Engineering Manager
UK

The median Engineering Manager salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 504 625
Rank change year-on-year +117 +121 -2
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 654 578 752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.55% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.60% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 273 298 500
10th Percentile £57,827 £62,500 £73,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £91,250 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% -10.98% +13.89%
75th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £136,235 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% -16.22% +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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +156 491 £70,000 -9.68% 163
England +27 393 £82,500 -13.16% 207
Scotland +85 234 £70,000 -6.67% 12
Work from Home +21 142 £70,000 -30.00% 82
London -1 140 £100,000 -4.76% 55
South East +5 86 £67,500 -10.00% 45
South West +47 69 £82,500 +13.79% 23
North of England +46 56 £81,250 -14.47% 41
Midlands +32 40 £70,000 -8.20% 25
North West +15 30 £82,500 -7.04% 24
West Midlands +40 26 £70,000 -8.79% 21
Yorkshire +79 20 £82,500 -21.43% 15
East Midlands -4 14 £70,000 -5.08% 4
North East - 6 £70,000 - 3
Northern Ireland +33 4 £67,500 +22.73% 1
East of England -2 2 £120,000 +71.43% 21

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 380 (58.10%) Agile
2 351 (53.67%) Software Engineering
3 272 (41.59%) CI/CD
4 254 (38.84%) Finance
5 217 (33.18%) AWS
6 215 (32.87%) Law
7 209 (31.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 189 (28.90%) SDLC
9 185 (28.29%) Computer Science
10 183 (27.98%) Marketing
11 179 (27.37%) SQL
12 167 (25.54%) Financial Institution
13 165 (25.23%) Cloud Native
14 161 (24.62%) Project Management
15 160 (24.46%) Mathematics
16 156 (23.85%) Coaching
17 155 (23.70%) Data Engineering
18 149 (22.78%) Java
19 141 (21.56%) Azure
20 138 (21.10%) Scrum
21 132 (20.18%) Continuous Delivery
22 126 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
23 125 (19.11%) Python
24 117 (17.89%) QA
25 116 (17.74%) Mentoring
26 115 (17.58%) NoSQL
27 113 (17.28%) DevOps
28 109 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
29 106 (16.21%) Analytics
30 101 (15.44%) 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 64 (9.79%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.61%) Apache
3 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) CMS
4 1 (0.15%) Drupal
4 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Endur
2 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 217 (33.18%) AWS
2 141 (21.56%) Azure
3 98 (14.98%) GCP
4 78 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (4.28%) Power Platform
6 27 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (3.06%) Serverless
8 18 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (2.45%) SaaS
10 13 (1.99%) Amazon S3
10 13 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (1.99%) PaaS
11 11 (1.68%) IaaS
11 11 (1.68%) Snowflake
12 9 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.07%) Azure Stack
13 7 (1.07%) OCI
14 6 (0.92%) BlazeMeter
14 6 (0.92%) dbt
15 4 (0.61%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.07%) Network Security
2 5 (0.76%) 5G
2 5 (0.76%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.76%) Unified Communications
3 4 (0.61%) Firewall
4 2 (0.31%) Broadband
4 2 (0.31%) HTTP
4 2 (0.31%) Internet
4 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (17.58%) NoSQL
2 99 (15.14%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (11.16%) Looker
4 72 (11.01%) BigQuery
5 67 (10.24%) Big Data
6 28 (4.28%) Power BI
7 18 (2.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.38%) Tableau
9 7 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.07%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.92%) OLAP
11 5 (0.76%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.46%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.31%) MySQL
14 2 (0.31%) Redis
14 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.06%) Jenkins
2 16 (2.45%) GitLab
3 12 (1.83%) JIRA
4 6 (0.92%) Git
4 6 (0.92%) JUnit
5 1 (0.15%) NUnit
5 1 (0.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 254 (38.84%) Finance
2 215 (32.87%) Law
3 209 (31.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 183 (27.98%) Marketing
5 167 (25.54%) Financial Institution
6 109 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (11.01%) Billing
8 71 (10.86%) Social Skills
9 70 (10.70%) Influencing Skills
10 34 (5.20%) Banking
11 26 (3.98%) Investment Banking
12 17 (2.60%) Manufacturing
13 15 (2.29%) Games
14 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.07%) Retail
15 6 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.92%) Private Banking
16 5 (0.76%) Legal
16 5 (0.76%) Public Sector
16 5 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.87%) NumPy
1 58 (8.87%) Pandas
2 55 (8.41%) Spring
2 55 (8.41%) Spring Boot
3 48 (7.34%) RESTful
4 41 (6.27%) .NET
5 28 (4.28%) React
6 13 (1.99%) Node.js
7 10 (1.53%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.22%) REST
8 8 (1.22%) Web Services
9 6 (0.92%) Middleware
10 5 (0.76%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.76%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.61%) PySpark
11 4 (0.61%) Unity DI Container
12 3 (0.46%) CSS
12 3 (0.46%) HTML
12 3 (0.46%) Laravel
13 2 (0.31%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 165 (25.23%) Cloud Native
2 81 (12.39%) Product Ownership
3 58 (8.87%) Market Risk
4 48 (7.34%) Distributed Applications
5 22 (3.36%) Management Information System
6 20 (3.06%) Robotics
7 19 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.07%) Operational Technology
12 6 (0.92%) IoT
13 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.76%) Digital Signage
13 5 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (0.76%) RISC-V
13 5 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
14 4 (0.61%) Blog
14 4 (0.61%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.38%) Linux
2 4 (0.61%) Windows
3 2 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Android
4 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (58.10%) Agile
2 351 (53.67%) Software Engineering
3 272 (41.59%) CI/CD
4 189 (28.90%) SDLC
5 185 (28.29%) Computer Science
6 161 (24.62%) Project Management
7 160 (24.46%) Mathematics
8 156 (23.85%) Coaching
9 155 (23.70%) Data Engineering
10 138 (21.10%) Scrum
11 132 (20.18%) Continuous Delivery
12 126 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
13 116 (17.74%) Mentoring
14 113 (17.28%) DevOps
15 106 (16.21%) Analytics
16 101 (15.44%) Line Management
17 96 (14.68%) ETL
17 96 (14.68%) Platform Engineering
18 91 (13.91%) Data Modelling
19 77 (11.77%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 179 (27.37%) SQL
2 149 (22.78%) Java
3 125 (19.11%) Python
4 56 (8.56%) Scala
5 25 (3.82%) C#
6 20 (3.06%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.45%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.22%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.07%) C++
10 6 (0.92%) Go
11 5 (0.76%) C
11 5 (0.76%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.46%) PHP
12 3 (0.46%) Ruby
12 3 (0.46%) Rust
12 3 (0.46%) Solidity
12 3 (0.46%) VB
13 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 60 (9.17%) Degree
2 30 (4.59%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.06%) SC Cleared
4 18 (2.75%) DBS Check
5 11 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.53%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (0.76%) PMP
8 4 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (0.61%) CCSP
8 4 (0.61%) CISSP
9 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.46%) CCSK
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.31%) PhD
11 1 (0.15%) CCNP
11 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (17.89%) QA
2 14 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.53%) NIST
4 7 (1.07%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.92%) COBIT
6 5 (0.76%) PMO
7 4 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.61%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (1.83%) Docker
2 11 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.61%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.31%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 14 (2.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.68%) Terraform
3 9 (1.38%) Ansible
4 6 (0.92%) Grafana
5 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.31%) Argo
6 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 92 (14.07%) Google
2 55 (8.41%) Microsoft
3 16 (2.45%) Oracle
4 14 (2.14%) Databricks
5 7 (1.07%) Salesforce
6 6 (0.92%) Cisco
6 6 (0.92%) Dynatrace
6 6 (0.92%) Splunk
7 4 (0.61%) CA
8 3 (0.46%) OpenLink
8 3 (0.46%) Sybase
8 3 (0.46%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.31%) Brio
10 1 (0.15%) ESRI
10 1 (0.15%) NVIDIA