Head of Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Head of Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The median Head of Engineering daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2024.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 433 609
Rank change year-on-year +96 +176 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Engineering 4 24 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.10% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.11% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 11
10th Percentile £555 £700 £700
25th Percentile £600 £750 £781
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £850
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £1,194 £850 £888
90th Percentile £1,415 £1,125 £913
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £775
% change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +5.08%

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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Head of Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Head of Engineering in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Head of Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Head of Engineering over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

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 17 June 2024, 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 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (75.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Culture Change
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Military
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata Repository
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Coaching
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (25.00%) Culture Change
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL