Salaries within the Infrastructure space continue to be stable rather than spectacular. Nervousness surrounding economic conditions in Europe is tempered by China’s continued rise to prominence and our own resources boom, creating somewhat of an impasse in permanent salaries especially. Contract rates are more open to fluctuation and are increasingly influenced by client and industry sector.
In contrast to the Applications market we are seeing an increasingly popular trend of on-shoring/insourcing of local customer facing IT support functions. Subsequently and more-so in a contract context this is somewhat inflating rates at the lower end of the market as companies scramble for the limited number of available talent. It will be no surprise to see that as a consequence of this lower end elevation there may well be some fluctuation in rates in the coming 12 months at the higher echelons. Read more…



