Engineering Manager
UK

The median Engineering Manager salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 482 619
Rank change year-on-year +94 +137 -8
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 645 612 740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.58% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.63% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 273 304 500
10th Percentile £57,827 £62,500 £73,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -12.20% +13.89%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £125,625
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,693 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% -16.22% +32.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 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 +121 478 £70,000 -9.68% 166
England +10 393 £82,500 -13.16% 208
Scotland +75 225 £70,000 -6.67% 16
London +3 144 £100,000 -4.76% 57
Work from Home -10 143 £72,500 -27.50% 84
South East -16 86 £67,500 -10.00% 46
South West +32 68 £82,500 +13.79% 25
North of England +33 54 £80,000 -15.79% 36
Midlands +43 39 £70,000 -6.67% 26
North West +6 29 £82,500 -13.16% 21
West Midlands +45 25 £67,500 -10.00% 19
Yorkshire +71 19 £82,500 -21.43% 13
East Midlands -3 14 £70,000 -5.08% 7
North East - 6 £70,000 - 3
Northern Ireland +24 4 £67,500 +22.73% 1
East of England +17 2 £120,000 +71.43% 18

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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.

1 381 (59.07%) Agile
2 344 (53.33%) Software Engineering
3 269 (41.71%) CI/CD
4 247 (38.29%) Finance
5 215 (33.33%) AWS
6 207 (32.09%) Law
7 201 (31.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 186 (28.84%) SDLC
9 178 (27.60%) Computer Science
10 177 (27.44%) Marketing
10 177 (27.44%) SQL
11 162 (25.12%) Financial Institution
11 162 (25.12%) Project Management
12 160 (24.81%) Cloud Native
13 155 (24.03%) Data Engineering
14 152 (23.57%) Mathematics
15 150 (23.26%) Coaching
16 148 (22.95%) Java
17 139 (21.55%) Scrum
17 139 (21.55%) Azure
18 130 (20.16%) Continuous Delivery
19 124 (19.22%) Problem-Solving
20 121 (18.76%) Python
21 120 (18.60%) QA
22 115 (17.83%) Mentoring
23 113 (17.52%) NoSQL
24 112 (17.36%) DevOps
25 108 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
26 105 (16.28%) Analytics
27 100 (15.50%) 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 63 (9.77%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.62%) Apache
2 4 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.16%) CMS
4 1 (0.16%) Drupal
4 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Endur
2 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 215 (33.33%) AWS
2 139 (21.55%) Azure
3 98 (15.19%) GCP
4 78 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (4.50%) Power Platform
6 27 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (2.95%) Serverless
8 18 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (2.64%) SaaS
10 13 (2.02%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.02%) PaaS
11 12 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (1.71%) IaaS
12 11 (1.71%) Snowflake
13 9 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (1.09%) OCI
15 6 (0.93%) Azure Stack
15 6 (0.93%) BlazeMeter
15 6 (0.93%) dbt
16 4 (0.62%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.09%) Network Security
2 5 (0.78%) 5G
2 5 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.78%) Unified Communications
3 4 (0.62%) Firewall
4 2 (0.31%) Broadband
4 2 (0.31%) HTTP
4 2 (0.31%) Internet
4 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (17.52%) NoSQL
2 99 (15.35%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (11.32%) Looker
4 72 (11.16%) BigQuery
5 66 (10.23%) Big Data
6 29 (4.50%) Power BI
7 18 (2.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.40%) Tableau
9 7 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.09%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.93%) OLAP
11 4 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.62%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.47%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.47%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.31%) MySQL
13 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.10%) Jenkins
2 16 (2.48%) GitLab
3 12 (1.86%) JIRA
4 6 (0.93%) Git
4 6 (0.93%) JUnit
5 1 (0.16%) Selenium
5 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 247 (38.29%) Finance
2 207 (32.09%) Law
3 201 (31.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 177 (27.44%) Marketing
5 162 (25.12%) Financial Institution
6 108 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (11.16%) Billing
7 72 (11.16%) Social Skills
8 69 (10.70%) Influencing Skills
9 31 (4.81%) Banking
10 23 (3.57%) Investment Banking
11 17 (2.64%) Manufacturing
12 15 (2.33%) Games
13 7 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.09%) Retail
14 6 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.93%) Private Banking
15 5 (0.78%) Legal
15 5 (0.78%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.84%) NumPy
1 57 (8.84%) Pandas
2 53 (8.22%) Spring
2 53 (8.22%) Spring Boot
3 46 (7.13%) RESTful
4 38 (5.89%) .NET
5 29 (4.50%) React
6 12 (1.86%) Node.js
7 10 (1.55%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.24%) REST
8 8 (1.24%) Web Services
9 6 (0.93%) Middleware
10 5 (0.78%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.62%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.62%) PySpark
11 4 (0.62%) Unity DI Container
12 3 (0.47%) Laravel
13 2 (0.31%) Apache Beam
13 2 (0.31%) Django
13 2 (0.31%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 160 (24.81%) Cloud Native
2 81 (12.56%) Product Ownership
3 57 (8.84%) Market Risk
4 46 (7.13%) Distributed Applications
5 22 (3.41%) Management Information System
6 20 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.10%) Robotics
7 16 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.09%) Operational Technology
11 6 (0.93%) IoT
12 5 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.78%) Digital Signage
12 5 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.78%) RISC-V
12 5 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.62%) Blog
13 4 (0.62%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.55%) Linux
2 4 (0.62%) Windows
3 3 (0.47%) Android
3 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (59.07%) Agile
2 344 (53.33%) Software Engineering
3 269 (41.71%) CI/CD
4 186 (28.84%) SDLC
5 178 (27.60%) Computer Science
6 162 (25.12%) Project Management
7 155 (24.03%) Data Engineering
8 152 (23.57%) Mathematics
9 150 (23.26%) Coaching
10 139 (21.55%) Scrum
11 130 (20.16%) Continuous Delivery
12 124 (19.22%) Problem-Solving
13 115 (17.83%) Mentoring
14 112 (17.36%) DevOps
15 105 (16.28%) Analytics
16 100 (15.50%) Line Management
17 95 (14.73%) ETL
17 95 (14.73%) Platform Engineering
18 90 (13.95%) Data Modelling
19 77 (11.94%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 177 (27.44%) SQL
2 148 (22.95%) Java
3 121 (18.76%) Python
4 55 (8.53%) Scala
5 22 (3.41%) C#
6 20 (3.10%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.24%) C++
8 8 (1.24%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.93%) C
9 6 (0.93%) Go
10 5 (0.78%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.47%) PHP
11 3 (0.47%) Ruby
11 3 (0.47%) Rust
11 3 (0.47%) Solidity
11 3 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.47%) VB
12 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 59 (9.15%) Degree
2 31 (4.81%) Security Cleared
3 21 (3.26%) SC Cleared
4 18 (2.79%) DBS Check
5 12 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.71%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (0.78%) PMP
8 4 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (0.62%) CCSP
8 4 (0.62%) CISSP
9 3 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.47%) CCSK
9 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.31%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.31%) PhD
11 1 (0.16%) CCNP
11 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (18.60%) QA
2 14 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.55%) NIST
4 7 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.93%) COBIT
6 5 (0.78%) PMO
7 4 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.62%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (2.02%) Docker
2 11 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.62%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.31%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 15 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.71%) Terraform
3 9 (1.40%) Ansible
4 6 (0.93%) Grafana
5 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.31%) Argo
6 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 92 (14.26%) Google
2 55 (8.53%) Microsoft
3 16 (2.48%) Oracle
4 14 (2.17%) Databricks
5 7 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 6 (0.93%) Cisco
6 6 (0.93%) Dynatrace
6 6 (0.93%) Splunk
7 4 (0.62%) CA
8 3 (0.47%) OpenLink
8 3 (0.47%) Sybase
8 3 (0.47%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.31%) Brio
10 1 (0.16%) ESRI
10 1 (0.16%) NVIDIA