IT Director Contract Job Trends in England

Director of IT
UK > England

The median Director of IT daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 513 577
Rank change year-on-year +5 +64 +189
Contract jobs requiring an IT Director 16 15 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.057% 0.047% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.050% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 9
10th Percentile £342 £638 £710
25th Percentile £533 £736 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £863 £869
Median % change year-on-year -24.64% -0.75% +10.35%
75th Percentile £788 £941 £988
90th Percentile £853 £1,115 £1,000
UK median daily rate £650 £863 £869
% change year-on-year -24.64% -0.75% +15.87%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 25,623 29,744 38,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 93.08% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,502 18,152 26,664
10th Percentile £276 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,440 1,247 1,407
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £15.23
25th Percentile £17.32 £21.25 £19.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +67.93%
75th Percentile £50.81 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.81%

IT Director
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'IT Director' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

IT Director job vacancy trend in England

IT Director
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Director job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Director job vacancies in England

IT Director
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Director in England over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Director in England

IT Director
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Director within the England region over the 6 months to 14 October 2025. 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
London +25 9 £650 -22.96% 19
North of England - 4 £295 -
Yorkshire - 3 £295 -
South West +17 1 - - 1
Midlands -12 1 £775 -6.06% 6
West Midlands -18 1 £775 -6.06% 3
North West - 1 - -
IT Director
UK

IT Director Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, IT Director contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring IT Director in the job title.

1 9 (56.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Project Management
3 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) IT Strategy
4 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (31.25%) ServiceNow
4 5 (31.25%) Service Delivery
4 5 (31.25%) ITSM
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) ITIL
4 5 (31.25%) Technology Roadmap
4 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
5 4 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (25.00%) Tech Ops
5 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery Management
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (25.00%) Escalation Management
6 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
6 3 (18.75%) IT Governance
6 3 (18.75%) Programme Management
6 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
7 2 (12.50%) GDPR
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Finance
7 2 (12.50%) AI
7 2 (12.50%) Strategic Planning

IT Director Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Health Technology
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (6.25%) FMCG
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (43.75%) Project Management
3 6 (37.50%) IT Strategy
3 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (31.25%) ITIL
4 5 (31.25%) ITSM
4 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
4 5 (31.25%) Service Delivery
4 5 (31.25%) Technology Roadmap
5 4 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (25.00%) Escalation Management
5 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery Management
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (25.00%) Tech Ops
6 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
6 3 (18.75%) IT Governance
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) CCSP
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.25%) CISM
1 1 (6.25%) CISSP
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
1 1 (6.25%) PMP
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) ServiceNow
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.25%) Okta
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) Tanium
3 1 (6.25%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Zscaler