Average Day Rate

[DeludedAussie]

I should do a poll but I just wonder what an average rate for IT contracting is

Yes I know its such a broad market and location will also be a factor but the sense I get is some contracts are paying £100 a day whereas others are paying >£900

Is that actually the case - Myself I ve been between 400 and 600 in London which I always thought was the top end of the contracting market

What are peoples thoughts?

[swamp]

Mean, mode or median?

You've got to be specific on here.

[DeludedAussie]

Mean, mode or median?

You've got to be specific on here.

All 3

I guess my question is what is the range of rates and what is the mean - Better

[swamp]

Contracting rates vary from around zero (perhaps for a Bob coerced into 'contracting') to £1m a day for Red Adair in Kuwait 1991 (say). The various averages -- mean, mode & median -- would be somewhere between these two figures.

Hope this helps.

[helen7]

To give you a helpful answer.

Where are i am (blue chip, 50 miles out of london) majority of contracts are between 350 (say for a tester) to 600 (skilled technical / middle management).

Upwards of 600 tends to be the specialists and project managers.

[DS23]

whatever it is it's never enough.

[ChimpMaster]

To give you a helpful answer.

Where are i am (blue chip, 50 miles out of london) majority of contracts are between 350 (say for a tester) to 600 (skilled technical / middle management).

Upwards of 600 tends to be the specialists and project managers.

600 out of London is very very good, I would have thought. City (London) rates tend to be around £550 on average I would have thought.

[Fred Bloggs]

The last few years I have averaged about £320 a day which is typical for NW and NE England where I have mostly worked. The last year I have been working in Surrey @ £630.

[northernladuk]

What is the point of such a generic question which doesn't take in to count a whole host of variables? Just a stupid question. What do you expect to get out from the answer? Compare it to your rate? Thats like comparing apples and tractors.

[MarillionFan]

What is the point of such a generic question which doesn't take in to count a whole host of variables? Just a stupid question. What do you expect to get out from the answer? Compare it to your rate? Thats like comparing apples and tractors.

What type of apples and what type of tractors?

Oh. And where are they based?