Engineering and manufacturing
Engineering project manager jobs
Taking an engineering project from design to commissioning, and owning the cost and programme on the way.
£53,064 median full-time pay, UK, ONS 2025
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What engineering project manager jobs pay
Median full-time pay for engineering project managers and project engineers was £53,064 across the UK in 2025. Full-time work of every kind had a median of £39,039, so this occupation sits about 1.4 times that. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it describes the occupation nationally rather than any advert on this page.
That figure is the reason this role is on the board. Every role here has a published ONS median full-time salary at or above £50,000, and it is checked against the ONS table each time the site is built rather than asserted in the copy. A role that stopped clearing it would stop the build.
Pay varies more by region than most people expect. ONS publishes it for groups of related occupations rather than single job titles, so the table beside this covers civil, mechanical, electrical, electronics, design and production engineers, and engineering project managers, not engineering project manager jobs alone.
Median full-time pay by region, 2025
| Region | Median full-time pay |
|---|---|
| London | £58,034 |
| South East | £52,903 |
| East of England | £52,125 |
| South West | £48,793 |
| West Midlands | £50,043 |
| East Midlands | £47,366 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | £46,664 |
| North West | £50,959 |
| North East | £45,691 |
| Wales | £44,240 |
| Scotland | £52,387 |
What the local data covers
Adding up the published local figures across the 175 areas with data gives 383,044 people in work in this occupation group at the 2021 census. The middle area records 1,440. That is arithmetic over local releases, not a national statistic, and areas the publisher withholds are simply absent from it.
The largest are Hampshire at 11,941, Lancashire at 9,111, Essex at 8,415, Surrey at 8,334, Hertfordshire at 8,186. Coverage runs across 10 regions of England and Wales.
Census counts follow where people live, not where the jobs are, and they are not a count of vacancies. The business survey figures on each area page count employee jobs located in that area in 2024, which is a different population again. Neither is ever divided by the other.
Engineering project manager: the full picture
Different from a general project manager
The technical content is not delegable. You have to be able to read a design, understand what a change does to the rest of the system, and tell when a supplier is describing a problem or excusing one. A generalist who cannot do that becomes a reporting function.
Commissioning is where engineering projects are won and lost, and it is the phase least visible in the plan. Time spent understanding it early pays back more than anything else in the schedule.
Chartership, and whether you need it
Chartered status through IMechE, IET, ICE or another institution is asked for in some sectors and ignored in others. It carries most weight in infrastructure, energy and anything safety-critical, and least in fast-moving manufacturing.
If you are working towards it, project management experience counts towards the competences. Many engineers assume it does not and delay an application for years on that mistaken basis.
Before you apply
- An engineering degree or equivalent, plus delivery experience
- Chartered status helps and is not always required
- Right to work in the UK
Engineering project manager jobs: common questions
Does engineering project manager work pay more than £50,000 a year?
On the national figures, yes, and that is why the role is on this board at all. Median full-time pay for engineering project managers and project engineers was £53,064 across the UK in 2025, against £39,039 for full-time work of every kind. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it says nothing about what any individual advert pays.
What qualifications do I need to work as a engineering project manager?
An engineering degree or equivalent, plus delivery experience. Chartered status helps and is not always required. Right to work in the UK.
Where does AboveMedian have local figures for engineering project manager jobs?
In 175 county and unitary areas across England and Wales, from the 2021 census. Scotland ran a separate census in 2022 through National Records of Scotland which is not published in the same place, so Scottish areas have no local figure. Adverts themselves are UK wide.
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