Number of IT Contractors in UK

[Mike Gill]

This may have been raised before, but are there any reliable statistics for the number of active IT contractors in the UK, preferably broken down by job title?

There are a number of sites tracking the number of job adverts monthly but knowing how many contractors are potentially competing for each job would make those figures more useful.

Any suggestions?

[MarillionFan]

Yeh. Do a google search i found this information immediately.

DYOR you lazy git.

[Diestl]

Sap: 2000
.net 3000
Networking:4000

Hth

[JamieITRecruitConsult]

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contrac...&id=0&lid=2618

This website doesn't show how many contractors there are in England but how many roles have been advertised. Also helps with rates.

[kingshuk]

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contra...=&id=0&lid=2618

This website doesn't show how many contractors there are in England but how many roles have been advertised. Also helps with rates.

Yes useful to some extent - especially to understand the current rates etc. But as you no doubt know many of these advertisements are fakes. A substantial number of agents post the same advertisements again and again sometimes several times a day. All these skew up the result of any statistics gathering program.

So I wouldn't interpret these numbers as number of jobs available in the market.

[expat]

This may have been raised before, but are there any reliable statistics for the number of active IT contractors in the UK, preferably broken down by job title?

There are a number of sites tracking the number of job adverts monthly but knowing how many contractors are potentially competing for each job would make those figures more useful.

Any suggestions?

When I started contracting in the 70s it was estimated that there were about 600 of us in London, for all IT skills together.

It has really gone downhill since then.

Anyway, I think Sally Anne is right. I will go before 2000.