Interim executives contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most interim executives contracts took 38% of them (49 of 130).
• The median contract, £100k, is 42% above the median across recruitment & hr contracts (£70k).
• North East had the most contracts: 23, or 18% of the total.

1. 1Tees Valley Combined Authority15 contracts£2.0m
2. 2Cheshire West and Chester Council7 contracts£769k
3. 3Sheffield City Council6 contracts£127k
4. 4Dacorum Borough Council4 contracts£911k
5. 5Thirteen Housing Group Limited3 contracts£564k
6. 6Plymouth Community Homes3 contracts£346k
7. 7Information Commissioner's Office3 contracts£327k
8. 8Southampton City Council3 contracts£310k
9. 9Salford City Council3 contracts£203k
10. 10Government Property Agency2 contracts£704k

1. 1Tile Hill16 contracts£2.4m
2. 2Ambient People Limited10 contracts£1.4m
3. 3Lee Hecht Harrison Penna10 contracts£1.2m
4. 4G2V Recruitment Group7 contracts£651k
5. 5PageGroup6 contracts£497k
6. 6Faerfield Limited5 contracts£88k
7. 7Odgers Berndtson4 contracts£560k
8. 8NEEMAR SEARCH LIMITED4 contracts£514k
9. 9Hays4 contracts£429k
10. 10Venn Group3 contracts£358k

Latest

• Interim Head of Business Resilience (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £67k

  University of the West of England Higher Education Corporation to PageGroup · Awarded 22 September 2026

• Head of Facilities Catering and Logistics (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £69k

  Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to Venn Group · Awarded 18 September 2026

• Interim Head of Governance (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £88k

  Tees Valley Combined Authority to Lee Hecht Harrison Penna · Awarded 10 September 2026

• Deputy Director (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £333k

  Government Property Agency to Turner & Townsend · Awarded 8 September 2026

• C469065 - Waiver for Turnaround Director Role (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £75k

  Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to I&E Professionals Ltd · Awarded 8 September 2026

• Interim Strategic Regeneration Advisor (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £135k

  New Forest District Council to Tile Hill · Awarded 3 September 2026

• Interim Highways and Infrastructure Support (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £51k

  Cheshire West and Chester Council to Essency Consulting Limited · Awarded 2 September 2026

• Interim Recruitment (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £314k

  East Lindsey District Council to STONEHOUSE RECRUITMENT GROUP LIMITED · Awarded 2 September 2026

• Chief People Officer (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £321k

  Police Digital Service to Permanent Futures · Awarded 28 August 2026

• Interim Head of Legal Services 2025-26 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £127k

  Folkestone & Hythe District Council to Venn Group · Awarded 24 August 2026

Largest

• Provision of an Interim Assistant Director of Property Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £707k

  Dacorum Borough Council to supplier not published · Awarded 26 June 2026

• Agency recruitment - Head of Finance (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £654k

  Oxford City Council to Tile Hill · Awarded 18 March 2026

• CSP26274-Interim STFC Finance Director (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £390k

  UK Shared Business Services (UK SBS) to Insight Executive Group · Awarded 9 March 2026

• Interim Project Director ECMWF DSIT Client Role (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £370k

  Government Property Agency to Turner & Townsend · Awarded 15 December 2025

• Supply of Interim Enforcement Team Leader (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £324k

  Derbyshire Dales District Council to CARRINGTON WEST LIMITED · Awarded 1 April 2026

Interim directors, heads of service and senior managers supplied on day rates to lead a service or function for a period, usually until a permanent appointment is made.

• Interim directors of adult services, finance and highways
• Interim section 151 and deputy monitoring officers
• Interim heads of governance, legal, estates and planning
• Interim service managers running a service unit
• Interim recruitment lots

• Mid-level interim project, PMO and procurement staff -> rec.temp.professional-management-staff
• Mid-level interim finance staff -> rec.temp.finance-temporary-staff
• Interim technical staff below head of service -> rec.temp.built-environment-technical-staff
• Locum team managers and senior practitioners in social work -> rec.social.locum-social-workers
• IT and digital interims bought alone -> it.advice.it-contractors-specialist-resource
• Permanent senior appointments -> rec.search.executive-search
• Independent improvement board chairs and advisers -> another industry: consulting-accountancy

• Executive search

• Finance recruitment
• Locum solicitors