Read 2026-10-28
Fractional CFO cost
Nine of the 70 UK fractional CFO and finance director providers read for this site publish a monthly fee on their own page: from £900 to £4,800, a median of £1,795. The rest quote per engagement. Every published figure is below, with the day it was read, and Joe will talk your own needs through on a free call.
Source: Fractional CFO Price Index: every row, with its source
£1,375 £2,250
the middle half of the published prices; median £1,795
9 of 75 providers read publish a price, read . Every price, with its source
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Fractional CFO Price Index
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Every provider below was read on its own page through our fetch box, and the row says what that page published on the day we read it. 9 of 70 publish a figure; the rest are listed too, because how many will not quote a number is the most useful thing about this market. Nothing here is a quote for your job: it is what other people 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). 9 of the 70 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 61 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 5 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; 488 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 (CFO-only retainer, bundled finance function, placed day-rate contractor), stage served 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, and the monthly fee as a share of the ONS full-time FD cost plus employer on-costs
| Provider | Published figure | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ScaleWithCFO UK | £2,000 | 2026-10-28 | ScaleWithCFO UK |
| Zmartly fractional CFO guide | £900 | 2026-10-28 | Zmartly fractional CFO guide |
| Insight Professional Partners virtual FD | £1,250 | 2026-10-28 | Insight Professional Partners virtual FD |
| AccTek fractional CFO for startups | £1,500 | 2026-10-28 | AccTek fractional CFO for startups |
| Finley fractional FD Nottingham | £2,000 | 2026-10-28 | Finley fractional FD Nottingham |
| Wynyard Advisory Yorkshire | £1,500 | 2026-10-28 | Wynyard Advisory Yorkshire |
| Leadership Services fractional CFO | £1,795 | 2026-10-28 | Leadership Services fractional CFO |
| Financial Dynamix fractional CFO cost | £2,500 | 2026-10-28 | Financial Dynamix fractional CFO cost |
| Content Savvy cost guide | £4,800 | 2026-10-28 | Content Savvy cost guide |
| ScaleWithCFO London | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | ScaleWithCFO London |
| ScaleWithCFO Manchester | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | ScaleWithCFO Manchester |
| FD Capital fractional CFO pricing | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | FD Capital fractional CFO pricing |
| FD Capital fractional FD cost | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | FD Capital fractional FD cost |
| Zmartly pricing | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Zmartly pricing |
| Tunneys fractional CFO (London) | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Tunneys fractional CFO (London) |
| PDC Online virtual FD (Liverpool) | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | PDC Online virtual FD (Liverpool) |
| CFO Centre Manchester | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | CFO Centre Manchester |
| CFO Centre UK | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | CFO Centre UK |
| CFO Centre Edinburgh | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | CFO Centre Edinburgh |
| Taxflow Partners pricing | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Taxflow Partners pricing |
| Secantor virtual FD | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Secantor virtual FD |
- The median published figure is £1,795 across 9 readings, with the middle half between £1,375 and £2,250. (Fractional CFO Price Index: every row, with its source)
- 9 of 70 providers read publish a price at all; 61 publish none. (Fractional CFO Price Index: every row, with its source)
- The cheapest published figure is £900, by Zmartly fractional CFO guide. (Zmartly fractional CFO guide)
- The dearest published figure is £4,800, by Content Savvy cost guide. (Content Savvy cost guide)
Cite this page
“Fractional CFO Price Index”, Fractional CFO cost, https://fractionalcfocost.co.uk/ (updated 2026-10-28). 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). 9 of the 70 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 61 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 5 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; 488 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 (CFO-only retainer, bundled finance function, placed day-rate contractor), stage served 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, and the monthly fee as a share of the ONS full-time FD cost plus employer on-costs
Questions, answered directly
What does a fractional CFO or part-time finance director cost in the UK, per day and per month, across firms' own published fees?
The median published figure is £1,795. The middle half of the readings sit between £1,375 and £2,250 and the whole spread runs £900 to £4,800, over 9 figures read on 2026-10-28. 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 CFO Price Index: every row, with its source)
How many providers publish a price at all?
9 of the 70 read, out of 75 named. The others answer with a quote form. They are listed in the table as publishing no price rather than dropped, because the share of a market that will not put a number on its own page is itself a finding.(Fractional CFO 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 2026-10-28 through our own fetch box and 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 CFO 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, and the spread from £900 to £4,800 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 CFO Price Index: every row, with its source)
Who answers an enquiry from this page?
Joseph Ellul, who runs this site and does this work. There is no lead panel behind the form: the enquiry is read by the company that would do the job, and your details are not passed on or resold to anyone.
Sources
This site's own datasets, every figure quoted from its source and dated:
- The median published figure in the Finance Director Pay Benchmark is 6.70 percent across 1 source's own page in percent (range 6.70 to 6.70 percent; 2 sources publish a figure), read 12 October 2026.
- The Fractional CFO Engagement Rules carries 4 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 5,000 to 15,000,000 GBP, read 28 October 2026.
- The median published figure in the Fractional CFO Price Index is 1,795 GBP across 9 sources' own pages (range 900 to 4,800 GBP), read 28 October 2026.