Engineering Manager
UK

The median Engineering Manager salary in the UK is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 553 601
Rank change year-on-year +165 +48 +44
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 658 467 833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.47% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.51% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 273 260 531
10th Percentile £57,500 £62,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £95,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £137,750 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% -16.22% +37.04%

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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 17 May 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 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +199 494 £70,000 -9.68% 158
England +65 391 £82,500 -17.50% 178
Scotland +97 241 £70,000 -6.67% 24
London +20 142 £100,000 -9.09% 45
Work from Home +34 139 £70,000 -31.71% 75
South East +15 85 £65,000 -13.33% 42
South West +37 70 £75,000 +1.69% 20
North of England +47 54 £82,500 -21.43% 40
Midlands +17 38 £70,000 -9.68% 21
North West +7 31 £82,500 -25.00% 24
West Midlands +27 26 £70,000 -8.79% 15
Yorkshire +59 18 £82,500 -21.43% 12
East Midlands +1 12 £70,000 -9.68% 6
North East +1 5 £70,000 +7.69% 5
Northern Ireland +25 4 £67,500 +3.85% 1
East of England -2 2 £120,000 +77.78% 15

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 (57.90%) Agile
2 358 (54.41%) Software Engineering
3 275 (41.79%) CI/CD
4 252 (38.30%) Finance
5 225 (34.19%) AWS
6 222 (33.74%) Law
7 216 (32.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 190 (28.88%) SDLC
9 188 (28.57%) Computer Science
10 184 (27.96%) Marketing
11 182 (27.66%) SQL
12 168 (25.53%) Financial Institution
13 167 (25.38%) Cloud Native
14 163 (24.77%) Mathematics
15 162 (24.62%) Coaching
16 156 (23.71%) Data Engineering
17 155 (23.56%) Java
18 150 (22.80%) Project Management
19 141 (21.43%) Scrum
20 140 (21.28%) Azure
21 133 (20.21%) Python
21 133 (20.21%) Continuous Delivery
22 120 (18.24%) NoSQL
23 118 (17.93%) QA
23 118 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
24 116 (17.63%) Mentoring
25 114 (17.33%) DevOps
26 112 (17.02%) Analytics
27 104 (15.81%) Analytical Skills
28 102 (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 64 (9.73%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.61%) Apache
3 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.15%) CMS
5 1 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Endur
2 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 225 (34.19%) AWS
2 140 (21.28%) Azure
3 97 (14.74%) GCP
4 78 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (3.95%) Power Platform
7 24 (3.65%) Serverless
8 18 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (2.58%) Amazon S3
9 17 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (2.43%) SaaS
11 13 (1.98%) PaaS
12 11 (1.67%) IaaS
12 11 (1.67%) Snowflake
13 9 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (1.22%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (1.06%) Azure Stack
15 7 (1.06%) OCI
16 6 (0.91%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.06%) Network Security
2 5 (0.76%) 5G
2 5 (0.76%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.76%) Unified Communications
3 4 (0.61%) Firewall
4 2 (0.30%) Broadband
4 2 (0.30%) HTTP
4 2 (0.30%) Internet
4 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (18.24%) NoSQL
2 99 (15.05%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (11.09%) Looker
4 72 (10.94%) BigQuery
5 66 (10.03%) Big Data
6 26 (3.95%) Power BI
7 18 (2.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (1.37%) Tableau
9 8 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.91%) OLAP
12 4 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.61%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.30%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.04%) Jenkins
2 16 (2.43%) GitLab
3 11 (1.67%) JIRA
4 10 (1.52%) Git
5 6 (0.91%) JUnit
6 1 (0.15%) NUnit
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 252 (38.30%) Finance
2 222 (33.74%) Law
3 216 (32.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 184 (27.96%) Marketing
5 168 (25.53%) Financial Institution
6 104 (15.81%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (10.94%) Billing
8 66 (10.03%) Influencing Skills
9 60 (9.12%) Social Skills
10 36 (5.47%) Banking
11 28 (4.26%) Investment Banking
12 14 (2.13%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.98%) Games
14 9 (1.37%) Front Office
15 7 (1.06%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.06%) Retail
16 6 (0.91%) Private Banking
17 5 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.76%) Public Sector
17 5 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.97%) NumPy
1 59 (8.97%) Pandas
2 57 (8.66%) Spring
2 57 (8.66%) Spring Boot
3 49 (7.45%) RESTful
4 45 (6.84%) .NET
5 35 (5.32%) React
6 14 (2.13%) .NET Core
7 13 (1.98%) Node.js
8 9 (1.37%) .NET Framework
9 8 (1.22%) REST
9 8 (1.22%) Unity DI Container
9 8 (1.22%) Web Services
10 6 (0.91%) Middleware
11 5 (0.76%) AngularJS
12 4 (0.61%) Django
12 4 (0.61%) PySpark
13 3 (0.46%) CSS
13 3 (0.46%) HTML
13 3 (0.46%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 167 (25.38%) Cloud Native
2 81 (12.31%) Product Ownership
3 59 (8.97%) Market Risk
4 49 (7.45%) Distributed Applications
5 22 (3.34%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.43%) Robotics
7 13 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.22%) Blog
9 8 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.22%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.22%) IoT
9 8 (1.22%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.06%) Operational Technology
11 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.76%) Digital Signage
11 5 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (0.76%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.37%) Linux
2 4 (0.61%) Windows
3 2 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Android
4 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (57.90%) Agile
2 358 (54.41%) Software Engineering
3 275 (41.79%) CI/CD
4 190 (28.88%) SDLC
5 188 (28.57%) Computer Science
6 163 (24.77%) Mathematics
7 162 (24.62%) Coaching
8 156 (23.71%) Data Engineering
9 150 (22.80%) Project Management
10 141 (21.43%) Scrum
11 133 (20.21%) Continuous Delivery
12 118 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
13 116 (17.63%) Mentoring
14 114 (17.33%) DevOps
15 112 (17.02%) Analytics
16 102 (15.50%) Line Management
17 97 (14.74%) ETL
18 95 (14.44%) Platform Engineering
19 90 (13.68%) Data Modelling
20 77 (11.70%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 182 (27.66%) SQL
2 155 (23.56%) Java
3 133 (20.21%) Python
4 56 (8.51%) Scala
5 29 (4.41%) C#
6 27 (4.10%) TypeScript
7 21 (3.19%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.22%) Go
8 8 (1.22%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.91%) C++
10 5 (0.76%) C
10 5 (0.76%) Embedded C
10 5 (0.76%) PHP
10 5 (0.76%) Rust
11 3 (0.46%) Solidity
12 2 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.30%) VB
13 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (7.60%) Degree
2 31 (4.71%) Security Cleared
3 19 (2.89%) SC Cleared
4 18 (2.74%) DBS Check
5 11 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (0.76%) PMP
8 4 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (0.61%) CCSP
8 4 (0.61%) CISSP
9 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.46%) CCSK
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.30%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.30%) PhD
11 1 (0.15%) CCNP
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (17.93%) QA
2 13 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.52%) NIST
4 6 (0.91%) COBIT
4 6 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.76%) PMO
6 4 (0.61%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 12 (1.82%) Docker
2 11 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.61%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 14 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.67%) Terraform
3 9 (1.37%) Ansible
4 6 (0.91%) Grafana
5 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
6 2 (0.30%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 91 (13.83%) Google
2 51 (7.75%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.28%) Oracle
4 14 (2.13%) Databricks
5 7 (1.06%) Salesforce
6 6 (0.91%) Cisco
6 6 (0.91%) Dynatrace
6 6 (0.91%) Splunk
7 4 (0.61%) Bloomberg
7 4 (0.61%) CA
8 3 (0.46%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.30%) Brio
9 2 (0.30%) Sybase
9 2 (0.30%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.15%) ESRI
10 1 (0.15%) NVIDIA