Head of Engineering Jobs in the South East

Head of Engineering
England > South East

The median Head of Engineering salary in the South East is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 402 476
Rank change year-on-year +21 +74 -90
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 11 6 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.066% 0.040% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.044% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 12
10th Percentile £75,000 - £87,500
25th Percentile £76,875 £85,000 £88,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,125 £110,625
90th Percentile £110,000 £99,250 £192,000
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
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,671 13,511 19,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.53% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11,327 8,466 12,622
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in the South East

Head of Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Head of Engineering in the South East.

Salary trend for Head of Engineering in the South East

Head of Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Head of Engineering in the South East

Head of Engineering
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 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
Thames Valley +28 6 £125,000 +31.58% 2
Kent - 5 £85,000 -
Oxfordshire - 5 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £125,000 - 1
Head of Engineering
England

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 4 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 South East region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Data Management
1 8 (72.73%) Data Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 5 (45.45%) MBA
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) PhD
3 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 5 (45.45%) ETL
3 5 (45.45%) Statistics
3 5 (45.45%) Marketing
3 5 (45.45%) Taxonomies
3 5 (45.45%) Degree
3 5 (45.45%) Mathematics
3 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
3 5 (45.45%) QA
3 5 (45.45%) Data Architecture
3 5 (45.45%) Visualisation
3 5 (45.45%) Power BI
3 5 (45.45%) Data Acquisition
3 5 (45.45%) Regulatory Compliance
3 5 (45.45%) GDPR
3 5 (45.45%) Data Strategy
3 5 (45.45%) Master's Degree
3 5 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
3 5 (45.45%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 5 (45.45%) Predictive Modelling
3 5 (45.45%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (45.45%) Tableau

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Power BI
1 5 (45.45%) Tableau
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) Marketing
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Taxonomies
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Data Engineering
1 8 (72.73%) Data Management
2 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (45.45%) Analytics
3 5 (45.45%) Coaching
3 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
3 5 (45.45%) Data Acquisition
3 5 (45.45%) Data Analytics
3 5 (45.45%) Data Architecture
3 5 (45.45%) Data Governance
3 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 5 (45.45%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (45.45%) ETL
3 5 (45.45%) Machine Learning
3 5 (45.45%) Mathematics
3 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
3 5 (45.45%) Predictive Modelling
3 5 (45.45%) Regulatory Compliance
3 5 (45.45%) Statistics
3 5 (45.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
1 5 (45.45%) Master's Degree
1 5 (45.45%) MBA
1 5 (45.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Accessibility
1 5 (45.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 5 (45.45%) Data Quality
1 5 (45.45%) GDPR
1 5 (45.45%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks