Contractors' Questions: How is daily IT pay faring in 2015?

Contractor’s Question: How are daily pay rates in IT currently holding up in London, compared to last year?

Expert’s Answer: The following day rates were paid to limited company IT contractors working in London’s Commerce & Industry sector (so not at investment banks, investment management firms or energy trading companies). All figures are in pounds.

	2014	2015
IT Director	550 - 1000	700 - 1000
Programme Manager	500 - 700	500 - 700
Security Specialist	400 - 650	400 - 650
Technical Architect	500 - 700	500 - 700
IT Manager SME	450 - 650	450 - 650
Project Manager	350 - 550	350 - 550
Project Co-ordinator	200 - 250	220 - 280
Senior Business Analyst	400 - 550	400 - 550
Business Analyst	450 - 500	450 - 500
SAP Consultant	350 - 600	350 - 600
Network Engineer	250 - 350	250 - 350
Systems Administrator	300 - 400	300 - 400
3rd Line Support	300 - 450	300 - 450
1st/2nd Line Support	150 - 250	150 - 250
Database Developer	350 - 600	350 - 600
Database Administrator	450 - 550	450 - 550
Java Developer	400 - 550	400 - 550
C# Developer	400 - 600	400 - 600
PHP Developer (MVC)	250 - 400	250 - 400
Test Manager	400 - 550	400 - 550
Test Analyst	300 - 450	300 - 350

The Expert’s Answer is based on information from Robert Walters UK, and has been excerpted from its Global Salary Survey 2015.

27th January, 2015

Written by Simon Moore

Simon Moore is one of the UK’s most consistently published freelance journalists on freelancing, self-employment and contractor issues, such as IR35, the Loan Charge and late payment. Trained in News & Features writing by NCTJ-approved journalism tutors, Simon worked in the newsrooms of local, consumer and national press titles, before setting up his own editorial services company, Moore News Ltd.

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