Engineering Manager Jobs

Engineering Manager
UK

The median Engineering Manager salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 577 588
Rank change year-on-year +162 +11 +38
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 645 404 919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.43% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.48% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 278 247 543
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,000 £71,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £86,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £138,500 £162,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £76,875 £92,500
% change year-on-year -8.94% -16.89% +32.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Engineering Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in the UK

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Engineering Manager.

Salary trend for Engineering Manager in the UK

Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Engineering Manager in the UK

Engineering Manager
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Engineering Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +177 480 £70,000 -8.94% 179
England +46 386 £77,500 -26.19% 198
Scotland +97 233 £74,000 -1.33% 24
London -6 142 £100,000 -9.09% 43
Work from Home +48 139 £70,000 -33.33% 83
South East +38 85 £65,000 -5.45% 37
South West +29 70 £75,000 - 26
North of England +25 51 £77,500 -27.91% 45
Midlands -20 36 £67,500 -10.00% 28
North West +3 32 £82,500 -25.00% 31
West Midlands -4 25 £67,500 -10.00% 23
Yorkshire +49 14 £80,000 -25.58% 10
East Midlands -28 11 - - 5
North East -11 5 £70,000 +7.69% 5
Northern Ireland +19 3 £67,500 -10.00% 2
East of England -29 2 £120,000 +77.78% 17

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Engineering Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 352 (54.57%) Agile
2 351 (54.42%) Software Engineering
3 258 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 228 (35.35%) Finance
5 221 (34.26%) AWS
6 205 (31.78%) Law
7 200 (31.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 175 (27.13%) Computer Science
9 173 (26.82%) Marketing
10 172 (26.67%) SDLC
11 168 (26.05%) SQL
12 158 (24.50%) Coaching
13 156 (24.19%) Data Engineering
14 155 (24.03%) Cloud Native
15 151 (23.41%) Financial Institution
15 151 (23.41%) Mathematics
16 144 (22.33%) Java
17 142 (22.02%) Project Management
18 139 (21.55%) Azure
19 134 (20.78%) Scrum
20 128 (19.84%) Python
21 117 (18.14%) QA
22 113 (17.52%) Continuous Delivery
23 112 (17.36%) Mentoring
24 111 (17.21%) DevOps
24 111 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
25 110 (17.05%) NoSQL
26 106 (16.43%) Analytics
27 104 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
28 100 (15.50%) ETL

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 57 (8.84%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.62%) Apache
3 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Endur
2 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 221 (34.26%) AWS
2 139 (21.55%) Azure
3 95 (14.73%) GCP
4 78 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (4.34%) Power Platform
6 27 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (3.88%) Serverless
8 18 (2.79%) Amazon S3
8 18 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (1.71%) SaaS
9 11 (1.71%) Snowflake
10 9 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (1.40%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (1.09%) Azure Stack
11 7 (1.09%) OCI
11 7 (1.09%) PaaS
12 6 (0.93%) dbt
13 5 (0.78%) IaaS
14 4 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.78%) 5G
1 5 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (0.62%) Firewall
3 2 (0.31%) Broadband
3 2 (0.31%) HTTP
3 2 (0.31%) Internet
3 2 (0.31%) Network Security
3 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (17.05%) NoSQL
2 98 (15.19%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (11.32%) Looker
4 72 (11.16%) BigQuery
5 61 (9.46%) Big Data
6 28 (4.34%) Power BI
7 18 (2.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (1.40%) Tableau
9 7 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.09%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.78%) OLAP
11 4 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.47%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.47%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.31%) MySQL
13 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.31%) Redis
13 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (2.95%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.33%) GitLab
3 11 (1.71%) Git
3 11 (1.71%) JIRA
4 1 (0.16%) NUnit
4 1 (0.16%) Selenium
4 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 228 (35.35%) Finance
2 205 (31.78%) Law
3 200 (31.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 173 (26.82%) Marketing
5 151 (23.41%) Financial Institution
6 104 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (11.16%) Billing
8 60 (9.30%) Influencing Skills
9 59 (9.15%) Social Skills
10 28 (4.34%) Banking
10 28 (4.34%) Investment Banking
11 14 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.86%) Games
13 10 (1.55%) Front Office
14 8 (1.24%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.93%) Retail
16 5 (0.78%) Legal
16 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.78%) Tech for Good
17 4 (0.62%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.22%) NumPy
1 53 (8.22%) Pandas
2 51 (7.91%) Spring
2 51 (7.91%) Spring Boot
3 49 (7.60%) RESTful
4 45 (6.98%) .NET
5 34 (5.27%) React
6 15 (2.33%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.86%) Node.js
8 10 (1.55%) .NET Framework
9 9 (1.40%) Unity DI Container
10 5 (0.78%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.62%) Django
11 4 (0.62%) PySpark
12 2 (0.31%) CSS
12 2 (0.31%) HTML
12 2 (0.31%) Kafka
12 2 (0.31%) Laravel
12 2 (0.31%) LEMP Stack
12 2 (0.31%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 155 (24.03%) Cloud Native
2 81 (12.56%) Product Ownership
3 53 (8.22%) Market Risk
4 49 (7.60%) Distributed Applications
5 16 (2.48%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.33%) Robotics
7 14 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.40%) Blog
10 9 (1.40%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.40%) IoT
10 9 (1.40%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.78%) Derivative
12 5 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.78%) N-Tier
12 5 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.78%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.40%) Linux
2 5 (0.78%) Windows
3 2 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Android
4 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (54.57%) Agile
2 351 (54.42%) Software Engineering
3 258 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 175 (27.13%) Computer Science
5 172 (26.67%) SDLC
6 158 (24.50%) Coaching
7 156 (24.19%) Data Engineering
8 151 (23.41%) Mathematics
9 142 (22.02%) Project Management
10 134 (20.78%) Scrum
11 113 (17.52%) Continuous Delivery
12 112 (17.36%) Mentoring
13 111 (17.21%) DevOps
13 111 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (16.43%) Analytics
15 100 (15.50%) ETL
16 97 (15.04%) Line Management
17 95 (14.73%) Platform Engineering
18 89 (13.80%) Data Modelling
19 73 (11.32%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 168 (26.05%) SQL
2 144 (22.33%) Java
3 128 (19.84%) Python
4 49 (7.60%) Scala
5 28 (4.34%) C#
5 28 (4.34%) TypeScript
6 21 (3.26%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.40%) Go
8 8 (1.24%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.78%) C
9 5 (0.78%) C++
9 5 (0.78%) Embedded C
9 5 (0.78%) Rust
10 4 (0.62%) PHP
11 3 (0.47%) Solidity
12 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.31%) VB
13 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 48 (7.44%) Degree
2 31 (4.81%) Security Cleared
3 19 (2.95%) DBS Check
3 19 (2.95%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (0.78%) PMP
7 4 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.62%) CCSP
7 4 (0.62%) CISSP
7 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.47%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.47%) CCSK
9 2 (0.31%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.31%) PhD
10 1 (0.16%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CCNP
10 1 (0.16%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (18.14%) QA
2 7 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.78%) PMO
4 4 (0.62%) NIST
4 4 (0.62%) NIST 800
5 3 (0.47%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 12 (1.86%) Docker
2 11 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.71%) Terraform
3 9 (1.40%) Ansible
4 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.31%) Argo
5 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 89 (13.80%) Google
2 49 (7.60%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.33%) Oracle
4 14 (2.17%) Databricks
5 8 (1.24%) Salesforce
6 5 (0.78%) Bloomberg
7 4 (0.62%) CA
8 3 (0.47%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.31%) Brio
9 2 (0.31%) Sybase
9 2 (0.31%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.16%) ANSYS
10 1 (0.16%) Cisco
10 1 (0.16%) ESRI
10 1 (0.16%) NVIDIA