IT PAY
New survey of pay and conditions for IT staff
Incomes Data Services has recently published its second annual survey of pay and conditions for IT staff at a range of leading organisations.
The results cover a broad range of jobs, varying from user support staff through to operation and project management staff.
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The report covers information from 82 organisations, employing a combined workforce of over 280,000 employees and 8,600 IT staff. Respondents are in the private sector across a range of activities, including pharmaceuticals, retail, utilities, manufacturing, IT, finance, telecoms and electronics.
Also included is a detailed breakdown of aggregate data for minimum, lower quartile, median, average, upper quartile and maximum salaries for each occupation by organisation size, department size, region and sector.
What you will find in this report
Detailed IT salary information includes:
1. Overview of respondents
Breakdown of the organisations participating in the 2008 survey by size, sector and location.
2. Review and prospects
Analysis of pay increases paid to IT staff over the last 12 months. Also included are inflation forecasts for the coming year and official statistics on pay, as measured by the government’s Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
3. Pay and progression for IT staff
Analysis of salaries focussed on identifying the middle range or the central market range for IT professionals. This section also provides a salary directory featuring data tables of salaries paid for a range of IT roles at named organisations.
4. Salary analysis
Analysis of pay levels for each of the jobs in the survey by sector, organisation size and region, complete with full aggregate data tables showing the minimum, lower quartile, median, average, upper quartile and maximum salaries.
5. Hours and holidays
Details of the most common basic working week, holiday entitlement and service-related leave for IT staff.
6. Recruitment and retention
A look at staffing difficulties for IT roles and the approaches adopted by some organisations to overcome these problems.
7. Case study of EDS
How global services company EDS launched a flexible approach to pay and benefits.
Job titles covered by the survey
Graduate trainee
IT user support technician
IT support team leader
Network/systems engineer
Business/systems analyst
Software developer
Project manager
Senior project manager
Operations manager.
Want to know more?
Title: Pay in IT 2008, Incomes Data Services.
Availability: The price of the report is £250. To order your copy of the report call Customer Services, tel: 0845 600 9355 or email: sweetandmaxwell.customerservices@thomson.com. To order online visit http://sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetail.aspx?prodid=278004.
Incomes Data Services is the “leading UK information and research service” on employment issues, providing a range of publications for employers, trade unions, government departments and other agencies. To find out more visit www.incomesdata.co.uk.