LinkedIn Outreach Benchmarks for Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing (2026)

Key Takeaways

In electrical and electronic manufacturing, the average LinkedIn connection acceptance rate is 29.0%. Replies to the connection note average 2.9%, and replies to a message after the connection is accepted average 12.1%. Those numbers come from 60,334 connection requests sent by 51 electrical and electronic manufacturing accounts between May 2025 and April 2026. Against the cross-industry averages of 28.5%, 3.0% and 10.4%, electrical and electronic manufacturing is above on acceptance and message replies and below on note replies.

Electrical / Electronic Manufacturing vs. the platform average

Metric	Electrical / Electronic Manufacturing	All industries	Difference	Rank
Connection acceptance	29.0%	28.5%	+0.5 pts	13th of 38
Connection-note reply	2.9%	3.0%	-0.1 pts	14th of 38
Message reply after acceptance	12.1%	10.4%	+1.7 pts	6th of 38

Across the 38 industries with at least 50 sending accounts, acceptance runs from 21.8% (telecommunications) to 36.5% (staffing & recruiting). Note replies run from 1.8% to 6.6%, and message replies from 7.2% to 18.9%.

What the numbers say about electronics manufacturing outreach

The conversation is where electrical and electronic manufacturing earns its result. Message replies of 12.1% rank 6th of 38, 1.7 points above the platform, while acceptance and note replies both sit within half a point of the cross-industry figures. End to end that produces about 3.5 replies per 100 recipients, 9th of 38 against 3.0 platform-wide.

It also runs ahead of the sectors closest to it by trade. Mechanical and industrial engineering converts about 3.2 per 100, automotive 2.9 and machinery 2.4, and each trails electrical and electronic manufacturing on message replies, at 10.9%, 11.0% and 9.0%. The gap to machinery in particular is mostly a gap in the follow-up rather than at the connection request.

On the numbers alone its nearest matches are real estate, accounting and consumer goods, a set nobody would draw up by trade. The pairing with accounting is the closest on the two measures that make up the end-to-end figure: accounting accepts at 29.5%, gets message replies of 12.0% and converts the same 3.5 per 100. The sample is 51 accounts and 60,334 requests, the small end of what is reported, so the 9th place is approximate.

If your numbers sit below these

The dataset says where an account sits, not why. From what we see in campaigns, three gaps come up most often in this sector, and they point at different problems.

Message replies under 12.1%. The sector’s strongest measure at 6th of 38 and the only one clearly above the platform. Drop to the platform’s 10.4% and the sector converts at roughly the platform rate end to end, so this is the most expensive gap on the page. It usually means the first message pitches a component or capability before the recipient has said what they are working on.

Acceptance under 29.0%. Half a point above the platform and 13th of 38, so the sector line and the cross-industry line almost coincide here. A number well below both usually points at targeting: requests sent by title alone, to engineers and buyers with no current project the sender’s products fit.

Note replies under 2.9%. Within a tenth of a point of the 3.0% platform figure and 14th of 38. The sector is ordinary on the note and above average overall without it doing anything special, so this is the last place to spend effort.

Further reading:

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• The LinkedIn message follow-up formula
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• The best AI lead generation software to add to your stack

Frequently asked questions

What is a good LinkedIn acceptance rate in electronics manufacturing?

29.0% is the sector average, 0.5 points above the 28.5% cross-industry figure and 13th of 38 reported industries. Above 29.0% is doing better than the sector, and anything under 28.5% is below both the sector and the platform.

Where does LinkedIn outreach from electronics manufacturers perform best?

In the follow-up after a connection is accepted. Electrical and electronic manufacturing averages 12.1% message replies, 6th of 38 against a 10.4% platform average, while acceptance and note replies sit close to the platform. End to end about 3.5 in 100 recipients reply, 9th of 38 against roughly 3.0 overall.

How does electronics manufacturing compare with other industries?

Acceptance ranks 13th of 38, note replies 14th and message replies 6th. End to end about 3.5 in 100 recipients reply to a follow-up, 9th of 38 and ahead of the roughly 3.0 across all industries.

How this data was collected

Electrical / Electronic Manufacturing is reported from 51 accounts and 60,334 connection requests sent between May 2025 and April 2026, drawn from the LinkedIn Outreach Benchmarks 2026 dataset of 13.2 million requests across 13,302 accounts. That report carries the full methodology, along with the breakdowns by sender seniority, company size and month that are not repeated here.

Two things to hold in mind while reading any of these figures. The industry is the sender’s, taken from their company profile, not the recipient’s. And only industries with at least 50 sending accounts are reported at all: below that, a single unusual account moves the average by several points, which is why some of the most extreme numbers in the full appendix are not published here.

Related industry benchmarks

• Real Estate, 28.4% acceptance and 11.8% message replies
• Accounting, 29.5% acceptance and 12.0% message replies
• Information Technology & Services, 28.4% acceptance and 10.5% message replies
• All industry benchmarks

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Data updated 19 August 2026. Refreshed quarterly against the source report.