Engineering Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Engineering Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 376 400
Rank change year-on-year +53 +24 +75
Contract jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 16 18 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.089% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.096% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 24
10th Percentile £370 £501 £522
25th Percentile £413 £501 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -10.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile - £800 £741
90th Percentile £664 £850 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £656 £639
% change year-on-year -21.90% +2.74% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,872 18,741 21,812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.48% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,548 11,455 15,203
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,269 1,109
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.29 £15.75 £18.03
Median hourly rate £26.31 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.23% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.38% -18.89% +88.21%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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 of England +29 9 £425 -22.73% 91
North West - 8 £425 - 63
East Midlands - 3 £500 - 18
Midlands - 3 £500 - 35
South East +38 2 £500 -0.20% 127
Scotland - 2 £70 - 25
South West +34 1 £700 -12.50% 22
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 17
Engineering Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 UK excluding London region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) DevOps
3 8 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 8 (50.00%) Scrum
4 7 (43.75%) Finance
4 7 (43.75%) JIRA
4 7 (43.75%) Java
4 7 (43.75%) Project Management
4 7 (43.75%) Confluence
4 7 (43.75%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (43.75%) Coaching
4 7 (43.75%) Microservices
4 7 (43.75%) Epics
5 6 (37.50%) Decision-Making
5 6 (37.50%) Agile Project Management
5 6 (37.50%) Workflow
5 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (25.00%) AWS
7 4 (25.00%) Banking
7 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
8 3 (18.75%) .NET
8 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
8 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
8 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
9 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 2 (12.50%) Customer Service

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 7 (43.75%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
2 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.25%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.25%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) DevOps
3 8 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 8 (50.00%) Scrum
4 7 (43.75%) Coaching
4 7 (43.75%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (43.75%) Epics
4 7 (43.75%) Microservices
4 7 (43.75%) Project Management
5 6 (37.50%) Agile Project Management
5 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 6 (37.50%) Decision-Making
5 6 (37.50%) Workflow
6 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 2 (12.50%) Change Management
8 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (12.50%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) CCA
2 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft