The IT Hierarchy

[Evil Hangover]

In my experience:

IT Support (box swappers)
System Administrators (tape changers)
Testers
DBAs
=Business Analysts
=Developers
Project Managers
System Architects
Program Managers


If you're a team lead then you jump up a level or two.

This looks prettty close with regards rates within IB's. Business sponsors can live without IT, and would prefer to avoid the expense altogether.

The programme management and architecture roles, allied to domain / business knowledge, can consistently lead to rates over 1k /day.