Engineering Manager Jobs in the North of England

Engineering Manager
England > North of England

The median Engineering Manager salary in the North of England is £7,000 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 122 335 380
Rank change year-on-year +213 +45 +21
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 313 52 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.70% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.96% 0.30% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 223 36 37
10th Percentile - £51,500 £72,000
25th Percentile - £67,500 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £7,000 £82,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -91.52% -25.00% +25.71%
75th Percentile £61,967 £91,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £95,000 -
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
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,559 17,213 14,859
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 95.07% 89.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,449 13,282 8,075
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,750
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in the North of England

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Engineering Manager in the North of England.

Salary trend for Engineering Manager in the North of England

Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Engineering Manager in the North of England

Engineering Manager
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
North West +140 244 £7,000 -91.52% 77
Yorkshire +106 61 £82,500 - 44
North East +51 8 £67,500 -3.57% 18
Engineering Manager
England

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

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 North of England region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 268 (85.62%) BPSS Clearance
2 162 (51.76%) Change Management
3 99 (31.63%) Systems Engineering
4 95 (30.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 84 (26.84%) Degree
6 83 (26.52%) Validation
7 82 (26.20%) Verification and Validation
8 72 (23.00%) Chartered Engineer
8 72 (23.00%) Master's Degree
9 55 (17.57%) Project Planning
10 44 (14.06%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 34 (10.86%) Software Engineering
12 27 (8.63%) Requirements Management
12 27 (8.63%) Rational DOORS
13 25 (7.99%) Mentoring
14 22 (7.03%) Agile
14 22 (7.03%) Finance
15 19 (6.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (5.75%) CI/CD
17 17 (5.43%) Customer Engagement
17 17 (5.43%) Project Management
18 16 (5.11%) Roadmaps
19 15 (4.79%) .NET
20 14 (4.47%) Azure
21 13 (4.15%) Coaching
21 13 (4.15%) People Management
21 13 (4.15%) C#
22 12 (3.83%) DevOps
22 12 (3.83%) Technical Leadership
22 12 (3.83%) Social Skills

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (0.32%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 14 (4.47%) Azure
2 9 (2.88%) AWS
3 8 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (1.28%) SaaS
5 3 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (0.96%) Serverless
6 2 (0.64%) GCP
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.64%) Broadband
2 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (8.63%) Rational DOORS
General
1 22 (7.03%) Finance
2 12 (3.83%) Social Skills
3 8 (2.56%) Banking
4 3 (0.96%) Games
4 3 (0.96%) Retail
5 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (0.64%) Retail Finance
6 1 (0.32%) Automotive
6 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.79%) .NET
2 8 (2.56%) React
3 7 (2.24%) .NET Core
3 7 (2.24%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.64%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.64%) Hibernate
4 2 (0.64%) PySpark
4 2 (0.64%) PyTorch
4 2 (0.64%) scikit-learn
4 2 (0.64%) Spring
4 2 (0.64%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.64%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.32%) MSMQ
5 1 (0.32%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.19%) Management Information System
2 7 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (1.92%) Virtual Team
4 3 (0.96%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.32%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (51.76%) Change Management
2 99 (31.63%) Systems Engineering
3 95 (30.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 83 (26.52%) Validation
5 82 (26.20%) Verification and Validation
6 55 (17.57%) Project Planning
7 44 (14.06%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 34 (10.86%) Software Engineering
9 27 (8.63%) Requirements Management
10 25 (7.99%) Mentoring
11 22 (7.03%) Agile
12 19 (6.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (5.75%) CI/CD
14 17 (5.43%) Customer Engagement
14 17 (5.43%) Project Management
15 16 (5.11%) Roadmaps
16 13 (4.15%) Coaching
16 13 (4.15%) People Management
17 12 (3.83%) DevOps
17 12 (3.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.15%) C#
2 8 (2.56%) JavaScript
3 7 (2.24%) Python
4 4 (1.28%) Java
5 3 (0.96%) SQL
6 2 (0.64%) Go
6 2 (0.64%) PHP
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 268 (85.62%) BPSS Clearance
2 84 (26.84%) Degree
3 72 (23.00%) Chartered Engineer
3 72 (23.00%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.88%) CISSP
5 3 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 2 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.96%) Terraform
2 2 (0.64%) Ansible
2 2 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (2.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.92%) IBM
3 3 (0.96%) Databricks
4 1 (0.32%) Facebook
4 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow