The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Berkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Programmer
Rank 119 - 126
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Programmer 2 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.085% - 0.133%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% - 0.147%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
Average daily rate £375 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £415 £325
% change year-on-year
-9.63% +27.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2133 2885 2713
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 91.11% 91.01% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 1058 1043
Average daily rate £370 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 111 175
Average hourly rate £23.50 £19.00 £21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.68% -12.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.25 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Senior Programmer
South East

Senior Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Senior Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Senior Programmer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Senior Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Programmer in their job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) SOA
2 5 (71.43%) jQuery
2 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (57.14%) SpecFlow
3 4 (57.14%) BDD
3 4 (57.14%) ESB
3 4 (57.14%) JIRA
3 4 (57.14%) WCF
3 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (57.14%) Software Architecture
3 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) Banking
3 4 (57.14%) Web Services
3 4 (57.14%) XML
3 4 (57.14%) UML
3 4 (57.14%) .NET
3 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
3 4 (57.14%) C#
3 4 (57.14%) MVC
3 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
3 4 (57.14%) Middleware
4 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
4 2 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) JUnit
4 2 (28.57%) Apache

Senior Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (71.43%) jQuery
2 4 (57.14%) WCF
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (57.14%) Web Services
2 4 (57.14%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
2 4 (57.14%) Middleware
3 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
3 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 2 (28.57%) Apache CXF
4 1 (14.29%) Struts2
4 1 (14.29%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) ESB
2 2 (28.57%) Apache
2 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
3 1 (14.29%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) SpecFlow
2 4 (57.14%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) JUnit
3 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
3 2 (28.57%) Maven
4 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) SOA
2 4 (57.14%) BDD
2 4 (57.14%) Software Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) UML
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) ALGOL
4 1 (14.29%) JCL
4 1 (14.29%) COBOL
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Unisys
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) Micro Focus
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