Download our 2025 engineering and manufacturing salary guide to discover the latest UK salary trends and benefits for engineering businesses and professionals. This comprehensive guide provides key wage information and engineering recruitment trends for 2025.
Reed’s 2025 engineering and manufacturing salary guide evaluates average salaries and benefits across the engineering sector. Using data from 21 million jobs posted on Reed.co.uk since 2016, it highlights key salary trends and insights, enabling you to benchmark average salaries for your engineering teams across the UK or find out what you should, or could, be earning in the engineering industry.
With expert insights on the market and job landscape, as well as an in-depth look at regional trends, this UK engineering and manufacturing salary trends guide provides all the information you need to plan for the year ahead and make strategic decisions to help your engineering teams and business thrive.
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Who is the 2025 engineering and manufacturing salary guide designed for?
Our 2025 engineering and manufacturing salary guide is tailored for:
Jobseekers aiming to join the engineering industry.
Professionals looking to benchmark their earnings.
Employers seeking to enhance their salary and benefits offerings.
Whether you’re researching salaries for full-stack developers, web developers, software developers, or cloud engineers, this guide offers the insights you need. Backed by expertise from our engineering and manufacturing specialists, it highlights key engineering recruitment trends, enabling you to plan confidently for the year ahead.
Employers: looking for engineering and manufacturing salary benchmarking insights?
In the fiercely competitive engineering sector, offering competitive salaries is critical. Reed’s 2025 engineering and manufacturing salary guide draws on data from 21 million job postings since 2016 to provide the most accurate salary benchmarks and predictions for 2026.
Don’t let your business fall behind. Use our guide to attract and retain top talent with competitive remuneration packages.
Jobseekers: curious about what you should be earning?
Navigating salary expectations in the engineering industry can be challenging. Our guide helps you discover exactly what you could or should be earning, along with insights into emerging roles and skills to futureproof your career.
Whether you’re exploring a field service engineer salary in the North East or a systems engineer salary in the East Midlands, this guide has all the answers.
What jobs are covered in the Reed engineering and manufacturing salary guide 2025?
This guide provides salary and benefits data for some of the most sought-after engineering roles, including:
Mechanical design engineer
Production manager
CNC programmer
Design manager
Process engineer
Quality inspector
Project manager
Process engineer
Maintenance technician
Why download the UK’s most trusted engineering and manufacturing salary guide?
Our 2025 engineering and manufacturing salary guide is an essential resource for jobseekers and employers alike. It offers:
Detailed salary insights for 2025.
Market trend analysis.
Insights into the benefits employees value most.
Comprehensive data across a range of engineering roles.
Stay ahead of the competition with expert advice on salaries, benefits, and recruitment trends.
How can Reed’s engineering salary guide assist with benefits and rewards benchmarking?
Our salary guides are informed by a survey of 5,000 UK workers, conducted in November 2024. This survey is designed to help inform your decisions when it comes to benchmarking all things salary and reward in the engineering and manufacturing sector.
Key findings include:
Forty-three per cent of people saying they work more hours than they are paid to.
Alarmingly, when asked why, 40% of those employees said they have too much work to do in the hours they are paid to work.
Nearly half of workers are unhappy with their salaries.
More than half (60%) of those who aren’t satisfied with their salary shared that this is because it hasn’t risen with the cost of living, nearly a third (31%) say it’s not enough for them to live the lifestyle they want, and 36% feel they’re unable to save enough money to meet their financial goals.
Salary increases remain the most significant action to make workers feel more valued, with 59% of respondents ranking it at the top.
Company benefits offered marry up almost exactly with the benefits employees make use of, with onsite parking, hybrid working, Christmas shutdown and free refreshments ranking as the top received and used benefits.
See all the results from our survey and leverage this guide to make informed decisions on salaries and benefits in UK engineering for 2025. Download your copy of the Reed engineering and manufacturing salary guide 2025 now.
