Software Programmer Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 England 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Programmer
Rank 493 562 561
Rank change year-on-year
+69 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Software Programmer 21 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.050% 0.015% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.016% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 0
Average daily rate £525 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+133.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £225 -
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.81 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.53%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 39040 50214 51349
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.49% 92.56% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22971 28392 28508
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2022 2460 2732
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Programmer
UK

Software Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Software Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Software Programmer Daily Rate Trend

Software Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Programmer across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England Software Programmer Daily Rate Histogram

Software Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Software Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Programmer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Programmer within the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +40 11 £250 -35.27%
South West +30 4 £600 +166.66%
West Midlands +12 3 £525 -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South East +15 1 £375 +66.66%
East of England +15 1 £300 -
Software Programmer
UK

Software Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Software 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 Software Programmer in their job title.

1 22 (46.81%) C#
2 19 (40.43%) .NET
3 16 (34.04%) C++
4 13 (27.66%) SQL Server
5 12 (25.53%) Web Services
6 10 (21.28%) Windows
6 10 (21.28%) SQL
6 10 (21.28%) Finance
6 10 (21.28%) Unit Testing
7 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
7 9 (19.15%) WCF
7 9 (19.15%) Visual Studio
7 9 (19.15%) UML
8 8 (17.02%) ESRI
8 8 (17.02%) ArcGIS
8 8 (17.02%) IIS
8 8 (17.02%) Client/Server
8 8 (17.02%) Silverlight
8 8 (17.02%) RIA
8 8 (17.02%) SQL Server 2008
8 8 (17.02%) MSTest
8 8 (17.02%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 8 (17.02%) Managed Extensibility Framework
8 8 (17.02%) Windows 7
8 8 (17.02%) DV Cleared
8 8 (17.02%) Moq
9 6 (12.77%) Agile Software Development
9 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
9 6 (12.77%) ASP.NET
9 6 (12.77%) Team Foundation Server

Software Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Software 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 Software Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (40.43%) .NET
2 12 (25.53%) Web Services
3 9 (19.15%) WCF
4 8 (17.02%) Silverlight
4 8 (17.02%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 8 (17.02%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 6 (12.77%) ASP.NET
6 5 (10.64%) MFC
6 5 (10.64%) OpenGL
6 5 (10.64%) DirectX
6 5 (10.64%) .NET Framework
7 4 (8.511%) jQuery
7 4 (8.511%) XML
7 4 (8.511%) Qt
8 3 (6.383%) WinForms
9 2 (4.255%) CSS
9 2 (4.255%) HTML
10 1 (2.128%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 1 (2.128%) Node.js
10 1 (2.128%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 8 (17.02%) ArcGIS
1 8 (17.02%) IIS
2 2 (4.255%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.255%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.128%) nginx
3 1 (2.128%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.128%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.128%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (2.128%) Route 53
3 1 (2.128%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.128%) HTTP
1 1 (2.128%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) SQL Server
2 8 (17.02%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (4.255%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.128%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.128%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.128%) SimpleDB
4 1 (2.128%) Redis
4 1 (2.128%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.128%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.128%) MySQL
4 1 (2.128%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.128%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Visual Studio
2 8 (17.02%) MSTest
2 8 (17.02%) Moq
3 6 (12.77%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.128%) GoogleTest
4 1 (2.128%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.128%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (2.128%) LabVIEW
4 1 (2.128%) WebSpeed
General
1 10 (21.28%) Finance
2 4 (8.511%) Electronics
3 3 (6.383%) Front Office
3 3 (6.383%) Retail
3 3 (6.383%) German Language
4 2 (4.255%) French Language
5 1 (2.128%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.128%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.128%) Banking
5 1 (2.128%) Japanese Language
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Client/Server
1 8 (17.02%) RIA
2 5 (10.64%) Mathematics
3 4 (8.511%) APACS
3 4 (8.511%) EPoS
3 4 (8.511%) EMV
3 4 (8.511%) Chip and PIN
4 3 (6.383%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.128%) Derivative
5 1 (2.128%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Windows
2 8 (17.02%) Windows 7
3 5 (10.64%) Linux
4 3 (6.383%) UNIX
5 1 (2.128%) Windows NT
5 1 (2.128%) Windows 2000
5 1 (2.128%) Windows XP
5 1 (2.128%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.28%) Unit Testing
2 9 (19.15%) UML
3 6 (12.77%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (4.255%) TDD
4 2 (4.255%) Scrum
4 2 (4.255%) Configuration Management
4 2 (4.255%) Validation
4 2 (4.255%) OO
5 1 (2.128%) Change Control
5 1 (2.128%) CRM
5 1 (2.128%) MVC
5 1 (2.128%) E-Commerce
5 1 (2.128%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (2.128%) Practice Management
5 1 (2.128%) Automated Testing
5 1 (2.128%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (2.128%) Kanban
5 1 (2.128%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (46.81%) C#
2 16 (34.04%) C++
3 10 (21.28%) SQL
4 5 (10.64%) VC++
4 5 (10.64%) VBA
4 5 (10.64%) Fortran
5 4 (8.511%) C
5 4 (8.511%) VB
5 4 (8.511%) PHP
5 4 (8.511%) Java
5 4 (8.511%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.255%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.128%) Bash shell
7 1 (2.128%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.128%) Perl
7 1 (2.128%) Python
7 1 (2.128%) Ada
7 1 (2.128%) VB6
7 1 (2.128%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.02%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (2.128%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) ESRI
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.511%) VeriFone
4 3 (6.383%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (2.128%) hybris
5 1 (2.128%) Oracle
5 1 (2.128%) Progress
5 1 (2.128%) Google
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