Head of Engineering Jobs in England

Head of Engineering
UK > England

The median Head of Engineering salary in England is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 763 791
Rank change year-on-year +132 +28 +165
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 60 80 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.093% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.099% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 46 69 100
10th Percentile £79,375 £80,000 £89,625
25th Percentile £91,563 £86,250 £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £102,500 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -18.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £144,375 £142,500 £138,073
90th Percentile £152,500 £155,665 £150,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £105,000 £125,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in England

Head of Engineering
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Head of Engineering in England

Head of Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Engineering in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Head of Engineering in England

Head of Engineering
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +91 29 £140,000 +21.48% 77
North of England +53 13 £105,000 +2.44% 13
North West +8 8 £110,000 +7.32% 10
Midlands +62 6 £110,000 +10.00% 6
South West +110 5 £110,000 -26.47% 3
West Midlands +55 5 £100,000 - 6
Yorkshire +69 4 £82,500 -21.43% 1
East of England +45 4 £110,000 -35.29% 2
South East +93 3 £130,000 +52.94% 25
North East +44 1 £105,000 +31.25% 2
East Midlands +32 1 £110,000 - 1
Head of Engineering
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 England region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 32 (53.33%) Software Engineering
2 29 (48.33%) Azure
3 26 (43.33%) AWS
4 24 (40.00%) Agile
5 23 (38.33%) Finance
6 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
7 20 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 15 (25.00%) Python
8 15 (25.00%) Roadmaps
8 15 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 15 (25.00%) Data Engineering
9 14 (23.33%) React
9 14 (23.33%) GCP
9 14 (23.33%) DevOps
10 13 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (20.00%) JavaScript
11 12 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
12 11 (18.33%) Cloud Native
12 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
13 10 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
13 10 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (16.67%) Node.js
14 9 (15.00%) QA
14 9 (15.00%) Google
14 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
15 8 (13.33%) Coaching
15 8 (13.33%) Data Science
15 8 (13.33%) Generative AI
15 8 (13.33%) Web Development

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (6.67%) CMS
1 4 (6.67%) Headless CMS
1 4 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.67%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.67%) Blender
2 1 (1.67%) CATIA
2 1 (1.67%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Shopify
2 1 (1.67%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 29 (48.33%) Azure
2 26 (43.33%) AWS
3 14 (23.33%) GCP
4 6 (10.00%) SaaS
5 5 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (6.67%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (6.67%) Contentstack
6 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.33%) PaaS
7 2 (3.33%) Serverless
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.67%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.67%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub
8 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) BigQuery
1 4 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.00%) Big Data
3 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.67%) Azkaban
4 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.67%) OLAP
4 1 (1.67%) OLTP
4 1 (1.67%) Presto
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) GitLab
General
1 23 (38.33%) Finance
2 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Banking
5 5 (8.33%) Front Office
5 5 (8.33%) Law
5 5 (8.33%) Marketing
6 4 (6.67%) Advertising
6 4 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 3 (5.00%) Legal
8 2 (3.33%) Games
8 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.67%) Automotive
9 1 (1.67%) Public Speaking
9 1 (1.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (23.33%) React
2 10 (16.67%) Node.js
3 6 (10.00%) .NET
4 5 (8.33%) Bootstrap
4 5 (8.33%) Redux
5 4 (6.67%) Django
5 4 (6.67%) Express.js
5 4 (6.67%) Flask
5 4 (6.67%) MACH
5 4 (6.67%) Next.js
5 4 (6.67%) PySpark
6 3 (5.00%) Laravel
7 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.67%) Kafka
8 1 (1.67%) LAMP
8 1 (1.67%) Pandas
8 1 (1.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.33%) Derivative
3 4 (6.67%) Hackathon
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Licensing
3 4 (6.67%) PKI
3 4 (6.67%) Reinsurance
4 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.67%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.67%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.67%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Android
1 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) Software Engineering
2 24 (40.00%) Agile
3 20 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 15 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 15 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 15 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 14 (23.33%) DevOps
6 13 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
8 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
9 10 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
9 10 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (13.33%) Coaching
11 8 (13.33%) Data Science
11 8 (13.33%) Generative AI
11 8 (13.33%) Web Development
12 7 (11.67%) Data Strategy
12 7 (11.67%) Machine Learning
12 7 (11.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.00%) Python
2 12 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (11.67%) TypeScript
4 6 (10.00%) C#
4 6 (10.00%) Java
5 4 (6.67%) PHP
6 3 (5.00%) SQL
7 2 (3.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.00%) QA
2 6 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.00%) PMBOK
4 2 (3.33%) GDPR
4 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Google
2 7 (11.67%) Databricks
3 3 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.67%) Alias
4 1 (1.67%) Apple
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.67%) Siemens