Head of IT Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Head of IT role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Head of IT in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Head of Information Technology
Rank 510 558 570
Rank change year-on-year
+48 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Head of IT 30 23 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.064% 0.039% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.042% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 7
Average daily rate £375 £615 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-39.02% +6.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £400 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £750 £850 £790
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £575 £513
% change year-on-year
-32.60% +12.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2174 2589 2882
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Head of IT
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Head of IT within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Head of IT Jobs Demand Trend

Head of IT
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Head of IT within the UK.

Head of IT Daily Rate Trend

Head of IT
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Head of IT within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Head of IT Daily Rate Histogram

Head of IT
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Head of IT within the UK.

Head of IT Hourly Rate Trend

Head of IT
Top 22 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Head of IT within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +53 30 £375 -39.02%
London +21 12 £375 -55.88%
West Midlands +17 9 £338 -15.62%
South West - 5 £450 -
Birmingham +6 4 £350 -
Warwick - 4 - -
Coventry - 4 - -
Warwickshire - 4 - -
City of London +15 3 £500 -23.07%
South East +26 2 £550 -34.52%
Bath - 2 £450 -
Swindon - 2 - -
Somerset - 2 £450 -
Wiltshire - 2 - -
Yorkshire +5 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
M4 Corridor - 1 £750 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £350 -
North Yorkshire - 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 - -
Warrington - 1 - -
Oxford - 1 £350 -

Head of IT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Head of IT in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Head of IT in their job title.

1 24 (31.58%) Project Management
2 23 (30.26%) ITIL
3 20 (26.32%) Finance
4 19 (25.00%) PRINCE2
5 18 (23.68%) Service Delivery
6 15 (19.74%) Service Management
7 14 (18.42%) Change Management
8 13 (17.11%) Management Information System
9 12 (15.79%) Degree
10 11 (14.47%) Retail
11 10 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (10.53%) SAN
12 8 (10.53%) Programme Management
12 8 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 7 (9.211%) VoIP
14 6 (7.895%) SAP
14 6 (7.895%) SQL
14 6 (7.895%) SQL Server
14 6 (7.895%) NHS
14 6 (7.895%) Firewall
15 5 (6.579%) ITIL V3
15 5 (6.579%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (6.579%) PRINCE
15 5 (6.579%) .NET
15 5 (6.579%) Windows
15 5 (6.579%) MS Office
15 5 (6.579%) VPN
15 5 (6.579%) SLA
16 4 (5.263%) SMS
16 4 (5.263%) C

Head of IT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Head of IT in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Head of IT in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (6.579%) .NET
2 1 (1.316%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.316%) LAMP
2 1 (1.316%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.632%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.316%) Zimbra
2 1 (1.316%) Magento
2 1 (1.316%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (1.316%) Drupal
2 1 (1.316%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.316%) Apache
2 1 (1.316%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (6.579%) MS Office
2 1 (1.316%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.316%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.316%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.53%) SAN
2 7 (9.211%) VoIP
3 6 (7.895%) Firewall
4 5 (6.579%) VPN
5 4 (5.263%) SMS
6 1 (1.316%) Trixbox
6 1 (1.316%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (1.316%) Network Security
6 1 (1.316%) MPLS
6 1 (1.316%) LAN
6 1 (1.316%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.895%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.316%) QlikView
2 1 (1.316%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (1.316%) WebLOAD
General
1 20 (26.32%) Finance
2 11 (14.47%) Retail
3 4 (5.263%) Law
4 2 (2.632%) Legal
4 2 (2.632%) Banking
4 2 (2.632%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.316%) Advertising
5 1 (1.316%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.11%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.895%) NHS
3 5 (6.579%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (5.263%) Computer Science
5 2 (2.632%) Web 2.0
6 1 (1.316%) Open Source
6 1 (1.316%) iSeries
6 1 (1.316%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.579%) Windows
2 2 (2.632%) UNIX
3 1 (1.316%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.316%) Linux
3 1 (1.316%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.58%) Project Management
2 23 (30.26%) ITIL
3 19 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 18 (23.68%) Service Delivery
5 15 (19.74%) Service Management
6 14 (18.42%) Change Management
7 10 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.53%) Programme Management
8 8 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (6.579%) ITIL V3
9 5 (6.579%) PRINCE
10 4 (5.263%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (5.263%) Supplier Management
11 3 (3.947%) PDCA
11 3 (3.947%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (3.947%) Operations Management
11 3 (3.947%) Security Management
11 3 (3.947%) Six Sigma
11 3 (3.947%) CRM
12 2 (2.632%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.895%) SQL
2 4 (5.263%) C
3 1 (1.316%) C#
3 1 (1.316%) Java
3 1 (1.316%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (2.632%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.632%) BC Cleared
2 2 (2.632%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.316%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (1.316%) CISA
3 1 (1.316%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.579%) SLA
2 1 (1.316%) COBIT
2 1 (1.316%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.316%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 6 (7.895%) SAP
2 3 (3.947%) Cisco
2 3 (3.947%) Intel
3 2 (2.632%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.632%) Oracle
3 2 (2.632%) Salesforce.com
3 2 (2.632%) Avaya
4 1 (1.316%) F5
4 1 (1.316%) VMware
4 1 (1.316%) Nokia
4 1 (1.316%) IBM
4 1 (1.316%) HP
4 1 (1.316%) EMC
4 1 (1.316%) Nortel
4 1 (1.316%) Citrix
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