Head of Information Contracts with Work from Home Options

Head of Information
UK > Work from Home

The median Head of Information daily rate in Work from Home is £367 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 462 609
Rank change year-on-year +123 +147 -116
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Information 5 1 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.034% 0.004% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.004% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £285
25th Percentile - - £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -43.54% -10.34% +38.10%
75th Percentile - - £775
90th Percentile - - £1,113
UK median daily rate £525 £688 £663
% change year-on-year -23.64% +3.77% +26.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,692 23,318 42,215
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.30% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,254 16,497 30,553
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 540 593
10th Percentile £14.19 £17.48 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.71 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.65 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £78.08 £68.23
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Head of Information
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Head of Information in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Head of Information trend for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Information
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Head of Information.

Head of Information daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Information Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, Head of Information 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Head of Information in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) XenApp
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Nessus
2 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix

Head of Information Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
1 3 (60.00%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Informatics
3 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance
3 1 (20.00%) Information Management
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 2 (40.00%) Nessus
1 2 (40.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
1 2 (40.00%) VMware