Head of Engineering Jobs in the North West

Head of Engineering
England > North West

The median Head of Engineering salary in the North West is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 March 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 261 289
Rank change year-on-year +31 +28 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 8 8 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.11% 0.095% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.10% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 12
10th Percentile £99,500 £90,250 £85,125
25th Percentile £105,000 £93,750 £86,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £102,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £141,151 £111,250 £137,500
90th Percentile - £118,750 -
England median annual salary £110,000 £102,500 £127,500
% change year-on-year +7.32% -19.61% +27.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 6,664 7,994 7,809
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 95.00% 92.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,931 6,216 4,389
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,338 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -8.90% +4.54%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +7.27% -9.69% +1.50%

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in the North West

Head of Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Head of Engineering in the North West

Head of Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 12 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Head of Engineering in the North West

Head of Engineering
Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 March 2025. 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
Manchester +46 8 £110,000 +7.32% 3
Head of Engineering
England

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 12 March 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 North West region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Data Engineering
1 7 (87.50%) Decision-Making
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (50.00%) Data Management
3 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) Google
3 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (50.00%) Coaching
3 4 (50.00%) BigQuery
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
3 4 (50.00%) Data Strategy
3 4 (50.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (50.00%) Cloud Composer
3 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (37.50%) Data Privacy
4 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (37.50%) Data Science
4 3 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Composer
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (37.50%) Big Data
2 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (50.00%) Banking
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Engineering
1 7 (87.50%) Decision-Making
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Coaching
3 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (50.00%) Data Management
3 4 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) Data Strategy
3 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
4 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (37.50%) Data Privacy
4 3 (37.50%) Data Science
4 3 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google