Head of Information Contracts

Head of Information
UK

The median Head of Information daily rate in the UK is £682 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 684 827
Rank change year-on-year +103 +143 -108
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Information 6 5 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.009% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.009% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 22
10th Percentile £430 £615 £347
25th Percentile £524 £638 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £682 £688 £656
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +4.76% +25.00%
75th Percentile £841 £806 £775
90th Percentile £936 £818 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate - £700 £713
% change year-on-year - -1.75% +9.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,794 53,311 84,183
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,730 37,248 59,348
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,844 1,473 1,970
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.37
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%

Head of Information
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Information in the UK

Head of Information
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Head of Information in the UK

Head of Information
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Information over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Information in the UK

Head of Information
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Head of Information in the UK

Head of Information
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +92 6 £682 -0.76% 21
Work from Home +125 4 £367 -43.54% 10
UK excluding London +47 3 - - 14
South East +15 3 - - 3
London +99 2 £367 -45.63% 7

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 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 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