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
April 2003
Up 54%
July 2003
Up 51%
October 2003
Up 34%
January 2004
Up 8%
March 2004
0%
Rates
Earnings
Amount
Last Report
Average Hourly IT Contract Rate
£21
£21
Average Annual IT Salary
£38,000
£37,100
The Top 5 Skills (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Skill
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
Management
36.0%
£26
£42,800
Support
29.4%
£17
£33,400
Analyst
22.9%
£20
£37,500
Finance
22.3%
£29
£49,100
Design
21.1%
£31
£42,000
Top 5 Locations (by number of adverts referring to them) are:
Location
% of Jobs
Ave. Hourly Rate
Ave. Salary
London
32.9%
£21
£45,600
City
5.8%
£20
£50,300
England
4.1%
£25
£40,400
Surrey
3.8%
£19
£36,300
Berkshire
3.8%
£19
£37,600
This information is supplied by JobStats.
For more detail and historical charts visit http://www.jobstats.co.uk
