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Highest Paying Manufacturing Jobs in the UK

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Last 12 Month Manufacturing Jobs Summary

There have been 98,133 listed Manufacturing Jobs in the UK in the last 12 months.

Job Type	Total Jobs	Percentage of Jobs 🔽
Permanent	94,839	96.64 %
Contract (Inside IR35)	2,211	2.25 %
Contract (Outside IR35)	1,083	1.10 %
Contract (IR35 Not Specified)	0	0.00 %

On average, there are 1,887 new Manufacturing Jobs posted each week, or 8,178 each month.

Job Type	Weekly Jobs	Monthly Jobs 🔽
Permanent	1,823	7,903
Contract	63	274

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	17	£58,000.00	£60,350.00	£62,700.00
QA Engineer	29	£53,855.00	£57,455.00	£61,055.00
Automation Engineer	226	£50,690.00	£56,635.00	£62,580.00
Manufacturing Manager	326	£53,360.00	£56,395.00	£59,425.00
Production Manager	1,366	£52,200.00	£56,110.00	£60,015.00
QA Manager	5	£53,000.00	£55,875.00	£58,750.00
Head of Technical	5	£53,275.00	£54,825.00	£56,375.00
FMCG	688	£49,535.00	£52,785.00	£56,035.00
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	223	£47,150.00	£50,280.00	£53,410.00
Automation Tester	2	£35,000.00	£50,000.00	£65,000.00
Lean Manufacturing	56	£44,685.00	£46,570.00	£48,455.00
Workshop Manager	167	£43,365.00	£45,290.00	£47,210.00
CNC Programmer	2	£45,275.00	£45,275.00	£45,275.00
Production Shift Manager	43	£43,165.00	£44,420.00	£45,680.00
Workshop Controller	30	£41,630.00	£44,200.00	£46,770.00
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
Factory	311	£40,910.00	£42,975.00	£45,035.00
Technical Operative	24	£40,400.00	£42,285.00	£44,170.00
Hygiene Manager	30	£39,445.00	£41,870.00	£44,300.00
Manufacturing Supervisor	16	£40,405.00	£41,780.00	£43,155.00
Workshop Fitter	31	£37,190.00	£41,345.00	£45,510.00
CNC Engineer	50	£39,095.00	£41,185.00	£43,265.00
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
Production Officer	4	£37,500.00	£40,000.00	£42,500.00
Miller	235	£38,865.00	£39,960.00	£41,050.00
Demand Planner	42	£37,015.00	£39,410.00	£41,810.00
Production Team Leader	177	£37,435.00	£38,750.00	£40,070.00
CNC Miller Setter	2	£38,700.00	£38,700.00	£38,700.00
Manufacturing Team Leader	15	£36,000.00	£38,300.00	£40,600.00
CNC	1,531	£35,860.00	£38,140.00	£40,410.00
Process Operator	136	£36,390.00	£38,120.00	£39,855.00
CNC Machinist	302	£35,555.00	£38,110.00	£40,665.00
CNC Turner	103	£36,030.00	£38,070.00	£40,115.00
Grinder	27	£35,205.00	£37,560.00	£39,905.00
CNC Miller	149	£35,310.00	£37,365.00	£39,420.00
Production Supervisor	161	£35,500.00	£37,290.00	£39,085.00
Production Controller	4	£36,250.00	£37,250.00	£38,250.00
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
Skilled Operator	115	£35,565.00	£36,415.00	£37,270.00
CNC Setter	53	£34,025.00	£36,405.00	£38,790.00
Packaging Technologist	7	£36,250.00	£36,250.00	£36,250.00
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 Grinder	4	£31,135.00	£35,565.00	£40,000.00
CNC Operator	249	£33,050.00	£35,550.00	£38,050.00
Milling Machinist	4	£34,090.00	£35,465.00	£36,840.00
Furniture	166	£32,585.00	£35,160.00	£37,735.00
Quality Inspector	300	£33,590.00	£35,020.00	£36,450.00
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
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
Quality Technician	61	£32,290.00	£33,330.00	£34,360.00
Bench Joiner	4	£31,075.00	£33,125.00	£35,175.00
Assembly	1,595	£30,975.00	£32,910.00	£34,840.00
Laminator	22	£30,965.00	£32,660.00	£34,350.00
Production Assistant	53	£31,045.00	£32,645.00	£34,245.00
Chemical Process Operator	2	£32,500.00	£32,500.00	£32,500.00
Machine Operator	270	£31,160.00	£32,400.00	£33,635.00
Line Leader	25	£31,105.00	£32,355.00	£33,595.00
Assembly Fitter	39	£30,570.00	£32,170.00	£33,780.00
Production Technician	164	£29,875.00	£31,820.00	£33,770.00
Production Operative	566	£30,445.00	£31,625.00	£32,805.00
Production Operator	570	£30,195.00	£31,410.00	£32,640.00
Furniture Technician	2	£30,500.00	£31,250.00	£32,000.00
PCB Assembler	10	£28,460.00	£30,735.00	£33,000.00
Assembly Technician	118	£28,775.00	£30,525.00	£32,275.00
Print Operator	68	£28,900.00	£30,390.00	£31,870.00
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
Factory Operative	13	£29,210.00	£29,700.00	£30,185.00
Operations Coordinator	309	£27,990.00	£29,595.00	£31,200.00
Assembly Operative	132	£28,785.00	£29,500.00	£30,220.00
Electronic Assembly Technician	6	£28,250.00	£29,250.00	£30,250.00
Assembly Operator	136	£28,405.00	£29,145.00	£29,890.00
Production Assembler	22	£27,550.00	£28,775.00	£30,000.00
Production Team Member	18	£28,650.00	£28,650.00	£28,650.00
Supply Chain Administrator	62	£27,315.00	£28,565.00	£29,820.00
Electro Mechanical Assembler	8	£27,075.00	£28,325.00	£29,575.00
Solderer	57	£27,055.00	£28,265.00	£29,485.00
Moulding Operative	46	£27,685.00	£27,685.00	£27,685.00
Sewing Machinist	8	£25,935.00	£26,015.00	£26,100.00