Head of Engineering Jobs in England

Head of Engineering
UK > England

The median Head of Engineering salary in England is £102,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 757 811 944
Rank change year-on-year +54 +133 -264
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 80 129 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 70 104 174
10th Percentile £80,000 £87,375 £71,200
25th Percentile £86,875 £105,000 £85,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £125,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £141,875 £138,073 £125,000
90th Percentile £155,665 £150,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £107,500 £123,750 £100,000
% change year-on-year -13.13% +23.75% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,754 84,293 127,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.52% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,385 53,462 75,679
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Head of Engineering in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in England

Head of Engineering
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Head of Engineering in England.

Salary trend for Head of Engineering in England

Head of Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Engineering in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Head of Engineering in England

Head of Engineering
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London +77 43 £112,500 -13.46% 23
North of England +50 11 £102,500 -16.33% 4
South East +23 11 £85,000 -8.11% 11
Midlands +18 6 £97,500 -2.50% 6
North West +9 6 £102,500 -16.33% 3
West Midlands - 5 £97,500 - 4
East of England +20 4 £170,000 - 6
South West -34 4 £149,601 +61.73% 5
Yorkshire +98 3 £105,000 - 1
North East - 2 £80,000 -
East Midlands -15 1 - - 2
Head of Engineering
UK

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Head of Engineering 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 across the England region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 34 (42.50%) Data Engineering
2 29 (36.25%) Finance
2 29 (36.25%) Agile
3 26 (32.50%) Software Engineering
4 25 (31.25%) Python
4 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
5 24 (30.00%) Azure
6 23 (28.75%) Computer Science
7 22 (27.50%) SQL
7 22 (27.50%) Roadmaps
8 21 (26.25%) Degree
8 21 (26.25%) AWS
9 19 (23.75%) Data Strategy
10 17 (21.25%) GCP
10 17 (21.25%) CI/CD
11 16 (20.00%) Cloud Native
11 16 (20.00%) Data Governance
11 16 (20.00%) Analytics
12 14 (17.50%) Mentoring
12 14 (17.50%) QA
12 14 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (17.50%) Data Management
12 14 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (16.25%) Master's Degree
13 13 (16.25%) Decision-Making
13 13 (16.25%) BigQuery
13 13 (16.25%) Data Modelling
14 12 (15.00%) Banking
14 12 (15.00%) Docker
14 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 24 (30.00%) Azure
2 21 (26.25%) AWS
3 17 (21.25%) GCP
4 11 (13.75%) SaaS
5 10 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
6 5 (6.25%) dbt
6 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.00%) Heroku
7 4 (5.00%) Serverless
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.50%) GitHub
8 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.50%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.25%) AWS IoT
9 1 (1.25%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) GSM
1 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) BigQuery
2 10 (12.50%) Power BI
2 10 (12.50%) Tableau
3 7 (8.75%) Big Data
3 7 (8.75%) Data Lake
3 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.50%) Flink
4 6 (7.50%) Hadoop
4 6 (7.50%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.25%) Looker
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) GitLab
1 7 (8.75%) JIRA
2 5 (6.25%) Git
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (36.25%) Finance
2 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.00%) Banking
4 5 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 5 (6.25%) Marketing
5 4 (5.00%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.25%) Electronics
6 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.25%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) .NET
1 6 (7.50%) Apache Beam
2 5 (6.25%) Kafka
2 5 (6.25%) Laravel
2 5 (6.25%) Node.js
2 5 (6.25%) React
3 4 (5.00%) Smart Contracts
3 4 (5.00%) Web Services
4 3 (3.75%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.50%) PySpark
5 2 (2.50%) Spring
6 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.25%) CSS
6 1 (1.25%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.25%) HTML
6 1 (1.25%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 7 (8.75%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (8.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (7.50%) Algorithms
5 5 (6.25%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.25%) Hedge funds
5 5 (6.25%) Mainframe
5 5 (6.25%) Taxonomies
6 4 (5.00%) Blockchain
6 4 (5.00%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.50%) PropTech
8 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.25%) Housing Association
8 1 (1.25%) IoT
8 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (42.50%) Data Engineering
2 29 (36.25%) Agile
3 26 (32.50%) Software Engineering
4 23 (28.75%) Computer Science
5 22 (27.50%) Roadmaps
6 19 (23.75%) Data Strategy
7 17 (21.25%) CI/CD
8 16 (20.00%) Analytics
8 16 (20.00%) Data Governance
9 14 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (17.50%) Data Management
9 14 (17.50%) Mentoring
9 14 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (16.25%) Data Modelling
10 13 (16.25%) Decision-Making
11 12 (15.00%) Thought Leadership
12 11 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (13.75%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
13 10 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.25%) Python
2 22 (27.50%) SQL
3 11 (13.75%) Java
4 7 (8.75%) C#
5 6 (7.50%) PHP
5 6 (7.50%) Scala
6 5 (6.25%) Go
6 5 (6.25%) Perl
6 5 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.50%) C
9 1 (1.25%) Ada
9 1 (1.25%) C++
9 1 (1.25%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.25%) Rust
9 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (26.25%) Degree
2 13 (16.25%) Master's Degree
3 12 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.25%) MBA
4 5 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.50%) QA
2 6 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 6 (7.50%) GDPR
3 5 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (13.75%) Teradata
2 6 (7.50%) Databricks
2 6 (7.50%) Google
2 6 (7.50%) Oracle
3 5 (6.25%) Citrix
3 5 (6.25%) VMware
4 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.25%) EMC