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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 547 599
Rank change year-on-year +153 +52 +41
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Manager 659 495 805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.49% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.53% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 273 273 520
10th Percentile £57,500 £62,000 £72,375
25th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £101,250
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -6.17% +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £137,500 £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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 9 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 9 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 +196 495 £70,000 -9.68% 161
England +56 393 £83,750 -11.84% 199
Scotland +95 239 £70,000 -6.67% 15
London 0 141 £100,000 -4.76% 49
Work from Home +40 140 £70,000 -30.00% 70
South East +3 88 £65,000 -13.33% 43
South West +32 70 £75,000 +3.45% 23
North of England +51 54 £82,500 -17.50% 42
Midlands +14 38 £70,000 -9.68% 27
North West +22 31 £82,500 -19.51% 27
West Midlands +25 26 £70,000 -8.79% 22
Yorkshire +75 18 £82,500 -21.43% 10
East Midlands -5 12 £70,000 -9.68% 5
North East 0 5 £70,000 +7.69% 6
Northern Ireland +30 4 £67,500 +22.73% 2
East of England +7 2 £120,000 +77.78% 17

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 (57.81%) Agile
2 355 (53.87%) Software Engineering
3 273 (41.43%) CI/CD
4 254 (38.54%) Finance
5 223 (33.84%) AWS
6 221 (33.54%) Law
7 215 (32.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 192 (29.14%) SDLC
9 188 (28.53%) Computer Science
10 185 (28.07%) Marketing
11 181 (27.47%) SQL
12 168 (25.49%) Financial Institution
13 167 (25.34%) Cloud Native
14 163 (24.73%) Mathematics
15 161 (24.43%) Coaching
16 156 (23.67%) Data Engineering
17 155 (23.52%) Project Management
18 153 (23.22%) Java
19 140 (21.24%) Azure
20 139 (21.09%) Scrum
21 133 (20.18%) Continuous Delivery
22 132 (20.03%) Python
23 122 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
24 119 (18.06%) NoSQL
25 118 (17.91%) QA
26 117 (17.75%) Mentoring
27 113 (17.15%) DevOps
28 111 (16.84%) Analytics
29 107 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
30 102 (15.48%) 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 (9.71%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.61%) Apache
3 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) CMS
4 1 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Endur
2 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 223 (33.84%) AWS
2 140 (21.24%) Azure
3 98 (14.87%) GCP
4 78 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (3.95%) Power Platform
7 23 (3.49%) Serverless
8 18 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (2.43%) Amazon S3
9 16 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (2.43%) SaaS
10 13 (1.97%) PaaS
11 11 (1.67%) IaaS
11 11 (1.67%) Snowflake
12 9 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.06%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (1.06%) Azure Stack
13 7 (1.06%) OCI
14 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
1 119 (18.06%) NoSQL
2 99 (15.02%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (11.08%) Looker
4 72 (10.93%) BigQuery
5 66 (10.02%) Big Data
6 26 (3.95%) Power BI
7 18 (2.73%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.37%) Tableau
9 7 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.06%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.91%) OLAP
11 5 (0.76%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.46%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.30%) MySQL
14 2 (0.30%) Redis
14 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 16 (2.43%) GitLab
3 12 (1.82%) JIRA
4 9 (1.37%) Git
5 6 (0.91%) JUnit
6 1 (0.15%) NUnit
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 254 (38.54%) Finance
2 221 (33.54%) Law
3 215 (32.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 185 (28.07%) Marketing
5 168 (25.49%) Financial Institution
6 107 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (10.93%) Billing
8 67 (10.17%) Influencing Skills
9 66 (10.02%) Social Skills
10 36 (5.46%) Banking
11 28 (4.25%) Investment Banking
12 17 (2.58%) Manufacturing
13 15 (2.28%) Games
14 8 (1.21%) Front Office
15 7 (1.06%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.06%) Retail
16 6 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.91%) Private Banking
17 5 (0.76%) Public Sector
17 5 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.95%) NumPy
1 59 (8.95%) Pandas
2 56 (8.50%) Spring
2 56 (8.50%) Spring Boot
3 49 (7.44%) RESTful
4 44 (6.68%) .NET
5 33 (5.01%) React
6 13 (1.97%) .NET Core
6 13 (1.97%) Node.js
7 8 (1.21%) .NET Framework
7 8 (1.21%) REST
7 8 (1.21%) Web Services
8 7 (1.06%) Unity DI Container
9 6 (0.91%) Middleware
10 5 (0.76%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.61%) PySpark
12 3 (0.46%) CSS
12 3 (0.46%) Django
12 3 (0.46%) HTML
12 3 (0.46%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 167 (25.34%) Cloud Native
2 81 (12.29%) Product Ownership
3 59 (8.95%) Market Risk
4 49 (7.44%) Distributed Applications
5 22 (3.34%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.58%) Robotics
7 14 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.12%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.06%) Blog
10 7 (1.06%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.06%) IoT
10 7 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.06%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.06%) Private Cloud
11 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (0.76%) RISC-V
11 5 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.37%) Linux
2 4 (0.61%) Windows
3 2 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (57.81%) Agile
2 355 (53.87%) Software Engineering
3 273 (41.43%) CI/CD
4 192 (29.14%) SDLC
5 188 (28.53%) Computer Science
6 163 (24.73%) Mathematics
7 161 (24.43%) Coaching
8 156 (23.67%) Data Engineering
9 155 (23.52%) Project Management
10 139 (21.09%) Scrum
11 133 (20.18%) Continuous Delivery
12 122 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
13 117 (17.75%) Mentoring
14 113 (17.15%) DevOps
15 111 (16.84%) Analytics
16 102 (15.48%) Line Management
17 96 (14.57%) ETL
18 95 (14.42%) Platform Engineering
19 91 (13.81%) Data Modelling
20 77 (11.68%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 181 (27.47%) SQL
2 153 (23.22%) Java
3 132 (20.03%) Python
4 56 (8.50%) Scala
5 28 (4.25%) C#
6 25 (3.79%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.88%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.21%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.06%) C++
9 7 (1.06%) Go
10 5 (0.76%) C
10 5 (0.76%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.61%) PHP
11 4 (0.61%) Rust
12 3 (0.46%) Solidity
12 3 (0.46%) VB
13 2 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.30%) Ruby
13 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 54 (8.19%) Degree
2 31 (4.70%) Security Cleared
3 19 (2.88%) SC Cleared
4 18 (2.73%) 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 (17.91%) QA
2 13 (1.97%) 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%) Accessibility
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 (2.12%) 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 92 (13.96%) Google
2 51 (7.74%) Microsoft
3 16 (2.43%) Oracle
4 14 (2.12%) 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%) CA
7 4 (0.61%) OpenLink
8 3 (0.46%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.46%) Sybase
8 3 (0.46%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.30%) Brio
10 1 (0.15%) ESRI
10 1 (0.15%) NVIDIA