Head of Information Contracts in England

Head of Information
UK > England

The median Head of Information daily rate in England is £682 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 632 756
Rank change year-on-year +87 +124 -107
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Information 6 5 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.011% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.011% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 19
10th Percentile £430 £615 £316
25th Percentile £524 £638 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £682 £688 £663
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +3.77% +20.45%
75th Percentile £841 £806 £775
90th Percentile £936 £818 £850
UK median daily rate £682 £688 £656
% change year-on-year -0.76% +4.76% +0.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Head of Information
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Information in England

Head of Information
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Head of Information in England.

Daily rate trend for Head of Information in England

Head of Information
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Information in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Information in England

Head of Information
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Head of Information in England.

Hourly rate trend for Head of Information in England

Head of Information
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 Head of Information within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
South East +12 3 - - 4
London +95 2 £367 -45.63% 6
Head of Information
UK

Head of Information Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Head of Information 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 England region featuring Head of Information in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Information Security
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 3 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 3 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (50.00%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (50.00%) Nessus
3 3 (50.00%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) Citrix
4 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (33.33%) XenApp
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (33.33%) Splunk
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (33.33%) Line Management

Head of Information Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
3 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (83.33%) Information Security
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (50.00%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (33.33%) Line Management
5 1 (16.67%) Advanced Persistent Threat
5 1 (16.67%) Contract Negotiation
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Informatics
5 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
5 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Social Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 3 (50.00%) Nessus
2 2 (33.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Citrix
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
1 2 (33.33%) VMware