Head of Engineering Jobs in the City of London

Head of Engineering
Central London > City of London

The median Head of Engineering salary in the City of London is £140,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 175 223
Rank change year-on-year +45 +48 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 8 7 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.39% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 7
10th Percentile £123,250 £109,950 £105,000
25th Percentile £133,750 £113,875 £113,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £125,000 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £147,500 £161,250 £129,375
90th Percentile £155,000 £187,500 £138,750
Central London median annual salary £140,000 £125,000 £125,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% - +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,898 3,211 4,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 96.05% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,450 2,540 3,708
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,875 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,210
% change year-on-year - -0.97% +0.98%

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in the City of London

Head of Engineering
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Head of Engineering in the City of London

Head of Engineering
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Head of Engineering in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 City of London region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
3 5 (62.50%) Google
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (50.00%) Finance
4 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 4 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Databricks
5 3 (37.50%) Data Science
5 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Python
5 3 (37.50%) Banking
5 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
6 2 (25.00%) Quality Management
6 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
6 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
6 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (25.00%) Investment Management
6 2 (25.00%) PaaS
6 2 (25.00%) Data Management
6 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
3 5 (62.50%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) PaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) OLAP
2 1 (12.50%) OLTP
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Data Science
4 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (25.00%) Data Management
5 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (25.00%) Investment Management
5 2 (25.00%) Line Management
5 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (25.00%) Quality Management
5 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Google
2 3 (37.50%) Databricks