Engineering Manager Jobs in England

Engineering Manager
UK > England

The median Engineering Manager salary in England is £73,750 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 347 473 543
Rank change year-on-year +126 +70 -10
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 412 328 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.78% 0.44% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.47% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 164 172 189
10th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £54,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £76,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% -23.75% -
75th Percentile £98,125 £102,813 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £135,693
UK median annual salary £74,500 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -0.67% -21.05% -2.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

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

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 47,921 70,310 63,164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 94.85% 91.73%
Number of salaries quoted 26,772 47,761 45,128
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Engineering Manager in England

Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in England over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Engineering Manager in England

Engineering Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Engineering Manager within the England 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
London +76 131 £100,000 -2.44% 176
North of England +59 100 £70,000 -9.68% 39
South East +38 65 £80,000 +45.45% 53
North West +15 50 £70,000 +25.00% 22
Yorkshire +43 45 £67,500 -22.86% 16
East of England +3 19 £76,250 -27.38% 10
Midlands +31 18 £70,000 - 21
South West +20 13 £85,000 +21.43% 14
West Midlands +36 10 £73,750 +5.36% 16
East Midlands +22 8 £68,000 -20.00% 5
North East +20 5 £67,500 -6.90% 2
Engineering Manager
UK

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

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 England region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 227 (55.10%) Social Skills
2 199 (48.30%) Roadmaps
2 199 (48.30%) Degree
3 182 (44.17%) Computer Science
4 174 (42.23%) Broadband
4 174 (42.23%) Software Engineering
4 174 (42.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 156 (37.86%) Mentoring
6 110 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (25.73%) Change Management
8 102 (24.76%) Product Ownership
9 99 (24.03%) Software Delivery
9 99 (24.03%) Product Management
10 96 (23.30%) High Availability
11 93 (22.57%) Broadcast Engineering
12 91 (22.09%) Management Information System
13 86 (20.87%) Validation
14 81 (19.66%) Games
14 81 (19.66%) Video\Live Streaming
15 80 (19.42%) Incident Management
16 79 (19.17%) Service Delivery
16 79 (19.17%) ITSM
16 79 (19.17%) ServiceNow
16 79 (19.17%) Problem Management
16 79 (19.17%) Deployment Automation
17 75 (18.20%) Agile
18 59 (14.32%) CI/CD
19 58 (14.08%) BPSS Clearance
20 54 (13.11%) AWS
21 43 (10.44%) People Management

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 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.24%) Confluence
2 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.24%) Revit
1 1 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.24%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 54 (13.11%) AWS
2 38 (9.22%) Azure
3 19 (4.61%) SaaS
4 16 (3.88%) GCP
5 10 (2.43%) Serverless
6 7 (1.70%) Snowflake
7 6 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (0.97%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.73%) Azure API Management
10 3 (0.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (0.73%) dbt
10 3 (0.73%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.73%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.49%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.49%) GitHub
11 2 (0.49%) Matillion
12 1 (0.24%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 174 (42.23%) Broadband
2 1 (0.24%) ATM
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.21%) MySQL
1 5 (1.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.73%) CockroachDB
3 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.73%) Power BI
3 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.49%) Tableau
5 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.24%) Looker
5 1 (0.24%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.24%) Metabase
5 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.24%) OLAP
5 1 (0.24%) OLTP
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.18%) GitLab
1 9 (2.18%) Octopus Deploy
1 9 (2.18%) TeamCity
2 6 (1.46%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.49%) JIRA
4 1 (0.24%) Git
General
1 227 (55.10%) Social Skills
2 81 (19.66%) Games
3 39 (9.47%) Finance
4 21 (5.10%) Retail
5 20 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.88%) Banking
7 12 (2.91%) Law
8 11 (2.67%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.43%) Automotive
10 8 (1.94%) Marketing
11 7 (1.70%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.46%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.46%) Front Office
12 6 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.73%) Electronics
13 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.49%) Advertising
14 2 (0.49%) Legal
15 1 (0.24%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.74%) .NET
2 20 (4.85%) React
3 12 (2.91%) .NET Core
4 10 (2.43%) Spring
4 10 (2.43%) Spring Boot
5 9 (2.18%) Kafka
6 7 (1.70%) React Native
7 5 (1.21%) ASP.NET
7 5 (1.21%) CSS
7 5 (1.21%) HTML
7 5 (1.21%) Node.js
7 5 (1.21%) REST
8 4 (0.97%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.97%) Django
8 4 (0.97%) jQuery
9 3 (0.73%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.49%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.49%) Middleware
10 2 (0.49%) XML
11 1 (0.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 102 (24.76%) Product Ownership
2 91 (22.09%) Management Information System
3 81 (19.66%) Video\Live Streaming
4 11 (2.67%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.43%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.43%) Virtual Team
6 7 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.46%) Derivative
7 6 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.97%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.73%) AS400
9 3 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.73%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.49%) Clustering
10 2 (0.49%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.49%) Media Streaming
10 2 (0.49%) Over-the-Top Content
11 1 (0.24%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (48.30%) Roadmaps
2 182 (44.17%) Computer Science
3 174 (42.23%) Software Engineering
4 156 (37.86%) Mentoring
5 110 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
6 106 (25.73%) Change Management
7 99 (24.03%) Product Management
7 99 (24.03%) Software Delivery
8 96 (23.30%) High Availability
9 93 (22.57%) Broadcast Engineering
10 86 (20.87%) Validation
11 80 (19.42%) Incident Management
12 79 (19.17%) Deployment Automation
12 79 (19.17%) ITSM
12 79 (19.17%) Problem Management
12 79 (19.17%) Service Delivery
13 75 (18.20%) Agile
14 59 (14.32%) CI/CD
15 43 (10.44%) People Management
16 36 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 31 (7.52%) Python
2 29 (7.04%) Java
3 28 (6.80%) C#
3 28 (6.80%) SQL
4 14 (3.40%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.46%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.73%) PHP
7 2 (0.49%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.24%) C
8 1 (0.24%) C++
8 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.24%) XAML
Qualifications
1 199 (48.30%) Degree
2 174 (42.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 58 (14.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.18%) Chartered Engineer
4 9 (2.18%) CISSP
5 6 (1.46%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.73%) PMP
6 3 (0.73%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.73%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.49%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (0.49%) CISM
7 2 (0.49%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.18%) QA
2 6 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (0.97%) DO-254
4 3 (0.73%) IEC 61508
4 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.73%) SLA
5 2 (0.49%) GDPR
5 2 (0.49%) NIST
6 1 (0.24%) AQAP
6 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.24%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.24%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (4.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 79 (19.17%) ServiceNow
2 18 (4.37%) Databricks
3 9 (2.18%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.46%) IBM
5 5 (1.21%) Oracle
5 5 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.73%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.49%) Informatica
8 1 (0.24%) Aderant
8 1 (0.24%) Facebook
8 1 (0.24%) Google
8 1 (0.24%) Intapp
8 1 (0.24%) NEC
8 1 (0.24%) VMware
8 1 (0.24%) Xilinx