Engineering Manager Jobs in England

Engineering Manager
UK > England

The median Engineering Manager salary in England is £61,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 475 539
Rank change year-on-year +277 +64 +19
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 816 390 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.65% 0.45% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 0.48% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 349 242 236
10th Percentile - £57,500 £66,000
25th Percentile £7,000 £63,750 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £82,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% -17.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £103,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £117,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £61,500 £77,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year -20.65% -18.42% -7.32%

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 45,023 81,588 81,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 94.56% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,443 60,779 51,494
10th Percentile £29,913 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 17 May 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 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +204 310 £7,000 -91.52% 69
North West +140 242 £7,000 -91.52% 48
South East +160 182 £70,000 +7.69% 103
Midlands +118 96 £71,250 +1.79% 25
London +56 85 £96,250 -3.75% 203
Yorkshire +103 60 £85,000 +3.03% 15
South West +101 60 £87,500 +16.67% 21
East Midlands +63 55 £70,000 - 10
East of England +88 43 - - 17
West Midlands +71 41 £73,750 +5.36% 12
North East +44 8 £67,500 -3.57% 6
Engineering Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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.

1 563 (69.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 326 (39.95%) Degree
3 323 (39.58%) Systems Engineering
4 267 (32.72%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 211 (25.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 211 (25.86%) Mentoring
6 191 (23.41%) Validation
7 190 (23.28%) Verification and Validation
8 171 (20.96%) Chartered Engineer
9 162 (19.85%) Change Management
10 161 (19.73%) Social Skills
11 140 (17.16%) Master's Degree
12 135 (16.54%) Requirements Management
12 135 (16.54%) Rational DOORS
13 114 (13.97%) Roadmaps
14 110 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
15 106 (12.99%) Computer Science
16 99 (12.13%) High Availability
17 98 (12.01%) Product Management
18 97 (11.89%) Project Management
19 96 (11.76%) Broadband
20 95 (11.64%) Computer Science Degree
21 94 (11.52%) Management Information System
22 93 (11.40%) Broadcast Engineering
23 89 (10.91%) Software Engineering
24 83 (10.17%) Customer Engagement
25 67 (8.21%) Finance
26 60 (7.35%) Agile
27 55 (6.74%) Project Planning
28 49 (6.00%) Collaborative Working

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
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 44 (5.39%) AWS
2 39 (4.78%) Azure
3 15 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (1.72%) SaaS
5 13 (1.59%) GCP
6 11 (1.35%) Serverless
7 7 (0.86%) Snowflake
8 6 (0.74%) dbt
9 4 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.49%) Matillion
10 3 (0.37%) Azure API Management
10 3 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (0.37%) IaaS
10 3 (0.37%) PaaS
10 3 (0.37%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.25%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.25%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.25%) GitHub
12 1 (0.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 96 (11.76%) Broadband
2 2 (0.25%) 3G
2 2 (0.25%) GPRS
2 2 (0.25%) LTE
2 2 (0.25%) Modbus
2 2 (0.25%) Wireless
3 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (0.49%) Tableau
3 3 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.37%) Looker
3 3 (0.37%) Power BI
4 2 (0.25%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.25%) Metabase
4 2 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.12%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.12%) MySQL
5 1 (0.12%) OLAP
5 1 (0.12%) OLTP
5 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.12%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 135 (16.54%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (0.74%) GitLab
3 5 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (0.61%) TeamCity
4 4 (0.49%) JIRA
5 3 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.25%) Git
7 1 (0.12%) Vite
7 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 161 (19.73%) Social Skills
2 67 (8.21%) Finance
3 32 (3.92%) Manufacturing
4 14 (1.72%) Banking
4 14 (1.72%) Retail
5 7 (0.86%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (0.61%) Electronics
6 5 (0.61%) Games
6 5 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (0.49%) Front Office
8 3 (0.37%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.25%) Marketing
9 2 (0.25%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.25%) Retail Finance
9 2 (0.25%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.12%) Advertising
10 1 (0.12%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.12%) Military
10 1 (0.12%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.12%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.92%) .NET
2 15 (1.84%) React
3 13 (1.59%) .NET Core
4 11 (1.35%) AngularJS
5 8 (0.98%) Kafka
6 6 (0.74%) React Native
7 5 (0.61%) CSS
7 5 (0.61%) HTML
8 4 (0.49%) ASP.NET
8 4 (0.49%) Django
8 4 (0.49%) jQuery
9 3 (0.37%) Node.js
10 2 (0.25%) PySpark
10 2 (0.25%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.25%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.25%) Spring
10 2 (0.25%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.25%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.25%) Vue
11 1 (0.12%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 94 (11.52%) Management Information System
2 16 (1.96%) Product Ownership
3 8 (0.98%) Virtual Team
4 7 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (0.49%) Derivative
6 4 (0.49%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.37%) AS400
7 3 (0.37%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (0.25%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.25%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.25%) IoT
8 2 (0.25%) Media Streaming
8 2 (0.25%) NB-IoT
8 2 (0.25%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (0.25%) PMI
9 1 (0.12%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.12%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.12%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.12%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (39.58%) Systems Engineering
2 267 (32.72%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 211 (25.86%) Mentoring
3 211 (25.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 191 (23.41%) Validation
5 190 (23.28%) Verification and Validation
6 162 (19.85%) Change Management
7 135 (16.54%) Requirements Management
8 114 (13.97%) Roadmaps
9 110 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (12.99%) Computer Science
11 99 (12.13%) High Availability
12 98 (12.01%) Product Management
13 97 (11.89%) Project Management
14 93 (11.40%) Broadcast Engineering
15 89 (10.91%) Software Engineering
16 83 (10.17%) Customer Engagement
17 60 (7.35%) Agile
18 55 (6.74%) Project Planning
19 49 (6.00%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 31 (3.80%) Python
2 29 (3.55%) C#
3 19 (2.33%) Java
3 19 (2.33%) SQL
4 18 (2.21%) JavaScript
5 8 (0.98%) TypeScript
6 7 (0.86%) PHP
7 3 (0.37%) Go
7 3 (0.37%) Scala
8 1 (0.12%) C
8 1 (0.12%) C++
8 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 563 (69.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 326 (39.95%) Degree
3 171 (20.96%) Chartered Engineer
4 140 (17.16%) Master's Degree
5 95 (11.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (5.88%) CISSP
7 6 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.25%) CISA
8 2 (0.25%) CISM
8 2 (0.25%) CRISC
8 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.25%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.25%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.12%) OCP
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.12%) PMP
9 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.10%) QA
2 6 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (0.37%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.25%) COBIT
4 2 (0.25%) GDPR
4 2 (0.25%) GRC
4 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.25%) NIST
4 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.25%) SLA
5 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.12%) DO-254
5 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (1.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.37%) Terraform
3 2 (0.25%) Ansible
4 1 (0.12%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (1.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.23%) Databricks
3 6 (0.74%) IBM
4 4 (0.49%) Informatica
5 3 (0.37%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.37%) SAP
6 2 (0.25%) Google
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle
7 1 (0.12%) Aderant
7 1 (0.12%) Facebook
7 1 (0.12%) Intapp
7 1 (0.12%) NEC
7 1 (0.12%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.12%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.12%) Splunk
7 1 (0.12%) VMware
7 1 (0.12%) Xilinx