Essex Programmer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT contracts within the Essex 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Programmer
Location Alderley Edge Ascot Barking Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Haywards Heath Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Kent Kilmarnock Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Prescot Reading Rochester Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	46
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	19	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	2.997 %	2.205 %
Daily rates quoted	2	7
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£283
Average daily rate	£325	£288
% change on same period last year	+12.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£294
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£311
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.00	£27.83
Average hourly rate	£34.00	£29.70
% change on same period last year	+14.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	£31.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.74	£32.73
% change on same period last year	+6.14 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	634	635
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.845 %	0.642 %
Daily rates quoted	244	199
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£327
Average daily rate	£299	£351
% change on same period last year	-14.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	95	131
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.21	£26.48
Average hourly rate	£29.05	£27.12
% change on same period last year	+7.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.89	£27.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Programmer East of 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 Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programmer across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Programmer
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programmer within the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Basildon	+9	1	-	-

Programmer East of England

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 17 (54.84 %) Mainframe 2 15 (48.39 %) IBM 3 12 (38.71 %) IBM Mainframe 3 12 (38.71 %) zOS 4 9 (29.03 %) CA 4 9 (29.03 %) SQL 5 8 (25.81 %) CICS 6 7 (22.58 %) MVS 6 7 (22.58 %) SQL Server 6 7 (22.58 %) Finance 7 5 (16.13 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 5 (16.13 %) DTS 8 4 (12.90 %) SQL Server 2000 8 4 (12.90 %) JCL 8 4 (12.90 %) Service Management

8 4 (12.90 %) C 8 4 (12.90 %) SQL Server 2005 8 4 (12.90 %) Data Security 8 4 (12.90 %) MS PowerPoint 8 4 (12.90 %) SCOM 9 3 (9.677 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 3 (9.677 %) Degree 9 3 (9.677 %) Education 9 3 (9.677 %) Extreme Programming 9 3 (9.677 %) Transact-SQL 9 3 (9.677 %) Java 9 3 (9.677 %) ITIL 9 3 (9.677 %) Linux 9 3 (9.677 %) Disaster Recovery 9 3 (9.677 %) Firewall

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 2 (6.452 %) HTML 1 2 (6.452 %) .NET 1 2 (6.452 %) J2EE 1 2 (6.452 %) ADO.NET 1 2 (6.452 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (6.452 %) WebServices 2 1 (3.226 %) XML 2 1 (3.226 %) XML Schema 2 1 (3.226 %) JSF 2 1 (3.226 %) Ruby on Rails 2 1 (3.226 %) WebSphere 2 1 (3.226 %) JDBC 2 1 (3.226 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 8 (25.81 %) CICS 2 2 (6.452 %) CMS 2 2 (6.452 %) SharePoint 3 1 (3.226 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (3.226 %) JBoss
Applications 1 4 (12.90 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (6.452 %) InfoPath 2 2 (6.452 %) MS Project 2 2 (6.452 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (9.677 %) Firewall 2 1 (3.226 %) HTTP 2 1 (3.226 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (22.58 %) SQL Server 2 5 (16.13 %) DTS 2 5 (16.13 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 4 (12.90 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (12.90 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (9.677 %) Datawarehouse 4 3 (9.677 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 2 (6.452 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 2 (6.452 %) MS Access 6 1 (3.226 %) OLAP 6 1 (3.226 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (3.226 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 1 (3.226 %) Oracle Discoverer 6 1 (3.226 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 2 (6.452 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (6.452 %) Log4j 2 1 (3.226 %) Subversion 2 1 (3.226 %) FitNesse 2 1 (3.226 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (3.226 %) Eclipse 2 1 (3.226 %) Ant 2 1 (3.226 %) JUnit
General 1 7 (22.58 %) Finance 2 3 (9.677 %) Education 3 2 (6.452 %) Government 3 2 (6.452 %) Insurance 4 1 (3.226 %) Marketing 4 1 (3.226 %) Automotive 4 1 (3.226 %) Pharmaceutical	Miscellaneous 1 17 (54.84 %) Mainframe 2 12 (38.71 %) IBM Mainframe 3 2 (6.452 %) AS400 4 1 (3.226 %) Client/Server 4 1 (3.226 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 12 (38.71 %) zOS 2 7 (22.58 %) MVS 3 3 (9.677 %) Linux 4 2 (6.452 %) UNIX 5 1 (3.226 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (12.90 %) Service Management 1 4 (12.90 %) Data Security 2 3 (9.677 %) Extreme Programming 2 3 (9.677 %) Disaster Recovery 2 3 (9.677 %) ITIL 3 2 (6.452 %) UML 3 2 (6.452 %) PRINCE 3 2 (6.452 %) Project Management 3 2 (6.452 %) BPMN 4 1 (3.226 %) Validation 4 1 (3.226 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (3.226 %) TDD 4 1 (3.226 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (3.226 %) Incident Management 4 1 (3.226 %) Internet Marketing 4 1 (3.226 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (3.226 %) OO 4 1 (3.226 %) RAD 4 1 (3.226 %) CRM 4 1 (3.226 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 9 (29.03 %) SQL 2 4 (12.90 %) C 2 4 (12.90 %) JCL 3 3 (9.677 %) Java 3 3 (9.677 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (6.452 %) VB 4 2 (6.452 %) VBA 4 2 (6.452 %) C# 5 1 (3.226 %) COBOL 5 1 (3.226 %) Delphi 5 1 (3.226 %) FoxPro (VFP) 5 1 (3.226 %) Shell Script 5 1 (3.226 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (3.226 %) RPG 5 1 (3.226 %) Ruby 5 1 (3.226 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 3 (9.677 %) Degree 2 2 (6.452 %) MCAD 2 2 (6.452 %) MCSD 2 2 (6.452 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (9.677 %) SLA	Systems Management 1 4 (12.90 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 15 (48.39 %) IBM 2 9 (29.03 %) CA 3 3 (9.677 %) Red Hat 3 3 (9.677 %) Microsoft 4 2 (6.452 %) Oracle 5 1 (3.226 %) Business Objects 5 1 (3.226 %) ProClarity