Highest Paying Manufacturing Jobs in the UK

Last 12 Month Manufacturing Jobs Summary

There have been 84,633 listed Manufacturing Jobs in the UK in the last 12 months.

Job Type	Total Jobs	Percentage of Jobs 🔽
Permanent	81,837	96.70 %
Contract (Inside IR35)	1,831	2.16 %
Contract (Outside IR35)	965	1.14 %
Contract (IR35 Not Specified)	0	0.00 %

On average, there are 1,628 new Manufacturing Jobs posted each week, or 7,053 each month.

Job Type	Weekly Jobs	Monthly Jobs 🔽
Permanent	1,574	6,819
Contract	53	233

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

The busiest month for new contract Manufacturing Jobs is also October, and the quietest month is April.

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
April 2025	498
March 2025	531
February 2025	391
January 2025	282
December 2024	131
November 2024	1,766
October 2024	3,990
September 2024	325
August 2024	243
July 2024	204
June 2024	220
May 2024	235

The Highest Paying Manufacturing Jobs

Role Title	Total Jobs	Average Low	Average 🔽	Average High
Manufacturing Director	2	£75,000.00	£81,250.00	£87,500.00
Head of Production	40	£73,640.00	£76,495.00	£79,355.00
Manufacturing Operations Manager	32	£60,375.00	£65,500.00	£70,625.00
Automation Tester	2	£62,500.00	£63,750.00	£65,000.00
Automation Engineer	188	£57,815.00	£62,615.00	£67,410.00
Production Manager	1,682	£57,835.00	£61,895.00	£65,960.00
Manufacturing Operator	144	£51,445.00	£54,705.00	£57,960.00
QA Engineer	41	£49,405.00	£54,355.00	£59,305.00
Manufacturing Manager	201	£51,185.00	£53,850.00	£56,515.00
Planning Assistant	30	£51,250.00	£51,250.00	£51,250.00
Quality Assistant	138	£49,750.00	£50,375.00	£51,000.00
FMCG	185	£44,385.00	£46,475.00	£48,570.00
CNC Service Engineer	2	£42,500.00	£46,250.00	£50,000.00
Workshop Manager	81	£41,805.00	£46,015.00	£50,215.00
CNC Engineer	6	£43,250.00	£46,000.00	£48,750.00
Milling Machinist	5	£43,275.00	£45,465.00	£47,650.00
Production Planning Manager	2	£40,000.00	£45,000.00	£50,000.00
Technical Operator	29	£41,790.00	£44,975.00	£48,160.00
Line Leader	79	£43,000.00	£44,300.00	£45,600.00
Production Shift Manager	52	£40,640.00	£43,185.00	£45,725.00
Factory	564	£41,535.00	£42,875.00	£44,220.00
Manufacturing Supervisor	13	£41,000.00	£42,100.00	£43,190.00
Hygiene Manager	33	£40,360.00	£42,015.00	£43,675.00
Lean Manufacturing	77	£39,050.00	£41,485.00	£43,925.00
Workshop Controller	131	£37,275.00	£40,535.00	£43,785.00
Technical Manager - Food	1	£38,000.00	£40,500.00	£43,000.00
Technical Operative	28	£38,045.00	£40,175.00	£42,305.00
QA Manager	26	£38,405.00	£40,020.00	£41,635.00
Sewer	4	£36,250.00	£40,000.00	£43,750.00
Quality Advisor	13	£38,340.00	£39,900.00	£41,465.00
CNC Programming	18	£36,850.00	£39,790.00	£42,740.00
Miller	116	£38,305.00	£39,715.00	£41,120.00
Senior Quality Officer	4	£39,625.00	£39,625.00	£39,625.00
Manufacturing Team Leader	12	£37,900.00	£39,350.00	£40,800.00
Grinder	8	£38,500.00	£39,140.00	£39,775.00
CNC Turner	54	£33,245.00	£37,790.00	£42,335.00
Furniture	106	£35,285.00	£37,645.00	£40,005.00
CNC Setter	23	£35,765.00	£37,525.00	£39,285.00
CNC	708	£35,700.00	£37,485.00	£39,280.00
CNC Machine Operator	4	£35,000.00	£37,250.00	£39,500.00
CNC Programmer	4	£34,750.00	£37,250.00	£39,750.00
Process Operator	78	£35,915.00	£37,195.00	£38,470.00
CNC Miller Setter	6	£33,625.00	£36,940.00	£40,250.00
CNC Miller	55	£34,700.00	£36,750.00	£38,790.00
Bench Joiner	10	£33,750.00	£36,250.00	£38,750.00
Assembly	806	£34,495.00	£36,095.00	£37,705.00
CNC Operator	130	£32,935.00	£35,620.00	£38,295.00
Production Controller	18	£33,665.00	£35,585.00	£37,500.00
CNC Machinist	228	£33,315.00	£35,205.00	£37,090.00
Workshop Fitter	12	£33,425.00	£35,150.00	£36,875.00
Operations Supervisor	18	£34,165.00	£35,045.00	£35,930.00
Workshop Foreman	14	£32,375.00	£34,875.00	£37,375.00
Production Team Leader	134	£33,190.00	£34,495.00	£35,800.00
Production Officer	2	£32,000.00	£34,250.00	£36,500.00
Production Supervisor	135	£33,310.00	£33,940.00	£34,570.00
Manufacturing Technician	102	£32,840.00	£33,665.00	£34,490.00
Injection Moulding Setter	6	£32,325.00	£33,500.00	£34,675.00
Demand Planner	17	£31,035.00	£33,415.00	£35,800.00
Quality Coordinator	18	£30,500.00	£33,025.00	£35,540.00
Moulding Technician	26	£31,865.00	£32,925.00	£34,000.00
Press Brake	23	£30,090.00	£32,065.00	£34,040.00
Assembly Technician	39	£30,260.00	£31,325.00	£32,395.00
Manual Machinist	37	£29,565.00	£31,315.00	£33,065.00
Production Coordinator	2	£29,775.00	£31,150.00	£32,500.00
Quality Inspector	142	£30,180.00	£31,150.00	£32,120.00
Electrical Assembly Operative	2	£28,000.00	£31,000.00	£34,000.00
Skilled Operator	28	£30,035.00	£30,825.00	£31,615.00
Operations Coordinator	55	£28,750.00	£30,620.00	£32,495.00
Production Operator	500	£29,915.00	£30,600.00	£31,285.00
Production Operative	493	£29,870.00	£30,500.00	£31,125.00
Print Operator	55	£29,100.00	£30,245.00	£31,395.00
Finishing Operative	21	£27,765.00	£30,005.00	£32,250.00
Quality Technician	42	£29,030.00	£29,965.00	£30,900.00
Assembly Fitter	15	£28,585.00	£29,535.00	£30,475.00
Laminator	11	£27,375.00	£28,940.00	£30,500.00
Production Assistant	35	£27,640.00	£28,915.00	£30,180.00
PCB Assembler	10	£25,500.00	£28,715.00	£31,915.00
Supply Chain Administrator	11	£27,500.00	£28,565.00	£29,625.00
Sewing Machinist	12	£28,115.00	£28,475.00	£28,840.00
Production Technician	70	£27,265.00	£28,390.00	£29,510.00
Electro Mechanical Assembler	12	£26,565.00	£28,345.00	£30,125.00
Quality Assurance Officer	16	£28,220.00	£28,220.00	£28,220.00
Machine Operator	192	£27,295.00	£27,930.00	£28,545.00
Saw Operative	9	£27,350.00	£27,625.00	£27,900.00
Extrusion Operative	1	£27,000.00	£27,500.00	£28,000.00
Electronic Assembler	11	£25,250.00	£27,440.00	£29,625.00
Production Assembler	31	£25,915.00	£27,225.00	£28,525.00
Assembly Operative	72	£25,575.00	£26,285.00	£26,995.00
Assembly Operator	72	£25,575.00	£26,285.00	£26,995.00
Solderer	15	£24,225.00	£25,615.00	£27,015.00
Factory Operative	14	£24,490.00	£25,150.00	£25,810.00
Moulding Operative	5	£24,290.00	£24,475.00	£24,665.00