Head of Engineering Jobs in the North West

Head of Engineering
England > North West

The median Head of Engineering salary in the North West is £102,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 291 324
Rank change year-on-year +10 +33 -75
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 8 13 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.084% 0.16% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.18% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £90,250 - £52,088
25th Percentile £93,750 £86,250 £57,816
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £120,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +33.33% -2.70%
75th Percentile £111,250 £137,500 £100,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £102,500 £125,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 9,086 7,244 9,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 89.30% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,011 4,162 5,539
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,996
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in the North West

Head of Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Head of Engineering in the North West.

Salary trend for Head of Engineering in the North West

Head of Engineering
Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Manchester +35 8 £102,500 -18.00%
Head of Engineering
England

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 North West region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (62.50%) Data Management
2 5 (62.50%) BigQuery
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
2 5 (62.50%) GitLab
2 5 (62.50%) Confluence
2 5 (62.50%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (62.50%) Tableau
2 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Data Transformation
2 5 (62.50%) Perl
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
2 5 (62.50%) Mainframe
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Teradata
2 5 (62.50%) Google
2 5 (62.50%) JIRA
2 5 (62.50%) Git
2 5 (62.50%) Visualisation
2 5 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Power BI
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (62.50%) Looker
2 5 (62.50%) Thought Leadership

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (62.50%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (62.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Composer
1 5 (62.50%) dbt
1 5 (62.50%) GCP
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) BigQuery
1 5 (62.50%) Looker
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
1 5 (62.50%) Tableau
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) GitLab
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
1 5 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (62.50%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
2 5 (62.50%) Data Management
2 5 (62.50%) Data Strategy
2 5 (62.50%) Data Transformation
2 5 (62.50%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (62.50%) Thought Leadership
2 5 (62.50%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Coaching
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Perl
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Google
1 5 (62.50%) Teradata
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft