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 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 63 144 137
Rank change year-on-year +81 -7 +11
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 3,794 2,527 4,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.83% 2.49% 2.97%
As % of the General category 6.40% 3.65% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,412 1,235 2,184
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,200 £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 59,289 69,287 100,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.78% 68.22% 64.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,672 37,345 51,003
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 £101,250 £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 8 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 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
UK excluding London +55 3,384 £45,000 -10.00% 3,049
England +77 3,286 £45,000 -18.18% 3,146
North of England +92 801 £45,000 -2.17% 710
South East +48 801 £42,300 -19.43% 651
Work from Home +48 764 £55,000 - 618
Midlands +10 703 £45,000 -18.18% 696
West Midlands +5 427 £45,000 -28.00% 434
South West +46 384 £42,500 -22.73% 431
North West +70 363 £47,500 +1.06% 361
Yorkshire +112 349 £42,500 - 271
East of England +127 311 £51,250 -6.82% 385
East Midlands +21 270 £42,500 -5.56% 261
London +52 244 £70,000 +3.70% 283
Wales +97 182 £35,000 +7.69% 121
Scotland +1 145 £47,500 +5.56% 161
North East +34 89 £40,000 +14.29% 105
Northern Ireland +60 58 £35,000 -6.67% 32

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 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 77 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (0.47%) Confluence
4 14 (0.37%) IIS
5 13 (0.34%) Documentum
6 8 (0.21%) Apache
7 6 (0.16%) CMS
7 6 (0.16%) nginx
8 5 (0.13%) SAS
9 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.11%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.11%) WordPress
10 3 (0.079%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.079%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.079%) Drupal
10 3 (0.079%) JBoss
11 2 (0.053%) Resin
11 2 (0.053%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.053%) WildFly
Applications
1 166 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
2 131 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (1.40%) 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 55 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 42 (1.11%) Dynamics NAV
4 29 (0.76%) NetSuite
5 26 (0.69%) 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
1 277 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
2 272 (7.17%) Azure
3 163 (4.30%) Power Platform
4 130 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
5 75 (1.98%) AWS
6 67 (1.77%) Entra ID
7 65 (1.71%) SaaS
8 44 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (1.08%) PowerApps
10 36 (0.95%) OneDrive
11 30 (0.79%) Power Automate
12 23 (0.61%) 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 Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 92 (2.42%) Wireless
2 87 (2.29%) Firewall
3 65 (1.71%) Ethernet
4 64 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
5 50 (1.32%) LAN
6 40 (1.05%) WAN
7 39 (1.03%) RS-232
8 38 (1.00%) TCP/IP
9 37 (0.98%) DNS
10 33 (0.87%) Internet
11 29 (0.76%) VPN
12 28 (0.74%) Network Security
13 27 (0.71%) HTTP
13 27 (0.71%) LTE
14 24 (0.63%) DHCP
15 19 (0.50%) SAN
16 18 (0.47%) 4G
17 17 (0.45%) VLAN
18 16 (0.42%) Bluetooth
18 16 (0.42%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (3.93%) SQL Server
2 133 (3.51%) Power BI
3 46 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (1.05%) MySQL
5 35 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (0.79%) MongoDB
7 26 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (0.61%) Tableau
9 22 (0.58%) Relational Database
10 18 (0.47%) SQLite
11 14 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
12 13 (0.34%) MS Access
12 13 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.32%) Redis
14 9 (0.24%) Power Query
15 8 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.16%) Metadata
16 6 (0.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 119 (3.14%) Git
2 57 (1.50%) JIRA
3 52 (1.37%) LabVIEW
4 45 (1.19%) Visual Studio
5 23 (0.61%) 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%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,042 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 636 (16.76%) Finance
3 524 (13.81%) Electronics
4 414 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 293 (7.72%) Marketing
6 291 (7.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 252 (6.64%) Retail
8 234 (6.17%) Aerospace
9 224 (5.90%) Telecoms
10 204 (5.38%) Public Sector
11 203 (5.35%) Automotive
12 189 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 178 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
14 173 (4.56%) Law
15 171 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
16 123 (3.24%) Legal
17 88 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
18 47 (1.24%) Games
19 41 (1.08%) Military
20 33 (0.87%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 353 (9.30%) Senior
2 271 (7.14%) Analyst
3 254 (6.69%) Developer
4 253 (6.67%) Graduate
5 246 (6.48%) Project Manager
6 245 (6.46%) Software Engineer
7 234 (6.17%) Lead
8 202 (5.32%) Systems Engineer
9 175 (4.61%) IT Engineer
10 157 (4.14%) Electronics Engineer
11 140 (3.69%) Consultant
12 133 (3.51%) Support Engineer
13 126 (3.32%) Automation Engineer
14 120 (3.16%) Embedded Engineer
14 120 (3.16%) IT Graduate
15 118 (3.11%) IT Support
16 115 (3.03%) Graduate IT Engineer
17 104 (2.74%) Architect
18 102 (2.69%) Junior
19 100 (2.64%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (3.53%) .NET
2 84 (2.21%) HTML
3 52 (1.37%) CSS
4 48 (1.27%) ASP.NET
5 46 (1.21%) React
6 44 (1.16%) .NET Framework
7 36 (0.95%) RESTful
8 33 (0.87%) AngularJS
9 28 (0.74%) .NET Core
9 28 (0.74%) Yocto
10 25 (0.66%) WPF
11 22 (0.58%) Django
12 20 (0.53%) Blazor
13 19 (0.50%) Entity Framework
13 19 (0.50%) Flask
13 19 (0.50%) Node.js
14 18 (0.47%) ASP.NET MVC
14 18 (0.47%) XML
15 16 (0.42%) YAML
16 15 (0.40%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 249 (6.56%) FMCG
2 220 (5.80%) Management Information System
3 124 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
4 88 (2.32%) Driving Licence
5 87 (2.29%) IoT
6 65 (1.71%) Operational Technology
7 61 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
8 53 (1.40%) Data Centre
9 52 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 51 (1.34%) Life Science
11 41 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 39 (1.03%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 35 (0.92%) FPGA
14 34 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
15 31 (0.82%) Robotics
16 27 (0.71%) Biopharmaceutical
16 27 (0.71%) PMI
17 26 (0.69%) Analogue Electronics
17 26 (0.69%) Onboarding
17 26 (0.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 285 (7.51%) Windows
2 184 (4.85%) Linux
3 95 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 78 (2.06%) Windows 10
5 36 (0.95%) Android
6 30 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
7 23 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
9 16 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.40%) VMS
11 13 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 10 (0.26%) 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
1 706 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
2 548 (14.44%) ERP
3 443 (11.68%) Project Management
4 363 (9.57%) Software Engineering
5 355 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 336 (8.86%) Business Intelligence
7 260 (6.85%) Agile
8 252 (6.64%) Computer Science
9 205 (5.40%) Programme Management
10 186 (4.90%) Mentoring
11 184 (4.85%) QMS
12 179 (4.72%) Digital Marketing
13 178 (4.69%) Logistics
14 167 (4.40%) Customer Service
15 162 (4.27%) Change Management
16 158 (4.16%) Coaching
17 156 (4.11%) Six Sigma
18 153 (4.03%) Validation
19 142 (3.74%) Project Delivery
20 140 (3.69%) Lean Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 394 (10.38%) SQL
2 243 (6.40%) C#
3 220 (5.80%) C
4 202 (5.32%) Python
5 125 (3.29%) JavaScript
6 123 (3.24%) C++
7 60 (1.58%) Embedded C
8 58 (1.53%) Java
9 53 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 44 (1.16%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 36 (0.95%) Bash
13 29 (0.76%) 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 1,095 (28.86%) Degree
2 161 (4.24%) Security Cleared
3 126 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 116 (3.06%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 81 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 76 (2.00%) HND
7 74 (1.95%) HNC
8 56 (1.48%) SC Cleared
9 45 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 33 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (0.82%) CISSP
14 26 (0.69%) 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
1 471 (12.41%) QA
2 210 (5.54%) GMP
3 47 (1.24%) ISO 9001
4 45 (1.19%) PMO
5 41 (1.08%) SLA
6 29 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.74%) GDPR
8 20 (0.53%) Accessibility
9 19 (0.50%) ISO 13485
10 15 (0.40%) 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 (5.01%) Firmware
2 167 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 121 (3.19%) Embedded Firmware
4 49 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.27%) 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
1 551 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 386 (10.17%) SAP
3 105 (2.77%) EMC
4 101 (2.66%) VMware
5 74 (1.95%) IFS
5 74 (1.95%) Oracle
6 45 (1.19%) Sage
7 38 (1.00%) Google
8 37 (0.98%) Epicor
9 35 (0.92%) Veeam
10 33 (0.87%) Siemens
11 32 (0.84%) Cisco
12 20 (0.53%) 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