Engineering Manager Job Trends in Scotland

Engineering Manager
UK > Scotland

The median Engineering Manager salary in Scotland is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 June 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 128 97
Rank change year-on-year +19 -31 +81
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 24 10 239
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.76% 0.47% 3.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.56% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 29
10th Percentile - £72,250 £67,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £79,375 £77,500
90th Percentile - £91,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £92,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.63% +6.67% -21.05%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 3,006 1,796 6,326
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 84.80% 96.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,580 751 2,835
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,929 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,375 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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 Scotland.

Engineering Manager job vacancy trend in Scotland

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for Engineering Manager job vacancies in Scotland.

Salary distribution trend for Engineering Manager job vacancies in Scotland

Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Engineering Manager in Scotland

Engineering Manager
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Engineering Manager within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Edinburgh +35 20 £90,000 +20.00% 3
Glasgow +9 3 £60,000 -22.58% 4
West Lothian - 1 - -
Engineering Manager
UK

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 7 June 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 Scotland region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 13 (54.17%) Software Engineering
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Coaching
3 7 (29.17%) Code Quality
3 7 (29.17%) Java
3 7 (29.17%) Observability
4 6 (25.00%) Business Development
4 6 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (25.00%) Line Management
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
4 6 (25.00%) User Experience
5 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.17%) AI
6 1 (4.17%) Analytics
6 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 1 (4.17%) Azure
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AI
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (4.17%) Broadband
6 1 (4.17%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.17%) Customer Experience
6 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineering
6 1 (4.17%) Data Pipeline

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
1 1 (4.17%) Azure AI
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (4.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Broadband
General
1 6 (25.00%) Legal
2 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) LangChain
1 1 (4.17%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) NHS
1 6 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 6 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (16.67%) Lidar
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Software Engineering
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Coaching
3 7 (29.17%) Code Quality
3 7 (29.17%) Observability
4 6 (25.00%) Business Development
4 6 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (25.00%) Line Management
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
4 6 (25.00%) User Experience
5 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.17%) Customer Experience
6 1 (4.17%) Event-Driven
6 1 (4.17%) Prototyping
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Java
2 1 (4.17%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Foundry
1 1 (4.17%) Google