Engineering Manager Jobs in Manchester

Engineering Manager
North West > Manchester

The median Engineering Manager salary in Manchester is £91,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 196 225
Rank change year-on-year +46 +29 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 10 26 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.46% 0.49% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.52% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 15
10th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £74,000
25th Percentile £82,813 £74,688 £78,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £82,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.61% -25.00% +25.71%
75th Percentile £113,750 £88,125 £115,000
90th Percentile £119,375 £96,750 -
North West median annual salary £7,000 £82,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year -91.52% -25.00% +25.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,983 4,972 4,425
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.51% 94.42% 92.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,163 3,827 2,600
10th Percentile £31,375 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,625 £40,988 £42,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,500 £82,101 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in Manchester

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Engineering Manager in Manchester

Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in Manchester over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Engineering Manager in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 Manchester region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) People Management
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
4 4 (40.00%) Open Source
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (40.00%) Java
4 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (30.00%) Coaching
5 3 (30.00%) SDLC
5 3 (30.00%) Azure
5 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (30.00%) C#
5 3 (30.00%) .NET
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Docker
6 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Go
6 2 (20.00%) Python
6 2 (20.00%) PHP

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) People Management
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Open Source
4 4 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (30.00%) Coaching
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 3 (30.00%) SDLC
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
6 2 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Go
3 2 (20.00%) PHP
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Facebook