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
June 2003
Up 75%
September 2003
Up 54%
December 2003
Up 79%
March 2004
Up 8%
May 2004
0%
Rates
Earnings
Amount
Last Report
Average Hourly IT Contract Rate
£21
£21
Average Annual IT Salary
£39,100
£38,800
The Top 5 Skills (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Skill
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
Management
37.5%
£23
£43,400
Support
30.3%
£17
£34,800
Finance
24.6%
£30
£50,600
Analyst
23.2%
£20
£38,200
Design
21.4%
£31
£43,100
Top 5 Locations (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Location
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
London
35.1%
£21
£46,900
City
5.3%
£25
£51,100
Berkshire
3.9%
£18
£38,100
England
3.6%
£30
£38,000
Surrey
3.4%
£24
£36,600
This information is supplied by JobStats.
For more detail and historical charts visit http://www.jobstats.co.uk
