The first table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Bedford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Programmer
Rank 7 4 17
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Programmer 1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 5.000% 9.524% 4.651%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.882% 10.00% 5.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £175 - £150
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.03% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £31.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+20.96% -3.84%
All Job Titles
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
17 20 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 85.00% 95.24% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 16
Average daily rate £325 £228 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% +10.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £130 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £553 £280
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
Average hourly rate £19.39 £42.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-54.37% +286.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Programmer
Bedfordshire

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Programmer across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bedford Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Programmer across the Bedford region.

Bedford Programmer Daily Rate Trend

Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Programmer across the Bedford region.

Bedford Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Programmer
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford region that cited Programmer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Programmer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) WordPress
1 2 (100.00%) concrete5
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford region that cited Programmer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) WordPress
1 2 (100.00%) concrete5
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP