Head of Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Head of Engineering
North West > Manchester

The median Head of Engineering salary in Manchester 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 206 232 253
Rank change year-on-year +26 +21 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 6 10 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.12% 0.20% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.22% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £93,750 £112,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £125,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +56.25% -13.51%
75th Percentile £111,250 £137,500 £85,000
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £102,500 £122,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -16.33% +36.11% -2.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 4,862 4,546 5,471
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 91.58% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,754 2,667 3,671
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,143 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in Manchester

Head of Engineering
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Head of Engineering in Manchester

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

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 Manchester region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Perl
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
1 5 (83.33%) Mainframe
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Teradata
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Data Management
1 5 (83.33%) Google
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) Visualisation
1 5 (83.33%) Confluence
1 5 (83.33%) Data Visualisation
1 5 (83.33%) Tableau
1 5 (83.33%) Data Governance
1 5 (83.33%) Analytics
1 5 (83.33%) Data Transformation
1 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
1 5 (83.33%) BigQuery
1 5 (83.33%) GCP
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
1 5 (83.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (83.33%) Data Engineering
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (83.33%) Looker
1 5 (83.33%) Apache Airflow

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (83.33%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (83.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Composer
1 5 (83.33%) dbt
1 5 (83.33%) GCP
1 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) BigQuery
1 5 (83.33%) Looker
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
1 5 (83.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (83.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (83.33%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Analytics
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Data Engineering
1 5 (83.33%) Data Governance
1 5 (83.33%) Data Management
1 5 (83.33%) Data Strategy
1 5 (83.33%) Data Transformation
1 5 (83.33%) Data Visualisation
1 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
1 5 (83.33%) Thought Leadership
1 5 (83.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Perl
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
1 5 (83.33%) Teradata