I was just looking at trends over the past year: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/java.do <http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/java.do> http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/perl.do <http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/perl.do>Interesting graphs comparing day rates and number of jobs in each. Regards, Peter