Head of Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Head of Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The median Head of Engineering salary for remote or hybrid work is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 560 810
Rank change year-on-year -2 +250 -267
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 40 73 91
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38 60 84
10th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £65,110
25th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £136,250 £136,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £155,665 £150,000 £170,000
UK median annual salary £102,500 £123,750 £100,000
% change year-on-year -17.17% +23.75% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Head of Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Head of Engineering in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Head of Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Head of Engineering.

Head of Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Head of Engineering over the 6 months to 18 June 2024.

Head of Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 18 June 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 19 (47.50%) Agile
1 19 (47.50%) Data Engineering
2 17 (42.50%) Python
3 16 (40.00%) GCP
3 16 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 15 (37.50%) Finance
4 15 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 14 (35.00%) SQL
5 14 (35.00%) AWS
6 13 (32.50%) BigQuery
6 13 (32.50%) Thought Leadership
6 13 (32.50%) Data Strategy
7 12 (30.00%) Computer Science
8 11 (27.50%) Teradata
8 11 (27.50%) Cloud Native
8 11 (27.50%) Analytics
8 11 (27.50%) Decision-Making
9 10 (25.00%) Design Patterns
9 10 (25.00%) Azure
9 10 (25.00%) Data Structures
9 10 (25.00%) Degree
9 10 (25.00%) Risk Management
10 9 (22.50%) Data Modelling
10 9 (22.50%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (22.50%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (22.50%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (22.50%) Mentoring
10 9 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (22.50%) Roadmaps

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (15.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) GCP
2 14 (35.00%) AWS
3 10 (25.00%) Azure
4 8 (20.00%) SaaS
5 6 (15.00%) Power Platform
6 5 (12.50%) Cloud Composer
6 5 (12.50%) dbt
7 4 (10.00%) Heroku
8 3 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (5.00%) GitHub
9 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (5.00%) Serverless
9 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) BigQuery
2 8 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (17.50%) SQL Server
4 6 (15.00%) Big Data
4 6 (15.00%) Flink
4 6 (15.00%) Hadoop
4 6 (15.00%) Power BI
4 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (12.50%) Looker
5 5 (12.50%) Tableau
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) GitLab
2 6 (15.00%) JIRA
3 5 (12.50%) Git
4 4 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (37.50%) Finance
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) Apache Beam
2 4 (10.00%) .NET
2 4 (10.00%) Kafka
2 4 (10.00%) Laravel
3 3 (7.50%) Node.js
4 2 (5.00%) PySpark
4 2 (5.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (5.00%) Spring
5 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.50%) HTML
5 1 (2.50%) HTML5
5 1 (2.50%) JSON
5 1 (2.50%) LAMP
5 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Cloud Native
2 10 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 8 (20.00%) Algorithms
4 7 (17.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (12.50%) Mainframe
6 4 (10.00%) Client/Server
6 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (5.00%) PropTech
8 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
8 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.50%) Taxonomies
8 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Android
1 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Agile
1 19 (47.50%) Data Engineering
2 16 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 13 (32.50%) Data Strategy
4 13 (32.50%) Thought Leadership
5 12 (30.00%) Computer Science
6 11 (27.50%) Analytics
6 11 (27.50%) Decision-Making
7 10 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 10 (25.00%) Risk Management
8 9 (22.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (22.50%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (22.50%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (22.50%) Data Modelling
8 9 (22.50%) Mentoring
8 9 (22.50%) Roadmaps
9 8 (20.00%) Data Governance
9 8 (20.00%) High Availability
10 7 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) Python
2 14 (35.00%) SQL
3 8 (20.00%) Java
4 6 (15.00%) Scala
5 5 (12.50%) Perl
5 5 (12.50%) PHP
5 5 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 4 (10.00%) Go
7 3 (7.50%) C#
8 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 2 (5.00%) Ruby
9 1 (2.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Teradata
2 6 (15.00%) Databricks
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle
3 5 (12.50%) Google
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft