Engineering Manager Job Trends in the North of England

Engineering Manager
England > North of England

The median Engineering Manager salary in the North of England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 226 299
Rank change year-on-year +30 +73 -15
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 162 88 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.72% 0.92% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.04% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 119 71 19
10th Percentile £56,000 £55,000 £48,869
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,625 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -9.68% -6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £71,875 £96,250
90th Percentile - £102,500 £102,100
England median annual salary £92,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +23.33% -3.23% -22.50%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 21,166 8,480 14,425
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 88.38% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 15,426 4,575 9,747
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,788
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Engineering Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Engineering Manager job vacancy trend in the North of England

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Engineering Manager job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Engineering Manager job vacancies 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 19 August 2026.

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 19 August 2026. 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 +37 88 £100,000 +42.86% 34
Yorkshire -1 69 £75,000 +11.11% 7
North East -55 5 - - 5
Engineering Manager
England

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 19 August 2026, Engineering Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 62 (38.27%) Software Engineering
2 42 (25.93%) Agile
3 24 (14.81%) AI
4 20 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
6 17 (10.49%) Business Development
6 17 (10.49%) Mentoring
7 14 (8.64%) Coaching
7 14 (8.64%) Decision-Making
8 13 (8.02%) AWS
8 13 (8.02%) Go
9 12 (7.41%) People Management
9 12 (7.41%) TypeScript
10 11 (6.79%) Analytics
10 11 (6.79%) React
10 11 (6.79%) Terraform
11 10 (6.17%) CI/CD
11 10 (6.17%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (6.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (5.56%) Data Engineering
12 9 (5.56%) DataOps
12 9 (5.56%) MLOps
13 8 (4.94%) Project Management
13 8 (4.94%) Python
14 7 (4.32%) Asset Management
14 7 (4.32%) Data Science
14 7 (4.32%) DevOps
14 7 (4.32%) JavaScript
14 7 (4.32%) QA
14 7 (4.32%) Roadmaps

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Navisworks
1 2 (1.23%) Revit
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.02%) AWS
2 7 (4.32%) SaaS
3 6 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (3.70%) Serverless
4 3 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (1.85%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.62%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.62%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.62%) Azure
5 1 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.62%) GCP
5 1 (0.62%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (0.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.70%) Wireless
2 3 (1.85%) Broadband
2 3 (1.85%) DKIM
2 3 (1.85%) DMARC
2 3 (1.85%) DNS
2 3 (1.85%) Firewall
2 3 (1.85%) PBX
2 3 (1.85%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (1.85%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.85%) VLAN
2 3 (1.85%) VoIP
2 3 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
1 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Claude Code
1 1 (0.62%) GitLab
1 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.62%) JIRA
General
1 14 (8.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (3.70%) Telecoms
3 4 (2.47%) Finance
3 4 (2.47%) Manufacturing
3 4 (2.47%) Retail
4 3 (1.85%) Games
5 2 (1.23%) Advertising
5 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (1.23%) Marketing
5 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.62%) Electronics
6 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.62%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.79%) React
2 6 (3.70%) Node.js
3 3 (1.85%) .NET
4 2 (1.23%) PySpark
5 1 (0.62%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.62%) React Native
5 1 (0.62%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.88%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.09%) Robotics
2 5 (3.09%) Virtual Team
3 3 (1.85%) CCTV
3 3 (1.85%) Driving Licence
3 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Licensing
3 3 (1.85%) Mobile App
3 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.23%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.23%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.85%) Android
1 3 (1.85%) Apple iOS
1 3 (1.85%) Windows
1 3 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (38.27%) Software Engineering
2 42 (25.93%) Agile
3 24 (14.81%) AI
4 20 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
6 17 (10.49%) Business Development
6 17 (10.49%) Mentoring
7 14 (8.64%) Coaching
7 14 (8.64%) Decision-Making
8 12 (7.41%) People Management
9 11 (6.79%) Analytics
10 10 (6.17%) CI/CD
10 10 (6.17%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (6.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (5.56%) Data Engineering
11 9 (5.56%) DataOps
11 9 (5.56%) MLOps
12 8 (4.94%) Project Management
13 7 (4.32%) Asset Management
13 7 (4.32%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.02%) Go
2 12 (7.41%) TypeScript
3 8 (4.94%) Python
4 7 (4.32%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.70%) C#
5 6 (3.70%) SQL
6 4 (2.47%) Java
7 2 (1.23%) PHP
8 1 (0.62%) Bash
8 1 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (3.70%) Chartered Engineer
1 6 (3.70%) HNC
1 6 (3.70%) HND
2 4 (2.47%) Degree
3 3 (1.85%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.85%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.32%) QA
2 3 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.85%) PMO
3 2 (1.23%) GDPR
3 2 (1.23%) ISO 19650
3 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (1.85%) Hyper-V
1 3 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (6.79%) Terraform
2 3 (1.85%) cPanel
2 3 (1.85%) Plesk
3 1 (0.62%) Grafana
3 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (1.85%) Acronis
1 3 (1.85%) Datto
1 3 (1.85%) Microsoft
1 3 (1.85%) NETGEAR
1 3 (1.85%) SonicWALL
1 3 (1.85%) Veeam
1 3 (1.85%) VMware
1 3 (1.85%) WatchGuard
2 1 (0.62%) Google