Engineering Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Engineering Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £58,033 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 November 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 468 447
Rank change year-on-year +352 -21 +197
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 1,147 122 421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.11% 0.37% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 0.38% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 170 68 186
10th Percentile £48,869 £52,206 £58,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,313 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £73,900 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.47% -1.47% -6.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £88,250 £90,000
% change year-on-year -26.35% -1.94% -2.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 51,356 32,022 64,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.45% 96.02% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 25,356 21,891 38,263
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,831 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.35%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
South East +138 263 £61,500 -19.21% 13
North of England +166 256 £57,560 -20.61% 18
Scotland +122 235 £58,033 -24.63% 10
North West +94 157 £53,807 -27.19% 8
South West +115 146 £65,000 -20.00% 7
Midlands +37 116 £80,000 +14.29% 4
Yorkshire +118 98 £85,000 +9.68% 9
East Midlands +43 96 £85,000 +9.68% 1
East of England +21 88 £105,000 +13.51% 9
Wales - 43 - - 1
West Midlands -43 20 £75,000 +11.11% 3
North East -32 1 £80,000 +14.29% 1
Engineering Manager
UK

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 November 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 1,005 (87.62%) Degree
2 627 (54.66%) Chartered Engineer
3 398 (34.70%) Systems Engineering
4 360 (31.39%) Aerospace
5 355 (30.95%) Automotive
6 301 (26.24%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 286 (24.93%) Master's Degree
8 283 (24.67%) Customer Engagement
9 270 (23.54%) Coaching
10 260 (22.67%) Release Management
10 260 (22.67%) Configuration Management
11 258 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
12 249 (21.71%) Physics
12 249 (21.71%) Chemistry
13 214 (18.66%) Presentation Skills
14 185 (16.13%) Social Skills
15 123 (10.72%) Microsoft
16 109 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
17 102 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
18 98 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
19 93 (8.11%) PLM
19 93 (8.11%) Teamcenter
19 93 (8.11%) MATLAB
19 93 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
19 93 (8.11%) ANSYS
20 91 (7.93%) HNC
20 91 (7.93%) HND
21 81 (7.06%) Strategic Planning
22 57 (4.97%) Software Engineering
23 37 (3.23%) Agile

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.087%) CMS
Applications
1 109 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
3 93 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (1.22%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 93 (8.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (1.74%) Azure
2 18 (1.57%) AWS
3 14 (1.22%) Power Platform
4 10 (0.87%) GCP
5 3 (0.26%) Azure API Management
5 3 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (0.17%) dbt
6 2 (0.17%) SaaS
7 1 (0.087%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.26%) 3G
1 3 (0.26%) GPRS
1 3 (0.26%) LTE
1 3 (0.26%) Modbus
1 3 (0.26%) Wireless
2 1 (0.087%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.22%) Power BI
2 5 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.17%) Big Data
4 2 (0.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.087%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.087%) Flink
5 1 (0.087%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.087%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.087%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.087%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.087%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.35%) JIRA
2 1 (0.087%) Git
General
1 360 (31.39%) Aerospace
2 355 (30.95%) Automotive
3 214 (18.66%) Presentation Skills
4 185 (16.13%) Social Skills
5 18 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (1.39%) Electronics
7 11 (0.96%) Finance
8 8 (0.70%) Avionics
9 7 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.52%) Marketing
11 4 (0.35%) Military
11 4 (0.35%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.26%) Agriculture
12 3 (0.26%) Games
12 3 (0.26%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.26%) Retail
13 2 (0.17%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.17%) French Language
13 2 (0.17%) German Language
13 2 (0.17%) Polish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.66%) .NET
2 5 (0.44%) .NET Core
2 5 (0.44%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (0.26%) ASP.NET
3 3 (0.26%) PySpark
3 3 (0.26%) React
4 2 (0.17%) CSS
4 2 (0.17%) HTML
4 2 (0.17%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (0.17%) PyTorch
4 2 (0.17%) scikit-learn
4 2 (0.17%) TensorFlow
4 2 (0.17%) Visualforce
4 2 (0.17%) XML
4 2 (0.17%) XSLT
5 1 (0.087%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.087%) Kafka
5 1 (0.087%) Laravel
5 1 (0.087%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.087%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (1.57%) Management Information System
2 13 (1.13%) Onboarding
3 9 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (0.26%) IoT
4 3 (0.26%) NB-IoT
5 2 (0.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.17%) Robotics
5 2 (0.17%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.087%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.087%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.087%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.087%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.087%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.087%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.087%) Mac OS
1 1 (0.087%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (34.70%) Systems Engineering
2 301 (26.24%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 283 (24.67%) Customer Engagement
4 270 (23.54%) Coaching
5 260 (22.67%) Configuration Management
5 260 (22.67%) Release Management
6 258 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
7 249 (21.71%) Chemistry
7 249 (21.71%) Physics
8 98 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (8.11%) PLM
10 81 (7.06%) Strategic Planning
11 57 (4.97%) Software Engineering
12 37 (3.23%) Agile
13 21 (1.83%) Requirements Analysis
14 20 (1.74%) Mentoring
14 20 (1.74%) Project Delivery
15 19 (1.66%) Collaborative Working
15 19 (1.66%) Project Management
15 19 (1.66%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 93 (8.11%) MATLAB
2 12 (1.05%) C#
3 10 (0.87%) Python
4 8 (0.70%) Java
5 7 (0.61%) SQL
6 5 (0.44%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.17%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.087%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.087%) PHP
8 1 (0.087%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,005 (87.62%) Degree
2 627 (54.66%) Chartered Engineer
3 286 (24.93%) Master's Degree
4 91 (7.93%) HNC
4 91 (7.93%) HND
5 4 (0.35%) RIBA
6 1 (0.087%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.087%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.087%) MCP
6 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (0.70%) QA
2 1 (0.087%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.087%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.087%) Docker
1 1 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (0.35%) Terraform
2 3 (0.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 123 (10.72%) Microsoft
2 93 (8.11%) ANSYS
3 4 (0.35%) Databricks
3 4 (0.35%) Salesforce
4 3 (0.26%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.26%) EMC
4 3 (0.26%) SAP
5 1 (0.087%) Google
5 1 (0.087%) Informatica
5 1 (0.087%) Oracle