The first table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford 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 24 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 Guildford 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Programmer
Rank 26 21 17
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Programmer 6 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 2.752% 0.826% 3.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.941% 0.935% 3.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £430 - £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £31.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+19.05% -2.30%
All Job Titles
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
204 107 120
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 93.58% 88.43% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 48 51
Average daily rate £323 £350 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.85% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £247 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 13 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £17.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+120.58% -47.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £16.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £56.50 £47.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Programmer
Surrey

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Programmer
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 5 (71.43%) C++
1 5 (71.43%) Games
2 4 (57.14%) Mathematics
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Game Development
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 3 (42.86%) Animation
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Business Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Middleware
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 2 (28.57%) MS Office
4 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
4 2 (28.57%) Cognos
4 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) TOAD
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) DirectX
5 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (14.29%) GLSL
5 1 (14.29%) HLSL
5 1 (14.29%) C

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 (28.57%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) DirectX
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Office
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
2 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) TOAD
General
1 5 (71.43%) Games
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Mathematics
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Animation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Game Development
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) GLSL
3 1 (14.29%) HLSL
3 1 (14.29%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Cognos
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft