Manufacturing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Manufacturing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 144 132
Rank change year-on-year +82 -12 +14
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 3,806 2,512 4,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.84% 2.48% 3.00%
As % of the General category 6.43% 3.63% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,412 1,232 2,184
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,050 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +2.22%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,215 69,122 100,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.75% 68.21% 64.16%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 37,296 50,752
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Manufacturing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Manufacturing in the UK

Manufacturing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manufacturing.

Salary trend for Manufacturing in the UK

Manufacturing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manufacturing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Manufacturing in the UK

Manufacturing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
UK excluding London +56 3,396 £45,000 -10.00% 3,035
England +81 3,297 £45,000 -18.18% 3,101
North of England +92 807 £45,000 -2.17% 702
South East +48 802 £42,300 -19.43% 645
Work from Home +49 764 £55,000 - 587
Midlands +9 704 £45,000 -18.18% 697
West Midlands +4 429 £45,000 -28.00% 429
South West +49 386 £42,500 -20.93% 429
North West +67 364 £47,500 +1.06% 357
Yorkshire +111 353 £42,500 - 268
East of England +131 312 £51,250 -6.82% 381
East Midlands +20 269 £42,500 -5.56% 267
London +39 244 £70,000 +3.70% 266
Wales +94 183 £33,750 +3.85% 124
Scotland -3 144 £47,500 +5.56% 165
North East +31 90 £40,000 +14.29% 101
Northern Ireland +58 59 £35,000 -6.67% 29

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:

Application Platforms
1 146 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 77 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (0.47%) Confluence
4 14 (0.37%) IIS
5 13 (0.34%) Documentum
6 8 (0.21%) Apache
7 7 (0.18%) CMS
8 6 (0.16%) nginx
9 5 (0.13%) SAS
10 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.11%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.11%) WordPress
11 3 (0.079%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.079%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.079%) Drupal
11 3 (0.079%) JBoss
12 2 (0.053%) Resin
12 2 (0.053%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.053%) WildFly
Applications
1 166 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
2 131 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (0.92%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.58%) SOLIDWORKS
7 13 (0.34%) OrCAD
7 13 (0.34%) Simulink
8 10 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.26%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.26%) Solid Edge
9 9 (0.24%) Siemens NX
10 8 (0.21%) EPLAN
11 7 (0.18%) Revit
12 5 (0.13%) CANalyzer
12 5 (0.13%) InfoPath
13 4 (0.11%) Doxygen
13 4 (0.11%) Fusion 360
14 3 (0.079%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 54 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 42 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 29 (0.76%) NetSuite
5 26 (0.68%) SAP PP
6 18 (0.47%) SAP IBP
7 13 (0.34%) Sage X3
7 13 (0.34%) TrackWise
8 12 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.29%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.29%) SAP QM
9 11 (0.29%) SAP SCM
9 11 (0.29%) Teamcenter
10 10 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 9 (0.24%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
11 9 (0.24%) Sage 200
12 8 (0.21%) SAP Business One
12 8 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 276 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
2 273 (7.17%) Azure
3 164 (4.31%) Power Platform
4 130 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
5 76 (2.00%) AWS
6 68 (1.79%) Entra ID
7 65 (1.71%) SaaS
8 44 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (1.08%) PowerApps
10 37 (0.97%) OneDrive
11 30 (0.79%) Power Automate
12 23 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (0.58%) GitHub
14 19 (0.50%) Serverless
15 13 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.34%) PaaS
16 10 (0.26%) GCP
16 10 (0.26%) WhatsApp
17 7 (0.18%) Azure Event Grid
17 7 (0.18%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 91 (2.39%) Wireless
2 87 (2.29%) Firewall
3 64 (1.68%) Ethernet
4 63 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
5 50 (1.31%) LAN
6 40 (1.05%) WAN
7 38 (1.00%) RS-232
8 36 (0.95%) DNS
9 35 (0.92%) TCP/IP
10 33 (0.87%) Internet
11 29 (0.76%) Network Security
11 29 (0.76%) VPN
12 28 (0.74%) LTE
13 27 (0.71%) HTTP
14 22 (0.58%) DHCP
15 19 (0.50%) 4G
15 19 (0.50%) SAN
16 17 (0.45%) VLAN
17 16 (0.42%) Bluetooth
17 16 (0.42%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (3.91%) SQL Server
2 134 (3.52%) Power BI
3 46 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (1.08%) MySQL
5 35 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (0.79%) MongoDB
7 26 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (0.60%) Tableau
9 22 (0.58%) Relational Database
10 18 (0.47%) SQLite
11 14 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
12 13 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (0.34%) MS Access
12 13 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.32%) Redis
14 9 (0.24%) Power Query
15 8 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (0.16%) GIS
16 6 (0.16%) NoSQL
16 6 (0.16%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 120 (3.15%) Git
2 57 (1.50%) JIRA
3 52 (1.37%) LabVIEW
4 45 (1.18%) Visual Studio
5 23 (0.60%) Subversion
6 17 (0.45%) Jenkins
7 13 (0.34%) Eclipse
7 13 (0.34%) GitLab
8 10 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.18%) CANoe
10 6 (0.16%) Maven
10 6 (0.16%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.13%) Selenium
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.11%) Postman
12 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.11%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.11%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.079%) TestNG
General
1 1,039 (27.30%) Social Skills
2 636 (16.71%) Finance
3 525 (13.79%) Electronics
4 412 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
5 302 (7.93%) Pharmaceutical
6 294 (7.72%) Marketing
7 252 (6.62%) Retail
8 234 (6.15%) Aerospace
9 225 (5.91%) Telecoms
10 205 (5.39%) Public Sector
11 203 (5.33%) Automotive
12 189 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 178 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
14 173 (4.55%) Law
15 171 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
16 125 (3.28%) Legal
17 87 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
18 47 (1.23%) Games
19 41 (1.08%) Military
20 33 (0.87%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 363 (9.54%) Senior
2 269 (7.07%) Analyst
3 255 (6.70%) Developer
4 253 (6.65%) Graduate
5 246 (6.46%) Project Manager
6 244 (6.41%) Software Engineer
7 235 (6.17%) Lead
8 201 (5.28%) Systems Engineer
9 174 (4.57%) IT Engineer
10 157 (4.13%) Electronics Engineer
11 140 (3.68%) Consultant
12 131 (3.44%) Support Engineer
13 126 (3.31%) Automation Engineer
14 120 (3.15%) IT Graduate
15 119 (3.13%) Embedded Engineer
16 118 (3.10%) IT Support
17 115 (3.02%) Graduate IT Engineer
18 104 (2.73%) Architect
19 103 (2.71%) Junior
20 99 (2.60%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (3.52%) .NET
2 84 (2.21%) HTML
3 52 (1.37%) CSS
4 48 (1.26%) ASP.NET
5 46 (1.21%) React
6 44 (1.16%) .NET Framework
7 37 (0.97%) RESTful
8 33 (0.87%) AngularJS
9 28 (0.74%) .NET Core
10 27 (0.71%) Yocto
11 25 (0.66%) WPF
12 22 (0.58%) Django
13 20 (0.53%) Blazor
14 19 (0.50%) Entity Framework
14 19 (0.50%) Flask
14 19 (0.50%) Node.js
15 18 (0.47%) ASP.NET MVC
15 18 (0.47%) XML
16 16 (0.42%) YAML
17 15 (0.39%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 250 (6.57%) FMCG
2 221 (5.81%) Management Information System
3 124 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
4 88 (2.31%) Driving Licence
5 87 (2.29%) IoT
6 65 (1.71%) Operational Technology
7 61 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
8 53 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 52 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 51 (1.34%) Life Science
11 41 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 39 (1.02%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 35 (0.92%) FPGA
14 34 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
15 31 (0.81%) Robotics
16 27 (0.71%) Biopharmaceutical
16 27 (0.71%) PMI
17 26 (0.68%) Analogue Electronics
17 26 (0.68%) SCADA
18 25 (0.66%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 284 (7.46%) Windows
2 180 (4.73%) Linux
3 94 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 77 (2.02%) Windows 10
5 37 (0.97%) Android
6 29 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
7 24 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
9 16 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.39%) VMS
11 13 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.21%) Debian
14 5 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.13%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.11%) VxWorks
16 3 (0.079%) CatOS
17 2 (0.053%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 705 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
2 547 (14.37%) ERP
3 443 (11.64%) Project Management
4 363 (9.54%) Software Engineering
5 355 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 338 (8.88%) Business Intelligence
7 261 (6.86%) Agile
8 253 (6.65%) Computer Science
9 206 (5.41%) Programme Management
10 197 (5.18%) Mentoring
11 195 (5.12%) QMS
12 180 (4.73%) Digital Marketing
13 177 (4.65%) Logistics
14 169 (4.44%) Coaching
15 165 (4.34%) Customer Service
16 163 (4.28%) Change Management
17 156 (4.10%) Six Sigma
18 153 (4.02%) Validation
19 142 (3.73%) Project Delivery
20 140 (3.68%) Lean Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 395 (10.38%) SQL
2 243 (6.38%) C#
3 219 (5.75%) C
4 202 (5.31%) Python
5 126 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 123 (3.23%) C++
7 59 (1.55%) Embedded C
8 58 (1.52%) Java
9 52 (1.37%) PowerShell
10 44 (1.16%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 36 (0.95%) Bash
13 30 (0.79%) PHP
14 22 (0.58%) XAML
15 21 (0.55%) MATLAB
15 21 (0.55%) VB
15 21 (0.55%) VBA
16 20 (0.53%) VB.NET
17 13 (0.34%) R
18 11 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,106 (29.06%) Degree
2 162 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 126 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 116 (3.05%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 81 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 76 (2.00%) HND
7 74 (1.94%) HNC
8 56 (1.47%) SC Cleared
9 45 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 33 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (0.81%) CISSP
14 26 (0.68%) CCNA
15 16 (0.42%) CISA
16 14 (0.37%) Azure Certification
16 14 (0.37%) PMP
17 13 (0.34%) CISM
17 13 (0.34%) DV Cleared
17 13 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 482 (12.66%) QA
2 221 (5.81%) GMP
3 47 (1.23%) ISO 9001
4 45 (1.18%) PMO
5 41 (1.08%) SLA
6 30 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.74%) GDPR
8 20 (0.53%) Accessibility
9 19 (0.50%) ISO 13485
10 15 (0.39%) GxP
11 14 (0.37%) Good Clinical Practice
11 14 (0.37%) ISO 14001
11 14 (0.37%) ISO 26262
12 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.32%) NIST
14 11 (0.29%) Data Quality
15 8 (0.21%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.16%) GAMP
16 6 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 190 (4.99%) Firmware
2 167 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 121 (3.18%) Embedded Firmware
4 50 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 32 (0.84%) Docker
7 14 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.11%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.079%) KVM
11 3 (0.079%) NFS
11 3 (0.079%) vSphere
12 2 (0.053%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.026%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (0.50%) Terraform
3 11 (0.29%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.21%) SCCM
5 7 (0.18%) FortiGate
5 7 (0.18%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.13%) WSUS
7 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.11%) Puppet
8 3 (0.079%) Ansible
8 3 (0.079%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.079%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.053%) Nessus
10 1 (0.026%) systemd
10 1 (0.026%) vRealize
Vendors
1 550 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 386 (10.14%) SAP
3 105 (2.76%) EMC
4 101 (2.65%) VMware
5 75 (1.97%) IFS
5 75 (1.97%) Oracle
6 45 (1.18%) Sage
7 38 (1.00%) Google
8 37 (0.97%) Epicor
9 34 (0.89%) Veeam
10 33 (0.87%) Siemens
11 32 (0.84%) Cisco
12 21 (0.55%) Citrix
13 19 (0.50%) HP
13 19 (0.50%) Workday
14 18 (0.47%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.37%) Aruba
15 14 (0.37%) IBM
16 13 (0.34%) Adobe
17 12 (0.32%) Allen-Bradley