Engineering Manager Contracts in London

Engineering Manager
England > London

The median Engineering Manager daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 July 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
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 384 460
Rank change year-on-year +44 +76 +87
Contract jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 21 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 16
10th Percentile £518 £553 £519
25th Percentile £572 £589 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £681 £713
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -4.39% +1.79%
75th Percentile £650 £763 £750
90th Percentile £740 £952 £788
England median daily rate £575 £650 £663
% change year-on-year -11.54% -1.89% -5.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 12,645 16,304 24,250
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 94.02% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,540 11,640 17,723
10th Percentile £331 £330 £360
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 292 276
10th Percentile £17.98 £16.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.83 £20.50 £22.98
Median hourly rate £31.50 £29.25 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -21.83% +6.91%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £69.43 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -6.98% +68.63%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in London

Engineering Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Engineering Manager in London

Engineering Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in London over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Engineering Manager in London

Engineering Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Engineering Manager in London

Engineering Manager
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Central London +6 4 £575 -17.86% 4
Engineering Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 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 London region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 10 (47.62%) Scrum
1 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) Java
2 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (38.10%) Kafka
3 8 (38.10%) Microservices
3 8 (38.10%) Observability
3 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 7 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 7 (33.33%) Docker
4 7 (33.33%) BDD
4 7 (33.33%) Kanban
4 7 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (33.33%) TDD
4 7 (33.33%) Spring
5 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
6 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
7 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
7 4 (19.05%) Finance
7 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (19.05%) Customer-Centricity
8 3 (14.29%) GCP
8 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
8 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (14.29%) High Availability
8 3 (14.29%) Functional Testing
8 3 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (14.29%) Mentoring

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
1 3 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) dbt
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
3 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.76%) Big Data
4 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.76%) Looker
4 1 (4.76%) Power BI
4 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Kafka
2 7 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Agile
1 10 (47.62%) Scrum
2 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) Microservices
3 8 (38.10%) Observability
4 7 (33.33%) BDD
4 7 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (33.33%) Kanban
4 7 (33.33%) TDD
5 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
5 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
7 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Data Governance
7 3 (14.29%) Functional Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 3 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (9.52%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
2 1 (4.76%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) PMO
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) Planview
2 1 (4.76%) Virgin Media