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Highest Paying Manufacturing Jobs in the UK

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Last 12 Month Manufacturing Jobs Summary

There have been 99,083 listed Manufacturing Jobs in the UK in the last 12 months.

Job Type	Total Jobs	Percentage of Jobs 🔽
Permanent	95,762	96.65 %
Contract (Inside IR35)	2,228	2.25 %
Contract (Outside IR35)	1,093	1.10 %
Contract (IR35 Not Specified)	0	0.00 %

On average, there are 1,905 new Manufacturing Jobs posted each week, or 8,257 each month.

Job Type	Weekly Jobs	Monthly Jobs 🔽
Permanent	1,841	7,980
Contract	63	276

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	15	£110,000.00	£116,665.00	£123,335.00
Head of Production	7	£79,650.00	£83,115.00	£86,590.00
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	26	£54,335.00	£58,070.00	£61,815.00
Automation Engineer	227	£50,500.00	£56,710.00	£62,915.00
QA Manager	5	£53,000.00	£55,875.00	£58,750.00
Production Manager	1,369	£51,495.00	£55,765.00	£60,030.00
Manufacturing Manager	342	£52,345.00	£55,650.00	£58,950.00
Head of Technical	5	£53,275.00	£54,825.00	£56,375.00
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
FMCG	728	£49,220.00	£52,340.00	£55,465.00
Manufacturing Operator	241	£47,215.00	£50,650.00	£54,090.00
Automation Tester	2	£35,000.00	£50,000.00	£65,000.00
Lean Manufacturing	62	£45,040.00	£47,515.00	£49,990.00
Workshop Manager	172	£43,820.00	£45,840.00	£47,855.00
CNC Programmer	2	£45,275.00	£45,275.00	£45,275.00
Production Shift Manager	43	£43,390.00	£44,730.00	£46,065.00
Factory	334	£42,450.00	£44,585.00	£46,720.00
Quality Advisor	6	£41,960.00	£43,940.00	£45,935.00
Workshop Controller	35	£41,630.00	£43,880.00	£46,130.00
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
Manufacturing Supervisor	16	£40,405.00	£41,780.00	£43,155.00
Hygiene Manager	36	£39,170.00	£41,640.00	£44,105.00
CNC Engineer	57	£38,920.00	£41,100.00	£43,270.00
Technical Operator	22	£39,205.00	£40,980.00	£42,765.00
Workshop Fitter	39	£36,605.00	£40,930.00	£45,255.00
CNC Programming	8	£38,390.00	£40,825.00	£43,260.00
Miller	243	£39,010.00	£40,140.00	£41,260.00
Production Officer	4	£37,500.00	£40,000.00	£42,500.00
Demand Planner	42	£37,015.00	£39,410.00	£41,810.00
Operations Supervisor	24	£37,380.00	£38,775.00	£40,170.00
CNC Miller Setter	2	£38,700.00	£38,700.00	£38,700.00
Process Operator	153	£36,910.00	£38,685.00	£40,460.00
Production Controller	6	£37,165.00	£38,500.00	£39,835.00
CNC Turner	104	£35,945.00	£38,280.00	£40,615.00
Production Supervisor	164	£36,420.00	£38,270.00	£40,125.00
Section Leader	21	£37,390.00	£38,040.00	£38,690.00
CNC Machinist	316	£35,505.00	£38,025.00	£40,550.00
CNC	1,559	£35,620.00	£38,010.00	£40,395.00
Production Team Leader	192	£37,020.00	£37,970.00	£38,925.00
CNC Miller	158	£35,745.00	£37,750.00	£39,750.00
Grinder	27	£35,205.00	£37,560.00	£39,905.00
Manufacturing Team Leader	17	£35,750.00	£37,475.00	£39,200.00
Injection Moulding Setter	34	£35,255.00	£36,965.00	£38,670.00
Mechanical Inspector	27	£34,205.00	£36,510.00	£38,815.00
Quality Assistant	2	£35,000.00	£36,500.00	£38,000.00
Skilled Operator	139	£35,510.00	£36,305.00	£37,100.00
CNC Setter	60	£33,910.00	£36,290.00	£38,675.00
Packaging Technologist	7	£36,250.00	£36,250.00	£36,250.00
CNC Operator	279	£33,190.00	£35,790.00	£38,390.00
Furniture	162	£33,175.00	£35,710.00	£38,245.00
Manual Machinist	36	£33,030.00	£35,695.00	£38,350.00
CNC Machine Operator	16	£33,075.00	£35,640.00	£38,210.00
Manual Turner	3	£34,890.00	£35,640.00	£36,375.00
CNC Grinder	4	£31,135.00	£35,565.00	£40,000.00
Milling Machinist	4	£34,090.00	£35,465.00	£36,840.00
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
Quality Inspector	309	£33,425.00	£34,875.00	£36,330.00
Bench Joiner	6	£32,615.00	£34,640.00	£36,665.00
Composite Laminator	2	£32,750.00	£34,575.00	£36,400.00
Production Assistant	50	£32,520.00	£34,155.00	£35,795.00
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
Moulding Technician	7	£32,325.00	£33,575.00	£34,825.00
Laminator	28	£31,520.00	£33,305.00	£35,095.00
Line Leader	28	£31,685.00	£32,985.00	£34,275.00
Quality Technician	68	£31,750.00	£32,855.00	£33,955.00
Assembly	1,612	£30,965.00	£32,850.00	£34,730.00
Machine Operator	294	£31,545.00	£32,675.00	£33,805.00
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
Production Operative	576	£30,600.00	£31,950.00	£33,300.00
Production Operator	608	£30,315.00	£31,705.00	£33,100.00
Production Technician	183	£29,620.00	£31,540.00	£33,470.00
Furniture Technician	2	£30,500.00	£31,250.00	£32,000.00
Electronic Assembler	81	£29,025.00	£30,650.00	£32,270.00
Print Operator	82	£28,945.00	£30,515.00	£32,070.00
Assembly Technician	128	£28,680.00	£30,450.00	£32,215.00
Production Coordinator	56	£29,100.00	£30,365.00	£31,635.00
Finishing Operative	46	£29,180.00	£30,155.00	£31,130.00
Quality Coordinator	1	£30,000.00	£30,000.00	£30,000.00
Operations Coordinator	322	£28,205.00	£29,715.00	£31,220.00
Assembly Operative	140	£28,840.00	£29,600.00	£30,375.00
PCB Assembler	11	£27,595.00	£29,425.00	£31,250.00
Production Team Member	19	£29,415.00	£29,415.00	£29,415.00
Assembly Operator	144	£28,540.00	£29,275.00	£30,015.00
Electronic Assembly Technician	6	£28,250.00	£29,250.00	£30,250.00
Factory Operative	14	£28,280.00	£28,650.00	£29,015.00
Supply Chain Administrator	64	£27,270.00	£28,485.00	£29,705.00
Solderer	58	£27,205.00	£28,415.00	£29,635.00
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	11	£26,325.00	£26,450.00	£26,575.00