Engineering Manager Contracts in England

Engineering Manager
UK > England

The median Engineering Manager daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 504 592
Rank change year-on-year +44 +88 +104
Contract jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 25 38 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 30
10th Percentile - £501 £531
25th Percentile £500 £556 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £713 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +9.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £813 £794 £747
90th Percentile £835 £850 £776
UK median daily rate £625 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in England

Engineering Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Engineering Manager in England.

Daily rate trend for Engineering Manager in England

Engineering Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Engineering Manager in England

Engineering Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Engineering Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for Engineering Manager in England

Engineering Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +38 19 £713 -1.72% 149
South East +43 3 £500 -13.12% 67
North of England +19 2 £402 -30.99% 54
North West +18 2 £402 -34.63% 43
East of England +25 1 - - 12
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 10
Midlands - 1 £500 - 19
Engineering Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 England region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.00%) Project Management
3 5 (20.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) Python
4 4 (16.00%) Finance
4 4 (16.00%) Banking
4 4 (16.00%) SaaS
4 4 (16.00%) Data Science
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (12.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) Terraform
5 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.00%) Microservices
5 3 (12.00%) GCP
5 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Scrum
5 3 (12.00%) Google
5 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (8.00%) PMP
6 2 (8.00%) PMI Certification

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) SaaS
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (8.00%) Serverless
5 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) Looker
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Banking
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.00%) Electronics
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
1 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (4.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (20.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.00%) Project Management
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.00%) Data Science
5 3 (12.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.00%) Microservices
5 3 (12.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) Scrum
6 2 (8.00%) Coaching
6 2 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (8.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (8.00%) Kanban
6 2 (8.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (8.00%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Java
1 5 (20.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) Scala
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Chartered Engineer
1 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (8.00%) PMP
2 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) Planview
3 1 (4.00%) Siebel
3 1 (4.00%) Virgin Media