Engineering Manager Jobs in the North West

Engineering Manager
England > North West

The median Engineering Manager salary in the North West is £7,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 266 281
Rank change year-on-year +148 +15 +21
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 242 31 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.02% 0.31% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.29% 0.33% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 194 17 18
10th Percentile - £49,375 £66,506
25th Percentile - £53,000 £76,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £7,000 £82,500 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -91.52% -19.51% +17.14%
75th Percentile - £86,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £61,967 £93,000 -
England median annual salary £61,500 £82,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -25.45% -17.50% -4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 7,357 9,353 6,927
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 94.63% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,011 7,192 4,022
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in the North West

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Engineering Manager in the North West

Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Engineering Manager in the North West

Engineering Manager
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Cumbria - 215 £7,000 - 3
Lancashire - 17 - - 11
Manchester +38 9 £91,250 +10.61% 43
Cheshire +2 1 - - 7
Engineering Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 West region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 232 (95.87%) BPSS Clearance
2 160 (66.12%) Change Management
3 69 (28.51%) Systems Engineering
4 64 (26.45%) Verification and Validation
4 64 (26.45%) Validation
4 64 (26.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 63 (26.03%) Degree
6 60 (24.79%) Chartered Engineer
6 60 (24.79%) Master's Degree
7 55 (22.73%) Project Planning
8 14 (5.79%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 9 (3.72%) Requirements Management
9 9 (3.72%) Software Engineering
9 9 (3.72%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (2.48%) Mentoring
10 6 (2.48%) People Management
11 5 (2.07%) Customer Engagement
11 5 (2.07%) Agile
11 5 (2.07%) Finance
11 5 (2.07%) Social Skills
12 4 (1.65%) CI/CD
12 4 (1.65%) Project Management
12 4 (1.65%) AWS
12 4 (1.65%) Microservices
13 3 (1.24%) SDLC
13 3 (1.24%) Coaching
13 3 (1.24%) DevOps
13 3 (1.24%) Open Source
13 3 (1.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 3 (1.24%) CISSP

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (1.65%) AWS
2 2 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (0.83%) Azure
2 2 (0.83%) Serverless
3 1 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.41%) GCP
3 1 (0.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) Internet
Development Applications
1 9 (3.72%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (2.07%) Finance
1 5 (2.07%) Social Skills
2 2 (0.83%) Banking
2 2 (0.83%) Retail
2 2 (0.83%) Retail Finance
3 1 (0.41%) Automotive
3 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.24%) .NET
2 1 (0.41%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.41%) Hibernate
2 1 (0.41%) Spring
2 1 (0.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
2 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (0.41%) Onboarding
2 1 (0.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (66.12%) Change Management
2 69 (28.51%) Systems Engineering
3 64 (26.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 64 (26.45%) Validation
3 64 (26.45%) Verification and Validation
4 55 (22.73%) Project Planning
5 14 (5.79%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 9 (3.72%) Requirements Management
6 9 (3.72%) Software Engineering
7 6 (2.48%) Mentoring
7 6 (2.48%) People Management
8 5 (2.07%) Agile
8 5 (2.07%) Customer Engagement
9 4 (1.65%) CI/CD
9 4 (1.65%) Microservices
9 4 (1.65%) Project Management
10 3 (1.24%) Coaching
10 3 (1.24%) Product Roadmap
10 3 (1.24%) Roadmaps
10 3 (1.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.24%) C#
1 3 (1.24%) Java
2 2 (0.83%) Go
2 2 (0.83%) PHP
2 2 (0.83%) Python
3 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 232 (95.87%) BPSS Clearance
2 63 (26.03%) Degree
3 60 (24.79%) Chartered Engineer
3 60 (24.79%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.24%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.41%) Facebook