Is your current salary competitive? Want to see which skills command the highest salaries? Wondering if you should be contracting? Now you can find out, without having to ask friends and colleagues probing questions.

We stopped the clock on the Contract Professional / ComputerJobs.com rate and salary survey in early November to give you the following snapshot of IT contractors and full time employees who responded to the queries.

We analyzed the results after eliminating questionable or incomplete responses from the raw data, which consisted of answers from 30,435 full time employees and 4,764 contractors. To compare rate with salary, we multiplied the hourly rate by 1,920 hours, assuming a 40-hour work week, two weeks of vacation and 10 holidays.

To see details, select a survey topic by clicking one of the buttons to the right.