Head of Development Jobs with Work from Home Options

Head of Development
UK > Work from Home

The median Head of Development salary for remote or hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 592 821
Rank change year-on-year +5 +229 -267
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Development 15 41 80
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.042% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 14 41 43
10th Percentile £47,000 £67,500 £68,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% +9.68%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £96,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +17.65% +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Head of Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Head of Development trend for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Development
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 Development.

Head of Development salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Development
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Head of Development over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Head of Development salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Head of Development 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 Development in the job title.

1 5 (33.33%) PHP
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
1 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (26.67%) Budget Management
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (26.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Line Management
2 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) Marketing
3 3 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) CRM
3 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Law
3 3 (20.00%) Legal
3 3 (20.00%) IoT
3 3 (20.00%) User Experience
3 3 (20.00%) GDPR
3 3 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (20.00%) Laravel
3 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Commercialisation
3 3 (20.00%) Budgeting
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Service

Head of Development 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 1 (6.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Marketing
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Law
3 3 (20.00%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) Laravel
3 2 (13.33%) Symfony
4 1 (6.67%) jQuery
4 1 (6.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (20.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
1 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (26.67%) Budget Management
2 4 (26.67%) Line Management
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (26.67%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (20.00%) Budgeting
3 3 (20.00%) Commercialisation
3 3 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (20.00%) CRM
3 3 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
4 2 (13.33%) Data Management
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (13.33%) Apex Code
2 2 (13.33%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce