Head of Engineering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Head of Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The median Head of Engineering daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £735, 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 294 339 457
Rank change year-on-year +45 +118 +163
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 10 6 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.039% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.042% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 8
10th Percentile £625 £508 £644
25th Percentile £644 £519 £719
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £735 £650 £800
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% -18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £806 £1,009 £838
90th Percentile £987 £1,341 £980
UK median daily rate £735 £700 £800
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.50% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Head of Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Head of Engineering in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Head of Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Head of Engineering.

Head of Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Head of Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Head of Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Head of Engineering in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) SaaS
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (20.00%) Meraki
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Coaching
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Educational Technology
3 2 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Budget Management
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Node.js
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) QA
3 2 (20.00%) B2B
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) Juniper

Head of Engineering 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) SaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (10.00%) MS Access
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 2 (20.00%) B2B
2 2 (20.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (20.00%) Change Management
2 2 (20.00%) Coaching
2 2 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) ETL
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
1 2 (20.00%) Juniper
1 2 (20.00%) Meraki
1 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto