Head of Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Head of Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The median Head of Engineering salary in the UK excluding London is £102,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 702 700 785
Rank change year-on-year -2 +85 -171
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 49 54 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.087% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.097% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 34 38 50
10th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £112,698 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +25.22% -
75th Percentile £149,874 £137,930 £100,000
90th Percentile £175,000 £138,592 £115,500
UK median annual salary £110,000 £125,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,104 55,639 67,661
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.29% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,008 31,467 43,049
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,307
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,639 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in the UK excluding London

Head of Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Head of Engineering in the UK excluding London

Head of Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Head of Engineering in the UK excluding London

Head of Engineering
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South East +26 14 £85,000 -8.11% 10
North of England +36 13 £102,500 -18.00% 2
North West -2 8 £102,500 -14.58% 1
South West -12 7 £149,601 +66.22% 2
Midlands +23 6 £97,500 -8.24% 5
Scotland -74 5 £160,000 +24.04% 3
West Midlands - 5 £97,500 - 4
East of England +36 4 £170,000 - 7
Yorkshire +86 3 £105,000 -19.73% 1
North East - 2 £80,000 -
East Midlands -14 1 - - 1
Head of Engineering
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 UK excluding London region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 29 (59.18%) Data Engineering
2 22 (44.90%) Finance
2 22 (44.90%) Agile
3 18 (36.73%) SQL
3 18 (36.73%) Roadmaps
4 17 (34.69%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (34.69%) Analytics
5 15 (30.61%) GCP
5 15 (30.61%) Data Strategy
6 14 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 14 (28.57%) BigQuery
7 13 (26.53%) Power BI
7 13 (26.53%) Mentoring
7 13 (26.53%) Data Visualisation
7 13 (26.53%) Tableau
7 13 (26.53%) Visualisation
7 13 (26.53%) Data Management
7 13 (26.53%) Power Platform
7 13 (26.53%) Cloud Native
7 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
8 12 (24.49%) Thought Leadership
8 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
8 12 (24.49%) Data Modelling
8 12 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (22.45%) Data Governance
9 11 (22.45%) Data Analytics
9 11 (22.45%) ETL
9 11 (22.45%) Python
10 10 (20.41%) Strategic Planning
10 10 (20.41%) Data Architecture

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.20%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (10.20%) Confluence
3 3 (6.12%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.61%) GCP
2 13 (26.53%) Power Platform
3 9 (18.37%) Azure
4 6 (12.24%) AWS
5 5 (10.20%) Cloud Composer
5 5 (10.20%) dbt
5 5 (10.20%) GitHub
5 5 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.12%) Vertex AI
7 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.08%) SaaS
7 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.04%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) GSM
1 1 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.57%) BigQuery
2 13 (26.53%) Power BI
2 13 (26.53%) Tableau
3 10 (20.41%) Relational Database
4 8 (16.33%) Data Lake
4 8 (16.33%) Looker
5 7 (14.29%) Big Data
6 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
7 4 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (8.16%) Flink
7 4 (8.16%) Hadoop
8 3 (6.12%) Bigtable
8 3 (6.12%) MySQL
8 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
8 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (6.12%) RDBMS
9 2 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) GitLab
2 6 (12.24%) JIRA
3 5 (10.20%) Git
3 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.12%) Oracle Forms
General
1 22 (44.90%) Finance
2 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 12 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.29%) Banking
5 6 (12.24%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (10.20%) Marketing
7 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (6.12%) Retail
8 1 (2.04%) Advertising
8 1 (2.04%) Electronics
8 1 (2.04%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.37%) Kafka
2 4 (8.16%) Apache Beam
3 3 (6.12%) .NET
4 2 (4.08%) React
5 1 (2.04%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.04%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.04%) Laravel
5 1 (2.04%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.53%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.24%) Taxonomies
3 5 (10.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (10.20%) Mainframe
4 4 (8.16%) Algorithms
4 4 (8.16%) Data Structures
5 3 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.04%) Housing Association
6 1 (2.04%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
1 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) Data Engineering
2 22 (44.90%) Agile
3 18 (36.73%) Roadmaps
4 17 (34.69%) Analytics
4 17 (34.69%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (30.61%) Data Strategy
6 14 (28.57%) Decision-Making
7 13 (26.53%) Data Management
7 13 (26.53%) Data Visualisation
7 13 (26.53%) Mentoring
7 13 (26.53%) Visualisation
8 12 (24.49%) Data Modelling
8 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
8 12 (24.49%) Thought Leadership
9 11 (22.45%) Data Analytics
9 11 (22.45%) Data Governance
9 11 (22.45%) ETL
10 10 (20.41%) Data Architecture
10 10 (20.41%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (20.41%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) SQL
2 11 (22.45%) Python
3 5 (10.20%) Perl
3 5 (10.20%) Shell Script
4 4 (8.16%) Java
4 4 (8.16%) Scala
5 3 (6.12%) Go
6 2 (4.08%) C#
7 1 (2.04%) Ada
7 1 (2.04%) C
7 1 (2.04%) Embedded C
7 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) PHP
7 1 (2.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Degree
2 5 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (10.20%) Master's Degree
2 5 (10.20%) MBA
2 5 (10.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) Accessibility
1 5 (10.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 5 (10.20%) Data Quality
1 5 (10.20%) GDPR
1 5 (10.20%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Firmware
2 1 (2.04%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Teradata
2 8 (16.33%) Google
3 7 (14.29%) Oracle
4 6 (12.24%) Databricks
5 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.04%) EMC