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
August 2003
Up 60%
November 2003
Up 40%
February 2004
Up 12%
May 2004
0%
July 2004
Down 4%
Rates
Earnings
Amount
Last Report
Average Hourly IT Contract Rate
£23
£21
Average Annual IT Salary
£38,800
£39,100
The Top 5 Skills (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Skill
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
Management
40.3%
£27
£42,900
Support
32.2%
£18
£35,200
Finance
25.3%
£29
£49,100
Analyst
25.2%
£24
£38,400
Design
22.2%
£33
£42,800
Top 5 Locations (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Location
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
London
37.7%
£24
£46,300
City
5.4%
£25
£50,500
Berkshire
3.9%
£21
£37,400
England
3.7%
£23
£37,000
Surrey
3.5%
£24
£37,400
This information is supplied by JobStats.
For more detail and historical charts visit http://www.jobstats.co.uk
