Top Tech Skills and Employers
Top Tech Skills
When it comes to in-demand skills, manufacturers want tech professionals who have mastered automation, SQL (which is essential for database work) and information technology. This hints at where manufacturing as an industry will progress in coming years: automation on the factory floor, increasingly sophisticated (and data-dependent) analytics in the back office.
A need for project management, business requirements and mastery of business processes are also driving many manufacturing companies’ hiring. Tech professionals with knowledge of applications and products from SAP are valuable, since many manufacturers rely on the software company’s products to keep track of manufacturing workflows, automation and more.
Getting to the Right Compensation for Tech Professionals
It’s been a wild ride for tech salaries and benefits over the past few years. While salaries may be stabilizing after years of fluctuation due to competition and demand, tech professionals are still likely to be some of the highest-dollar hires in your organization.
Dice’s Tech Salary Report breaks down the current state of tech professional compensation, including average salaries parsed by location, occupation and skills, and also provides the benefits and perks that are most important to tech professionals. Take advantage of this exclusive resource in building compensation packages that will attract top tech candidates.
Top Employers
Food and beverage companies made up more than half of top manufacturing employers we tracked, with The Coca-Cola Company taking the top spot. With Coca-Cola announcing a spate of new manufacturing facilities this year, it’s hard to imagine their growth — and reliance on tech professionals — will wane anytime soon.
Apparel manufacturers also took top spots, including Nike, which has continued enhancing its tech investment, announcing that it is building out a technology innovation center in Georgia and that it will expand its relationship with its long-time IT company for hyper-automation and AI functionality. Tech hiring will continue to be crucial for tech-focused manufacturers like Nike.
Cargill and Niagara Bottling — who have been stepping up their manufacturing capabilities across the country and building out their automation competencies in new facilities along the way — broke into our top 25 employers list.
