Engineering Manager Jobs

Engineering Manager
UK

The median Engineering Manager salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 595 551
Rank change year-on-year +189 -44 +95
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 532 308 1,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.38% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.42% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 226 219 551
10th Percentile £55,000 £54,750 £67,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £73,900 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £123,125
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,693 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £76,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.20% -10.29% +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Manager in the UK

Engineering Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Engineering Manager in the UK

Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Engineering Manager in the UK

Engineering Manager
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
UK excluding London +170 403 £70,000 -8.20% 72
England +76 337 £77,500 -22.50% 93
Scotland +95 175 £75,000 - 7
London +53 107 £102,500 -6.82% 32
Work from Home +10 96 £69,500 -30.50% 37
South East +35 71 £55,000 -12.00% 19
South West +51 68 £75,000 +5.26% 7
North of England +9 50 £81,250 -12.16% 21
Midlands -11 36 £70,000 -6.67% 12
North West -2 33 £56,000 -30.00% 18
West Midlands -3 21 £70,000 -3.45% 9
Yorkshire +52 15 £86,250 -21.59% 2
East Midlands -18 15 £85,000 +9.68% 3
East of England -19 3 £115,000 +64.29% 4
North East -11 2 £72,500 +20.83% 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 256 (48.12%) Agile
2 242 (45.49%) Software Engineering
3 200 (37.59%) CI/CD
4 193 (36.28%) AWS
5 171 (32.14%) Finance
6 141 (26.50%) Law
6 141 (26.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 140 (26.32%) Data Engineering
8 131 (24.62%) Project Management
8 131 (24.62%) Azure
9 126 (23.68%) Computer Science
10 124 (23.31%) Scrum
11 122 (22.93%) SQL
12 121 (22.74%) Coaching
13 118 (22.18%) Marketing
14 112 (21.05%) SDLC
15 110 (20.68%) Cloud Native
16 107 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
17 106 (19.92%) Mathematics
18 104 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
19 103 (19.36%) ETL
20 101 (18.98%) Java
21 100 (18.80%) DevOps
22 99 (18.61%) Platform Engineering
22 99 (18.61%) Data Warehouse
23 98 (18.42%) Financial Institution
23 98 (18.42%) QA
24 97 (18.23%) Python
25 95 (17.86%) GCP
26 87 (16.35%) Line Management

Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 37 (6.95%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.13%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.19%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 193 (36.28%) AWS
2 131 (24.62%) Azure
3 95 (17.86%) GCP
4 78 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (5.45%) Power Platform
6 23 (4.32%) Serverless
7 22 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (3.20%) Amazon S3
9 15 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (2.44%) SaaS
11 9 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
11 9 (1.69%) dbt
11 9 (1.69%) Snowflake
12 7 (1.32%) Azure Stack
12 7 (1.32%) OCI
13 6 (1.13%) PaaS
14 5 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (0.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.94%) 5G
1 5 (0.94%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (0.75%) Firewall
3 3 (0.56%) Network Security
4 2 (0.38%) SMS
5 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (18.61%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (14.10%) NoSQL
3 74 (13.91%) Looker
4 72 (13.53%) BigQuery
5 40 (7.52%) Big Data
6 29 (5.45%) Power BI
7 15 (2.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.69%) Tableau
9 6 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.75%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.56%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.56%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.38%) Flink
12 2 (0.38%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.38%) OLAP
12 2 (0.38%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (1.88%) Git
2 6 (1.13%) GitLab
3 5 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.56%) JIRA
5 2 (0.38%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.19%) NUnit
6 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.19%) Selenium
6 1 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 171 (32.14%) Finance
2 141 (26.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 141 (26.50%) Law
3 118 (22.18%) Marketing
4 107 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (18.42%) Financial Institution
6 72 (13.53%) Billing
7 50 (9.40%) Social Skills
8 41 (7.71%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (4.32%) Banking
10 20 (3.76%) Investment Banking
11 12 (2.26%) Front Office
12 10 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.69%) Electronics
14 7 (1.32%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.32%) Retail
15 6 (1.13%) Arabic Language
15 6 (1.13%) French Language
15 6 (1.13%) German Language
15 6 (1.13%) Polish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.33%) .NET
2 34 (6.39%) NumPy
2 34 (6.39%) Pandas
2 34 (6.39%) Spring
2 34 (6.39%) Spring Boot
3 31 (5.83%) React
3 31 (5.83%) RESTful
4 14 (2.63%) .NET Core
5 13 (2.44%) Node.js
6 10 (1.88%) .NET Framework
7 9 (1.69%) Unity DI Container
8 5 (0.94%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.56%) Django
9 3 (0.56%) Kafka
9 3 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.56%) Visualforce
10 2 (0.38%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.38%) React Native
11 1 (0.19%) Swagger
11 1 (0.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 110 (20.68%) Cloud Native
2 75 (14.10%) Product Ownership
3 34 (6.39%) Market Risk
4 31 (5.83%) Distributed Applications
5 21 (3.95%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.20%) Robotics
7 9 (1.69%) Blog
7 9 (1.69%) Hedge funds
7 9 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.69%) Private Cloud
8 8 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.50%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.94%) Derivative
10 5 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.94%) N-Tier
11 4 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.75%) IoT
11 4 (0.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.94%) Windows
2 4 (0.75%) Linux
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (48.12%) Agile
2 242 (45.49%) Software Engineering
3 200 (37.59%) CI/CD
4 140 (26.32%) Data Engineering
5 131 (24.62%) Project Management
6 126 (23.68%) Computer Science
7 124 (23.31%) Scrum
8 121 (22.74%) Coaching
9 112 (21.05%) SDLC
10 106 (19.92%) Mathematics
11 104 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
12 103 (19.36%) ETL
13 100 (18.80%) DevOps
14 99 (18.61%) Platform Engineering
15 87 (16.35%) Line Management
16 85 (15.98%) Data Modelling
17 83 (15.60%) Analytics
18 75 (14.10%) Business Strategy
18 75 (14.10%) Continuous Delivery
19 72 (13.53%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (22.93%) SQL
2 101 (18.98%) Java
3 97 (18.23%) Python
4 36 (6.77%) Scala
5 23 (4.32%) C#
5 23 (4.32%) TypeScript
6 18 (3.38%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.32%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.75%) C++
8 4 (0.75%) Go
8 4 (0.75%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.56%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.56%) PHP
9 3 (0.56%) Rust
10 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.19%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 60 (11.28%) Degree
2 20 (3.76%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.01%) DBS Check
4 10 (1.88%) Master's Degree
4 10 (1.88%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.75%) CCSP
7 4 (0.75%) CISSP
7 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.75%) PMP
8 3 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.56%) CCSK
8 3 (0.56%) HNC
8 3 (0.56%) HND
9 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.19%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (18.42%) QA
2 8 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.94%) NIST
3 5 (0.94%) PMO
4 4 (0.75%) NIST 800
5 3 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (2.07%) Docker
2 5 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (3.38%) Terraform
2 16 (3.01%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Argo
4 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 85 (15.98%) Google
2 51 (9.59%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.69%) Salesforce
4 8 (1.50%) Databricks
5 7 (1.32%) Oracle
6 5 (0.94%) Bloomberg
7 4 (0.75%) ANSYS
7 4 (0.75%) CA
8 2 (0.38%) Brio
8 2 (0.38%) Charles River
8 2 (0.38%) EMC
9 1 (0.19%) Cisco
9 1 (0.19%) ESRI
9 1 (0.19%) Informatica
9 1 (0.19%) OpenLink