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

The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems 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 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Programmer
Rank 501 546 550
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Programmer 2 20 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.005% 0.037% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.040% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
Average daily rate £405 £360 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +7.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £381 £308 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £469 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £405 £338 £345
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 38599 49457 51411
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.55% 92.65% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22682 27982 28506
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 2004 2401 2726
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
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 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Programmer
UK

Systems Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Systems Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Systems Programmer Daily Rate Trend

Systems Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Systems Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Programmer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Programmer within the England region over the 3 months to 20 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
South East +22 1 £375 +25.00%
South West - 1 £435 -
Systems Programmer
UK

Systems Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Systems 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 Systems Programmer in their job title.

1 7 (63.64%) zOS
2 5 (45.45%) CICS
2 5 (45.45%) DB2
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) RACF
3 4 (36.36%) Mainframe
3 4 (36.36%) IBM
4 3 (27.27%) CA
5 2 (18.18%) COBOL
5 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) VSAM
5 2 (18.18%) Banking
5 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Stress Testing
6 1 (9.091%) Twitter
6 1 (9.091%) VME
6 1 (9.091%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (9.091%) Time Management
6 1 (9.091%) BC Cleared
6 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
6 1 (9.091%) ALGOL
6 1 (9.091%) thinkFolio
6 1 (9.091%) Fund Management
6 1 (9.091%) Retail
6 1 (9.091%) LatentZero
6 1 (9.091%) ICL
6 1 (9.091%) ISPF
6 1 (9.091%) Retail Banking
6 1 (9.091%) QAD

Systems Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) CICS
2 1 (9.091%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MFGPRO
1 1 (9.091%) LatentZero
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) HTTP
1 1 (9.091%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) DB2
2 1 (9.091%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) ChangeMan
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 1 (9.091%) Retail
2 1 (9.091%) Retail Banking
2 1 (9.091%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Mainframe
2 2 (18.18%) VSAM
3 1 (9.091%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) zOS
2 1 (9.091%) MVS
2 1 (9.091%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
1 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (18.18%) Stress Testing
2 1 (9.091%) Time Management
2 1 (9.091%) ITIL
2 1 (9.091%) Service Management
2 1 (9.091%) ITSM
2 1 (9.091%) Fund Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) COBOL
3 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.091%) REXX
3 1 (9.091%) JCL
3 1 (9.091%) ALGOL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) BC Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) RACF
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) IBM
2 3 (27.27%) CA
3 1 (9.091%) Charles River
3 1 (9.091%) Micro Focus
3 1 (9.091%) QAD
3 1 (9.091%) ICL
3 1 (9.091%) thinkFolio
3 1 (9.091%) Twitter
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle
3 1 (9.091%) Unisys
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