EMC
4 93 (2.71%) VMware
5 76 (2.22%) IFS
6 66 (1.92%) Oracle
7 41 (1.20%) Sage
8 37 (1.08%) Epicor
9 32 (0.93%) Veeam
10 31 (0.90%) Google
11 29 (0.85%) Cisco
11 29 (0.85%) Siemens
12 21 (0.61%) Citrix
13 19 (0.55%) Workday
14 18 (0.52%) HP
15 16 (0.47%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.38%) Adobe
16 13 (0.38%) Aruba
17 12 (0.35%) Allen-Bradley
18 10 (0.29%) IBM