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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 568 589
Rank change year-on-year +164 +21 +51
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 649 417 893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.44% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.48% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 272 249 537
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,950 £70,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £138,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £76,875 £92,500
% change year-on-year -8.94% -16.89% +37.04%

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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
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 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

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 2 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 2 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 +196 485 £70,000 -8.94% 192
England +73 382 £82,500 -21.43% 257
Scotland +89 241 £72,000 -4.00% 28
London +27 141 £102,500 -6.82% 96
Work from Home +33 137 £70,000 -32.53% 119
South East +30 82 £65,000 -13.33% 49
South West +29 70 £75,000 - 21
North of England +33 51 £77,500 -29.55% 40
Midlands +1 36 £67,500 -10.00% 38
North West 0 32 £82,500 -25.00% 28
West Midlands -3 25 £67,500 -10.00% 30
Yorkshire +45 14 £82,500 -23.26% 11
East Midlands -10 11 - - 8
North East -7 5 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Northern Ireland +20 3 £67,500 -10.00% 2
East of England -22 2 £120,000 +77.78% 14

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 365 (56.24%) Agile
2 357 (55.01%) Software Engineering
3 270 (41.60%) CI/CD
4 240 (36.98%) Finance
5 224 (34.51%) AWS
6 216 (33.28%) Law
7 211 (32.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 184 (28.35%) Computer Science
9 183 (28.20%) SDLC
10 180 (27.73%) Marketing
11 176 (27.12%) SQL
12 163 (25.12%) Cloud Native
13 162 (24.96%) Financial Institution
14 161 (24.81%) Coaching
15 159 (24.50%) Mathematics
16 153 (23.57%) Data Engineering
17 152 (23.42%) Java
18 144 (22.19%) Project Management
19 138 (21.26%) Scrum
20 136 (20.96%) Azure
21 133 (20.49%) Python
22 124 (19.11%) Continuous Delivery
23 117 (18.03%) NoSQL
23 117 (18.03%) QA
24 116 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
25 113 (17.41%) Mentoring
26 112 (17.26%) DevOps
27 110 (16.95%) Analytics
28 105 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
29 100 (15.41%) Line Management

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 60 (9.24%) 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
1 224 (34.51%) AWS
2 136 (20.96%) Azure
3 95 (14.64%) GCP
4 78 (12.02%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (4.31%) Power Platform
6 27 (4.16%) 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 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (1.39%) 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
1 117 (18.03%) NoSQL
2 98 (15.10%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (11.25%) Looker
4 72 (11.09%) BigQuery
5 64 (9.86%) Big Data
6 28 (4.31%) Power BI
7 18 (2.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (1.39%) Tableau
9 7 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.08%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.92%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.77%) OLAP
12 4 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.46%) SQL Server
14 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.31%) Redis
14 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 16 (2.47%) GitLab
3 11 (1.69%) Git
3 11 (1.69%) JIRA
4 4 (0.62%) JUnit
5 1 (0.15%) NUnit
5 1 (0.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 240 (36.98%) Finance
2 216 (33.28%) Law
3 211 (32.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 180 (27.73%) Marketing
5 162 (24.96%) Financial Institution
6 105 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (11.09%) Billing
8 64 (9.86%) Influencing Skills
9 60 (9.24%) Social Skills
10 32 (4.93%) Banking
11 28 (4.31%) Investment Banking
12 14 (2.16%) 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 57 (8.78%) NumPy
1 57 (8.78%) Pandas
2 55 (8.47%) Spring
2 55 (8.47%) Spring Boot
3 49 (7.55%) RESTful
4 45 (6.93%) .NET
5 36 (5.55%) React
6 15 (2.31%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.85%) Node.js
8 10 (1.54%) .NET Framework
9 9 (1.39%) Unity DI Container
10 6 (0.92%) REST
11 5 (0.77%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.77%) Django
12 4 (0.62%) PySpark
13 3 (0.46%) CSS
13 3 (0.46%) HTML
13 3 (0.46%) Laravel
14 2 (0.31%) Kafka
14 2 (0.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 163 (25.12%) Cloud Native
2 81 (12.48%) Product Ownership
3 57 (8.78%) Market Risk
4 49 (7.55%) Distributed Applications
5 16 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.47%) Robotics
6 15 (2.31%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.39%) Blog
9 9 (1.39%) Hedge funds
9 9 (1.39%) IoT
9 9 (1.39%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.77%) Algorithms
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
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.39%) 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
1 365 (56.24%) Agile
2 357 (55.01%) Software Engineering
3 270 (41.60%) CI/CD
4 184 (28.35%) Computer Science
5 183 (28.20%) SDLC
6 161 (24.81%) Coaching
7 159 (24.50%) Mathematics
8 153 (23.57%) Data Engineering
9 144 (22.19%) Project Management
10 138 (21.26%) Scrum
11 124 (19.11%) Continuous Delivery
12 116 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
13 113 (17.41%) Mentoring
14 112 (17.26%) DevOps
15 110 (16.95%) Analytics
16 100 (15.41%) Line Management
17 97 (14.95%) ETL
18 95 (14.64%) Platform Engineering
19 89 (13.71%) Data Modelling
20 73 (11.25%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 176 (27.12%) SQL
2 152 (23.42%) Java
3 133 (20.49%) Python
4 52 (8.01%) Scala
5 28 (4.31%) C#
5 28 (4.31%) TypeScript
6 22 (3.39%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.39%) 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 (7.55%) Degree
2 31 (4.78%) Security Cleared
3 19 (2.93%) DBS Check
3 19 (2.93%) 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 (18.03%) 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 (2.16%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.69%) Terraform
3 9 (1.39%) Ansible
4 4 (0.62%) Grafana
4 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.31%) Argo
5 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 89 (13.71%) Google
2 48 (7.40%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.31%) Oracle
4 14 (2.16%) Databricks
5 8 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 5 (0.77%) Bloomberg
7 4 (0.62%) CA
7 4 (0.62%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.62%) Splunk
8 3 (0.46%) OpenLink
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