Top Occupations and States
Top Occupations
Unlike some other industries, manufacturers rely on a sizable amount of on-the-ground talent. Field service technicians, installers, QA leads, infrastructure engineers and other frontline tech professionals are expected to plunge in and get their hands dirty. In contrast to previous eras, these technicians and engineers are backed by increasingly sophisticated diagnostic and engineering tools that incorporate bleeding-edge data analytics, image recognition and more.
As manufacturing machines become “smarter” thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution, the sector will also have an increasing hunger for data scientists, data analysts and others who can take the flood of data from hardware and software, clean it and mine it for crucial insight into operations.
Dice Tech Sentiment Report
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One oft-overlooked area for many organizations is your tech stack — what you use, why you use it and how the systems integrate with each other is tremendously important to tech professionals — and can be a differentiator or deal-breaker in terms of how they view an organization.
Top States
California, Illinois and Texas are home to some of the country’s largest manufacturing companies, all of which need a considerable amount of tech talent.
New manufacturing facilities are popping up in other states across the country — alongside a widespread desire for engineers to help integrate new technologies and workflows. For example, Georgia, which broke into the top ten on this list for January–June 2023, will be home to multiple new investments from a variety of manufacturers.