Head of Engineering Contracts in England

Head of Engineering
UK > England

The median Head of Engineering daily rate in England is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 618 748
Rank change year-on-year +84 +130 -138
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 20 27 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.054% 0.055% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.058% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 25
10th Percentile £600 £643 £660
25th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £888 £875 £875
90th Percentile £1,038 £1,115 £928
UK median daily rate £725 £800 £800
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,147 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,648 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in England

Head of Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Head of Engineering in England.

Daily rate trend for Head of Engineering in England

Head of Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Engineering in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Engineering in England

Head of Engineering
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +94 13 £820 +2.50% 23
South East - 4 £650 - 9
North of England +30 3 £875 +25.00% 4
North West +25 3 £875 +25.00% 3
Head of Engineering
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Head of Engineering contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (30.00%) Python
3 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (25.00%) AWS
5 4 (20.00%) Big Data
5 4 (20.00%) Coaching
5 4 (20.00%) Data Science
5 4 (20.00%) Data Management
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) Ruby
6 3 (15.00%) SQL
6 3 (15.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (15.00%) Software Architecture
6 3 (15.00%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (10.00%) Digital Strategy
7 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
7 2 (10.00%) Observability
7 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata Repository
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Back Office
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Publishing
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Node.js
1 2 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.00%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (5.00%) Media Streaming
1 1 (5.00%) Social Media
1 1 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (30.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (20.00%) Coaching
5 4 (20.00%) Data Management
5 4 (20.00%) Data Science
6 3 (15.00%) Software Architecture
6 3 (15.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (15.00%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
7 2 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (10.00%) Digital Strategy
7 2 (10.00%) Observability
7 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) Ruby
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Databricks