Engineering Manager Jobs in London

Engineering Manager
England > London

The median Engineering Manager salary in London is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 360 385
Rank change year-on-year +82 +25 +76
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 120 142 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.94% 0.59% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.63% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 40 108 135
10th Percentile £78,800 £63,750 £77,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £101,250 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -7.95% -3.30%
75th Percentile £109,063 £115,000 £133,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,250 £150,000
England median annual salary £61,500 £82,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year -25.45% -21.43% +2.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,537 22,689 30,597
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.43% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,970 16,827 22,863
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in London

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Engineering Manager in London

Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Engineering Manager in London

Engineering Manager
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Engineering Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Central London +32 19 £95,000 +5.56% 3
South London +13 17 £80,000 +18.52% 1
West London +31 16 - - 5
East London -11 7 - - 4
North London - 6 - -
Engineering Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 London region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 76 (63.33%) Social Skills
2 61 (50.83%) Software Engineering
3 59 (49.17%) Degree
3 59 (49.17%) Roadmaps
4 57 (47.50%) Computer Science
5 56 (46.67%) Broadband
5 56 (46.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (37.50%) Mentoring
7 36 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (29.17%) Product Ownership
9 33 (27.50%) High Availability
10 31 (25.83%) Product Management
10 31 (25.83%) Software Delivery
10 31 (25.83%) Broadcast Engineering
11 27 (22.50%) Management Information System
12 26 (21.67%) Incident Management
12 26 (21.67%) Service Delivery
12 26 (21.67%) Change Management
12 26 (21.67%) AWS
13 25 (20.83%) Problem Management
13 25 (20.83%) ServiceNow
13 25 (20.83%) ITSM
13 25 (20.83%) Games
13 25 (20.83%) Video\Live Streaming
13 25 (20.83%) Validation
13 25 (20.83%) Deployment Automation
14 24 (20.00%) Agile
15 23 (19.17%) CI/CD
16 21 (17.50%) Python
17 18 (15.00%) Java

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.83%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.67%) AWS
2 13 (10.83%) Azure
3 12 (10.00%) GCP
4 7 (5.83%) Serverless
5 6 (5.00%) dbt
5 6 (5.00%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.33%) Matillion
7 2 (1.67%) GitHub
7 2 (1.67%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.67%) SaaS
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.83%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (0.83%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.83%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 56 (46.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.50%) Looker
1 3 (2.50%) Tableau
2 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.67%) Metabase
2 2 (1.67%) Power BI
3 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.83%) OLAP
3 1 (0.83%) OLTP
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.83%) GitLab
1 7 (5.83%) Octopus Deploy
1 7 (5.83%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) Vite
3 1 (0.83%) webpack
General
1 76 (63.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.83%) Games
3 13 (10.83%) Retail
4 11 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.67%) Finance
6 7 (5.83%) Banking
7 6 (5.00%) Front Office
8 5 (4.17%) Law
9 4 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.33%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Legal
10 1 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.50%) .NET
2 8 (6.67%) React
3 7 (5.83%) .NET Core
4 6 (5.00%) Kafka
4 6 (5.00%) React Native
5 5 (4.17%) CSS
5 5 (4.17%) HTML
6 4 (3.33%) Django
6 4 (3.33%) jQuery
7 2 (1.67%) REST
7 2 (1.67%) Vue
8 1 (0.83%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.83%) CSS3
8 1 (0.83%) HTML5
8 1 (0.83%) Node.js
8 1 (0.83%) Spring
8 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (29.17%) Product Ownership
2 27 (22.50%) Management Information System
3 25 (20.83%) Video\Live Streaming
4 6 (5.00%) Derivative
5 4 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.67%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.83%) Tandem
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (50.83%) Software Engineering
2 59 (49.17%) Roadmaps
3 57 (47.50%) Computer Science
4 45 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 36 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (27.50%) High Availability
7 31 (25.83%) Broadcast Engineering
7 31 (25.83%) Product Management
7 31 (25.83%) Software Delivery
8 26 (21.67%) Change Management
8 26 (21.67%) Incident Management
8 26 (21.67%) Service Delivery
9 25 (20.83%) Deployment Automation
9 25 (20.83%) ITSM
9 25 (20.83%) Problem Management
9 25 (20.83%) Validation
10 24 (20.00%) Agile
11 23 (19.17%) CI/CD
12 17 (14.17%) Microservices
13 13 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.50%) Python
2 18 (15.00%) Java
3 11 (9.17%) SQL
4 9 (7.50%) C#
5 5 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.50%) PHP
7 3 (2.50%) Scala
8 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.83%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 59 (49.17%) Degree
2 56 (46.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.00%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.67%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.67%) GDPR
1 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.67%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.83%) SLA
2 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (10.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (20.83%) ServiceNow
2 5 (4.17%) Databricks
3 4 (3.33%) Informatica
4 2 (1.67%) Oracle
4 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.83%) Aderant
5 1 (0.83%) Google
5 1 (0.83%) Intapp
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.83%) SAP