Engineering Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Engineering Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £61,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 366 583
Rank change year-on-year +217 +217 +56
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 834 486 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.14% 0.66% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.37% 0.69% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 330 160 103
10th Percentile - £53,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £7,000 £60,000 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.14% -9.68% -16.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £61,734 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -17.69% -21.05% -5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,218 70,245 51,745
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 94.92% 89.08%
Number of salaries quoted 17,732 49,603 29,711
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Engineering Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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 of England +212 313 £7,000 -91.52% 56
North West +148 244 £7,000 -91.52% 38
South East +189 203 £70,000 +7.69% 69
Midlands +120 97 £72,500 +3.57% 23
Scotland +14 79 £75,000 +7.14% 21
South West +113 64 £87,500 +16.67% 17
Yorkshire +103 61 £82,500 - 14
East Midlands +78 56 £71,250 - 13
East of England +89 50 - - 12
West Midlands +71 41 £75,000 +7.14% 8
Wales - 28 £70,000 - 8
North East +49 8 £67,500 -3.57% 4
Engineering Manager
UK

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 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 UK excluding London region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 673 (80.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 398 (47.72%) Systems Engineering
3 342 (41.01%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 341 (40.89%) Degree
5 259 (31.06%) Validation
6 254 (30.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 237 (28.42%) Verification and Validation
8 202 (24.22%) Chartered Engineer
9 184 (22.06%) Change Management
10 182 (21.82%) Requirements Management
10 182 (21.82%) Rational DOORS
11 166 (19.90%) Master's Degree
12 148 (17.75%) Mentoring
13 131 (15.71%) Management Information System
14 129 (15.47%) Project Management
15 111 (13.31%) Customer Engagement
16 108 (12.95%) Social Skills
17 101 (12.11%) Software Engineering
18 79 (9.47%) Finance
19 76 (9.11%) Computer Science
20 70 (8.39%) Roadmaps
21 63 (7.55%) CISSP
22 62 (7.43%) Information Security
23 55 (6.59%) Project Planning
24 51 (6.12%) Broadband
24 51 (6.12%) Collaborative Working
25 50 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
26 48 (5.76%) Information Management
27 47 (5.64%) Project Delivery
28 43 (5.16%) Agile

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 23 (2.76%) Azure
2 20 (2.40%) AWS
3 11 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (1.08%) SaaS
5 4 (0.48%) GCP
5 4 (0.48%) Serverless
6 3 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (0.36%) Azure API Management
6 3 (0.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (0.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (0.24%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.12%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 1 (0.12%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.12%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.12%) Broadband
2 1 (0.12%) 3G
2 1 (0.12%) GPRS
2 1 (0.12%) Internet
2 1 (0.12%) LTE
2 1 (0.12%) Modbus
2 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (0.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.24%) MySQL
2 2 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.12%) Big Data
3 1 (0.12%) CockroachDB
3 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 182 (21.82%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.12%) Android Studio
2 1 (0.12%) JIRA
General
1 108 (12.95%) Social Skills
2 79 (9.47%) Finance
3 36 (4.32%) Manufacturing
4 26 (3.12%) Games
5 10 (1.20%) Banking
6 4 (0.48%) Electronics
6 4 (0.48%) Retail
7 3 (0.36%) Aerospace
7 3 (0.36%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.24%) Retail Finance
9 1 (0.12%) Advertising
9 1 (0.12%) Avionics
9 1 (0.12%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.12%) Marketing
9 1 (0.12%) Military
9 1 (0.12%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.12%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.12%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.88%) .NET
2 11 (1.32%) React
3 9 (1.08%) AngularJS
4 8 (0.96%) .NET Core
5 6 (0.72%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.36%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.36%) Kafka
6 3 (0.36%) Spring
6 3 (0.36%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.24%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.24%) MSMQ
7 2 (0.24%) Node.js
7 2 (0.24%) PySpark
7 2 (0.24%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.24%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.24%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.12%) CSS
8 1 (0.12%) CSS3
8 1 (0.12%) HTML
8 1 (0.12%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 131 (15.71%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.60%) Product Ownership
3 24 (2.88%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (0.96%) Virtual Team
5 7 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (0.48%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.36%) AS400
8 2 (0.24%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.24%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.24%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.24%) Media Streaming
8 2 (0.24%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.24%) N-Tier
8 2 (0.24%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (0.24%) PMI
9 1 (0.12%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.12%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.12%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.12%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.12%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.72%) zOS
2 2 (0.24%) Android
2 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (47.72%) Systems Engineering
2 342 (41.01%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 259 (31.06%) Validation
4 254 (30.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 237 (28.42%) Verification and Validation
6 184 (22.06%) Change Management
7 182 (21.82%) Requirements Management
8 148 (17.75%) Mentoring
9 129 (15.47%) Project Management
10 111 (13.31%) Customer Engagement
11 101 (12.11%) Software Engineering
12 76 (9.11%) Computer Science
13 70 (8.39%) Roadmaps
14 62 (7.43%) Information Security
15 55 (6.59%) Project Planning
16 51 (6.12%) Collaborative Working
17 48 (5.76%) Information Management
18 47 (5.64%) Project Delivery
19 43 (5.16%) Agile
20 40 (4.80%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (2.64%) C#
2 14 (1.68%) JavaScript
3 11 (1.32%) Python
4 9 (1.08%) Java
4 9 (1.08%) SQL
5 4 (0.48%) PHP
5 4 (0.48%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.36%) C
6 3 (0.36%) C++
7 2 (0.24%) Go
7 2 (0.24%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.12%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 673 (80.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 341 (40.89%) Degree
3 202 (24.22%) Chartered Engineer
4 166 (19.90%) Master's Degree
5 63 (7.55%) CISSP
6 50 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.36%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.36%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.24%) CISA
8 2 (0.24%) CISM
8 2 (0.24%) CRISC
8 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.24%) PMP
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.12%) OCP
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (0.96%) QA
2 6 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.24%) COBIT
4 2 (0.24%) GRC
4 2 (0.24%) NIST
4 2 (0.24%) SLA
5 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.12%) AQAP
5 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.12%) DO-254
5 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (0.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.60%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.36%) Terraform
3 2 (0.24%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (2.64%) ServiceNow
2 9 (1.08%) Microsoft
3 6 (0.72%) Databricks
3 6 (0.72%) IBM
4 3 (0.36%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.12%) Facebook
5 1 (0.12%) Google
5 1 (0.12%) NEC
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle
5 1 (0.12%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.12%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.12%) SAP
5 1 (0.12%) Splunk
5 1 (0.12%) VMware
5 1 (0.12%) Xilinx