Head of IT Contracts in the City of London

Head of Information Technology
Central London > City of London

The median Head of Information Technology daily rate in the City of London is £1,150 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 177 197
Rank change year-on-year +50 +20 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Head of IT 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.089% 0.027% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.028% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £870 - -
25th Percentile £956 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,150 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +130.00% - -
75th Percentile £1,381 - -
90th Percentile £1,490 - -
Central London median daily rate £1,150 £500 -
% change year-on-year +130.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,128 3,557 4,059
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 95.21% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,516 2,396 3,077
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £595 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% +5.31% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £789 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 31 50
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £19.99 £18.48 £18.50
Median hourly rate £22.75 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -6.04% +77.47%
75th Percentile £27.38 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £43.08 £85.00 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +77.47%

Head of IT
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of IT in the City of London

Head of IT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Head of IT in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Head of IT in the City of London

Head of IT
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of IT in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of IT in the City of London

Head of IT Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Head of IT 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 City of London region featuring Head of IT in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) COBIT
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) People Management
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD

Head of IT Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) COBIT
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft