Engineering Manager Jobs in the Midlands

Engineering Manager
England > Midlands

The median Engineering Manager salary in the Midlands is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 285 292
Rank change year-on-year +118 +7 +25
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 97 37 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.43% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 0.31% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9 25 16
10th Percentile £67,250 £62,500 £58,125
25th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -8.20% -
75th Percentile £82,500 - £86,375
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,050 £99,625
England median annual salary £61,500 £82,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year -25.45% -21.43% +2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,261 11,918 8,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 94.53% 89.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,620 8,778 4,580
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,930 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in the Midlands

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Engineering Manager in the Midlands

Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Engineering Manager in the Midlands

Engineering Manager
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Engineering Manager within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
East Midlands +84 56 £71,250 - 46
West Midlands +79 41 £75,000 +7.14% 43
Engineering Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 Midlands region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 83 (85.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 78 (80.41%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 77 (79.38%) Systems Engineering
4 56 (57.73%) Management Information System
5 48 (49.48%) Information Management
5 48 (49.48%) Collaborative Working
6 22 (22.68%) Degree
7 20 (20.62%) Validation
8 18 (18.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (18.56%) Requirements Management
8 18 (18.56%) Rational DOORS
8 18 (18.56%) Verification and Validation
9 15 (15.46%) Mentoring
10 11 (11.34%) Master's Degree
10 11 (11.34%) Chartered Engineer
10 11 (11.34%) Customer Engagement
11 10 (10.31%) Software Engineering
12 7 (7.22%) Project Delivery
12 7 (7.22%) Agile
12 7 (7.22%) Finance
13 6 (6.19%) Information Security
13 6 (6.19%) Project Management
13 6 (6.19%) CISSP
13 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
13 6 (6.19%) People Management
13 6 (6.19%) Software Delivery
14 5 (5.15%) Social Skills
14 5 (5.15%) Line Management
14 5 (5.15%) SaaS
14 5 (5.15%) Scrum

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

Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.15%) SaaS
2 1 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (1.03%) AWS
2 1 (1.03%) Azure
2 1 (1.03%) Azure AKS
2 1 (1.03%) GCP
2 1 (1.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 18 (18.56%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (7.22%) Finance
2 5 (5.15%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.06%) Electronics
3 2 (2.06%) Games
4 1 (1.03%) Advertising
4 1 (1.03%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.03%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) .NET
2 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 56 (57.73%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.06%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.03%) ASIC
4 1 (1.03%) FPGA
4 1 (1.03%) VHDL
4 1 (1.03%) VLSI
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (80.41%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 77 (79.38%) Systems Engineering
3 48 (49.48%) Collaborative Working
3 48 (49.48%) Information Management
4 20 (20.62%) Validation
5 18 (18.56%) Requirements Management
5 18 (18.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (18.56%) Verification and Validation
6 15 (15.46%) Mentoring
7 11 (11.34%) Customer Engagement
8 10 (10.31%) Software Engineering
9 7 (7.22%) Agile
9 7 (7.22%) Project Delivery
10 6 (6.19%) Information Security
10 6 (6.19%) People Management
10 6 (6.19%) Project Management
10 6 (6.19%) Software Delivery
11 5 (5.15%) Line Management
11 5 (5.15%) Scrum
12 4 (4.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.12%) C#
2 1 (1.03%) C
2 1 (1.03%) C++
2 1 (1.03%) Java
2 1 (1.03%) MATLAB
2 1 (1.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 83 (85.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 22 (22.68%) Degree
3 11 (11.34%) Chartered Engineer
3 11 (11.34%) Master's Degree
4 6 (6.19%) CISSP
5 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.03%) DO-254
1 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.03%) Xilinx