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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 144 137
Rank change year-on-year +83 -7 +12
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 3,855 2,515 4,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.86% 2.53% 2.97%
As % of the General category 6.47% 3.71% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,433 1,233 2,214
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,100 £28,825
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 £87,250 £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 59,592 67,843 105,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.64% 68.21% 64.61%
Number of salaries quoted 39,690 36,730 51,592
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,125 £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 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £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 20 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 20 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 +58 3,426 £45,000 -10.00% 3,371
England +78 3,337 £45,000 -18.18% 3,508
North of England +88 822 £45,000 -2.17% 790
South East +46 792 £42,300 -19.43% 722
Work from Home +58 772 £55,000 - 648
Midlands +9 708 £45,000 -16.28% 768
West Midlands +3 431 £45,000 -26.53% 469
South West +53 401 £42,500 -22.73% 461
North West +66 368 £47,500 - 400
Yorkshire +102 361 £42,500 +6.25% 319
East of England +134 311 £50,000 -9.09% 434
East Midlands +18 271 £42,500 -5.56% 298
London +59 263 £67,500 - 342
Wales +99 184 £32,500 +8.33% 148
Scotland -3 146 £47,500 +2.70% 175
North East +33 93 £40,000 +14.29% 91
Northern Ireland +67 63 £35,000 -6.67% 19

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 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 79 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (0.47%) Confluence
4 14 (0.36%) IIS
5 13 (0.34%) Documentum
6 8 (0.21%) Apache
7 7 (0.18%) CMS
8 6 (0.16%) nginx
8 6 (0.16%) SAS
9 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.10%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.10%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.10%) WordPress
10 3 (0.078%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.078%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.078%) Drupal
10 3 (0.078%) JBoss
11 2 (0.052%) Resin
11 2 (0.052%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.052%) WildFly
Applications
1 163 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 129 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (0.91%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.57%) SOLIDWORKS
7 13 (0.34%) Simulink
8 12 (0.31%) OrCAD
9 10 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
9 10 (0.26%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.26%) Solid Edge
10 9 (0.23%) MS Visio
10 9 (0.23%) Siemens NX
11 8 (0.21%) EPLAN
12 7 (0.18%) Revit
13 5 (0.13%) CANalyzer
13 5 (0.13%) InfoPath
14 4 (0.10%) Doxygen
14 4 (0.10%) Fusion 360
14 4 (0.10%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 53 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 41 (1.06%) Dynamics NAV
4 29 (0.75%) NetSuite
5 26 (0.67%) SAP PP
6 18 (0.47%) SAP IBP
7 13 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 13 (0.34%) Sage X3
7 13 (0.34%) TrackWise
8 11 (0.29%) SAP CO
8 11 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 11 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 11 (0.29%) SAP SCM
8 11 (0.29%) Teamcenter
9 10 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
9 10 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 10 (0.26%) SAP QM
10 9 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
10 9 (0.23%) Sage 200
11 8 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 280 (7.26%) Azure
2 277 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
3 161 (4.18%) Power Platform
4 127 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
5 80 (2.08%) AWS
6 68 (1.76%) Entra ID
7 64 (1.66%) SaaS
8 46 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (1.09%) PowerApps
10 37 (0.96%) OneDrive
11 31 (0.80%) Power Automate
12 23 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (0.57%) GitHub
14 18 (0.47%) Serverless
15 16 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.34%) PaaS
17 11 (0.29%) WhatsApp
18 10 (0.26%) GCP
19 7 (0.18%) Azure Functions
19 7 (0.18%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 91 (2.36%) Firewall
1 91 (2.36%) Wireless
2 61 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
3 59 (1.53%) Ethernet
4 50 (1.30%) LAN
5 40 (1.04%) WAN
6 37 (0.96%) RS-232
7 35 (0.91%) DNS
7 35 (0.91%) Internet
8 34 (0.88%) TCP/IP
9 32 (0.83%) Network Security
10 30 (0.78%) VPN
11 27 (0.70%) LTE
12 26 (0.67%) HTTP
13 21 (0.54%) DHCP
14 19 (0.49%) SAN
15 17 (0.44%) 4G
16 16 (0.42%) MQTT
16 16 (0.42%) VLAN
17 15 (0.39%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (3.94%) SQL Server
2 134 (3.48%) Power BI
3 45 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (0.99%) MySQL
5 36 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (0.78%) MongoDB
7 28 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (0.60%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.60%) Tableau
9 18 (0.47%) SQLite
10 14 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
10 14 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.34%) MS Access
12 12 (0.31%) Redis
13 9 (0.23%) Metadata
14 8 (0.21%) OLAP
14 8 (0.21%) Power Query
15 7 (0.18%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 120 (3.11%) Git
2 57 (1.48%) JIRA
3 53 (1.37%) LabVIEW
4 45 (1.17%) Visual Studio
5 23 (0.60%) Subversion
6 16 (0.42%) Jenkins
7 13 (0.34%) Eclipse
8 12 (0.31%) GitLab
9 10 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.18%) CANoe
11 6 (0.16%) Maven
11 6 (0.16%) Selenium
12 5 (0.13%) Postman
12 5 (0.13%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.10%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.10%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.078%) TestNG
General
1 1,040 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 642 (16.65%) Finance
3 518 (13.44%) Electronics
4 400 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
5 326 (8.46%) Pharmaceutical
6 289 (7.50%) Marketing
7 263 (6.82%) Retail
8 240 (6.23%) Aerospace
9 217 (5.63%) Telecoms
10 204 (5.29%) Automotive
11 197 (5.11%) Public Sector
12 189 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 180 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
14 177 (4.59%) Law
15 171 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
16 123 (3.19%) Legal
17 83 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
18 47 (1.22%) Games
19 42 (1.09%) Military
20 33 (0.86%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 383 (9.94%) Senior
2 272 (7.06%) Analyst
3 254 (6.59%) Developer
4 252 (6.54%) Graduate
5 249 (6.46%) Software Engineer
6 239 (6.20%) Project Manager
7 236 (6.12%) Lead
8 203 (5.27%) Systems Engineer
9 174 (4.51%) IT Engineer
10 156 (4.05%) Electronics Engineer
11 140 (3.63%) Consultant
12 132 (3.42%) Support Engineer
13 126 (3.27%) Automation Engineer
14 120 (3.11%) IT Graduate
15 119 (3.09%) Embedded Engineer
16 118 (3.06%) IT Support
17 115 (2.98%) Graduate IT Engineer
18 105 (2.72%) Architect
19 104 (2.70%) Junior
20 100 (2.59%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (3.48%) .NET
2 83 (2.15%) HTML
3 52 (1.35%) CSS
4 47 (1.22%) ASP.NET
5 45 (1.17%) React
6 44 (1.14%) .NET Framework
7 37 (0.96%) RESTful
8 34 (0.88%) AngularJS
9 29 (0.75%) .NET Core
10 26 (0.67%) Yocto
11 25 (0.65%) WPF
12 24 (0.62%) Django
13 21 (0.54%) Node.js
14 20 (0.52%) Blazor
14 20 (0.52%) Flask
15 19 (0.49%) Entity Framework
16 18 (0.47%) ASP.NET MVC
16 18 (0.47%) XML
17 16 (0.42%) YAML
18 15 (0.39%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 251 (6.51%) FMCG
2 225 (5.84%) Management Information System
3 123 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
4 89 (2.31%) IoT
5 88 (2.28%) Driving Licence
6 66 (1.71%) Operational Technology
7 59 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
8 53 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 51 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 50 (1.30%) Life Science
11 41 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 39 (1.01%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 36 (0.93%) FPGA
14 35 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
15 33 (0.86%) Robotics
16 27 (0.70%) Biopharmaceutical
16 27 (0.70%) PMI
17 26 (0.67%) Analogue Electronics
17 26 (0.67%) Onboarding
17 26 (0.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 287 (7.44%) Windows
2 180 (4.67%) Linux
3 93 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 78 (2.02%) Windows 10
5 36 (0.93%) Android
6 29 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
7 26 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
9 16 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 14 (0.36%) VMS
11 12 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.21%) Debian
14 5 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.13%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.10%) VxWorks
16 3 (0.078%) CatOS
16 3 (0.078%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 704 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
2 547 (14.19%) ERP
3 431 (11.18%) Project Management
4 367 (9.52%) Software Engineering
5 351 (9.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 334 (8.66%) Business Intelligence
7 263 (6.82%) Agile
8 259 (6.72%) Computer Science
9 219 (5.68%) QMS
10 218 (5.65%) Mentoring
11 196 (5.08%) Programme Management
12 189 (4.90%) Coaching
13 176 (4.57%) Logistics
14 174 (4.51%) Digital Marketing
15 166 (4.31%) Customer Service
16 157 (4.07%) Change Management
16 157 (4.07%) Six Sigma
17 151 (3.92%) Validation
18 141 (3.66%) Lean Manufacturing
19 138 (3.58%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 395 (10.25%) SQL
2 242 (6.28%) C#
3 217 (5.63%) C
4 201 (5.21%) Python
5 126 (3.27%) C++
6 124 (3.22%) JavaScript
7 60 (1.56%) Embedded C
8 59 (1.53%) Java
9 48 (1.25%) PowerShell
10 45 (1.17%) T-SQL
11 44 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 35 (0.91%) Bash
13 28 (0.73%) PHP
14 22 (0.57%) VBA
14 22 (0.57%) XAML
15 21 (0.54%) MATLAB
16 20 (0.52%) VB
17 19 (0.49%) VB.NET
18 13 (0.34%) R
19 12 (0.31%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 1,120 (29.05%) Degree
2 162 (4.20%) Security Cleared
3 127 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 116 (3.01%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 80 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 75 (1.95%) HND
7 73 (1.89%) HNC
8 54 (1.40%) SC Cleared
9 44 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 43 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (1.01%) PMI Certification
12 34 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
13 33 (0.86%) CISSP
14 26 (0.67%) CCNA
15 17 (0.44%) PMP
16 16 (0.42%) CISA
17 14 (0.36%) Azure Certification
17 14 (0.36%) CISM
18 13 (0.34%) CCNP
18 13 (0.34%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 508 (13.18%) QA
2 248 (6.43%) GMP
3 46 (1.19%) ISO 9001
4 42 (1.09%) PMO
4 42 (1.09%) SLA
5 30 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (0.73%) GDPR
7 19 (0.49%) ISO 13485
8 16 (0.42%) GxP
9 14 (0.36%) Data Quality
9 14 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
9 14 (0.36%) ISO 14001
10 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.34%) ISO 26262
10 13 (0.34%) NIST
11 9 (0.23%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.21%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.16%) GAMP
14 6 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 191 (4.95%) Firmware
2 170 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 122 (3.16%) Embedded Firmware
4 51 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 32 (0.83%) Docker
7 13 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.10%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.10%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.078%) KVM
11 3 (0.078%) NFS
11 3 (0.078%) vSphere
12 2 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.026%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (0.47%) 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 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.10%) Puppet
8 3 (0.078%) Ansible
8 3 (0.078%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.078%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.052%) Nessus
10 1 (0.026%) systemd
10 1 (0.026%) vRealize
Vendors
1 545 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 378 (9.81%) SAP
3 103 (2.67%) EMC
4 101 (2.62%) VMware
5 78 (2.02%) Oracle
6 76 (1.97%) IFS
7 45 (1.17%) Sage
8 39 (1.01%) Google
9 38 (0.99%) Epicor
10 34 (0.88%) Veeam
11 33 (0.86%) Cisco
11 33 (0.86%) Siemens
12 22 (0.57%) Citrix
13 19 (0.49%) HP
13 19 (0.49%) Workday
14 18 (0.47%) Salesforce
15 15 (0.39%) Aruba
16 14 (0.36%) IBM
17 13 (0.34%) Adobe
17 13 (0.34%) Allen-Bradley