Head of Engineering Jobs in England

Head of Engineering
UK > England

The median Head of Engineering salary in England is £102,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 May 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 755 791 961
Rank change year-on-year +36 +170 -266
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 80 126 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.092% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 68 101 168
10th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £71,200
25th Percentile £86,250 £105,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £125,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £140,625 £138,073 £125,000
90th Percentile £155,665 £150,000 £150,750
UK median annual salary £102,500 £120,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -14.58% +20.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 81,818 80,481 131,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,842 51,232 75,335
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 21 May 2024.

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 21 May 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
London +68 45 £115,250 -11.35% 21
North of England +36 11 £102,500 -6.82% 6
South East -8 10 £85,000 -8.11% 7
Midlands 0 8 £100,000 +2.56% 2
West Midlands - 7 £100,000 - 2
North West +2 6 £102,500 +17.14% 4
South West -13 4 £149,601 +57.47% 5
Yorkshire +72 3 £105,000 -4.55% 1
North East - 2 £80,000 - 1
East of England +6 1 £170,000 - 6
East Midlands -15 1 - -
Head of Engineering
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 England region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 35 (43.75%) Data Engineering
2 30 (37.50%) Agile
3 28 (35.00%) Python
4 27 (33.75%) Finance
5 26 (32.50%) Software Engineering
5 26 (32.50%) Azure
6 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
7 23 (28.75%) SQL
8 22 (27.50%) AWS
9 21 (26.25%) Computer Science
9 21 (26.25%) Roadmaps
10 19 (23.75%) Data Strategy
10 19 (23.75%) Degree
11 18 (22.50%) Analytics
11 18 (22.50%) CI/CD
12 17 (21.25%) GCP
12 17 (21.25%) Data Governance
13 15 (18.75%) Data Modelling
13 15 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (17.50%) Data Management
14 14 (17.50%) Mentoring
14 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
15 13 (16.25%) BigQuery
15 13 (16.25%) Cloud Native
15 13 (16.25%) Decision-Making
16 12 (15.00%) Thought Leadership
16 12 (15.00%) Power BI
16 12 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
16 12 (15.00%) Power Platform
16 12 (15.00%) Banking

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 6 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 26 (32.50%) Azure
2 22 (27.50%) AWS
3 17 (21.25%) GCP
4 12 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 11 (13.75%) SaaS
6 5 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
6 5 (6.25%) dbt
6 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (5.00%) Heroku
7 4 (5.00%) Serverless
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.50%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.25%) AWS IoT
10 1 (1.25%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) GSM
1 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) BigQuery
2 12 (15.00%) Power BI
3 10 (12.50%) Tableau
4 9 (11.25%) Data Lake
5 8 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (8.75%) Big Data
6 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
7 6 (7.50%) Flink
7 6 (7.50%) Hadoop
7 6 (7.50%) Relational Database
8 5 (6.25%) Looker
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) GitLab
1 7 (8.75%) JIRA
2 5 (6.25%) Git
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (33.75%) Finance
2 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.00%) Banking
5 5 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 5 (6.25%) Marketing
6 4 (5.00%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.25%) Electronics
7 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.25%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) .NET
2 6 (7.50%) Apache Beam
2 6 (7.50%) Node.js
2 6 (7.50%) React
3 5 (6.25%) Laravel
4 4 (5.00%) Kafka
5 3 (3.75%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.50%) Django
6 2 (2.50%) HTML
6 2 (2.50%) PySpark
6 2 (2.50%) Spring
7 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.25%) CSS
7 1 (1.25%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.25%) React Native
7 1 (1.25%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 8 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 7 (8.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (6.25%) Data Centre
6 5 (6.25%) Hedge funds
6 5 (6.25%) Mainframe
6 5 (6.25%) Taxonomies
7 4 (5.00%) Client/Server
8 3 (3.75%) IoT
8 3 (3.75%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
9 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.50%) PropTech
10 1 (1.25%) Blockchain
10 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (1.25%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (43.75%) Data Engineering
2 30 (37.50%) Agile
3 26 (32.50%) Software Engineering
4 21 (26.25%) Computer Science
4 21 (26.25%) Roadmaps
5 19 (23.75%) Data Strategy
6 18 (22.50%) Analytics
6 18 (22.50%) CI/CD
7 17 (21.25%) Data Governance
8 15 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (18.75%) Data Modelling
9 14 (17.50%) Data Management
9 14 (17.50%) Mentoring
10 13 (16.25%) Decision-Making
11 12 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
11 12 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (15.00%) Thought Leadership
12 11 (13.75%) Data Architecture
12 11 (13.75%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (12.50%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.00%) Python
2 23 (28.75%) SQL
3 11 (13.75%) Java
4 6 (7.50%) PHP
4 6 (7.50%) Scala
5 5 (6.25%) Go
5 5 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.25%) Perl
5 5 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.00%) C#
7 2 (2.50%) C
8 1 (1.25%) Ada
8 1 (1.25%) C++
8 1 (1.25%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.25%) Rust
8 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Degree
2 11 (13.75%) Master's Degree
3 10 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.25%) MBA
4 5 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) QA
2 6 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 6 (7.50%) GDPR
3 5 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (13.75%) Teradata
2 7 (8.75%) Databricks
3 6 (7.50%) Google
3 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.50%) Oracle
4 5 (6.25%) Citrix
4 5 (6.25%) VMware
5 1 (1.25%) EMC