The NCC Salary Survey (Benchmark of Salaries and Employment Trends in IT 2005) provides a comprehensive analysis of salaries of IT staff, organisations skills requirements and employment trends.

The results are based on responses from 365 organisations in the UK who between them provide salary and employment details for 8,589 IT staff.

In addition to salary levels the reports cover:

• Salary increases
• Fringe benefits, and bonus payments
• Shift working, callout and standby schemes
• IT staff joining and leaving
• Shortages and predicted growth in demand
• New skills requirements and recruitment/retention problems

The main analysis variables used are: industry sector, geographical region and IT department size.