East of England Programmer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT contracts within the East of England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Programmer
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ascot Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Hampshire Havant Haywards Heath Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Jersey Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lyndhurst Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Street Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	92	62
Rank change on same period last year	-30
Matching contract IT job ads	41	114
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.115 %
As % of the category below	1.281 %	2.508 %
Daily rates quoted	13	19
Average minimum daily rate	£267	£308
Average daily rate	£292	£325
% change on same period last year	-10.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£300
% change on same period last year	+6.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£26.74
Average hourly rate	£45.00	£27.96
% change on same period last year	+60.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	£29.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.59	£32.11
% change on same period last year	+7.74 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3201	4545
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.549 %	4.590 %
Daily rates quoted	952	1386
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£318
Average daily rate	£336	£335
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	498	714
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.25	£26.06
Average hourly rate	£22.61	£27.45
% change on same period last year	-17.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.97	£28.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Programmer England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Programmer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Programmer across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Programmer across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programmer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Programmer across the East of England region.

Programmer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programmer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programmer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridgeshire	+11	17	£239	-30.13 %
Essex	+9	11	£325	-13.33 %
Hertfordshire	-25	8	£400	+32.23 %
Bedfordshire	+11	4	£420	-
East Anglia	0	1	-	-

Programmer England

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 20 (21.05 %) Mainframe 2 18 (18.95 %) SQL 3 17 (17.89 %) XML 4 16 (16.84 %) IBM 5 15 (15.79 %) SAS 5 15 (15.79 %) Java 6 14 (14.74 %) zOS 7 13 (13.68 %) Pharmaceutical 8 12 (12.63 %) Degree 8 12 (12.63 %) IBM Mainframe 9 11 (11.58 %) C 10 10 (10.53 %) C++ 11 9 (9.474 %) MVS 11 9 (9.474 %) CICS 11 9 (9.474 %) CA

12 7 (7.368 %) VB 12 7 (7.368 %) Oracle 13 6 (6.316 %) HTML 13 6 (6.316 %) Visual Studio 13 6 (6.316 %) PL/SQL 13 6 (6.316 %) Finance 13 6 (6.316 %) Security Cleared 13 6 (6.316 %) Software Engineering 14 5 (5.263 %) Data Management 14 5 (5.263 %) Base SAS 14 5 (5.263 %) SAS Macro 14 5 (5.263 %) Retail 14 5 (5.263 %) JCL 14 5 (5.263 %) Data Security 14 5 (5.263 %) RPG

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 17 (17.89 %) XML 2 6 (6.316 %) HTML 3 5 (5.263 %) .NET 3 5 (5.263 %) J2EE 4 2 (2.105 %) CSS 4 2 (2.105 %) JDBC 4 2 (2.105 %) XML Schema 4 2 (2.105 %) JSF 5 1 (1.053 %) AJAX 5 1 (1.053 %) WebSphere 5 1 (1.053 %) JavaBeans 5 1 (1.053 %) Hibernate 5 1 (1.053 %) Swing 5 1 (1.053 %) J2SE 5 1 (1.053 %) JSP 5 1 (1.053 %) Servlets 5 1 (1.053 %) SOAP 5 1 (1.053 %) Struts 5 1 (1.053 %) WebServices 5 1 (1.053 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 15 (15.79 %) SAS 2 9 (9.474 %) CICS 3 2 (2.105 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (1.053 %) WPS 4 1 (1.053 %) TPMS 4 1 (1.053 %) JBoss 4 1 (1.053 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 4 (4.211 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (2.105 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (2.105 %) Movex 2 1 (1.053 %) MFGPRO 2 1 (1.053 %) Oracle Clinical 2 1 (1.053 %) Oracle General Ledger
Communications & Networking 1 5 (5.263 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (4.211 %) SNMP 2 4 (4.211 %) Firewall 3 3 (3.158 %) Internet 4 1 (1.053 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (5.263 %) SQL Server 1 5 (5.263 %) Base SAS 2 3 (3.158 %) MS Access 2 3 (3.158 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (2.105 %) ETL 3 2 (2.105 %) MySQL 3 2 (2.105 %) Oracle Reports 3 2 (2.105 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (1.053 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.053 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (1.053 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (1.053 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (1.053 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 1 (1.053 %) IDMS 4 1 (1.053 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (1.053 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 1 (1.053 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 6 (6.316 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (4.211 %) ClearCase 2 4 (4.211 %) ClearQuest 3 3 (3.158 %) LabVIEW 3 3 (3.158 %) Oracle Forms 4 2 (2.105 %) JUnit 4 2 (2.105 %) Synon 5 1 (1.053 %) Eclipse 5 1 (1.053 %) NUnit 5 1 (1.053 %) Subversion	General 1 13 (13.68 %) Pharmaceutical 2 6 (6.316 %) Finance 3 5 (5.263 %) Retail 4 4 (4.211 %) Education 5 3 (3.158 %) Manufacturing 5 3 (3.158 %) Games 5 3 (3.158 %) Insurance 5 3 (3.158 %) Online Games 6 2 (2.105 %) Pensions 7 1 (1.053 %) Local Government 7 1 (1.053 %) Government 7 1 (1.053 %) Health 7 1 (1.053 %) Chemicals 7 1 (1.053 %) Construction
Miscellaneous 1 20 (21.05 %) Mainframe 2 12 (12.63 %) IBM Mainframe 3 4 (4.211 %) Statistics 3 4 (4.211 %) Computer Science 4 3 (3.158 %) Life Science 4 3 (3.158 %) Mathematics 4 3 (3.158 %) AS400 5 2 (2.105 %) Management Information System 5 2 (2.105 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 5 2 (2.105 %) Biotechnology 5 2 (2.105 %) Data Extraction 6 1 (1.053 %) LIMS 6 1 (1.053 %) Device Driver 6 1 (1.053 %) Streaming Video 6 1 (1.053 %) Speech Recognition	Operating Systems 1 14 (14.74 %) zOS 2 9 (9.474 %) MVS 3 4 (4.211 %) Linux 3 4 (4.211 %) Red Hat Linux 3 4 (4.211 %) UNIX 4 2 (2.105 %) Windows 5 1 (1.053 %) Windows CE 5 1 (1.053 %) VME
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (6.316 %) Software Engineering 1 6 (6.316 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (5.263 %) UML 2 5 (5.263 %) Data Security 2 5 (5.263 %) Data Management 3 4 (4.211 %) Validation 3 4 (4.211 %) Service Management 3 4 (4.211 %) ITIL 3 4 (4.211 %) Disaster Recovery 3 4 (4.211 %) Configuration Management 3 4 (4.211 %) Biostatistics 4 3 (3.158 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (3.158 %) Stress Testing 4 3 (3.158 %) Security Testing 4 3 (3.158 %) System Testing 5 2 (2.105 %) Time Management 5 2 (2.105 %) QMS 5 2 (2.105 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (2.105 %) Test Scripting 5 2 (2.105 %) Requirements Analysis	Programming Languages 1 18 (18.95 %) SQL 2 15 (15.79 %) Java 3 11 (11.58 %) C 4 10 (10.53 %) C++ 5 7 (7.368 %) VB 6 6 (6.316 %) PL/SQL 7 5 (5.263 %) RPG 7 5 (5.263 %) C# 7 5 (5.263 %) JavaScript 7 5 (5.263 %) JCL 7 5 (5.263 %) SAS Macro 8 4 (4.211 %) ABAP 9 2 (2.105 %) Transact-SQL 9 2 (2.105 %) Perl 9 2 (2.105 %) PHP 10 1 (1.053 %) COBOL 10 1 (1.053 %) Delphi 10 1 (1.053 %) VBScript 10 1 (1.053 %) VBA 10 1 (1.053 %) Python
Qualifications 1 12 (12.63 %) Degree 2 3 (3.158 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.053 %) SAS Certification 3 1 (1.053 %) PhD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (4.211 %) SLA 2 3 (3.158 %) QA 3 2 (2.105 %) GAMP
Systems Management 1 4 (4.211 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 16 (16.84 %) IBM 2 9 (9.474 %) CA 3 7 (7.368 %) Oracle 4 4 (4.211 %) Red Hat 5 3 (3.158 %) Microsoft 5 3 (3.158 %) SAP 6 2 (2.105 %) Agilent 6 2 (2.105 %) Business Objects 7 1 (1.053 %) Micro Focus 7 1 (1.053 %) ICL 7 1 (1.053 %) Xilinx 7 1 (1.053 %) StreamServe