Engineering management jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-11-05, Engineering management appears in 352 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Engineering Manager has the most postings mentioning Engineering management, with demand share down 12.1% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-11-05
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Frequently asked questions about Engineering management
+Is Engineering management in demand in 2026?
Yes. Engineering management appears in 352 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-11-05. Engineering Manager accounts for the most postings mentioning Engineering management (67.9% of all postings mentioning Engineering management).
+What jobs require Engineering management?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-11-05, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning Engineering management are Machine Learning Engineering Manager (8.2% of that role’s postings mention Engineering management), Director of Engineering (7.1% of that role’s postings mention Engineering management), Engineering Manager (5.8% of that role’s postings mention Engineering management).
+What skills are commonly paired with Engineering management?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-11-05), Engineering management most often appears alongside Distributed systems, software engineering, reliability engineering, Hiring, observability.
+Where is Engineering management most in demand?
As of 2026-11-05, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring Engineering management are San Francisco, New York City, London, Toronto, Mountain View, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new Engineering management content and jobs?
Skillenai indexes news, blog posts, and research papers mentioning Engineering management alongside the jobs index. You can subscribe to a daily email digest of new Engineering management content from your Skillenai account.
+Which skills come before and after Engineering management?
The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.
Weekly indexed postings requiring Engineering management — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Career paths around Engineering management
Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.
Historical career profiles · all locations
Skills before Engineering management
Skills after Engineering management
No published outgoing skill pairs yet.
How to read this chart · view counts
Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.
The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.
Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.
| Connection | Moves |
|---|---|
| Before: systems engineering | 1 |
Roles most likely to require Engineering management
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Machine Learning Engineering Manager | 5 | 8.2% |
| Director of Engineering | 15 | 7.1% |
| Engineering Manager | 239 | 5.8% |
| Engineering Director | 11 | 5.0% |
| Product Engineering Manager | 1 | 4.8% |
| Mechanical Engineering Manager | 1 | 2.8% |
| Head of Engineering | 5 | 2.8% |
| Systems Engineering Manager | 2 | 2.4% |
| Project Engineering Manager | 2 | 2.2% |
| Electrical Engineering Manager | 1 | 2.1% |
Roles with the most Engineering management postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering Manager | 239 | 67.9% |
| Technical Program Manager | 17 | 4.8% |
| Director of Engineering | 15 | 4.3% |
| Software Engineering Manager | 12 | 3.4% |
| Engineering Director | 11 | 3.1% |
| Systems Engineer | 6 | 1.7% |
| Head of Engineering | 5 | 1.4% |
| Machine Learning Engineering Manager | 5 | 1.4% |
| Software Engineer | 5 | 1.4% |
| AI Practice Senior Manager | 2 | 0.6% |
Top companies posting jobs requiring Engineering management
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| Stripe | 44 |
| Twilio | 12 |
| Synthesia | 5 |
| Anthropic | 5 |
| Gitlab | 5 |
| Thought Machine | 4 |
| Airbnb | 4 |
| Salesforce | 4 |
| Spotify | 4 |
| Qualys | 4 |
Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.
Top metros hiring for Engineering management
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 23 | 6.5% |
| New York City | 22 | 6.3% |
| London | 11 | 3.1% |
| Toronto | 10 | 2.8% |
| Mountain View | 6 | 1.7% |
| Seattle | 6 | 1.7% |
| Singapore | 5 | 1.4% |
| Berlin | 4 | 1.1% |
| Dublin | 4 | 1.1% |
Skills commonly paired with Engineering management
Explore related pages
- Machine Learning Engineering Manager
- Director of Engineering
- Engineering Manager
- Engineering Director
- Product Engineering Manager
- Mechanical Engineering Manager
- Head of Engineering
- Systems Engineering Manager
- Distributed systems
- software engineering
- reliability engineering
- Hiring
- observability
- software development
- architecture
- operational excellence
How this was computed
Weekly job-count charts omit the incomplete current week (weeks start Monday, UTC). Totals include all postings in the stated window. Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-11-05. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning Engineering management by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s Engineering management postings by all Engineering management postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.2% to 0.2%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,472 identified employers and covers 71% of earlier and 70% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-07-07 to 2026-10-05 and 2026-08-04 to 2026-11-02 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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