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 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 568 589
Rank change year-on-year +170 +21 +39
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 650 435 875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.45% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.49% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 273 251 535
10th Percentile £57,500 £62,000 £68,750
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 £100,000 £115,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £140,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% -16.22% +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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
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 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +216 486 £70,000 -9.68% 181
England +60 381 £82,500 -21.43% 202
Scotland +106 242 £70,000 -6.67% 26
London +50 141 £101,250 -7.95% 44
Work from Home +46 138 £70,000 -33.33% 75
South East +35 82 £65,000 -13.33% 43
South West +28 68 £75,000 - 25
North of England +47 51 £82,500 -25.00% 48
Midlands +9 37 £70,000 -8.20% 26
North West +16 30 £82,500 -25.00% 28
West Midlands +19 26 £70,000 -6.67% 22
Yorkshire +64 16 £82,500 -23.26% 15
East Midlands -10 11 - - 4
North East -2 5 £70,000 +7.69% 6
Northern Ireland +21 4 £67,500 -10.00% 1
East of England -19 2 £120,000 +77.78% 15

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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.

1 371 (57.08%) Agile
2 359 (55.23%) Software Engineering
3 273 (42.00%) CI/CD
4 245 (37.69%) Finance
5 225 (34.62%) AWS
6 219 (33.69%) Law
7 214 (32.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 186 (28.62%) SDLC
8 186 (28.62%) Computer Science
9 182 (28.00%) Marketing
10 179 (27.54%) SQL
11 165 (25.38%) Financial Institution
11 165 (25.38%) Cloud Native
12 162 (24.92%) Coaching
13 161 (24.77%) Mathematics
14 154 (23.69%) Java
15 153 (23.54%) Data Engineering
16 146 (22.46%) Project Management
17 140 (21.54%) Scrum
18 136 (20.92%) Azure
19 134 (20.62%) Python
20 129 (19.85%) Continuous Delivery
21 119 (18.31%) NoSQL
22 118 (18.15%) QA
23 116 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
24 114 (17.54%) Mentoring
25 112 (17.23%) DevOps
26 111 (17.08%) Analytics
27 103 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
28 101 (15.54%) 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 61 (9.38%) 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 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Endur
2 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 225 (34.62%) AWS
2 136 (20.92%) Azure
3 95 (14.62%) GCP
4 78 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (4.00%) Power Platform
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%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.08%) OCI
12 7 (1.08%) PaaS
13 6 (0.92%) dbt
14 5 (0.77%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.77%) 5G
1 5 (0.77%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (0.62%) Firewall
3 3 (0.46%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.31%) Broadband
4 2 (0.31%) HTTP
4 2 (0.31%) Internet
4 2 (0.31%) Network Security
4 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (18.31%) NoSQL
2 98 (15.08%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (11.23%) Looker
4 72 (11.08%) BigQuery
5 65 (10.00%) Big Data
6 26 (4.00%) 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
9 7 (1.08%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.77%) OLAP
11 4 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.46%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.31%) MySQL
13 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.31%) Redis
13 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 16 (2.46%) GitLab
3 11 (1.69%) Git
4 10 (1.54%) JIRA
5 5 (0.77%) JUnit
6 1 (0.15%) NUnit
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 245 (37.69%) Finance
2 219 (33.69%) Law
3 214 (32.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 182 (28.00%) Marketing
5 165 (25.38%) Financial Institution
6 103 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (11.08%) Billing
8 64 (9.85%) Influencing Skills
9 59 (9.08%) Social Skills
10 33 (5.08%) 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%) Private Banking
17 5 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.92%) NumPy
1 58 (8.92%) Pandas
2 56 (8.62%) Spring
2 56 (8.62%) Spring Boot
3 49 (7.54%) RESTful
4 44 (6.77%) .NET
5 36 (5.54%) 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 7 (1.08%) 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
1 165 (25.38%) Cloud Native
2 81 (12.46%) Product Ownership
3 58 (8.92%) Market Risk
4 49 (7.54%) Distributed Applications
5 16 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.31%) Robotics
7 13 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.38%) Blog
10 9 (1.38%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.38%) IoT
10 9 (1.38%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.77%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.77%) Derivative
12 5 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.77%) RISC-V
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
1 371 (57.08%) Agile
2 359 (55.23%) Software Engineering
3 273 (42.00%) CI/CD
4 186 (28.62%) Computer Science
4 186 (28.62%) SDLC
5 162 (24.92%) Coaching
6 161 (24.77%) Mathematics
7 153 (23.54%) Data Engineering
8 146 (22.46%) Project Management
9 140 (21.54%) Scrum
10 129 (19.85%) Continuous Delivery
11 116 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
12 114 (17.54%) Mentoring
13 112 (17.23%) DevOps
14 111 (17.08%) Analytics
15 101 (15.54%) Line Management
16 97 (14.92%) ETL
17 95 (14.62%) Platform Engineering
18 89 (13.69%) Data Modelling
19 75 (11.54%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 179 (27.54%) SQL
2 154 (23.69%) Java
3 134 (20.62%) Python
4 53 (8.15%) Scala
5 28 (4.31%) C#
5 28 (4.31%) TypeScript
6 22 (3.38%) 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 47 (7.23%) 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%) CCNP
10 1 (0.15%) MCP
10 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (18.15%) 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 5 (0.77%) Grafana
5 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
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 7 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 5 (0.77%) Bloomberg
6 5 (0.77%) Dynatrace
6 5 (0.77%) Splunk
7 4 (0.62%) CA
7 4 (0.62%) Cisco
8 3 (0.46%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.31%) Brio
9 2 (0.31%) Sybase
9 2 (0.31%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.15%) ESRI
10 1 (0.15%) NVIDIA