Head of Engineering Jobs in Central London

Head of Engineering
London > Central London

The median Head of Engineering salary in Central London is £140,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 191 231
Rank change year-on-year +42 +40 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 10 7 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.43% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 7
10th Percentile £125,500 £109,950 £115,500
25th Percentile £131,250 £113,875 £122,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £125,000 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £152,500 £161,250 £138,750
90th Percentile £155,000 £187,500 £150,000
London median annual salary £140,000 £115,250 £128,750
% change year-on-year +21.48% -10.49% +17.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,159 3,607 4,891
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.79% 95.42% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,516 2,783 4,066
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,210
Median % change year-on-year - -0.97% +0.98%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in Central London

Head of Engineering
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Head of Engineering in Central London

Head of Engineering
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Head of Engineering in Central London

Head of Engineering
Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
City of London +40 9 £140,000 +12.00% 4
Head of Engineering
London

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 Central London region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (60.00%) AWS
4 5 (50.00%) Google
4 5 (50.00%) Finance
4 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 5 (50.00%) GCP
4 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
5 4 (40.00%) Databricks
5 4 (40.00%) Microservices
5 4 (40.00%) Banking
5 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (40.00%) Python
5 4 (40.00%) Data Science
5 4 (40.00%) Digital Engineering
6 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (30.00%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (30.00%) Quality Management
6 3 (30.00%) Data Management
6 3 (30.00%) PaaS
6 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (30.00%) Investment Management
6 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
6 3 (30.00%) Data Quality

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) PaaS
5 2 (20.00%) Serverless
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
6 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (30.00%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) OLAP
2 1 (10.00%) OLTP
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Online Games
2 1 (10.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
1 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Data Science
4 4 (40.00%) Digital Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Microservices
4 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (30.00%) Data Management
5 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
5 3 (30.00%) Investment Management
5 3 (30.00%) Line Management
5 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (30.00%) Quality Management
5 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Google
2 4 (40.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft