Highest Paying Manufacturing Jobs in the UK

Last 12 Month Manufacturing Jobs Summary

There have been 84,108 listed Manufacturing Jobs in the UK in the last 12 months.

Job Type	Total Jobs	Percentage of Jobs 🔽
Permanent	81,339	96.71 %
Contract (Inside IR35)	1,814	2.16 %
Contract (Outside IR35)	955	1.14 %
Contract (IR35 Not Specified)	0	0.00 %

On average, there are 1,617 new Manufacturing Jobs posted each week, or 7,009 each month.

Job Type	Weekly Jobs	Monthly Jobs 🔽
Permanent	1,563	6,778
Contract	53	230

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 March.

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
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
April 2024	2,067

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	52	£73,640.00	£76,550.00	£79,460.00
Manufacturing Operations Manager	34	£59,645.00	£63,960.00	£68,270.00
Automation Tester	2	£62,500.00	£63,750.00	£65,000.00
Automation Engineer	202	£56,180.00	£61,070.00	£65,960.00
Production Manager	1,934	£56,715.00	£60,730.00	£64,740.00
Head of Technical	3	£60,000.00	£60,000.00	£60,000.00
Manufacturing Manager	250	£51,560.00	£54,555.00	£57,545.00
QA Engineer	46	£48,605.00	£53,605.00	£58,605.00
Manufacturing Operator	175	£49,115.00	£52,240.00	£55,365.00
Quality Assistant	204	£47,800.00	£48,800.00	£49,800.00
FMCG	245	£45,680.00	£47,895.00	£50,115.00
CNC Engineer	19	£42,835.00	£45,725.00	£48,610.00
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
Workshop Manager	96	£40,750.00	£44,300.00	£47,835.00
CNC Service Engineer	10	£40,250.00	£43,875.00	£47,500.00
Line Leader	49	£41,750.00	£43,375.00	£45,000.00
Technical Operator	49	£40,390.00	£43,170.00	£45,955.00
Lean Manufacturing	84	£40,325.00	£42,710.00	£45,090.00
Planning Assistant	32	£42,360.00	£42,565.00	£42,775.00
Production Shift Manager	71	£40,200.00	£42,565.00	£44,920.00
QA Manager	24	£40,585.00	£42,525.00	£44,460.00
Factory	637	£40,985.00	£42,375.00	£43,770.00
Manufacturing Supervisor	17	£39,835.00	£41,235.00	£42,625.00
Hygiene Manager	31	£39,200.00	£40,830.00	£42,470.00
Sewer	4	£36,250.00	£40,000.00	£43,750.00
Quality Advisor	13	£38,340.00	£39,900.00	£41,465.00
Technical Manager - Food	5	£38,000.00	£39,750.00	£41,500.00
Senior Quality Officer	4	£39,625.00	£39,625.00	£39,625.00
Technical Operative	47	£37,455.00	£39,380.00	£41,300.00
Miller	106	£36,420.00	£38,340.00	£40,255.00
CNC Programming	20	£35,735.00	£38,110.00	£40,490.00
Manufacturing Team Leader	16	£36,450.00	£38,050.00	£39,650.00
Workshop Controller	145	£35,415.00	£37,685.00	£39,950.00
CNC	840	£35,850.00	£37,655.00	£39,460.00
CNC Turner	68	£32,715.00	£37,305.00	£41,895.00
CNC Programmer	4	£34,750.00	£37,250.00	£39,750.00
CNC Setter	28	£34,710.00	£37,010.00	£39,300.00
Production Controller	8	£34,335.00	£36,960.00	£39,585.00
CNC Miller Setter	6	£33,625.00	£36,940.00	£40,250.00
Grinder	11	£35,665.00	£36,925.00	£38,185.00
Production Shift Leader	2	£35,000.00	£36,750.00	£38,500.00
CNC Miller	70	£34,465.00	£36,640.00	£38,800.00
CNC Machine Operator	14	£34,360.00	£36,625.00	£38,890.00
Furniture	159	£34,240.00	£36,450.00	£38,660.00
Bench Joiner	13	£33,085.00	£35,775.00	£38,460.00
Workshop Foreman	17	£33,250.00	£35,750.00	£38,250.00
Assembly	846	£34,060.00	£35,720.00	£37,395.00
Process Operator	125	£34,240.00	£35,590.00	£36,940.00
Technical Associate	2	£33,000.00	£35,250.00	£37,500.00
Workshop Fitter	12	£33,425.00	£35,150.00	£36,875.00
CNC Machinist	293	£33,195.00	£34,995.00	£36,795.00
Manufacturing Technician	127	£34,245.00	£34,930.00	£35,620.00
CNC Operator	146	£31,715.00	£34,780.00	£37,840.00
Operations Supervisor	30	£33,525.00	£34,420.00	£35,315.00
Production Supervisor	162	£33,605.00	£34,120.00	£34,640.00
Moulding Technician	33	£32,575.00	£34,035.00	£35,500.00
Production Team Leader	152	£32,570.00	£33,695.00	£34,815.00
Injection Moulding Setter	21	£31,825.00	£33,590.00	£35,340.00
Demand Planner	31	£30,365.00	£33,165.00	£35,965.00
Quality Coordinator	22	£29,875.00	£32,615.00	£35,345.00
Testing Operative	2	£32,000.00	£32,000.00	£32,000.00
Manual Machinist	50	£30,175.00	£31,965.00	£33,750.00
Quality Inspector	161	£30,780.00	£31,645.00	£32,510.00
Quality Technician	51	£30,215.00	£31,225.00	£32,240.00
Skilled Operator	78	£30,235.00	£31,005.00	£31,780.00
Electrical Assembly Operative	2	£28,000.00	£31,000.00	£34,000.00
Press Brake	25	£29,375.00	£30,690.00	£32,010.00
Operations Coordinator	79	£28,570.00	£30,550.00	£32,530.00
Production Operative	583	£29,870.00	£30,550.00	£31,235.00
Production Operator	583	£29,870.00	£30,550.00	£31,235.00
Production Officer	2	£27,000.00	£30,500.00	£34,000.00
Production Coordinator	12	£28,725.00	£30,290.00	£31,840.00
Laminator	13	£28,250.00	£30,125.00	£32,000.00
Assembly Technician	48	£28,900.00	£30,115.00	£31,335.00
Print Operator	82	£28,725.00	£29,880.00	£31,045.00
Finishing Operative	23	£27,210.00	£29,505.00	£31,800.00
Furniture Technician	2	£22,000.00	£29,000.00	£36,000.00
PCB Assembler	10	£25,500.00	£28,715.00	£31,915.00
Production Technician	103	£27,275.00	£28,580.00	£29,880.00
Electro Mechanical Assembler	10	£26,915.00	£28,540.00	£30,165.00
Quality Assurance Officer	14	£28,460.00	£28,460.00	£28,460.00
Supply Chain Administrator	20	£27,040.00	£28,120.00	£29,200.00
Machine Operator	212	£27,330.00	£28,045.00	£28,755.00
Production Assistant	51	£26,560.00	£27,925.00	£29,285.00
Sewing Machinist	16	£27,190.00	£27,770.00	£28,355.00
Extrusion Operative	3	£27,375.00	£27,625.00	£27,875.00
Electronic Assembler	11	£25,250.00	£27,440.00	£29,625.00
Saw Operative	13	£27,075.00	£27,280.00	£27,490.00
Assembly Fitter	15	£26,585.00	£27,200.00	£27,810.00
Solderer	18	£24,980.00	£26,745.00	£28,515.00
Production Assembler	33	£25,500.00	£26,640.00	£27,770.00
Factory Operative	21	£25,500.00	£25,940.00	£26,385.00
Assembly Operative	78	£25,320.00	£25,765.00	£26,200.00
Assembly Operator	78	£25,320.00	£25,765.00	£26,200.00
Moulding Operative	5	£24,290.00	£24,475.00	£24,665.00
Factory Cleaner	1	£15,600.00	£15,600.00	£15,600.00