It should be noted that these figures are derived from contracts advertised on job boards and is best used as a good indicator of the overall health of the contract market, since many ads do not include contract rates.
Change in the number of IT jobs advertised since the end of:
Date
% Change
May 2003
Up 70%
August 2003
Up 56%
November 2003
Up 36%
February 2004
Up 9%
April 2004
1%
Rates
Earnings
Amount
Last Report
Average Hourly IT Contract Rate
£21
£21
Average Annual IT Salary
£38,800
£38,000
The Top 5 Skills (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Skill
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
Management
37.1%
£25
£43,100
Support
30.5%
£17
£35,200
Finance
23.8%
£32
£51,000
Analyst
23.5%
£19
£38,100
Design
21.5%
£30
£43,200
Top 5 Locations (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Location
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
London
34.2%
£22
£47,100
City
5.8%
£20
£50,900
England
3.9%
£25
£38,100
Berkshire
3.9%
£17
£37,900
Surrey
3.3%
£23
£36,800
This information is supplied by JobStats.
For more detail and historical charts visit http://www.jobstats.co.uk
