Engineering Manager Jobs 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 19 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 97 198
Rank change year-on-year -9 +101 +49
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 60 225 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.96% 3.27% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.35% 3.37% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6 33 17
10th Percentile £72,250 £67,250 £61,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £79,375 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 - £88,200
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £97,750
% change year-on-year -10.00% -23.27% -2.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,552 6,674 3,828
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.37% 96.98% 89.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 2,990 2,080
10th Percentile £26,968 £27,664 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,891 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.07% -7.47% +0.22%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,700
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in Scotland

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Engineering Manager in Scotland.

Salary trend for Engineering Manager in Scotland

Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

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 19 June 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
Moray - 14 - - 1
East Ayrshire - 14 - - 1
South Ayrshire - 13 - - 1
Fife - 13 - - 4
Glasgow +1 4 £77,500 -3.13% 22
Edinburgh +9 2 £75,000 +7.14% 22
Engineering Manager
UK

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 19 June 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 Scotland region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 54 (90.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 39 (65.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (63.33%) Validation
3 38 (63.33%) Requirements Management
3 38 (63.33%) Rational DOORS
3 38 (63.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 38 (63.33%) Systems Engineering
3 38 (63.33%) Verification and Validation
4 16 (26.67%) Management Information System
4 16 (26.67%) Finance
4 16 (26.67%) CISSP
4 16 (26.67%) Project Management
4 16 (26.67%) Information Security
4 16 (26.67%) Degree
4 16 (26.67%) Mentoring
5 5 (8.33%) Software Engineering
6 3 (5.00%) Agile
7 2 (3.33%) C
7 2 (3.33%) C++
7 2 (3.33%) Java
7 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.33%) Android
7 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
7 2 (3.33%) React
8 1 (1.67%) Mobile Development
8 1 (1.67%) Swift
8 1 (1.67%) Data Engineering
8 1 (1.67%) Microservices
8 1 (1.67%) Kotlin

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (1.67%) AWS
1 1 (1.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
Development Applications
1 38 (63.33%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.67%) Android Studio
General
1 16 (26.67%) Finance
2 1 (1.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) React
2 1 (1.67%) .NET
2 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.67%) CSS
2 1 (1.67%) CSS3
2 1 (1.67%) HTML
2 1 (1.67%) HTML5
2 1 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.67%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Android
1 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (65.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (63.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 38 (63.33%) Requirements Management
2 38 (63.33%) Systems Engineering
2 38 (63.33%) Validation
2 38 (63.33%) Verification and Validation
3 16 (26.67%) Information Security
3 16 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 16 (26.67%) Project Management
4 5 (8.33%) Software Engineering
5 3 (5.00%) Agile
6 1 (1.67%) Android Development
6 1 (1.67%) Cash Management
6 1 (1.67%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (1.67%) Data Architecture
6 1 (1.67%) Economics
6 1 (1.67%) iOS Development
6 1 (1.67%) Microservices
6 1 (1.67%) Mobile Application Development
6 1 (1.67%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.33%) C
1 2 (3.33%) C++
1 2 (3.33%) Java
1 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.67%) C#
2 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (1.67%) Objective-C
2 1 (1.67%) Python
2 1 (1.67%) Swift
2 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (90.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 16 (26.67%) CISSP
2 16 (26.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001