Engineering Manager Jobs in Cheshire

Engineering Manager
North West > Cheshire

The median Engineering Manager salary in Cheshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 83 74
Rank change year-on-year -11 -9 -
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 5 8 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.46% 0.59% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.61% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - - £68,500
25th Percentile - £53,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £56,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -25.33% -
75th Percentile - £59,000 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £81,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £56,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -30.00% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 811 1,310 581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 74.34% 95.83% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 410 896 403
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £25,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £54,688 £57,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in Cheshire

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Engineering Manager in Cheshire.

Salary trend for Engineering Manager in Cheshire

Engineering Manager
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Engineering Manager within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington +15 2 £80,000 -
Knutsford - 2 - -
Crewe - 1 - -
Engineering Manager
North West

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, Engineering Manager 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 permanent job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Resource Allocation
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Automotive
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) People Management

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (40.00%) Resource Allocation
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) People Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform