These roles plan, make and move physical goods. Postings focus on process improvement, quality and the planning systems a plant or supply network runs on, and few of them can be done remotely.
We analyzed 774 U.S. job descriptions from 169 employers for Manufacturing & Supply Chain roles. The most requested skills were Supply chain (21%), Excel (16%) and Root cause analysis (11%).
21,670open U.S. roles tracked
3 yearstypical experience asked for
$117,500median advertised pay, from 633 roles that state it
Operations
Supply chain21%
Root cause analysis11%
ERP systems8%
Lean7%
Six Sigma7%
OSHA6%
Quality systems4%
Business tools
Excel16%
SAP9%
PowerPoint5%
Product & design
Project management10%
Prototyping4%
Agile3%
Clinical
GMP8%
FDA regulations3%
Finance & legal
Regulatory compliance6%
Hardware
HVAC and cooling5%
CAD4%
Electrical systems3%
Semiconductor processes3%
Data
Statistics4%
Languages
Python4%
SQL4%
Cloud & infrastructure
AWS3%
Updated November 7, 2026, using job descriptions collected since September 25, 2026. Shares show how many of the sampled descriptions mention a skill, so a low share can still be a firm requirement in the roles that list it. We sample a limited number of descriptions per employer so that no single company dominates, and we only report figures backed by several employers. Advertised pay comes from a different group of roles than H1B filings, so the two are not directly comparable.
