Read 2026-11-09
Fractional CTO cost
The median published price is £2,499.50, the middle half £1,808.75 to £4,350, the spread £1,500 to £5,000. That is 8 of 54 providers' own pages, read 2026-11-09. Up to three fractional CTOs chosen by Execplaced price your work directly.
Source: Fractional CTO Price Index: every row, with its source
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Fractional CTO Price Index
8 published prices from 8 providers' own pages, £1,500 to £5,000.
- prodevel.co.uk £1,500
From £1,500/month · No full-time hire needed
- leadership-services.co.uk £1,795
Leadership Services' fractional CTOs start from £1,795 per month, typically…
- divisor.business £1,850
An experienced technology leader in a real seat at your table: two days a month…
- 941consulting.com £2,499
£2,499/mo
- Median £2,499.50
- foresightmobile.com £2,500
Retainers start at £2,500 per month for two to five days.
- codeleap.co.uk £3,000
Our fractional CTO service starts from £3,000 a month (Advisory CTO) and from…
- chyshkala.com £4,800
From £4,800/mo
- fullstackconsulting.co.uk £5,000
Our fractional CTO service is typically based on a fixed monthly management fee…
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What happens next
- Tell us what you need from a part-time technology lead and roughly what you had in mind. No account, about a minute.
- Execplaced passes it to up to three fractional CTOs, and to no one else. You are emailed each one's name as your details go to it.
- They contact you directly, and you are free to walk away.
Fractional CTO cost is a free introduction service operated by Joseph Ellul (5 Dolce Vita Corte, Triq San Mikiel, San Gwann, SGN 2303, Malta). Your details go to up to three fractional CTOs chosen by Execplaced, who quote you directly; we may receive a fee from them, and you pay nothing and are under no obligation. We do not do the work ourselves. It carries no advertising, no sponsored placement and no affiliate links, and no provider in the table has paid to be there or can pay to be removed. Every figure is read from the named provider's own public page on the date shown and is what that provider advertises, not a quote for your job. Prices move; check the source before you rely on a row.
Fractional CTO Price Index
Last updated
Each provider below was read on its own page through our fetch box, and its row says what the page published that day. 8 of 54 publish a figure. The rest are listed too: how many will not quote a number is the most useful thing about this market. Nothing here quotes your job; it is what others advertise.
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 8 of the 54 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 46 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 625 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): per firm, its own published fee normalised to a day rate and a monthly retainer ex VAT, tagged by product (async advisory plan, days-per-month retainer, hands-on delivery retainer, recruiter-placed interim day rate), stage served (pre-seed, seed, Series A+, SME) and region; across firms the median, quartiles and range of the day rate and of the 1-day-a-week monthly fee, the London premium against the regions, the share of firms that publish versus quote-only (a firm with no published fee is counted as does-not-publish, never estimated), and the 1-day-a-week fee as a share of the ONS full-time IT director cost plus employer on-costs; every figure dated to the read
| Provider | Published figure | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fractional CTO Services UK | £2,500 | 2026-10-31 | Fractional CTO Services UK |
| Fractional CTO UK | £1,795 | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CTO UK |
| Fractional CTO Pricing 2026 | £2,499 | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CTO Pricing 2026 |
| Fractional CTO | £1,500 | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CTO |
| Fractional CTO Services | £5,000 | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CTO Services |
| What Is a Fractional CTO? Role, Cost and Timing, CodeLeap | £3,000 | 2026-11-09 | What Is a Fractional CTO? Role, Cost and Timing, CodeLeap |
| Fractional CTO: senior technology leadership, two days a month | £1,850 | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CTO: senior technology leadership, two days a month |
| Fractional CTO Glasgow | £4,800 | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CTO Glasgow |
| Fractional CTO Cost UK 2026: Day & Hourly Rates | publishes no price | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CTO Cost UK 2026: Day & Hourly Rates |
| Part-Time CTO UK: How a Fractional CTO Works | publishes no price | 2026-11-09 | Part-Time CTO UK: How a Fractional CTO Works |
| Fractional CTO London | publishes no price | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CTO London |
| Hire a Fractional CTO in the UK | publishes no price | 2026-11-09 | Hire a Fractional CTO in the UK |
| E-commerce & Retail CTO Consulting | publishes no price | 2026-11-09 | E-commerce & Retail CTO Consulting |
| Fractional CTO: The Complete UK Guide 2026 | publishes no price | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CTO: The Complete UK Guide 2026 |
| Fractional CTO cost UK: the 2026 pricing guide | publishes no price | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CTO cost UK: the 2026 pricing guide |
| Fractional CTO Pricing UK | publishes no price | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CTO Pricing UK |
| Fractional CTO UK | publishes no price | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CTO UK |
| How Much Does a Fractional CTO Cost in the UK? 2026 Pricing Guide | publishes no price | 2026-11-09 | How Much Does a Fractional CTO Cost in the UK? 2026 Pricing Guide |
| Fractional CPTO UK | publishes no price | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CPTO UK (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page) |
| Fractional CTO: Complete UK Guide with Costs & Day Rates (2026) | publishes no price | 2026-11-09 | Fractional CTO: Complete UK Guide with Costs & Day Rates (2026) |
- The median published figure is £2,499.50 across 8 readings, with the middle half between £1,808.75 and £4,350. (Fractional CTO Price Index: every row, with its source)
- 8 of 54 providers read publish a price at all; 46 publish none. (Fractional CTO Price Index: every row, with its source)
- The cheapest published figure is £1,500, by Fractional CTO. (Fractional CTO)
- The dearest published figure is £5,000, by Fractional CTO Services. (Fractional CTO Services)
Cite this page
“Fractional CTO Price Index”, Fractional CTO cost, https://fractionalctocost.co.uk/ (updated 2026-11-09). Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 8 of the 54 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 46 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 625 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): per firm, its own published fee normalised to a day rate and a monthly retainer ex VAT, tagged by product (async advisory plan, days-per-month retainer, hands-on delivery retainer, recruiter-placed interim day rate), stage served (pre-seed, seed, Series A+, SME) and region; across firms the median, quartiles and range of the day rate and of the 1-day-a-week monthly fee, the London premium against the regions, the share of firms that publish versus quote-only (a firm with no published fee is counted as does-not-publish, never estimated), and the 1-day-a-week fee as a share of the ONS full-time IT director cost plus employer on-costs; every figure dated to the read
Worth knowing
Every figure sourced and dated.
- Fractional CTO Price Index: every published figure
Every provider we read that publishes a figure for fractional cto cost, what it publishes, and the day we read it. 8 of 54 read.
- Who publishes a price, and who makes you ask
8 of 54 providers read for fractional cto cost publish a figure. These are the ones that do not.
- Fractional and interim CTO day rates UK: what sources state
UK interim, fractional and contract CTO day rates across 18 sources: job-ad indexes, a live advert and practitioners' published bands.
Straight answers
What does a fractional, part-time or interim CTO cost in the UK, per day and per month, across firms' own published fees?
The median published figure is £2,499.50. The middle half of the readings sit between £1,808.75 and £4,350 and the whole spread runs £1,500 to £5,000, over 8 figures read on 2026-11-09. A spread that wide is the honest answer: what you pay depends on the scope, so the table below shows every reading and who published it.(Fractional CTO Price Index: every row, with its source)
How many providers publish a price at all?
8 of the 54 read, out of 55 named. The others answer with a quote form. The table lists them as publishing no price rather than dropping them. The share of a market that will not put a number on its own page is itself a finding.(Fractional CTO Price Index: every row, with its source)
Where do these figures come from, and when were they read?
Each one is a sentence on the provider's own page, read on 2026-11-09 through our own fetch box. It is stored with the hash of the page's text, so the row can be checked against what was there that day. The row links to the page it came from.(Fractional CTO Price Index: every row, with its source)
Is this a price for my job?
No. Every figure here is what a provider advertises on its own page for its own packages, not a quote for your work. The spread from £1,500 to £5,000 is exactly why. Scope is what moves it. Ask for a price and you get one; this page is so you know what you are hearing when you do.(Fractional CTO Price Index: every row, with its source)
Who answers an enquiry from this page?
Up to three fractional CTOs chosen by Execplaced. Your details go to them and to no one else, and they contact you directly with a price. We do not do the work ourselves and we do not resell your details.
What day rate does an interim or fractional CTO charge in the UK?
Across 18 sources read on 2026-11-09, the median stated day rate is £800, with the middle half between £703.75 and £918.75. Job-ad index medians for CTO and head-of-engineering contracts sit at £702.50; practitioners' own published bands start at a median of £850.(Fractional CTO day rates as stated: every row, with its source)
Why do job adverts state a lower day rate than fractional CTO guides?
The job-ad readings are what hirers advertise for a contract role: a median of £702.50 over 6 titles. The practitioner readings are the lower bound of the band a fractional CTO publishes: a median of £850 over 10 guides. The table lists every reading and who stated it.(Fractional CTO day rates as stated: every row, with its source)
Sources
This site's own datasets, every figure quoted from its source and dated:
- The Fractional CTO Engagement Rules carries 6 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 5,000 to 15,000,000 GBP, read 7 November 2026.
- The median published figure in the Fractional CTO Price Index is 2,499.50 GBP across 8 sources' own pages (range 1,500 to 5,000 GBP), read 9 November 2026.
- For practitioner guide, the median published figure in the Fractional CTO Rates Reported is 850 GBP across 10 figures from the sources' own pages (range 700 to 1,000 GBP), read 9 November 2026.