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Highest Paying Manufacturing Jobs in the UK

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Last 12 Month Manufacturing Jobs Summary

There have been 100,286 listed Manufacturing Jobs in the UK in the last 12 months.

Job Type	Total Jobs	Percentage of Jobs 🔽
Permanent	96,919	96.64 %
Contract (Inside IR35)	2,260	2.25 %
Contract (Outside IR35)	1,107	1.10 %
Contract (IR35 Not Specified)	0	0.00 %

On average, there are 1,929 new Manufacturing Jobs posted each week, or 8,357 each month.

Job Type	Weekly Jobs	Monthly Jobs 🔽
Permanent	1,864	8,076
Contract	64	280

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: July 2026

Jobs listed

1,360

Up 31.9% vs last year

Average salary

£39,140.00

Down 1.6% vs last year

Last 12 Month UK Contract Manufacturing Jobs

Inside IR35

Latest month: July 2026

Jobs listed

Down 35.4% vs last year

Average day rate

£545.00

Up 10.8% vs last year

Outside IR35

Latest month: July 2026

Jobs listed

Up 33.3% vs last year

Average day rate

£415.00

Down 13.2% 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
July 2026	1,360
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

The Highest Paying Manufacturing Jobs

Role Title	Total Jobs	Average Low	Average 🔽	Average High
Manufacturing Director	9	£105,000.00	£112,500.00	£120,000.00
Head of Production	10	£82,315.00	£86,200.00	£90,090.00
QA Manager	7	£64,000.00	£69,190.00	£74,375.00
Manufacturing Operations Manager	38	£58,040.00	£63,090.00	£68,125.00
QA Engineer	30	£57,185.00	£61,620.00	£66,055.00
Design Team Leader	27	£57,500.00	£59,895.00	£62,290.00
Automation Engineer	239	£52,105.00	£56,915.00	£61,720.00
Production Manager	1,439	£52,100.00	£55,840.00	£59,575.00
Manufacturing Manager	342	£51,855.00	£55,230.00	£58,600.00
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
Manufacturing Operator	255	£48,750.00	£52,185.00	£55,620.00
FMCG	726	£48,850.00	£52,000.00	£55,150.00
Automation Tester	2	£35,000.00	£50,000.00	£65,000.00
Lean Manufacturing	73	£46,235.00	£48,535.00	£50,830.00
Workshop Manager	191	£43,850.00	£45,930.00	£48,000.00
Manufacturing Supervisor	14	£44,210.00	£45,460.00	£46,710.00
Production Shift Manager	48	£44,165.00	£45,355.00	£46,540.00
CNC Programmer	2	£45,275.00	£45,275.00	£45,275.00
Quality Advisor	6	£41,960.00	£43,940.00	£45,935.00
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
Workshop Controller	45	£40,795.00	£43,070.00	£45,350.00
Factory	347	£40,925.00	£42,800.00	£44,680.00
Technical Operative	24	£40,400.00	£42,285.00	£44,170.00
Hygiene Manager	40	£39,120.00	£41,565.00	£44,015.00
CNC Engineer	57	£38,920.00	£41,100.00	£43,270.00
Miller	237	£39,905.00	£41,085.00	£42,260.00
Technical Operator	22	£39,205.00	£40,980.00	£42,765.00
CNC Programming	8	£38,390.00	£40,825.00	£43,260.00
Workshop Fitter	42	£36,475.00	£40,690.00	£44,905.00
Production Officer	4	£37,500.00	£40,000.00	£42,500.00
Demand Planner	42	£37,015.00	£39,410.00	£41,810.00
Process Operator	164	£36,970.00	£38,780.00	£40,590.00
Production Supervisor	174	£36,890.00	£38,740.00	£40,590.00
CNC Turner	103	£36,370.00	£38,725.00	£41,080.00
CNC	1,614	£36,245.00	£38,680.00	£41,105.00
Production Controller	6	£37,165.00	£38,500.00	£39,835.00
Operations Supervisor	36	£36,575.00	£38,495.00	£40,410.00
CNC Machinist	347	£35,795.00	£38,150.00	£40,510.00
Production Team Leader	201	£37,365.00	£38,150.00	£38,930.00
Injection Moulding Setter	32	£35,795.00	£37,750.00	£39,700.00
CNC Miller	150	£35,705.00	£37,740.00	£39,775.00
Section Leader	19	£37,300.00	£37,615.00	£37,925.00
Grinder	27	£35,205.00	£37,560.00	£39,905.00
Manufacturing Team Leader	17	£35,750.00	£37,475.00	£39,200.00
Mechanical Inspector	25	£34,660.00	£37,140.00	£39,615.00
Planning Assistant	9	£35,165.00	£36,665.00	£38,165.00
Quality Assistant	2	£35,000.00	£36,500.00	£38,000.00
Skilled Operator	152	£35,785.00	£36,400.00	£37,015.00
Furniture	173	£33,815.00	£36,320.00	£38,820.00
Packaging Technologist	7	£36,250.00	£36,250.00	£36,250.00
CNC Operator	302	£33,325.00	£35,980.00	£38,640.00
CNC Setter	54	£33,485.00	£35,945.00	£38,405.00
Manual Machinist	41	£33,130.00	£35,810.00	£38,480.00
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
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	311	£33,500.00	£34,865.00	£36,230.00
Bench Joiner	6	£32,615.00	£34,640.00	£36,665.00
Production Assistant	54	£32,520.00	£34,250.00	£35,980.00
Press Brake	8	£32,215.00	£34,155.00	£36,100.00
Assembly Fitter	35	£32,835.00	£34,065.00	£35,295.00
Composite Laminator	4	£31,725.00	£34,050.00	£36,400.00
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	32	£31,550.00	£33,550.00	£35,545.00
Assembly	1,695	£31,005.00	£33,075.00	£35,140.00
Machine Operator	289	£31,875.00	£33,060.00	£34,250.00
Line Leader	28	£31,685.00	£32,985.00	£34,275.00
Quality Technician	66	£31,245.00	£32,545.00	£33,840.00
Chemical Process Operator	2	£32,500.00	£32,500.00	£32,500.00
Production Operative	590	£31,105.00	£32,470.00	£33,845.00
Production Operator	643	£30,840.00	£32,190.00	£33,555.00
Production Coordinator	63	£30,570.00	£32,045.00	£33,525.00
Production Technician	193	£29,835.00	£31,750.00	£33,665.00
Furniture Technician	2	£30,500.00	£31,250.00	£32,000.00
Assembly Technician	132	£28,930.00	£30,930.00	£32,935.00
Electronic Assembler	78	£29,130.00	£30,865.00	£32,600.00
Finishing Operative	42	£29,715.00	£30,685.00	£31,655.00
Print Operator	97	£29,015.00	£30,465.00	£31,915.00
Quality Coordinator	1	£30,000.00	£30,000.00	£30,000.00
Operations Coordinator	365	£28,520.00	£29,965.00	£31,405.00
Assembly Operative	128	£28,750.00	£29,600.00	£30,455.00
PCB Assembler	12	£27,595.00	£29,425.00	£31,250.00
Production Team Member	19	£29,415.00	£29,415.00	£29,415.00
Assembly Operator	143	£28,505.00	£29,340.00	£30,180.00
Electronic Assembly Technician	6	£28,250.00	£29,250.00	£30,250.00
Solderer	57	£27,465.00	£28,915.00	£30,370.00
Factory Operative	13	£28,285.00	£28,735.00	£29,185.00
Supply Chain Administrator	64	£27,270.00	£28,485.00	£29,705.00
Production Assembler	19	£27,100.00	£28,425.00	£29,750.00
Electro Mechanical Assembler	11	£26,665.00	£28,015.00	£29,350.00
Moulding Operative	46	£27,685.00	£27,685.00	£27,685.00
Sewing Machinist	13	£26,280.00	£26,390.00	£26,495.00