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
October 2002
Up 2%
January 2003
Up 3%
April 2003
Up 12%
July 2003
Up 9%
September 2003
Up 2%
Rates
Earnings
Amount
Last Report
Average Hourly IT Contract Rate
£19
£19
Average Annual IT Salary
£36,700
£36,700
The Top 5 Skills (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Skill
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
Management
34.5%
£23
£40,100
Support
29.3%
£16
£32,700
Analyst
21.2%
£20
£36,300
Finance
20.1%
£25
£47,800
Design
19.6%
£29
£40,600
Top 5 Locations (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Location
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
London
32.6%
£19
£44,900
City
7.9%
£19
£49,300
England
3.9%
£24
£35,300
UK
3.8%
£22
£41,500
Berkshire
3.5%
£19
£37,900
This information is supplied by JobStats.
For more detail and historical charts visit http://www.jobstats.co.uk
