Head of Engineering Jobs in Wolverhampton

Head of Engineering
West Midlands > Wolverhampton

The median Head of Engineering salary in Wolverhampton is £125,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wolverhampton 2.86% - 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.39% - 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £122,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 - £125,000
75th Percentile £127,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £117,500 £85,000 £113,750
% change year-on-year +38.24% -25.27% +26.39%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Wolverhampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wolverhampton. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in Wolverhampton with a recognized job title 59 138 126
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.29% 99.28% 80.25%
Number of salaries quoted 41 76 68
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,750 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.60% -0.48% +7.77%
75th Percentile £95,000 £68,750 £67,813
90th Percentile £97,500 £76,875 £86,325
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wolverhampton

For the 6 months to 26 August 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 Wolverhampton region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) ETL Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Agile

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wolverhampton 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL