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Highest Paying Manufacturing Jobs in the UK

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Last 12 Month Manufacturing Jobs Summary

There have been 98,409 listed Manufacturing Jobs in the UK in the last 12 months.

Job Type	Total Jobs	Percentage of Jobs 🔽
Permanent	95,099	96.64 %
Contract (Inside IR35)	2,221	2.26 %
Contract (Outside IR35)	1,089	1.11 %
Contract (IR35 Not Specified)	0	0.00 %

On average, there are 1,892 new Manufacturing Jobs posted each week, or 8,201 each month.

Job Type	Weekly Jobs	Monthly Jobs 🔽
Permanent	1,828	7,925
Contract	63	275

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

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

Last 12 Month Permanent UK Manufacturing Jobs

Permanent Manufacturing Jobs

Latest month: June 2026

Jobs listed

760

Down 23.3% vs last year

Average salary

£41,105.00

Up 4.0% vs last year

Last 12 Month UK Contract Manufacturing Jobs

Inside IR35

Latest month: June 2026

Jobs listed

Up 80.2% vs last year

Average day rate

£540.00

Up 10.6% vs last year

Outside IR35

Latest month: June 2026

Jobs listed

Up 15.4% vs last year

Average day rate

£510.00

Up 6.3% vs last year

Last 12 Month Total Listed Manufacturing Jobs

Month 🔽	Listed Jobs	vs Prev Month	vs Prev 3 Months	vs Prev 6 Months	vs Prev Year
June 2026	760
May 2026	1,116
April 2026	1,916
March 2026	2,042
February 2026	1,320
January 2026	1,879
December 2025	231
November 2025	134
October 2025	789
September 2025	1,137
August 2025	624
July 2025	428

The Highest Paying Manufacturing Jobs

Role Title	Total Jobs	Average Low	Average 🔽	Average High
Manufacturing Director	12	£115,000.00	£122,500.00	£130,000.00
Head of Production	5	£92,475.00	£96,425.00	£100,390.00
Manufacturing Operations Manager	38	£58,040.00	£63,090.00	£68,125.00
Design Team Leader	20	£56,665.00	£59,250.00	£61,835.00
QA Engineer	29	£53,855.00	£57,455.00	£61,055.00
Automation Engineer	228	£50,570.00	£56,715.00	£62,855.00
QA Manager	5	£53,000.00	£55,875.00	£58,750.00
Manufacturing Manager	329	£52,665.00	£55,655.00	£58,640.00
Production Manager	1,380	£51,575.00	£55,515.00	£59,445.00
Head of Technical	5	£53,275.00	£54,825.00	£56,375.00
FMCG	705	£49,260.00	£52,500.00	£55,740.00
Production Planning Manager	5	£48,335.00	£52,500.00	£56,665.00
Testing Operative	2	£47,500.00	£52,500.00	£57,500.00
Manufacturing Operator	225	£48,330.00	£51,605.00	£54,880.00
Automation Tester	2	£35,000.00	£50,000.00	£65,000.00
Lean Manufacturing	58	£45,665.00	£48,405.00	£51,145.00
Workshop Manager	167	£44,140.00	£46,210.00	£48,270.00
CNC Programmer	2	£45,275.00	£45,275.00	£45,275.00
Workshop Controller	32	£42,345.00	£44,770.00	£47,200.00
Production Shift Manager	43	£43,165.00	£44,420.00	£45,680.00
Quality Advisor	6	£41,960.00	£43,940.00	£45,935.00
Factory	315	£41,440.00	£43,700.00	£45,960.00
Workshop Foreman	5	£42,235.00	£43,400.00	£44,565.00
CNC Service Engineer	13	£41,000.00	£43,310.00	£45,610.00
Technical Operative	24	£40,400.00	£42,285.00	£44,170.00
Hygiene Manager	32	£39,330.00	£41,855.00	£44,390.00
Manufacturing Supervisor	16	£40,405.00	£41,780.00	£43,155.00
CNC Engineer	53	£38,920.00	£41,055.00	£43,180.00
Workshop Fitter	33	£37,020.00	£41,045.00	£45,080.00
Technical Operator	22	£39,205.00	£40,980.00	£42,765.00
CNC Programming	8	£38,390.00	£40,825.00	£43,260.00
Section Leader	19	£39,615.00	£40,115.00	£40,615.00
Miller	239	£38,975.00	£40,065.00	£41,145.00
Production Officer	4	£37,500.00	£40,000.00	£42,500.00
Demand Planner	42	£37,015.00	£39,410.00	£41,810.00
CNC Miller Setter	2	£38,700.00	£38,700.00	£38,700.00
Production Team Leader	180	£37,250.00	£38,520.00	£39,795.00
Manufacturing Team Leader	15	£36,000.00	£38,300.00	£40,600.00
CNC	1,548	£35,940.00	£38,295.00	£40,640.00
Process Operator	136	£36,390.00	£38,120.00	£39,855.00
CNC Turner	103	£36,030.00	£38,070.00	£40,115.00
CNC Machinist	300	£35,555.00	£38,010.00	£40,465.00
CNC Miller	153	£35,755.00	£37,715.00	£39,675.00
Production Supervisor	164	£35,845.00	£37,575.00	£39,310.00
Grinder	27	£35,205.00	£37,560.00	£39,905.00
Production Controller	4	£36,250.00	£37,250.00	£38,250.00
CNC Setter	55	£34,135.00	£36,640.00	£39,145.00
Operations Supervisor	21	£34,855.00	£36,530.00	£38,205.00
Mechanical Inspector	27	£34,205.00	£36,510.00	£38,815.00
Quality Assistant	2	£35,000.00	£36,500.00	£38,000.00
Packaging Technologist	7	£36,250.00	£36,250.00	£36,250.00
Skilled Operator	124	£35,445.00	£36,250.00	£37,055.00
Manual Machinist	34	£33,535.00	£36,225.00	£38,910.00
Injection Moulding Setter	31	£34,465.00	£36,040.00	£37,615.00
Manual Turner	3	£34,890.00	£35,640.00	£36,375.00
CNC Operator	255	£33,240.00	£35,590.00	£37,940.00
CNC Grinder	4	£31,135.00	£35,565.00	£40,000.00
Milling Machinist	4	£34,090.00	£35,465.00	£36,840.00
Furniture	163	£32,630.00	£35,265.00	£37,895.00
Planning Assistant	6	£34,000.00	£35,000.00	£36,000.00
UPVC Production	2	£30,000.00	£35,000.00	£40,000.00
Manufacturing Technician	92	£33,405.00	£34,915.00	£36,440.00
Moulding Technician	5	£33,990.00	£34,865.00	£35,740.00
CNC Machine Operator	14	£32,845.00	£34,675.00	£36,515.00
Quality Inspector	304	£33,250.00	£34,670.00	£36,090.00
Press Brake	6	£32,115.00	£34,040.00	£35,965.00
Bench Hand Joiner	2	£32,500.00	£34,000.00	£35,500.00
Bench Joiner	4	£31,075.00	£33,125.00	£35,175.00
Quality Technician	63	£31,765.00	£32,910.00	£34,055.00
Assembly	1,601	£30,945.00	£32,890.00	£34,835.00
Production Assistant	51	£31,045.00	£32,645.00	£34,245.00
Assembly Fitter	35	£31,135.00	£32,590.00	£34,050.00
Chemical Process Operator	2	£32,500.00	£32,500.00	£32,500.00
Machine Operator	278	£31,220.00	£32,485.00	£33,750.00
Line Leader	25	£31,105.00	£32,355.00	£33,595.00
Laminator	24	£30,890.00	£32,345.00	£33,800.00
Production Operative	552	£30,750.00	£32,005.00	£33,270.00
Production Operator	571	£30,500.00	£31,790.00	£33,085.00
Production Technician	175	£29,750.00	£31,685.00	£33,625.00
Furniture Technician	2	£30,500.00	£31,250.00	£32,000.00
PCB Assembler	10	£28,460.00	£30,735.00	£33,000.00
Print Operator	70	£29,045.00	£30,640.00	£32,230.00
Assembly Technician	120	£28,680.00	£30,525.00	£32,365.00
Production Coordinator	56	£29,100.00	£30,365.00	£31,635.00
Finishing Operative	46	£29,180.00	£30,155.00	£31,130.00
Electronic Assembler	75	£28,680.00	£30,140.00	£31,600.00
Assembly Operative	128	£29,045.00	£29,790.00	£30,550.00
Factory Operative	13	£29,210.00	£29,700.00	£30,185.00
Operations Coordinator	319	£27,975.00	£29,625.00	£31,280.00
Assembly Operator	134	£28,765.00	£29,550.00	£30,340.00
Production Team Member	19	£29,415.00	£29,415.00	£29,415.00
Electronic Assembly Technician	6	£28,250.00	£29,250.00	£30,250.00
Supply Chain Administrator	62	£27,315.00	£28,565.00	£29,820.00
Solderer	55	£27,115.00	£28,405.00	£29,705.00
Production Assembler	21	£27,065.00	£28,365.00	£29,665.00
Electro Mechanical Assembler	9	£26,540.00	£28,165.00	£29,790.00
Moulding Operative	46	£27,685.00	£27,685.00	£27,685.00
Sewing Machinist	8	£25,935.00	£26,015.00	£26,100.00