The first table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the County Antrim 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 County Antrim 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 - 27 -
Contract jobs requiring a Programmer 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim - 1.190% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 1.274% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
County Antrim
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
136 157 317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim 69.74% 93.45% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 49 105
Average daily rate £325 £300 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -10.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 19
Average hourly rate £12.42 £12.50 £19.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.64% -35.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Programmer
Northern Ireland

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

County Antrim 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 County Antrim region.

County Antrim 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 County Antrim region.

County Antrim Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Programmer
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle