Head of Engineering Contracts in London

Head of Engineering
England > London

The median Head of Engineering daily rate in London is £706, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 379 473
Rank change year-on-year +39 +94 +104
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 13 12 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.067% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.072% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 13
10th Percentile - £570 £670
25th Percentile £625 £650 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £706 £875 £800
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £820 £1,044 £875
90th Percentile £913 £1,270 £1,170
England median daily rate £750 £725 £750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Head of Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Engineering in London

Head of Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Head of Engineering in London

Head of Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Engineering in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Engineering in London

Head of Engineering
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +5 2 £650 -55.93% 1
Head of Engineering
England

Head of Engineering Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Head of 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 across the London region featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Python
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
1 8 (61.54%) Data Governance
1 8 (61.54%) Apache Spark
1 8 (61.54%) Data Strategy
2 7 (53.85%) Databricks
2 7 (53.85%) Data Quality
2 7 (53.85%) Analytics
2 7 (53.85%) Banking
2 7 (53.85%) Finance
3 6 (46.15%) Front Office
3 6 (46.15%) Financial Institution
3 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (46.15%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (46.15%) Investment Banking
3 6 (46.15%) Predictive Analytics
3 6 (46.15%) Machine Learning
3 6 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (46.15%) Data Science
3 6 (46.15%) Delta Lake
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
5 3 (23.08%) SQL
5 3 (23.08%) QA
5 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
6 2 (15.38%) Power BI
6 2 (15.38%) Terraform
6 2 (15.38%) Meraki
6 2 (15.38%) Docker
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps

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

Application Platforms
1 8 (61.54%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure API Management
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Delta Lake
2 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 7 (53.85%) Banking
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Financial Institution
2 6 (46.15%) Front Office
2 6 (46.15%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
1 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Data Governance
1 8 (61.54%) Data Strategy
2 7 (53.85%) Analytics
3 6 (46.15%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (46.15%) Data Science
3 6 (46.15%) Machine Learning
3 6 (46.15%) Predictive Analytics
3 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
5 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Bicep
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Scala
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) Data Quality
2 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Databricks
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Juniper
3 2 (15.38%) Meraki
3 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) Remedy