Head of Engineering
UK

The median Head of Engineering salary in the UK is £102,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 789 809 1024
Rank change year-on-year +20 +215 -292
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 94 150 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 77 120 175
10th Percentile £81,500 £90,000 £71,200
25th Percentile £88,750 £103,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £123,750 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.17% +23.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £142,500 £138,073 £125,625
90th Percentile £155,665 £150,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £102,500 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in the UK

Head of Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Head of Engineering in the UK

Head of Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Engineering over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Head of Engineering in the UK

Head of Engineering
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 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
England +53 82 £102,500 -18.00% 57
London +78 46 £115,000 -11.54% 28
UK excluding London -22 41 £102,500 +2.50% 39
Work from Home +36 39 £110,000 -4.35% 31
North of England +41 11 £102,500 -6.82% 6
South East +2 10 £85,000 -8.11% 15
Midlands -2 8 £100,000 +2.56% 5
West Midlands - 7 £100,000 - 5
North West -10 6 £102,500 -1.20% 4
Scotland -65 6 £120,000 -5.65% 2
South West -18 4 £149,601 +57.47% 5
Yorkshire +72 3 £105,000 -4.55% 2
East of England +13 2 £170,000 - 6
North East - 2 £80,000 -
East Midlands -13 1 - -

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 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 featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 38 (40.43%) Data Engineering
2 35 (37.23%) Agile
3 31 (32.98%) Social Skills
4 30 (31.91%) Finance
5 28 (29.79%) Software Engineering
5 28 (29.79%) Python
6 26 (27.66%) SQL
6 26 (27.66%) Azure
7 24 (25.53%) AWS
8 23 (24.47%) Computer Science
9 22 (23.40%) Roadmaps
10 21 (22.34%) Degree
10 21 (22.34%) Analytics
11 19 (20.21%) CI/CD
11 19 (20.21%) Decision-Making
11 19 (20.21%) Data Strategy
12 18 (19.15%) Data Modelling
13 17 (18.09%) Data Governance
13 17 (18.09%) Mentoring
13 17 (18.09%) GCP
14 16 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
15 15 (15.96%) Business Intelligence
16 14 (14.89%) Data Management
16 14 (14.89%) Data Architecture
16 14 (14.89%) Cloud Native
17 13 (13.83%) Master's Degree
17 13 (13.83%) BigQuery
17 13 (13.83%) Thought Leadership
17 13 (13.83%) Design Patterns
17 13 (13.83%) QA

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (6.38%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.32%) Confluence
3 1 (1.06%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.66%) Azure
2 24 (25.53%) AWS
3 17 (18.09%) GCP
4 12 (12.77%) Power Platform
5 11 (11.70%) SaaS
6 5 (5.32%) Cloud Composer
6 5 (5.32%) dbt
6 5 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (4.26%) Heroku
7 4 (4.26%) Serverless
8 3 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.13%) GitHub
9 2 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.13%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.06%) AWS IoT
10 1 (1.06%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) GSM
1 1 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.83%) BigQuery
2 12 (12.77%) Power BI
3 10 (10.64%) Tableau
4 9 (9.57%) Data Lake
4 9 (9.57%) Relational Database
5 8 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (7.45%) Big Data
6 7 (7.45%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.38%) Flink
7 6 (6.38%) Hadoop
8 5 (5.32%) Looker
9 3 (3.19%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
11 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) GitLab
1 7 (7.45%) JIRA
2 5 (5.32%) Git
3 4 (4.26%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 30 (31.91%) Finance
3 16 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.77%) Banking
5 5 (5.32%) Health Technology
5 5 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.32%) Marketing
6 3 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Electronics
7 1 (1.06%) Legal
7 1 (1.06%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.06%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.45%) .NET
1 7 (7.45%) React
2 6 (6.38%) Apache Beam
2 6 (6.38%) Node.js
3 5 (5.32%) Laravel
4 4 (4.26%) Kafka
5 3 (3.19%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.13%) Django
6 2 (2.13%) HTML
6 2 (2.13%) PySpark
6 2 (2.13%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (2.13%) Smart Contracts
6 2 (2.13%) Spring
6 2 (2.13%) Web Services
7 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.06%) CSS
7 1 (1.06%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.06%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.64%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.51%) Algorithms
4 7 (7.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (7.45%) Taxonomies
5 6 (6.38%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (5.32%) Data Centre
6 5 (5.32%) Hedge funds
6 5 (5.32%) Mainframe
7 4 (4.26%) Client/Server
7 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.19%) IoT
8 3 (3.19%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.13%) Blockchain
9 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
9 2 (2.13%) PropTech
10 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (1.06%) Housing Association
10 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Windows
2 1 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.43%) Data Engineering
2 35 (37.23%) Agile
3 28 (29.79%) Software Engineering
4 23 (24.47%) Computer Science
5 22 (23.40%) Roadmaps
6 21 (22.34%) Analytics
7 19 (20.21%) CI/CD
7 19 (20.21%) Data Strategy
7 19 (20.21%) Decision-Making
8 18 (19.15%) Data Modelling
9 17 (18.09%) Data Governance
9 17 (18.09%) Mentoring
10 15 (15.96%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (14.89%) Data Architecture
11 14 (14.89%) Data Management
12 13 (13.83%) Design Patterns
12 13 (13.83%) Thought Leadership
13 12 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.79%) Python
2 26 (27.66%) SQL
3 11 (11.70%) Java
4 6 (6.38%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.38%) PHP
4 6 (6.38%) Scala
5 5 (5.32%) C#
5 5 (5.32%) Go
5 5 (5.32%) Perl
5 5 (5.32%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.13%) C
6 2 (2.13%) Ruby
7 1 (1.06%) Ada
7 1 (1.06%) C++
7 1 (1.06%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.06%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.06%) Rust
7 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.06%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (22.34%) Degree
2 13 (13.83%) Master's Degree
3 12 (12.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.32%) MBA
4 5 (5.32%) PhD
5 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.83%) QA
2 6 (6.38%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.38%) GDPR
3 5 (5.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (5.32%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.06%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (11.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (9.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (11.70%) Teradata
2 9 (9.57%) Oracle
3 7 (7.45%) Databricks
4 6 (6.38%) Google
4 6 (6.38%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.32%) Citrix
5 5 (5.32%) VMware
6 1 (1.06%) EMC