FOR HR & HIRING MANAGERS IN SOUTH WALES
The Definitive 2025/26 South Wales Manufacturing Salary Guide
Your essential tool for benchmarking salaries, attracting top professionals, and building a competitive benefits package in the Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea areas.
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Struggling to Attract Top Talent in a Competitive Welsh Market?
In today’s market, getting your salary and benefits package wrong is costly. You risk losing your best candidates to competitors, seeing staff turnover increase, and struggling to justify budgets to your finance team.
Are your job adverts failing to attract the right engineers, technicians, or operations managers? It often starts with a salary that’s misaligned with the local market.
Relying on outdated or national data puts you at a disadvantage. You need localised, actionable intelligence for South Wales to compete effectively.
Gain a Decisive Advantage with Data-Driven Insights
Benchmark with Confidence
Access detailed salary bands for over 50 roles, broken down by sector and the crucial CF, NP, and SA postcodes.
Decode the NP Salary Premium
Our analysis explains *why* salaries are higher, so you can build a competitive strategy based on the “Semiconductor Cluster” and “Bristol Effect.”
Craft Benefits Packages That Win
We reveal the pension contributions, bonuses, and benefits that top candidates in South Wales now expect as standard.
Prepare for Tomorrow’s Skills
Our future outlook identifies the key skills in automation and decarbonisation, helping you future-proof your workforce planning.
The Sigma Difference: Data You Can Trust
Our approach blends three data streams to reflect real pay on the ground:
Proprietary Placements (2022–2025)
Anonymised salary outcomes from our successful permanent role placements and candidate registrations across the key CF, NP, and SA postcodes.
Market Benchmarking
Analysis of public job-market data and national surveys, which we normalise specifically to the South Wales manufacturing and engineering context.
Direct Consultation
Insights gathered from ongoing discussions with a network of HR leaders, hiring managers, and senior candidates across all local manufacturing sectors.
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Go Beyond the Data: Your Strategic Recruitment Partner
Once you have the right salary data, the next step is finding the perfect candidate. We can help.
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Data is powerful, but finding the right person is what matters. We have a pool of high-calibre, available professionals across engineering, operations, and management. Proactively search our live database of anonymous candidate profiles to find the exact skills you need right now.
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