Engineering Manager Jobs

Engineering Manager
UK

The median Engineering Manager salary in the UK is £61,967 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 418 554
Rank change year-on-year +234 +136 +36
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 972 635 405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 0.58% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 0.61% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 357 277 245
10th Percentile - £55,000 £62,000
25th Percentile £7,000 £63,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,967 £75,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £97,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £117,500 £139,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £7,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -90.00% -9.68% -16.22%

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 50,392 104,452 83,953
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.93% 94.78% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 26,539 73,677 54,805
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £38,603 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%

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 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Engineering Manager in the UK

Engineering Manager
Top 16 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 14 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
England +321 857 £61,967 -20.04% 491
UK excluding London +207 753 £7,000 -90.00% 287
North of England +222 306 £7,000 -90.97% 74
Work from Home +218 243 £85,000 +21.43% 232
North West +165 242 £7,000 -91.52% 53
South East +174 187 £75,000 +15.38% 102
London +106 130 £97,500 -3.70% 272
Scotland +5 68 £75,000 +0.67% 29
Midlands +105 62 £72,500 +7.41% 27
Yorkshire +104 57 £75,000 -6.25% 19
South West +101 56 £80,000 +6.67% 21
East of England +89 45 - - 14
East Midlands +83 40 £71,250 - 16
Wales - 29 £70,000 - 16
West Midlands +61 22 £75,000 +11.11% 10
North East +52 7 £67,500 -3.57% 2

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 627 (64.51%) BPSS Clearance
2 444 (45.68%) Degree
3 308 (31.69%) Validation
4 291 (29.94%) Systems Engineering
5 261 (26.85%) Social Skills
6 255 (26.23%) Mentoring
7 251 (25.82%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 251 (25.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 242 (24.90%) Change Management
9 229 (23.56%) Verification and Validation
10 227 (23.35%) Software Engineering
11 224 (23.05%) Computer Science
12 199 (20.47%) Roadmaps
13 197 (20.27%) Project Management
14 190 (19.55%) Requirements Management
14 190 (19.55%) Rational DOORS
15 187 (19.24%) Management Information System
16 174 (17.90%) Broadband
16 174 (17.90%) Computer Science Degree
17 135 (13.89%) Chartered Engineer
18 119 (12.24%) Finance
19 110 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
20 100 (10.29%) Product Ownership
21 99 (10.19%) High Availability
22 98 (10.08%) Product Management
23 93 (9.57%) Broadcast Engineering
23 93 (9.57%) Software Delivery
24 87 (8.95%) CISSP
25 86 (8.85%) Information Security
26 84 (8.64%) Master's Degree

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 2 (0.21%) Confluence
1 2 (0.21%) IIS
2 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.10%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 53 (5.45%) AWS
2 42 (4.32%) Azure
3 18 (1.85%) GCP
4 14 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (1.44%) SaaS
5 12 (1.23%) Serverless
6 5 (0.51%) dbt
6 5 (0.51%) Snowflake
7 4 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (0.41%) Matillion
8 3 (0.31%) Azure API Management
8 3 (0.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (0.31%) GitHub
8 3 (0.31%) PaaS
8 3 (0.31%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.21%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.21%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.21%) IaaS
9 2 (0.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 174 (17.90%) Broadband
2 1 (0.10%) 3G
2 1 (0.10%) GPRS
2 1 (0.10%) Internet
2 1 (0.10%) LTE
2 1 (0.10%) Modbus
2 1 (0.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (0.51%) MySQL
3 4 (0.41%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.31%) CockroachDB
4 3 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.31%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.21%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.21%) Looker
5 2 (0.21%) Power BI
5 2 (0.21%) Tableau
6 1 (0.10%) Big Data
6 1 (0.10%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.10%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.10%) OLAP
6 1 (0.10%) OLTP
6 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 190 (19.55%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (0.93%) GitLab
2 9 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
2 9 (0.93%) TeamCity
3 4 (0.41%) JIRA
4 3 (0.31%) Git
4 3 (0.31%) Vite
4 3 (0.31%) webpack
5 2 (0.21%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.10%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
General
1 261 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 119 (12.24%) Finance
3 82 (8.44%) Games
4 36 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 23 (2.37%) Retail
6 20 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.95%) Aerospace
7 19 (1.95%) Banking
8 17 (1.75%) Automotive
9 12 (1.23%) Law
10 9 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (0.93%) Marketing
11 6 (0.62%) Front Office
12 4 (0.41%) Electronics
12 4 (0.41%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.21%) Retail Finance
15 1 (0.10%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.10%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.22%) .NET
2 26 (2.67%) React
3 18 (1.85%) .NET Core
4 11 (1.13%) Kafka
5 10 (1.03%) AngularJS
5 10 (1.03%) CSS
5 10 (1.03%) HTML
6 8 (0.82%) React Native
7 7 (0.72%) ASP.NET
7 7 (0.72%) Spring
7 7 (0.72%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.62%) REST
9 5 (0.51%) Node.js
9 5 (0.51%) Vue
10 4 (0.41%) CSS3
10 4 (0.41%) Django
10 4 (0.41%) HTML5
10 4 (0.41%) jQuery
11 3 (0.31%) .NET Framework
12 2 (0.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 187 (19.24%) Management Information System
2 100 (10.29%) Product Ownership
3 81 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
4 11 (1.13%) Virtual Team
5 7 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (0.62%) Cloud Native
6 6 (0.62%) Derivative
7 5 (0.51%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.41%) Data Centre
8 4 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.41%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.41%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.31%) AS400
9 3 (0.31%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.21%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.21%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.21%) N-Tier
10 2 (0.21%) Over-the-Top Content
10 2 (0.21%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.62%) zOS
2 2 (0.21%) Android
2 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (31.69%) Validation
2 291 (29.94%) Systems Engineering
3 255 (26.23%) Mentoring
4 251 (25.82%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 251 (25.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 242 (24.90%) Change Management
6 229 (23.56%) Verification and Validation
7 227 (23.35%) Software Engineering
8 224 (23.05%) Computer Science
9 199 (20.47%) Roadmaps
10 197 (20.27%) Project Management
11 190 (19.55%) Requirements Management
12 110 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
13 99 (10.19%) High Availability
14 98 (10.08%) Product Management
15 93 (9.57%) Broadcast Engineering
15 93 (9.57%) Software Delivery
16 86 (8.85%) Information Security
17 80 (8.23%) Incident Management
17 80 (8.23%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (3.50%) C#
2 32 (3.29%) Java
2 32 (3.29%) Python
3 24 (2.47%) JavaScript
4 22 (2.26%) SQL
5 9 (0.93%) TypeScript
6 8 (0.82%) PHP
7 3 (0.31%) C
7 3 (0.31%) C++
7 3 (0.31%) Go
7 3 (0.31%) Scala
7 3 (0.31%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.21%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.10%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.10%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.10%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.10%) Swift
Qualifications
1 627 (64.51%) BPSS Clearance
2 444 (45.68%) Degree
3 174 (17.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 135 (13.89%) Chartered Engineer
5 87 (8.95%) CISSP
6 84 (8.64%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.62%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.41%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.41%) Security Cleared
9 3 (0.31%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.31%) PMP
10 2 (0.21%) CISA
10 2 (0.21%) CISM
10 2 (0.21%) CRISC
10 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.10%) OCP
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.75%) DO-254
2 16 (1.65%) IEC 61508
3 10 (1.03%) QA
4 6 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.41%) SLA
7 3 (0.31%) GDPR
7 3 (0.31%) WCAG
8 2 (0.21%) AQAP
8 2 (0.21%) COBIT
8 2 (0.21%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.21%) GRC
8 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.21%) NIST
8 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.10%) Def Stans
System Software
1 17 (1.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (2.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.31%) Terraform
3 1 (0.10%) Ansible
3 1 (0.10%) Grafana
Vendors
1 79 (8.13%) ServiceNow
2 13 (1.34%) Microsoft
3 12 (1.23%) Databricks
4 6 (0.62%) IBM
4 6 (0.62%) Salesforce
5 5 (0.51%) Oracle
6 4 (0.41%) Informatica
6 4 (0.41%) SAP
7 3 (0.31%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.21%) Google
9 1 (0.10%) Aderant
9 1 (0.10%) Facebook
9 1 (0.10%) Intapp
9 1 (0.10%) NEC
9 1 (0.10%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.10%) Splunk
9 1 (0.10%) VMware
9 1 (0.10%) Xilinx