Head of Software Engineering Contracts

Head of Software Engineering
UK

The median Head of Software Engineering daily rate in the UK is £813 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 583 - 847
Rank change year-on-year - - -179
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Software Engineering 3 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% - 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £679 - £613
25th Percentile £722 - £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £813 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.71%
75th Percentile £922 - £838
90th Percentile £976 - £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - £675
% change year-on-year - - -6.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Head of Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Software Engineering in the UK

Head of Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Head of Software Engineering in the UK

Head of Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Software Engineering over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Software Engineering in the UK

Head of Software Engineering
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Software Engineering within the UK 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
England - 3 £813 - 4
North West - 2 £650 -
UK excluding London - 2 £650 - 2
North of England - 2 £650 -
London - 1 £975 - 2
Work from Home - 1 - - 4

Head of Software Engineering Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Head of Software 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 featuring Head of Software Engineering in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Line Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Military
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Situational Awareness
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership

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

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Line Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Situational Awareness
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership