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Pricing

What Engaged Search costs, how it is paid, and what we guarantee in return. All prices are in GBP and exclude VAT.

Engaged Search · Permanent

The investment

Fee
22.5%
of first-year base salary
Engaged Search, one role. The fee is confirmed against the actual agreed base salary at offer.
Refundable deposit

Payment schedule

25%On commencement

25%On two candidates reaching second interview

50%On starting

The deposit is all that is committed to start.

For context, contingency agencies run at 18% to 20%.

Fees are confirmed against the actual agreed base salary at offer and are exclusive of VAT.

Engaged Search · Associates

Associate rate card

Day rates are in GBP and exclude VAT.
LevelRole title guideDay rate
1Follown/an/a
2AssistJunior Consultantn/a
3ApplyArchitecture Analyst£750
4EnableTechnical / Solution Architect£850
5Ensure / AdviseSenior Solution Architect / Product Architect£950
6Initiate / InfluenceSenior Enterprise Architect£1,100
7Set Strategy / InspireChief Architect£1,350

Please note this is a guide only. The nature of architecture and the cross pollination of roles means that until we have completed the role definition process it is not possible to confirm the level. Domain titles sit within the various levels. For example, a Salesforce Architect or Data Architect could be a level 4, 5 or 6 depending on the deliverables required.

Our side of the deal

Our guarantees

Permanent

Shortlist or no fee

If we cannot produce a shortlist against the agreed scorecard, there is no fee.

Deposit refunded

If you do not sign off on the shortlist, the deposit comes back in full, with no conditions.

Six month free replacement

If the placed architect leaves or is exited inside six months, we run the search again at no fee.

Yours exclusively

No candidate we present to you is presented to another client, now or later in the process.

Salary honesty up front

The range is benchmarked before we start.

If it will not attract the right person, we say so and decline the assignment.

Associates

You only pay on signed off work

Invoices are raised against deliverables you have signed off, not against time spent.

Outside IR35, SoW deliverables based

Pricing is for outside IR35, Statement of Work deliverables based work.

Let us talk about the role you are trying to fill.