Head of Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Head of Engineering
England > North of England

The median Head of Engineering salary in the North of England is £102,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 416 433
Rank change year-on-year +32 +17 -97
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 12 16 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.070% 0.092% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.10% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 12
10th Percentile £77,500 - £53,129
25th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £120,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +39.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £111,250 £137,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £112,625 - £140,500
England median annual salary £102,500 £125,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 16,403 15,591 17,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.02% 89.42% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,681 8,240 11,134
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,720
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in the North of England

Head of Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Head of Engineering in the North of England

Head of Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Head of Engineering in the North of England

Head of Engineering
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
North West +8 7 £102,500 -14.58% 2
Yorkshire +95 3 £105,000 -
North East - 2 £80,000 - 1
Head of Engineering
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 North of England region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Agile
1 7 (58.33%) Mentoring
2 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (50.00%) Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) Shell Script
3 5 (41.67%) Mainframe
3 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 5 (41.67%) Teradata
3 5 (41.67%) Perl
3 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 5 (41.67%) Python
3 5 (41.67%) Data Management
3 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Google
3 5 (41.67%) JIRA
3 5 (41.67%) Git
3 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
3 5 (41.67%) Confluence
3 5 (41.67%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (41.67%) Tableau
3 5 (41.67%) dbt
3 5 (41.67%) Thought Leadership
3 5 (41.67%) Power Platform
3 5 (41.67%) Cloud Composer
3 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (41.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (41.67%) Data Transformation

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (41.67%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (41.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Composer
1 5 (41.67%) dbt
1 5 (41.67%) GCP
1 5 (41.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) BigQuery
1 5 (41.67%) Looker
1 5 (41.67%) Power BI
1 5 (41.67%) Tableau
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
1 5 (41.67%) GitLab
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Advertising
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) Laravel
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
1 5 (41.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (41.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
1 7 (58.33%) Mentoring
2 6 (50.00%) Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (50.00%) Data Strategy
3 5 (41.67%) Data Management
3 5 (41.67%) Data Transformation
3 5 (41.67%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Thought Leadership
3 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
4 2 (16.67%) Coaching
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Microservices
5 1 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Perl
1 5 (41.67%) Python
1 5 (41.67%) Shell Script
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Ada
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) PHP
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Google
1 5 (41.67%) Teradata
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks