Engineering Manager Jobs in England

Engineering Manager
UK > England

The median Engineering Manager salary in England is £61,967 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 June 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 512 537
Rank change year-on-year +321 +25 +22
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 857 383 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.74% 0.40% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 0.42% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 339 238 222
10th Percentile - £55,000 £65,100
25th Percentile £7,000 £63,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,967 £77,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.04% -26.19% +2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £103,125 £116,889
90th Percentile £102,500 £118,050 £144,500
UK median annual salary £61,967 £75,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -17.38% -25.00% -

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 44,621 90,711 74,498
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 94.63% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 23,807 66,089 49,198
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £73,886 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 14 June 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 14 June 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
North of England +222 306 £7,000 -90.97% 86
North West +165 242 £7,000 -91.52% 62
South East +174 187 £75,000 +15.38% 138
London +106 130 £97,500 -3.70% 301
Midlands +105 62 £72,500 +7.41% 28
Yorkshire +104 57 £75,000 -6.25% 21
South West +101 56 £80,000 +6.67% 21
East of England +89 45 - - 14
East Midlands +83 40 £71,250 - 16
West Midlands +61 22 £75,000 +11.11% 10
North East +52 7 £67,500 -3.57% 3
Engineering Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 June 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.

1 525 (61.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 396 (46.21%) Degree
3 253 (29.52%) Validation
4 251 (29.29%) Social Skills
5 241 (28.12%) Change Management
6 226 (26.37%) Mentoring
7 224 (26.14%) Systems Engineering
8 217 (25.32%) Computer Science
9 215 (25.09%) Software Engineering
10 197 (22.99%) Roadmaps
11 194 (22.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 184 (21.47%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
13 174 (20.30%) Computer Science Degree
13 174 (20.30%) Verification and Validation
13 174 (20.30%) Broadband
14 163 (19.02%) Management Information System
15 160 (18.67%) Project Management
16 135 (15.75%) Requirements Management
16 135 (15.75%) Rational DOORS
17 118 (13.77%) Chartered Engineer
18 109 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
19 100 (11.67%) Product Ownership
20 99 (11.55%) High Availability
21 98 (11.44%) Product Management
22 93 (10.85%) Finance
22 93 (10.85%) Broadcast Engineering
22 93 (10.85%) Software Delivery
23 82 (9.57%) Games
24 81 (9.45%) Video\Live Streaming
25 80 (9.33%) Incident 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 1 (0.12%) Confluence
1 1 (0.12%) IIS
1 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 52 (6.07%) AWS
2 41 (4.78%) Azure
3 18 (2.10%) GCP
4 14 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (1.63%) SaaS
5 12 (1.40%) Serverless
6 5 (0.58%) dbt
6 5 (0.58%) Snowflake
7 4 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (0.47%) Matillion
8 3 (0.35%) Azure API Management
8 3 (0.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (0.35%) GitHub
8 3 (0.35%) PaaS
8 3 (0.35%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.23%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.23%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.23%) IaaS
9 2 (0.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 174 (20.30%) Broadband
2 1 (0.12%) 3G
2 1 (0.12%) GPRS
2 1 (0.12%) Internet
2 1 (0.12%) LTE
2 1 (0.12%) Modbus
2 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (0.58%) MySQL
3 3 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.35%) CockroachDB
3 3 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.35%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.23%) Looker
4 2 (0.23%) Power BI
4 2 (0.23%) Tableau
5 1 (0.12%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.12%) OLAP
5 1 (0.12%) OLTP
5 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 135 (15.75%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (1.05%) GitLab
2 9 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
2 9 (1.05%) TeamCity
3 3 (0.35%) JIRA
4 2 (0.23%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.12%) Git
5 1 (0.12%) Vite
5 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 251 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 93 (10.85%) Finance
3 82 (9.57%) Games
4 31 (3.62%) Manufacturing
5 20 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (2.33%) Retail
6 19 (2.22%) Aerospace
6 19 (2.22%) Banking
7 17 (1.98%) Automotive
8 12 (1.40%) Law
9 9 (1.05%) Marketing
10 8 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (0.70%) Front Office
12 4 (0.47%) Electronics
12 4 (0.47%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.23%) Retail Finance
15 1 (0.12%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.12%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.55%) .NET
2 24 (2.80%) React
3 17 (1.98%) .NET Core
4 11 (1.28%) Kafka
5 10 (1.17%) AngularJS
6 8 (0.93%) React Native
7 7 (0.82%) Spring
7 7 (0.82%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.70%) CSS
8 6 (0.70%) HTML
9 5 (0.58%) ASP.NET
9 5 (0.58%) Node.js
9 5 (0.58%) REST
10 4 (0.47%) Django
10 4 (0.47%) jQuery
11 2 (0.23%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.23%) Hibernate
11 2 (0.23%) RESTful
11 2 (0.23%) Vue
12 1 (0.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 163 (19.02%) Management Information System
2 100 (11.67%) Product Ownership
3 81 (9.45%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (0.93%) Virtual Team
5 7 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (0.70%) Cloud Native
6 6 (0.70%) Derivative
7 4 (0.47%) Data Centre
7 4 (0.47%) Data Structures
7 4 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (0.47%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.35%) AS400
8 3 (0.35%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.23%) Media Streaming
9 2 (0.23%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (0.23%) PMI
10 1 (0.12%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.12%) IoT
10 1 (0.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (29.52%) Validation
2 241 (28.12%) Change Management
3 226 (26.37%) Mentoring
4 224 (26.14%) Systems Engineering
5 217 (25.32%) Computer Science
6 215 (25.09%) Software Engineering
7 197 (22.99%) Roadmaps
8 194 (22.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 184 (21.47%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 174 (20.30%) Verification and Validation
11 160 (18.67%) Project Management
12 135 (15.75%) Requirements Management
13 109 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
14 99 (11.55%) High Availability
15 98 (11.44%) Product Management
16 93 (10.85%) Broadcast Engineering
16 93 (10.85%) Software Delivery
17 80 (9.33%) Incident Management
17 80 (9.33%) Service Delivery
18 79 (9.22%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 33 (3.85%) C#
2 30 (3.50%) Java
2 30 (3.50%) Python
3 21 (2.45%) SQL
4 19 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 8 (0.93%) PHP
5 8 (0.93%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.35%) Go
6 3 (0.35%) Scala
7 2 (0.23%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.12%) C
8 1 (0.12%) C++
8 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 525 (61.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 396 (46.21%) Degree
3 174 (20.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 118 (13.77%) Chartered Engineer
5 72 (8.40%) Master's Degree
6 63 (7.35%) CISSP
7 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.35%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.35%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.35%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.23%) CISA
9 2 (0.23%) CISM
9 2 (0.23%) CRISC
9 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.23%) PMP
10 1 (0.12%) OCP
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.98%) DO-254
2 16 (1.87%) IEC 61508
3 9 (1.05%) QA
4 6 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.47%) SLA
6 3 (0.35%) GDPR
6 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.23%) COBIT
7 2 (0.23%) GRC
7 2 (0.23%) NIST
7 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.12%) AQAP
8 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (1.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.35%) Terraform
3 1 (0.12%) Ansible
3 1 (0.12%) Grafana
Vendors
1 79 (9.22%) ServiceNow
2 13 (1.52%) Microsoft
3 12 (1.40%) Databricks
4 6 (0.70%) IBM
5 5 (0.58%) Oracle
5 5 (0.58%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.47%) Informatica
7 3 (0.35%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.23%) Google
8 2 (0.23%) SAP
9 1 (0.12%) Aderant
9 1 (0.12%) Facebook
9 1 (0.12%) Intapp
9 1 (0.12%) NEC
9 1 (0.12%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.12%) Splunk
9 1 (0.12%) VMware
9 1 (0.12%) Xilinx