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 69%
November 2003
Up 48%
February 2004
Up 19%
May 2004
Up 5%
July 2004
Up 1%
Rates
Earnings
Amount
Last Report
Average Hourly IT Contract Rate
£22
£23
Average Annual IT Salary
£38,800
£38,800
The Top 5 Skills (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Skill
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
Management
38.1%
£26
£43,400
Support
30.8%
£18
£34,800
Finance
24.6%
£31
£50,000
Analyst
24.2%
£23
£38,500
Design
21.9%
£33
£43,000
Top 5 Locations (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Location
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
London
36.5%
£23
£46,200
City
5.2%
£26
£51,100
Berkshire
3.5%
£19
£38,500
England
3.4%
£26
£38,200
South East
3.4%
£30
£45,600
This information is supplied by JobStats.
For more detail and historical charts visit http://www.jobstats.co.uk
