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 2002
Down 12%
November 2002
Down 3%
February 2003
Down 3%
May 2003
Up 6%
July 2003
Up 1%
Rates
Earnings
Amount
Last Report
Average Hourly IT Contract Rate
£20
£19
Average Annual IT Salary
£36,500
£35,700
The Top 5 Skills (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Skill
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
Management
34.4%
£23
£40,800
Support
28.3%
£16
£32,600
Analyst
20.9%
£20
£36,300
Design
19.2%
£30
£39,500
Finance
18.6%
£25
£45,100
Top 5 Locations (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Location
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
London
30.9%
£21
£42,900
City
7.1%
£28
£49,100
Berkshire
3.8%
£17
£35,500
Surrey
3.0%
£19
£34,200
South East
2.7%
£28
£41,000
This information is supplied by JobStats.
For more detail and historical charts visit http://www.jobstats.co.uk
