Head of Engineering Contracts in London

Head of Engineering
England > London

The median Head of Engineering daily rate in London is £823, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2024.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 459 584
Rank change year-on-year +75 +125 -93
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 16 23 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.090% 0.091% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.096% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 16
10th Percentile £593 £678 £688
25th Percentile £706 £713 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £823 £800 £850
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% -5.88% +17.24%
75th Percentile £881 £938 £903
90th Percentile £1,124 £1,140 £925
England median daily rate £750 £800 £775
% change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +6.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in London

Head of Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Head of Engineering in London

Head of Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Engineering in London over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Engineering in London

Head of Engineering
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Central London +39 3 £1,163 +29.17% 3
Head of Engineering
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 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 London region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Strategic Thinking
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 4 (25.00%) ETL
4 4 (25.00%) Java
4 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 4 (25.00%) Scala
4 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 4 (25.00%) Big Data
4 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Data Science
5 3 (18.75%) Data Architecture
5 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Ruby
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (12.50%) Digital Strategy
6 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 2 (12.50%) Budget Management
6 2 (12.50%) Digital Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Banking
6 2 (12.50%) Project Management

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Big Data
2 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Back Office
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Publishing
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Node.js
1 2 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (6.25%) Media Streaming
1 1 (6.25%) Social Media
1 1 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Strategic Thinking
2 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (25.00%) ETL
2 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Data Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) Data Science
3 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Budget Management
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 2 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 2 (12.50%) Digital Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Digital Strategy
4 2 (12.50%) Observability
4 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) Scala
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) Ruby
3 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform