Engineering Manager Job Trends in England

Engineering Manager
UK > England

The median Engineering Manager salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 455 472
Rank change year-on-year +81 +17 -71
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 252 234 190
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.47% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.51% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 177 128 124
10th Percentile £60,000 £50,875 £65,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £68,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £118,250 £117,125
UK median annual salary £85,000 £76,250 £90,000
% change year-on-year +11.48% -15.28% +3.39%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 47,143 46,289 42,955
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 92.98% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,526 24,707 33,707
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £79,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Engineering Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Engineering Manager job vacancy trend in England

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Engineering Manager job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Engineering Manager job vacancies in England

Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in England over the 6 months to 31 December 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 31 December 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 87 £100,000 -4.76% 68
South East +57 64 £112,500 +74.42% 68
North of England +9 64 £70,000 +3.70% 79
North West +16 39 £85,000 +47.67% 51
Yorkshire +3 22 £70,000 -17.65% 25
South West +11 18 £87,500 +16.67% 29
Midlands +24 15 £68,000 -2.86% 40
West Midlands +29 10 £52,500 -30.00% 15
East Midlands -9 5 £68,000 -2.86% 22
East of England +24 4 £71,250 -20.83% 36
North East +9 3 £88,750 +31.48% 3
Engineering Manager
UK

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, Engineering Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 92 (36.51%) Software Engineering
2 64 (25.40%) AWS
3 63 (25.00%) Agile
4 60 (23.81%) Azure
5 59 (23.41%) Roadmaps
6 43 (17.06%) JavaScript
7 42 (16.67%) .NET
7 42 (16.67%) SaaS
8 40 (15.87%) AI
9 37 (14.68%) Mentoring
10 36 (14.29%) CI/CD
10 36 (14.29%) GCP
10 36 (14.29%) TypeScript
11 35 (13.89%) Business Strategy
12 32 (12.70%) People Management
13 27 (10.71%) Python
14 26 (10.32%) Data Engineering
15 20 (7.94%) DevOps
15 20 (7.94%) SQL
16 18 (7.14%) Degree
17 17 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (6.75%) Software Delivery
18 15 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
19 14 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
19 14 (5.56%) Terraform
20 13 (5.16%) Coaching
20 13 (5.16%) Databricks
20 13 (5.16%) Technology Roadmap
20 13 (5.16%) Test Automation
21 12 (4.76%) C#

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.79%) Apache
3 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) TPMS
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Navisworks
2 1 (0.40%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 64 (25.40%) AWS
2 60 (23.81%) Azure
3 42 (16.67%) SaaS
4 36 (14.29%) GCP
5 6 (2.38%) Datadog
5 6 (2.38%) Serverless
5 6 (2.38%) Snowflake
6 5 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.79%) dbt
8 2 (0.79%) GitHub
8 2 (0.79%) OCI
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.59%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.19%) BGP
2 3 (1.19%) Firewall
2 3 (1.19%) LAN
2 3 (1.19%) MPLS
2 3 (1.19%) Network Security
2 3 (1.19%) OSPF
2 3 (1.19%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.19%) VPN
2 3 (1.19%) WAN
3 2 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (0.79%) NGFW
3 2 (0.79%) VLAN
4 1 (0.40%) 3G
4 1 (0.40%) ATM
4 1 (0.40%) GPRS
4 1 (0.40%) GSM
4 1 (0.40%) Modbus
4 1 (0.40%) RS-232
4 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.38%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.59%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.79%) MySQL
4 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.79%) Redis
4 2 (0.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.40%) Big Data
5 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.40%) Flink
5 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Git
2 1 (0.40%) GitLab
General
1 69 (27.38%) Finance
2 25 (9.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (2.38%) Legal
4 5 (1.98%) Automotive
4 5 (1.98%) Marketing
5 4 (1.59%) Aerospace
5 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (1.59%) Law
5 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.19%) Retail
7 2 (0.79%) Advertising
7 2 (0.79%) Billing
8 1 (0.40%) Avionics
8 1 (0.40%) Banking
8 1 (0.40%) Electronics
8 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.40%) Military
8 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.67%) .NET
2 7 (2.78%) Node.js
3 6 (2.38%) React
4 5 (1.98%) Kafka
5 4 (1.59%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.19%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.79%) Laravel
7 2 (0.79%) REST
7 2 (0.79%) Vue
8 1 (0.40%) CSS
8 1 (0.40%) HTML
8 1 (0.40%) JSON
8 1 (0.40%) Middleware
8 1 (0.40%) RESTful
8 1 (0.40%) Smarty
8 1 (0.40%) Spring
8 1 (0.40%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.40%) Symfony
8 1 (0.40%) Web Services
8 1 (0.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.38%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.38%) Virtual Team
3 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.19%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.79%) e-Learning
5 2 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.40%) Clustering
6 1 (0.40%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.40%) FMCG
6 1 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.19%) Android
1 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (0.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (36.51%) Software Engineering
2 63 (25.00%) Agile
3 59 (23.41%) Roadmaps
4 40 (15.87%) AI
5 37 (14.68%) Mentoring
6 36 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 35 (13.89%) Business Strategy
8 32 (12.70%) People Management
9 26 (10.32%) Data Engineering
10 20 (7.94%) DevOps
11 17 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (6.75%) Software Delivery
12 14 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (5.16%) Coaching
13 13 (5.16%) Technology Roadmap
13 13 (5.16%) Test Automation
14 12 (4.76%) Collaborative Culture
15 11 (4.37%) Data Governance
15 11 (4.37%) Data Pipeline
15 11 (4.37%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 43 (17.06%) JavaScript
2 36 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 27 (10.71%) Python
4 20 (7.94%) SQL
5 12 (4.76%) C#
5 12 (4.76%) Java
6 4 (1.59%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.19%) Bash
7 3 (1.19%) C++
7 3 (1.19%) PHP
7 3 (1.19%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.40%) Bicep
8 1 (0.40%) C
8 1 (0.40%) Scala
8 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (7.14%) Degree
2 15 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.98%) CISM
6 5 (1.98%) CISSP
7 4 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.59%) CISA
7 4 (1.59%) GIAC
8 3 (1.19%) CCNP
8 3 (1.19%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (1.19%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.19%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) APMP
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CCA
9 1 (0.40%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.76%) QA
2 5 (1.98%) GDPR
3 2 (0.79%) DO-254
3 2 (0.79%) IEC 61508
3 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.40%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.40%) MISRA
4 1 (0.40%) NEBOSH
4 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (1.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (5.56%) Terraform
2 7 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (5.16%) Databricks
2 9 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.19%) Cisco
3 3 (1.19%) Fortinet
3 3 (1.19%) Palo Alto
3 3 (1.19%) Salesforce