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 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 588 589
Rank change year-on-year +188 +1 +33
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 650 404 915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.43% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.47% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 276 244 542
10th Percentile £56,250 £62,000 £70,125
25th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £86,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £139,250 £162,500
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 101,543 85,646 164,275
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 91.24% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 71,805 55,459 85,654
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 6 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 6 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 +204 485 £70,000 -8.94% 170
England +38 385 £79,000 -24.76% 189
Scotland +92 239 £74,000 -1.33% 22
London +21 142 £100,000 -9.09% 41
Work from Home +32 138 £70,000 -33.33% 76
South East +44 84 £65,000 -13.33% 36
South West +25 70 £75,000 - 23
North of England +17 51 £77,500 -29.55% 45
Midlands +2 36 £67,500 -10.00% 30
North West 0 32 £82,500 -25.00% 31
West Midlands -16 25 £67,500 -10.00% 24
Yorkshire +53 14 £82,500 -23.26% 10
East Midlands -17 11 - - 6
North East -13 5 £70,000 +7.69% 5
Northern Ireland +22 3 £67,500 -10.00% 1
East of England -33 2 £120,000 +77.78% 14

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 362 (55.69%) Agile
2 356 (54.77%) Software Engineering
3 266 (40.92%) CI/CD
4 237 (36.46%) Finance
5 223 (34.31%) AWS
6 213 (32.77%) Law
7 208 (32.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 181 (27.85%) Computer Science
9 180 (27.69%) SDLC
10 178 (27.38%) Marketing
11 175 (26.92%) SQL
12 161 (24.77%) Cloud Native
13 160 (24.62%) Coaching
14 159 (24.46%) Financial Institution
15 157 (24.15%) Mathematics
16 155 (23.85%) Data Engineering
17 149 (22.92%) Java
18 144 (22.15%) Project Management
19 138 (21.23%) Azure
20 137 (21.08%) Scrum
21 131 (20.15%) Python
22 121 (18.62%) Continuous Delivery
23 117 (18.00%) QA
24 115 (17.69%) NoSQL
24 115 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
25 114 (17.54%) Mentoring
26 112 (17.23%) DevOps
27 109 (16.77%) Analytics
28 104 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
29 99 (15.23%) 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 59 (9.08%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.62%) Apache
3 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.15%) CMS
5 1 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Endur
2 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 223 (34.31%) AWS
2 138 (21.23%) Azure
3 95 (14.62%) GCP
4 78 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (4.31%) Power Platform
6 27 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (3.85%) Serverless
8 18 (2.77%) Amazon S3
8 18 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (2.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (1.69%) Snowflake
10 10 (1.54%) SaaS
11 9 (1.38%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (1.38%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (1.08%) Azure Stack
12 7 (1.08%) OCI
12 7 (1.08%) PaaS
13 6 (0.92%) dbt
14 5 (0.77%) IaaS
14 5 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.77%) 5G
1 5 (0.77%) 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 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (17.69%) NoSQL
2 98 (15.08%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (11.23%) Looker
4 72 (11.08%) BigQuery
5 63 (9.69%) Big Data
6 28 (4.31%) Power BI
7 18 (2.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (1.38%) Tableau
9 7 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.08%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.77%) OLAP
10 5 (0.77%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.46%) SQL Server
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 (2.92%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.31%) GitLab
3 11 (1.69%) Git
3 11 (1.69%) JIRA
4 3 (0.46%) JUnit
5 1 (0.15%) NUnit
5 1 (0.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 237 (36.46%) Finance
2 213 (32.77%) Law
3 208 (32.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 178 (27.38%) Marketing
5 159 (24.46%) Financial Institution
6 104 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (11.08%) Billing
8 63 (9.69%) Influencing Skills
9 60 (9.23%) Social Skills
10 31 (4.77%) Banking
11 28 (4.31%) Investment Banking
12 14 (2.15%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.85%) Games
14 10 (1.54%) Front Office
15 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.92%) Retail
17 5 (0.77%) Legal
17 5 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.77%) Public Sector
17 5 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (8.62%) NumPy
1 56 (8.62%) Pandas
2 54 (8.31%) Spring
2 54 (8.31%) Spring Boot
3 49 (7.54%) RESTful
4 45 (6.92%) .NET
5 35 (5.38%) React
6 15 (2.31%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.85%) Node.js
8 10 (1.54%) .NET Framework
9 9 (1.38%) Unity DI Container
10 5 (0.77%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.77%) REST
11 4 (0.62%) Django
11 4 (0.62%) PySpark
12 3 (0.46%) Laravel
13 2 (0.31%) CSS
13 2 (0.31%) FastAPI
13 2 (0.31%) Kafka
13 2 (0.31%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 161 (24.77%) Cloud Native
2 81 (12.46%) Product Ownership
3 56 (8.62%) Market Risk
4 49 (7.54%) Distributed Applications
5 16 (2.46%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.46%) Robotics
6 15 (2.31%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.38%) Blog
9 9 (1.38%) Hedge funds
9 9 (1.38%) IoT
9 9 (1.38%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.77%) Derivative
11 5 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (0.77%) N-Tier
11 5 (0.77%) RISC-V
12 4 (0.62%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.38%) Linux
2 5 (0.77%) Windows
3 2 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Android
4 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (55.69%) Agile
2 356 (54.77%) Software Engineering
3 266 (40.92%) CI/CD
4 181 (27.85%) Computer Science
5 180 (27.69%) SDLC
6 160 (24.62%) Coaching
7 157 (24.15%) Mathematics
8 155 (23.85%) Data Engineering
9 144 (22.15%) Project Management
10 137 (21.08%) Scrum
11 121 (18.62%) Continuous Delivery
12 115 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (17.54%) Mentoring
14 112 (17.23%) DevOps
15 109 (16.77%) Analytics
16 99 (15.23%) ETL
16 99 (15.23%) Line Management
17 95 (14.62%) Platform Engineering
18 89 (13.69%) Data Modelling
19 73 (11.23%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 175 (26.92%) SQL
2 149 (22.92%) Java
3 131 (20.15%) Python
4 51 (7.85%) Scala
5 28 (4.31%) C#
5 28 (4.31%) TypeScript
6 21 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.38%) Go
8 8 (1.23%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.77%) C
9 5 (0.77%) C++
9 5 (0.77%) Embedded C
9 5 (0.77%) PHP
9 5 (0.77%) Rust
10 3 (0.46%) Solidity
11 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.31%) VB
12 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 49 (7.54%) Degree
2 31 (4.77%) Security Cleared
3 19 (2.92%) DBS Check
3 19 (2.92%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (0.77%) 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 (0.46%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.46%) CCSK
9 2 (0.31%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.31%) PhD
10 1 (0.15%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.15%) CCNP
10 1 (0.15%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (18.00%) QA
2 7 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.77%) PMO
4 4 (0.62%) NIST
4 4 (0.62%) NIST 800
5 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 12 (1.85%) Docker
2 11 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (0.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (2.15%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.69%) Terraform
3 9 (1.38%) Ansible
4 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.46%) Grafana
6 2 (0.31%) Argo
6 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 89 (13.69%) Google
2 48 (7.38%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.31%) Oracle
4 14 (2.15%) Databricks
5 8 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 5 (0.77%) Bloomberg
7 4 (0.62%) CA
8 3 (0.46%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.46%) OpenLink
8 3 (0.46%) Splunk
9 2 (0.31%) Brio
9 2 (0.31%) Cisco
9 2 (0.31%) Sybase
9 2 (0.31%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.15%) ESRI
10 1 (0.15%) NVIDIA