Engineering Manager Contracts in the City of London

Engineering Manager
Central London > City of London

The median Engineering Manager daily rate in the City of London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 123 170
Rank change year-on-year +6 +47 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.14% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.14% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £645
25th Percentile £513 - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £775
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -9.68% -
75th Percentile £538 - £850
90th Percentile - - £865
Central London median daily rate £525 £700 £775
% change year-on-year -25.00% -9.68% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,634 2,090 3,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.13% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,486 2,357
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in the City of London

Engineering Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Engineering Manager in the City of London

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) PMP
2 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Planview
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Looker
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Planview