Engineering Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Engineering Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 389 483
Rank change year-on-year +29 +94 -45
Contract jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 18 46 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.20% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.21% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 18
10th Percentile £501 £522 £502
25th Percentile £501 £550 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £631
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.95% +44.29%
75th Percentile £800 £738 £659
90th Percentile £850 £765 £679
UK median daily rate £656 £628 £700
% change year-on-year +4.58% -10.36% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £52.50 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £62.34 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,835 21,601 29,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.28% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,498 15,031 20,385
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,097 1,445
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.72 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.64 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Engineering Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Engineering Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +13 6 - - 12
South East +11 6 £501 -25.78% 40
South West +15 5 £800 +23.08% 21
North of England +7 1 £550 - 40
Yorkshire +2 1 £550 - 12
Engineering Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Engineering Manager contract 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 contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 10 (55.56%) Pharmaceutical
2 8 (44.44%) Configuration Management
2 8 (44.44%) Project Management
3 7 (38.89%) Risk Management
3 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
4 6 (33.33%) Compliance Management
4 6 (33.33%) Electronics
4 6 (33.33%) Aerospace
4 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (33.33%) Earned Value Management
5 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
5 4 (22.22%) Change Control
6 3 (16.67%) AWS
6 3 (16.67%) Military
6 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 2 (11.11%) Agile
7 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Facilities Management
7 2 (11.11%) Finance
7 2 (11.11%) Java
7 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (11.11%) SQL
7 2 (11.11%) Python
7 2 (11.11%) Azure
7 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
8 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (5.56%) Vue
8 1 (5.56%) Contingency Planning
8 1 (5.56%) PMO

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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
General
1 10 (55.56%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 6 (33.33%) Electronics
3 3 (16.67%) Military
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Aviation
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Node.js
1 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Configuration Management
1 8 (44.44%) Project Management
2 7 (38.89%) Risk Management
3 6 (33.33%) Compliance Management
3 6 (33.33%) Earned Value Management
3 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (22.22%) Change Control
5 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Facilities Management
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.56%) Contingency Planning
7 1 (5.56%) Performance Management
7 1 (5.56%) Predictive Analytics
7 1 (5.56%) Resource Management
7 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (5.56%) Statistics
7 1 (5.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Java
1 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.11%) Python
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) C
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) C++
2 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft