However, it comes amid ongoing concerns over the health of the UK car industry, which has seen overall production fall by 15.2pc this year to 582,250 units.
JLR, which typically manufactures around 1,000 cars per day, was forced to halt production for five weeks after hackers breached its systems on Aug 31.
This forced the company to send thousands of workers home, while also disrupting hundreds of its suppliers across Britain.
JLR has since resumed limited production at its factories, including at its Solihull plant and at Halewood on Merseyside. However, it is not expected to be operating at full capacity again until January 2026.
Cyber attack cost UK almost £2bn
The production figures come after experts at the Cyber Monitoring Centre estimated last week that the total bill for the incident would cost Britain almost £2bn, making it the most expensive cyber attack in British history “by some distance”.
This has increased pressure on the car industry amid the troubled shift to electric vehicles.
Mike Hawes, chief executive of the SMMT, said: “September’s performance comes as no surprise given the total loss of production at Britain’s biggest automotive employer following a cyber incident.”
To ease pressures on carmakers, the SMMT urged Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, not to end an employee car benefit scheme that makes it cheaper for businesses to offer new cars.
The trade body said a failure to do so would cause “severe and lasting damage to jobs and the industry’s competitiveness”.
Meanwhile, analysts from S&P Global warned earlier this week that the cyber attack on JLR, owned by India’s Tata Motors, would “significantly affect revenues and profitability” this year.
S&P estimates that the hack meant 50,000 vehicles had not been produced.
The analysts said JLR would see a hit to its revenues of up to 18pc, resulting in total sales of around £24bn. This is £3bn lower than previous forecasts of up to £27bn.
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