Engineering Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Engineering Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 411 490
Rank change year-on-year +36 +79 -56
Contract jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 18 40 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.17% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.18% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 15
10th Percentile £501 £519 £448
25th Percentile £501 £536 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +2.08% +37.14%
75th Percentile £825 £734 £650
90th Percentile £850 £750 £658
UK median daily rate £713 £639 £700
% change year-on-year +11.55% -8.75% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £52.50 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £62.34 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,031 22,516 29,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.26% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,791 20,746
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,158 1,469
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.92 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.93
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Engineering Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +19 6 - - 20
South East +17 6 £576 -9.73% 47
South West +25 5 £800 +23.08% 25
North of England +15 1 £550 - 45
Yorkshire +6 1 £550 - 8
Engineering Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Engineering Manager contract 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 contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 9 (50.00%) Project Management
1 9 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 8 (44.44%) Configuration Management
3 7 (38.89%) Risk Management
3 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (33.33%) Electronics
4 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 6 (33.33%) Earned Value Management
4 6 (33.33%) Compliance Management
4 6 (33.33%) Aerospace
5 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
6 3 (16.67%) Military
6 3 (16.67%) Agile
6 3 (16.67%) AWS
6 3 (16.67%) Change Control
6 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 2 (11.11%) Azure
7 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Resource Management
7 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Facilities Management
7 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
7 2 (11.11%) Finance
7 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
7 2 (11.11%) Java
7 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (11.11%) SQL
7 2 (11.11%) Python
8 1 (5.56%) Data Modelling

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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
General
1 9 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 6 (33.33%) Electronics
3 3 (16.67%) Military
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Aviation
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Node.js
1 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Project Management
2 8 (44.44%) Configuration Management
3 7 (38.89%) Risk Management
3 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (33.33%) Compliance Management
4 6 (33.33%) Earned Value Management
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Change Control
5 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Facilities Management
6 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
6 2 (11.11%) Resource Management
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.56%) Performance Management
7 1 (5.56%) Predictive Analytics
7 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (5.56%) Visualisation
7 1 (5.56%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Java
1 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.11%) Python
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) C
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) C++
2 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) APMP
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft