Manufacturing & production

28 career areas

• Assemblers and routine operatives Average salary: £27,960
  UK employment: -8.7% last 3 years
• Engineering technicians Average salary: £44,840
  UK employment: +37.4% last 3 years
• Footwear and leather working trades Average salary: £25,360
  UK employment: +32.8% last 3 years
• Metal working production and maintenance fitters Average salary: £40,760
  UK employment: -12.7% last 3 years
• Other skilled trades Average salary: £29,340
  UK employment: -30.3% last 3 years
• Packers, bottlers, canners and fillers Average salary: £26,150
  UK employment: -30% last 3 years
• Paper and wood machine operatives Average salary: £30,360
  UK employment: +12.6% last 3 years
• Planning, process and production technicians Average salary: £36,900
  UK employment: -15.4% last 3 years
• Plastics process operatives Average salary: £32,640
  UK employment: -35.5% last 3 years
• Pre-press technicians Average salary: £27,500
  UK employment: +85% last 3 years
• Precision instrument makers and repairers Average salary: £40,060
  UK employment: -52.3% last 3 years
• Print finishing and binding workers Average salary: £27,320
  UK employment: +50% last 3 years
• Printers Average salary: £33,020
  UK employment: -9.1% last 3 years
• Printing machine assistants Average salary: £29,930
  UK employment: -43.1% last 3 years
• Process operatives Average salary: £31,720
  UK employment: -30.1% last 3 years
• Production and process engineers Average salary: £47,950
  UK employment: +62.1% last 3 years
• Production managers and directors in manufacturing Average salary: £58,640
  UK employment: -12.8% last 3 years
• Production, factory and assembly supervisors Average salary: £36,780
  UK employment: -12.1% last 3 years
• Project support officers Average salary: £35,750
  UK employment: +25.7% last 3 years
• Quality assurance and regulatory professionals Average salary: £50,080
  UK employment: +46% last 3 years
• Routine inspectors and testers Average salary: £34,360
  UK employment: -20.1% last 3 years
• Science, engineering and production technicians Average salary: £36,100
  UK employment: +16.2% last 3 years
• Sewing machinists Average salary: £24,810
  UK employment: -23.3% last 3 years
• Tailors and dressmakers Average salary: £25,210
  UK employment: +15.4% last 3 years
• Textiles, garments and related trades Average salary: £26,570
  UK employment: +47.4% last 3 years
• Tool makers, tool fitters and markers-out Average salary: £39,900
  UK employment: +24.6% last 3 years
• Upholsterers Average salary: £27,910
  UK employment: -36.9% last 3 years
• Weighers, graders and sorters Average salary: £30,920
  UK employment: -54.7% last 3 years