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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 145 132
Rank change year-on-year +83 -13 +16
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 3,820 2,512 4,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.85% 2.49% 3.00%
As % of the General category 6.44% 3.65% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,415 1,234 2,189
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,150 £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 £75,750 £87,125 £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 59,322 68,855 101,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.79% 68.16% 64.21%
Number of salaries quoted 39,670 37,231 50,896
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 £82,000 £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 10 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 10 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 3,408 £45,000 -10.00% 3,083
England +82 3,310 £45,000 -18.18% 3,168
North of England +95 813 £45,000 -2.17% 704
South East +51 801 £42,300 -19.43% 672
Work from Home +55 763 £55,000 - 610
Midlands +6 706 £45,000 -14.29% 702
West Midlands +3 431 £45,000 -28.00% 434
South West +53 390 £42,500 -22.73% 434
North West +61 366 £47,500 +1.06% 366
Yorkshire +114 356 £42,500 +0.89% 263
East of England +129 312 £51,250 -6.82% 394
East Midlands +17 269 £42,500 -5.56% 267
London +55 247 £70,000 +5.66% 275
Wales +97 183 £33,750 +3.85% 125
Scotland +4 144 £47,500 - 162
North East +34 91 £40,000 +14.29% 98
Northern Ireland +56 60 £35,000 -6.67% 27

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
1 145 (3.80%) 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 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.10%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.10%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.10%) WordPress
11 3 (0.079%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.079%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.079%) Drupal
11 3 (0.079%) JBoss
12 2 (0.052%) Resin
12 2 (0.052%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.052%) WildFly
Applications
1 167 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
2 130 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (1.28%) 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 (0.10%) Doxygen
13 4 (0.10%) Fusion 360
14 3 (0.079%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 54 (1.41%) 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 (0.31%) 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 (7.23%) Azure
1 276 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
2 162 (4.24%) Power Platform
3 130 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
4 76 (1.99%) AWS
5 68 (1.78%) Entra ID
6 66 (1.73%) SaaS
7 47 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (1.07%) PowerApps
9 37 (0.97%) OneDrive
10 30 (0.79%) Power Automate
11 23 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (0.58%) GitHub
13 19 (0.50%) Serverless
14 16 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.34%) PaaS
16 12 (0.31%) WhatsApp
17 10 (0.26%) GCP
18 7 (0.18%) Azure Event Grid
18 7 (0.18%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 91 (2.38%) Wireless
2 87 (2.28%) Firewall
3 63 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
4 62 (1.62%) Ethernet
5 50 (1.31%) LAN
6 40 (1.05%) WAN
7 38 (0.99%) RS-232
8 36 (0.94%) DNS
9 34 (0.89%) Internet
10 33 (0.86%) TCP/IP
11 29 (0.76%) Network Security
11 29 (0.76%) VPN
12 28 (0.73%) LTE
13 27 (0.71%) HTTP
14 22 (0.58%) DHCP
15 19 (0.50%) SAN
16 17 (0.45%) 4G
16 17 (0.45%) VLAN
17 16 (0.42%) Bluetooth
17 16 (0.42%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 133 (3.48%) Power BI
3 46 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (1.02%) MySQL
5 34 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (0.79%) MongoDB
7 29 (0.76%) 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 (0.31%) Redis
14 9 (0.24%) Metadata
15 8 (0.21%) OLAP
15 8 (0.21%) Power Query
16 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 6 (0.16%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 120 (3.14%) Git
2 57 (1.49%) JIRA
3 52 (1.36%) 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 (0.10%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.10%) Postman
12 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.10%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.10%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.079%) TestNG
General
1 1,045 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 634 (16.60%) Finance
3 522 (13.66%) Electronics
4 413 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 313 (8.19%) Pharmaceutical
6 292 (7.64%) Marketing
7 252 (6.60%) Retail
8 236 (6.18%) Aerospace
9 222 (5.81%) Telecoms
10 202 (5.29%) Automotive
10 202 (5.29%) Public Sector
11 189 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 178 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
13 173 (4.53%) Law
14 171 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
15 125 (3.27%) Legal
16 87 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
17 47 (1.23%) Games
18 41 (1.07%) Military
19 33 (0.86%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 375 (9.82%) Senior
2 268 (7.02%) Analyst
3 254 (6.65%) Developer
4 253 (6.62%) Graduate
5 246 (6.44%) Project Manager
6 243 (6.36%) Software Engineer
7 235 (6.15%) Lead
8 201 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
9 174 (4.55%) IT Engineer
10 157 (4.11%) Electronics Engineer
11 140 (3.66%) Consultant
12 130 (3.40%) Support Engineer
13 126 (3.30%) Automation Engineer
14 120 (3.14%) IT Graduate
15 117 (3.06%) Embedded Engineer
15 117 (3.06%) IT Support
16 115 (3.01%) Graduate IT Engineer
17 104 (2.72%) Architect
18 103 (2.70%) Junior
19 98 (2.57%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (3.51%) .NET
2 84 (2.20%) HTML
3 52 (1.36%) CSS
4 48 (1.26%) ASP.NET
5 46 (1.20%) React
6 44 (1.15%) .NET Framework
7 37 (0.97%) RESTful
8 33 (0.86%) AngularJS
9 28 (0.73%) .NET Core
10 27 (0.71%) Yocto
11 25 (0.65%) WPF
12 22 (0.58%) Django
13 20 (0.52%) 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 (6.54%) FMCG
2 222 (5.81%) Management Information System
3 124 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
4 88 (2.30%) Driving Licence
5 87 (2.28%) IoT
6 65 (1.70%) Operational Technology
7 60 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
8 53 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 52 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 51 (1.34%) Life Science
11 41 (1.07%) 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 (0.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 286 (7.49%) Windows
2 181 (4.74%) Linux
3 94 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 77 (2.02%) Windows 10
5 35 (0.92%) 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 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.10%) VxWorks
16 3 (0.079%) CatOS
16 3 (0.079%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 710 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
2 546 (14.29%) ERP
3 443 (11.60%) Project Management
4 362 (9.48%) Software Engineering
5 354 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 338 (8.85%) Business Intelligence
7 261 (6.83%) Agile
8 255 (6.68%) Computer Science
9 208 (5.45%) Mentoring
10 206 (5.39%) QMS
11 203 (5.31%) Programme Management
12 180 (4.71%) Coaching
13 177 (4.63%) Digital Marketing
13 177 (4.63%) Logistics
14 165 (4.32%) Customer Service
15 162 (4.24%) Change Management
16 156 (4.08%) Six Sigma
17 153 (4.01%) Validation
18 142 (3.72%) Project Delivery
19 140 (3.66%) Lean Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 397 (10.39%) SQL
2 244 (6.39%) C#
3 218 (5.71%) C
4 202 (5.29%) Python
5 126 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 124 (3.25%) C++
7 59 (1.54%) Embedded C
8 58 (1.52%) Java
9 51 (1.34%) PowerShell
10 44 (1.15%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 36 (0.94%) Bash
13 28 (0.73%) PHP
14 22 (0.58%) XAML
15 21 (0.55%) MATLAB
15 21 (0.55%) VB
15 21 (0.55%) VBA
16 20 (0.52%) VB.NET
17 13 (0.34%) R
18 11 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,119 (29.29%) Degree
2 162 (4.24%) Security Cleared
3 127 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 116 (3.04%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 81 (2.12%) Master's Degree
6 76 (1.99%) HND
7 74 (1.94%) HNC
8 56 (1.47%) SC Cleared
9 45 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (0.94%) PMI Certification
12 33 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
13 32 (0.84%) 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
1 493 (12.91%) QA
2 232 (6.07%) GMP
3 47 (1.23%) ISO 9001
4 45 (1.18%) PMO
5 42 (1.10%) SLA
6 30 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.73%) GDPR
8 20 (0.52%) Accessibility
9 19 (0.50%) ISO 13485
10 15 (0.39%) GxP
11 14 (0.37%) Data Quality
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 (0.31%) NIST
14 8 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.16%) GAMP
15 6 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 190 (4.97%) Firmware
2 168 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 121 (3.17%) 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 (0.10%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.10%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.079%) KVM
11 3 (0.079%) NFS
11 3 (0.079%) vSphere
12 2 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.026%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (0.52%) 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 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.10%) Puppet
8 3 (0.079%) Ansible
8 3 (0.079%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.079%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.052%) Nessus
10 1 (0.026%) systemd
10 1 (0.026%) vRealize
Vendors
1 553 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 383 (10.03%) SAP
3 105 (2.75%) EMC
4 101 (2.64%) VMware
5 78 (2.04%) Oracle
6 75 (1.96%) IFS
7 45 (1.18%) Sage
8 38 (0.99%) Google
9 37 (0.97%) Epicor
10 34 (0.89%) Veeam
11 33 (0.86%) Siemens
12 32 (0.84%) Cisco
13 21 (0.55%) Citrix
14 19 (0.50%) HP
14 19 (0.50%) Workday
15 18 (0.47%) Salesforce
16 14 (0.37%) Aruba
16 14 (0.37%) IBM
17 13 (0.34%) Adobe
18 12 (0.31%) Allen-Bradley