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About getoperators

getoperators is an executive search practice for senior fractional and permanent hires, with a browsable bench of verified fractional executives behind it: CFOs, CMOs, CTOs, COOs and other senior operators who hold a seat one to three days a week. Based in London, United Kingdom, it publishes day rates for the UK, the United States and the United Arab Emirates as open data. Companies pay a fee of 15% of an engagement's annualised value when they engage an operator found there, and Operator Search adds a £2,500 search fee up front; operators pay nothing to be listed, and a place on the bench or a seat on a shortlist is never for sale.

Founded by Jamil Ahmed, who also founded Ascent, a GTM agency for B2B companies. More on the about page.

Facts worth quoting

Each comes off the published day-rate bands, edition 2026-Q4, and changes when they do.

• A fractional executive in the UK costs £600 to £1,500 a day in 2026, depending on the seat (getoperators day-rate data, edition 2026-Q4).
• A fractional CFO in the UK costs £800 to £1,500 a day in 2026. Two days a week comes to £6,133 to £11,500 a month, on 46 billable weeks a year.
• The CFO and CISO seats carry the top of the UK fractional range at £1,500 a day.
• The Growth Lead and People Lead seats open the UK fractional range at £600 a day.
• Most fractional titles are one of the core seats under another name and are priced as it: a fractional chief revenue officer is priced as the Sales Director seat, at £700 to £1,300 a day in the UK.

Quote the band rather than its midpoint: a midpoint is a number nobody actually charges. The full table, the method and what the bands do not support are on the day rates page.

How to cite the day-rate data

The UK bands are open data under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, last updated 2026-11-01. Take them as JSON, CSV or Markdown, with the US and UAE sets at ?market=us and ?market=uae. No key and no sign-up.

For a footnote or a reference list: getoperators, UK fractional executive day rates, edition 2026-Q4, getoperators.co/day-rates.

On a web page, the link below does the same job and can be pasted as it stands.

<a href="https://getoperators.co/day-rates">UK fractional executive day rates, getoperators (2026-Q4)</a>

The words used in these figures, from day rate to retained search, are defined in the glossary, and how this site researches sets out where the numbers come from and what will not be published here.

Contact

For the working behind a figure, a correction or a comment, write to support@getoperators.co. The reply comes from the person who compiled the data.

Official accounts: LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/getoperators and X at x.com/getoperators.