The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 20 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 City of London 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Programmer
Rank 195 218 216
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Programmer 6 2 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.095% 0.026% 0.207%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.103% 0.028% 0.225%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 16
Average daily rate £438 £445 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.68% +4.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £428 £445 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 £445 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £463 £325
% change year-on-year
-31.89% +42.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5840 7150 8882
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.42% 91.56% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4286 5125 6488
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 179 185
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £42.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Programmer
London

Senior Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Senior Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 8 (72.73%) Finance
1 8 (72.73%) C#
1 8 (72.73%) XML
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) .NET
3 6 (54.55%) PL/SQL
3 6 (54.55%) Oracle
3 6 (54.55%) TDD
4 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
4 4 (36.36%) OO
4 4 (36.36%) Windows
4 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 4 (36.36%) Banking
4 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
4 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
4 4 (36.36%) Credit Risk
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
5 3 (27.27%) Web Development
5 3 (27.27%) JSON
5 3 (27.27%) HTML
5 3 (27.27%) VB
5 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
6 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
6 2 (18.18%) SQLPlus
6 2 (18.18%) OOD
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
6 2 (18.18%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (18.18%) W3C

Senior Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 8 (72.73%) XML
2 7 (63.64%) .NET
3 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
4 3 (27.27%) JSON
4 3 (27.27%) HTML
5 2 (18.18%) Ajax
5 2 (18.18%) WCF
5 2 (18.18%) LINQ
5 2 (18.18%) XSLT
5 2 (18.18%) ADO.NET
5 2 (18.18%) ASP
5 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
5 2 (18.18%) COM+
5 2 (18.18%) CSS
5 2 (18.18%) Web Services
5 2 (18.18%) jQuery
5 2 (18.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (9.091%) RESTful
6 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC 2
6 1 (9.091%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) MSMQ
1 2 (18.18%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Financials
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) OLAP
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (18.18%) SQLPlus
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (9.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (18.18%) NUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (18.18%) Rhino Mocks
3 1 (9.091%) MSBuild
3 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Credit Risk
2 2 (18.18%) Market Risk
2 2 (18.18%) W3C
2 2 (18.18%) Derivative
3 1 (9.091%) Streaming Video
3 1 (9.091%) IPTV
3 1 (9.091%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) UNIX
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) TDD
2 4 (36.36%) Analytics
2 4 (36.36%) OO
2 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
3 3 (27.27%) Web Development
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
4 2 (18.18%) OOD
5 1 (9.091%) Project Management
5 1 (9.091%) Data Modelling
5 1 (9.091%) MVC
5 1 (9.091%) Scrum
5 1 (9.091%) UML
5 1 (9.091%) Use Case
5 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) C#
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 6 (54.55%) PL/SQL
4 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
5 3 (27.27%) VB
6 2 (18.18%) VBScript
6 2 (18.18%) VB6
7 1 (9.091%) VC++
7 1 (9.091%) Python
7 1 (9.091%) PHP
7 1 (9.091%) C++
7 1 (9.091%) Java
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) TIBCO