Head of Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Head of Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The median Head of Engineering salary in Work from Home is £110,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 587 736
Rank change year-on-year +40 +149 -230
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 38 72 98
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 34 64 87
10th Percentile £88,750 £98,250 £73,250
25th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £117,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +23.68% -
75th Percentile £130,625 £136,706 £122,500
90th Percentile £155,665 £150,000 £199,500
UK median annual salary £105,000 £123,750 £100,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +23.75% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,433 40,693 66,264
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,885 28,909 42,146
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,626 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Head of Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Head of Engineering in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Head of Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Head of Engineering.

Head of Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Head of Engineering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Head of Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 5 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 21 (55.26%) Agile
1 21 (55.26%) Data Engineering
2 18 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 17 (44.74%) GCP
3 17 (44.74%) Python
4 16 (42.11%) Finance
5 15 (39.47%) Software Engineering
5 15 (39.47%) BigQuery
5 15 (39.47%) Thought Leadership
6 14 (36.84%) SQL
7 13 (34.21%) Data Strategy
7 13 (34.21%) Decision-Making
8 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
8 12 (31.58%) Analytics
8 12 (31.58%) Computer Science
8 12 (31.58%) AWS
9 11 (28.95%) Teradata
9 11 (28.95%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (28.95%) Cloud Native
10 10 (26.32%) Data Structures
10 10 (26.32%) Degree
10 10 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
10 10 (26.32%) Design Patterns
11 9 (23.68%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (23.68%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (23.68%) Data Lake
11 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (23.68%) Azure
12 8 (21.05%) Data Governance
12 8 (21.05%) Big Data

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (21.05%) Apache Spark
2 5 (13.16%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (13.16%) Confluence
3 2 (5.26%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (44.74%) GCP
2 12 (31.58%) AWS
3 9 (23.68%) Azure
4 8 (21.05%) SaaS
5 7 (18.42%) Power Platform
6 5 (13.16%) Cloud Composer
6 5 (13.16%) dbt
7 4 (10.53%) GitHub
7 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (10.53%) Heroku
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (5.26%) Serverless
8 2 (5.26%) Snowflake
8 2 (5.26%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (39.47%) BigQuery
2 9 (23.68%) Data Lake
3 8 (21.05%) Big Data
3 8 (21.05%) Relational Database
4 7 (18.42%) Looker
4 7 (18.42%) Power BI
4 7 (18.42%) SQL Server
4 7 (18.42%) Tableau
5 6 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (15.79%) Flink
5 6 (15.79%) Hadoop
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (5.26%) Bigtable
6 2 (5.26%) MySQL
6 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) GitLab
2 6 (15.79%) JIRA
3 5 (13.16%) Git
4 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.53%) Oracle Forms
General
1 16 (42.11%) Finance
2 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (18.42%) Banking
4 7 (18.42%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) Kafka
2 6 (15.79%) Apache Beam
3 4 (10.53%) .NET
3 4 (10.53%) Laravel
4 2 (5.26%) PySpark
4 2 (5.26%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (5.26%) Spring
5 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.63%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Cloud Native
2 10 (26.32%) Data Structures
3 7 (18.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (15.79%) Algorithms
5 5 (13.16%) Mainframe
6 4 (10.53%) Client/Server
6 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
7 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (5.26%) PropTech
8 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.63%) Taxonomies
8 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) Agile
1 21 (55.26%) Data Engineering
2 18 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 15 (39.47%) Software Engineering
3 15 (39.47%) Thought Leadership
4 13 (34.21%) Data Strategy
4 13 (34.21%) Decision-Making
5 12 (31.58%) Analytics
5 12 (31.58%) Computer Science
6 11 (28.95%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
7 10 (26.32%) Design Patterns
8 9 (23.68%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (23.68%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (21.05%) Data Governance
9 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
9 8 (21.05%) High Availability
9 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
9 8 (21.05%) Risk Management
9 8 (21.05%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) Python
2 14 (36.84%) SQL
3 8 (21.05%) Java
4 6 (15.79%) Scala
5 5 (13.16%) Perl
5 5 (13.16%) Shell Script
6 4 (10.53%) Go
6 4 (10.53%) PHP
7 3 (7.89%) C#
8 2 (5.26%) Ruby
9 1 (2.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Teradata
2 7 (18.42%) Google
3 6 (15.79%) Databricks
3 6 (15.79%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft