Engineering Manager Contracts in the North of England

Engineering Manager
England > North of England

The median Engineering Manager daily rate in the North of England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 185 192
Rank change year-on-year +29 +7 +49
Contract jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 8 1 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.24% 0.022% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.023% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £386 - £528
25th Percentile £407 £525 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £584
90th Percentile £651 - £588
England median daily rate £525 £700 £628
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.55% -10.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,107 4,337 5,337
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 93.31% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,054 2,711 3,742
10th Percentile £230 £263 £276
25th Percentile £365 £390 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £684
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 401 157
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £14.15
25th Percentile £16.19 £12.53 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.50 £20.77 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.96% -30.77% +57.89%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £49.40
90th Percentile £77.88 £62.50 £66.28
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £44.77
% change year-on-year -18.73% -17.54% +94.63%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in the North of England

Engineering Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Engineering Manager in the North of England

Engineering Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Engineering Manager in the North of England

Engineering Manager
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North West - 8 £425 - 53
Engineering Manager
England

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 18 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 North of England region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Process Improvement
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Coaching
2 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 7 (87.50%) Epics
2 7 (87.50%) Scrum
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) JIRA
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Confluence
3 6 (75.00%) Project Management
3 6 (75.00%) Workflow
3 6 (75.00%) Agile Project Management
3 6 (75.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) Finance
5 2 (25.00%) Banking
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (12.50%) QA
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (87.50%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Process Improvement
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) Coaching
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Epics
2 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 7 (87.50%) Scrum
3 6 (75.00%) Agile Project Management
3 6 (75.00%) Decision-Making
3 6 (75.00%) Project Management
3 6 (75.00%) Workflow
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft