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Engineering & Technical Leadership salaries

What engineering & technical leadership engineers actually earn (ONS) against what employers are budgeting to hire one now (Verso), kept as two separate, labelled figures.

25th pct
£73,800
Median
£80,000
75th pct
£90,000
ONS actual median
£52,451

Verso's briefed median is £27,549 above the ONS actual-earnings median (+52.5%).

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ONS actual earnings by region

ASHE Table 15, median gross annual earnings by region (most recent available)
RegionMedian
United Kingdom (national)£52,451
North EastInsufficient data
North West£55,767
Yorkshire and The Humber£48,838
East Midlands£58,303
West Midlands£51,569
South West£48,988
EastInsufficient data
LondonInsufficient data
South East£50,238
Wales£46,626
ScotlandInsufficient data

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Sponsorship implications

The Home Office going rate to sponsor a engineering & technical leadership engineer via the Skilled Worker route is £51,900 (£36,300 for an eligible new entrant). This is a statutory floor derived from the same ONS ASHE distribution shown above, not an independent measurement, which is why it sits close to the ONS median rather than being its own third figure. A budget below it cannot sponsor this role at all, regardless of what the wider market pays.

Verso's briefed median for this discipline is £28,100 above the going rate (+54.1%).