Highest Paying Manufacturing Jobs in the UK

Last 12 Month Manufacturing Jobs Summary

There have been 88,757 listed Manufacturing Jobs in the UK in the last 12 months.

Job Type	Total Jobs	Percentage of Jobs 🔽
Permanent	85,755	96.62 %
Contract (Inside IR35)	1,993	2.25 %
Contract (Outside IR35)	1,009	1.14 %
Contract (IR35 Not Specified)	0	0.00 %

On average, there are 1,707 new Manufacturing Jobs posted each week, or 7,396 each month.

Job Type	Weekly Jobs	Monthly Jobs 🔽
Permanent	1,649	7,145
Contract	57	250

The busiest month for new permanent Manufacturing Jobs in the UK is September, whilst the quietest month is December.

The busiest month for new contract Manufacturing Jobs is August, and the quietest month is June.

Last 12 Month Permanent UK Manufacturing Jobs

Last 12 Month UK Contract Manufacturing Jobs

Last 12 Month Total Listed Manufacturing Jobs

Month 🔽	Listed Jobs	vs Prev Month	vs Prev 3 Months	vs Prev 6 Months	vs Prev Year
November 2025	134
October 2025	789
September 2025	1,137
August 2025	624
July 2025	428
June 2025	278
May 2025	348
April 2025	498
March 2025	531
February 2025	391
January 2025	282
December 2024	131

The Highest Paying Manufacturing Jobs

Role Title	Total Jobs	Average Low	Average 🔽	Average High
Manufacturing Director	6	£120,000.00	£125,000.00	£130,000.00
Head of Technical	1	£85,000.00	£87,500.00	£90,000.00
Head of Production	4	£78,750.00	£84,375.00	£90,000.00
Manufacturing Operations Manager	17	£59,500.00	£64,500.00	£69,500.00
Automation Engineer	90	£50,920.00	£57,045.00	£63,165.00
Manufacturing Manager	133	£53,370.00	£56,710.00	£60,050.00
Production Manager	891	£52,985.00	£56,585.00	£60,185.00
QA Engineer	28	£52,195.00	£56,390.00	£60,585.00
Design Team Leader	6	£50,000.00	£53,875.00	£57,750.00
Quality Assistant	82	£53,000.00	£53,000.00	£53,000.00
Manufacturing Operator	80	£48,600.00	£52,685.00	£56,770.00
FMCG	210	£45,790.00	£48,935.00	£52,080.00
Workshop Manager	68	£44,080.00	£46,930.00	£49,780.00
Technical Operative	13	£42,940.00	£46,375.00	£49,820.00
Technical Operator	13	£42,210.00	£45,845.00	£49,490.00
Lean Manufacturing	14	£42,625.00	£44,545.00	£46,455.00
Workshop Controller	26	£40,650.00	£44,365.00	£48,075.00
Workshop Foreman	2	£40,000.00	£43,500.00	£47,000.00
Factory	223	£41,450.00	£43,340.00	£45,225.00
Hygiene Manager	18	£41,540.00	£43,335.00	£45,125.00
Planning Assistant	34	£42,125.00	£42,625.00	£43,125.00
Grinder	3	£41,300.00	£42,550.00	£43,800.00
Quality Advisor	2	£40,575.00	£42,525.00	£44,500.00
CNC Programming	2	£39,500.00	£42,000.00	£44,500.00
Line Leader	107	£41,245.00	£41,305.00	£41,360.00
Senior Quality Officer	2	£41,125.00	£41,125.00	£41,125.00
Production Shift Manager	32	£38,585.00	£40,905.00	£43,220.00
Miller	109	£38,630.00	£39,100.00	£39,565.00
CNC Engineer	9	£36,190.00	£38,840.00	£41,500.00
CNC Miller Setter	2	£38,700.00	£38,700.00	£38,700.00
CNC Turner	23	£34,755.00	£38,185.00	£41,615.00
CNC Miller	42	£35,535.00	£37,455.00	£39,375.00
CNC	593	£34,665.00	£37,115.00	£39,565.00
CNC Setter	24	£35,565.00	£37,075.00	£38,585.00
Section Leader	9	£36,350.00	£37,015.00	£37,685.00
Production Controller	18	£35,335.00	£36,835.00	£38,335.00
Manual Machinist	6	£34,000.00	£36,690.00	£39,375.00
CNC Machinist	130	£33,505.00	£36,510.00	£39,520.00
Laminator	4	£35,500.00	£36,325.00	£37,125.00
Packaging Technologist	7	£36,250.00	£36,250.00	£36,250.00
Workshop Fitter	10	£33,375.00	£36,065.00	£38,750.00
CNC Machine Operator	4	£33,500.00	£35,875.00	£38,250.00
Production Team Leader	81	£34,400.00	£35,755.00	£37,110.00
Injection Moulding Setter	8	£34,000.00	£35,750.00	£37,500.00
Demand Planner	13	£34,060.00	£35,625.00	£37,190.00
Mechanical Inspector	12	£33,485.00	£35,590.00	£37,710.00
Furniture	104	£32,935.00	£35,530.00	£38,130.00
Moulding Technician	2	£33,750.00	£35,500.00	£37,250.00
Manufacturing Team Leader	2	£30,600.00	£35,300.00	£40,000.00
Production Supervisor	78	£33,680.00	£35,285.00	£36,895.00
CNC Operator	115	£32,550.00	£34,930.00	£37,295.00
Production Officer	2	£32,000.00	£34,250.00	£36,500.00
Bench Hand Joiner	2	£32,500.00	£34,000.00	£35,500.00
Quality Inspector	102	£32,485.00	£33,960.00	£35,440.00
Quality Technician	30	£33,230.00	£33,745.00	£34,260.00
Bench Joiner	4	£31,075.00	£33,125.00	£35,175.00
Process Operator	51	£31,665.00	£33,000.00	£34,335.00
Skilled Operator	72	£31,785.00	£32,610.00	£33,435.00
Press Brake	7	£30,750.00	£32,500.00	£34,250.00
Assembly	604	£30,505.00	£32,220.00	£33,935.00
Production Technician	65	£30,345.00	£32,165.00	£33,970.00
Production Coordinator	18	£28,000.00	£32,000.00	£36,000.00
Electronic Assembler	13	£29,665.00	£31,350.00	£33,040.00
Manufacturing Technician	13	£29,345.00	£31,125.00	£32,905.00
Manufacturing Supervisor	2	£29,000.00	£30,750.00	£32,500.00
Assembly Fitter	10	£28,255.00	£30,680.00	£33,115.00
Production Assistant	29	£28,865.00	£30,335.00	£31,800.00
Machine Operator	115	£28,930.00	£30,205.00	£31,475.00
Print Operator	19	£28,280.00	£30,035.00	£31,790.00
Supply Chain Administrator	2	£28,000.00	£30,000.00	£32,000.00
Assembly Technician	47	£28,160.00	£29,855.00	£31,555.00
Operations Coordinator	43	£27,585.00	£29,695.00	£31,805.00
Production Operator	294	£28,215.00	£28,980.00	£29,750.00
Production Operative	286	£28,185.00	£28,840.00	£29,510.00
Finishing Operative	18	£27,240.00	£28,570.00	£29,905.00
Assembly Operative	91	£27,215.00	£28,265.00	£29,315.00
Testing Operative	2	£27,500.00	£28,250.00	£29,000.00
Assembly Operator	105	£26,960.00	£28,125.00	£29,295.00
Electro Mechanical Assembler	6	£26,000.00	£28,000.00	£30,000.00
Factory Operative	5	£27,300.00	£27,825.00	£28,335.00
Production Assembler	13	£26,515.00	£27,700.00	£28,875.00
QA Manager	13	£27,640.00	£27,640.00	£27,640.00
Quality Assurance Officer	12	£27,625.00	£27,625.00	£27,625.00
Moulding Operative	16	£26,600.00	£26,600.00	£26,600.00
Sewing Machinist	5	£26,490.00	£26,490.00	£26,490.00
Saw Operative	2	£26,200.00	£26,450.00	£26,700.00
Production Team Member	9	£26,350.00	£26,350.00	£26,350.00
Solderer	25	£25,040.00	£25,895.00	£26,760.00