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 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 336 383
Rank change year-on-year +208 +47 +32
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 310 54 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.64% 0.31% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.86% 0.32% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 222 38 39
10th Percentile - £52,100 £72,250
25th Percentile - £68,125 £75,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £7,000 £82,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -91.52% -21.43% +13.51%
75th Percentile £61,967 £93,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £69,875 £95,000 -
England median annual salary £61,500 £82,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -25.45% -17.50% -2.44%

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 10,842 16,774 15,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.98% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,788 12,975 8,066
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +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 18 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 18 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 +146 242 £7,000 -91.52% 53
Yorkshire +106 60 £85,000 +3.03% 17
North East +39 8 £67,500 -3.57% 5
Engineering Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 (86.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 160 (51.61%) Change Management
3 99 (31.94%) Systems Engineering
4 95 (30.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 83 (26.77%) Degree
6 82 (26.45%) Validation
6 82 (26.45%) Verification and Validation
7 72 (23.23%) Master's Degree
7 72 (23.23%) Chartered Engineer
8 55 (17.74%) Project Planning
9 44 (14.19%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 32 (10.32%) Software Engineering
11 27 (8.71%) Requirements Management
11 27 (8.71%) Rational DOORS
12 24 (7.74%) Mentoring
13 21 (6.77%) Agile
13 21 (6.77%) Finance
14 18 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (5.48%) Customer Engagement
15 17 (5.48%) CI/CD
16 16 (5.16%) Project Management
17 15 (4.84%) .NET
18 14 (4.52%) C#
19 13 (4.19%) Azure
19 13 (4.19%) Coaching
20 12 (3.87%) DevOps
20 12 (3.87%) Technical Leadership
20 12 (3.87%) Roadmaps
21 10 (3.23%) Social Skills
21 10 (3.23%) People Management

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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (4.19%) Azure
2 9 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (2.26%) AWS
4 4 (1.29%) SaaS
5 3 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (0.97%) Serverless
6 1 (0.32%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.32%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.32%) Broadband
1 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 27 (8.71%) Rational DOORS
General
1 21 (6.77%) Finance
2 10 (3.23%) Social Skills
3 8 (2.58%) Banking
4 3 (0.97%) Retail
5 2 (0.65%) Games
5 2 (0.65%) Retail Finance
6 1 (0.32%) Automotive
6 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.84%) .NET
2 9 (2.90%) React
3 8 (2.58%) .NET Core
3 8 (2.58%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.65%) PySpark
4 2 (0.65%) PyTorch
4 2 (0.65%) scikit-learn
4 2 (0.65%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.32%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.32%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.32%) Node.js
5 1 (0.32%) Spring
5 1 (0.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.90%) Management Information System
2 7 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (1.94%) Virtual Team
4 2 (0.65%) Onboarding
4 2 (0.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (51.61%) Change Management
2 99 (31.94%) Systems Engineering
3 95 (30.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 82 (26.45%) Validation
4 82 (26.45%) Verification and Validation
5 55 (17.74%) Project Planning
6 44 (14.19%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 32 (10.32%) Software Engineering
8 27 (8.71%) Requirements Management
9 24 (7.74%) Mentoring
10 21 (6.77%) Agile
11 18 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (5.48%) CI/CD
12 17 (5.48%) Customer Engagement
13 16 (5.16%) Project Management
14 13 (4.19%) Coaching
15 12 (3.87%) DevOps
15 12 (3.87%) Roadmaps
15 12 (3.87%) Technical Leadership
16 10 (3.23%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.52%) C#
2 9 (2.90%) JavaScript
3 6 (1.94%) Python
4 3 (0.97%) Java
5 2 (0.65%) Go
5 2 (0.65%) PHP
5 2 (0.65%) SQL
6 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 268 (86.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 83 (26.77%) Degree
3 72 (23.23%) Chartered Engineer
3 72 (23.23%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.90%) CISSP
5 2 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (1.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.97%) Terraform
2 2 (0.65%) Ansible
3 1 (0.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (2.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.94%) IBM
3 2 (0.65%) Databricks
4 1 (0.32%) Facebook