Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Manchester

Software Engineering Manager
North West > Manchester

The median Software Engineering Manager salary in Manchester is £86,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 200 237
Rank change year-on-year +65 +37 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Manager 7 18 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.32% 0.35% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.37% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile £79,875 £62,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £81,563 £74,688 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +1.69%
75th Percentile £97,813 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £109,625 £86,625 £88,500
North West median annual salary £86,250 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +3.45%

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 1,943 4,853 4,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 94.55% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,290 3,746 2,670
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,017 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,375 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Software Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering Manager in Manchester

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering Manager in Manchester

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering Manager in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering Manager in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Software 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 Software Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) .NET
3 4 (57.14%) Coaching
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 3 (42.86%) People Management
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) C#
4 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Open Source
5 2 (28.57%) QA
5 2 (28.57%) Azure
5 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Java
5 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
5 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (28.57%) Storytelling
5 2 (28.57%) User Experience
6 1 (14.29%) GCP
6 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
6 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot

Software 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 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Coaching
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) People Management
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 2 (28.57%) Open Source
5 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Storytelling
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (28.57%) User Experience
6 1 (14.29%) Fintech
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Facebook
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft