Head of Technology Contracts in London

Head of Technology
England > London

The median Head of Technology daily rate in London is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 488 572
Rank change year-on-year +102 +84 -107
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Technology 5 11 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.028% 0.040% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.042% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 11
10th Percentile - £624 -
25th Percentile - £725 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £1,156 £869
90th Percentile - £1,225 £950
England median daily rate £800 £838 £750
% change year-on-year -4.48% +11.67% +9.49%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,618 26,148 37,443
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.28% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,014 18,877 27,349
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 297 456
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.99 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £22.08
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £44.50 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.95 £76.95 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Head of Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Technology in London

Head of Technology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Head of Technology in London

Head of Technology
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 Technology within the London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +43 1 £800 -9.86% 1
Head of Technology
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Head of Technology 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 Technology in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (40.00%) Scala
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) Genesys
3 2 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) Guidewire
3 2 (40.00%) Go
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Pyramid
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (40.00%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service

Head of Technology 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Pyramid
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Housing Association
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Go
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Genesys
1 2 (40.00%) Guidewire