IT Director Contracts in the UK excluding London

Director of IT
UK > UK excluding London

The median Director of IT daily rate in the UK excluding London is £825, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 391 448
Rank change year-on-year +65 +57 +68
Contract jobs requiring an IT Director 8 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.014% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.016% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £753 - £802
25th Percentile £775 £850 £833
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £900 £950
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £906 £1,075 £1,100
90th Percentile £948 £1,150 -
UK median daily rate £775 £900 £900
% change year-on-year -13.89% - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,771 19,161 22,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.57% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 11,699 15,818
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 2,248 1,160
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

IT Director
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured IT Director in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IT Director in the UK excluding London

IT Director
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Director in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IT Director in the UK excluding London

IT Director
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Director in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Director in the UK excluding London

IT Director
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Midlands +19 3 £800 -23.81% 4
West Midlands +15 3 £800 -11.11% 2
South West - 3 £950 - 2
South East +36 1 - - 14
North of England +11 1 - - 5
North West +10 1 - - 3
IT Director
UK

IT Director Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, IT Director 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Director in the job title.

1 2 (25.00%) Unix
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) ERP
1 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (12.50%) OCI
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Matrix Management
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) ETL

IT Director Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) ERP
1 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) ETL
2 1 (12.50%) ITSM
2 1 (12.50%) Matrix Management
2 1 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Service Management
2 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking