Programmer Contracts in Hertfordshire
 
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 Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 59 61 57
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Programmer 4 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.628% 0.921% 0.799%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.658% 0.990% 0.837%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
Average daily rate £343 £425 £268
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.41% +58.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £405 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £445 £274
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Average hourly rate - £36.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £31.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+19.05% -2.30%
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Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 608 909 836
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.45% 93.04% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 394 355
Average daily rate £400 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £235 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 85 104
Average hourly rate £17.49 £31.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.59% +82.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Programmer
East of England

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Programmer Daily Rate Trend

Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programmer across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Programmer Daily Rate Histogram

Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Programmer
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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Watford +6 1 £175 -
Bishop's Stortford - 1 £325 -
Programmer
East of England

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (38.46%) HTML
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) MVC
3 3 (23.08%) PHP
3 3 (23.08%) .NET
3 3 (23.08%) MySQL
3 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
3 3 (23.08%) CSS
3 3 (23.08%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) Ant
4 2 (15.38%) Linux
4 2 (15.38%) JSP
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Eclipse
4 2 (15.38%) Apache
4 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
4 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (15.38%) TDD
4 2 (15.38%) Spring
4 2 (15.38%) WordPress
4 2 (15.38%) NHibernate
4 2 (15.38%) WCF

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 5 (38.46%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
2 3 (23.08%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) JSP
3 2 (15.38%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) NHibernate
3 2 (15.38%) WCF
3 2 (15.38%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (7.692%) Zend Framework
4 1 (7.692%) jQuery
4 1 (7.692%) REST
4 1 (7.692%) Ajax
4 1 (7.692%) J2SE
4 1 (7.692%) SOAP
4 1 (7.692%) Struts
4 1 (7.692%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
1 2 (15.38%) WordPress
1 2 (15.38%) concrete5
2 1 (7.692%) Magento
2 1 (7.692%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (23.08%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.692%) JasperReports
4 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Ant
1 2 (15.38%) Eclipse
2 1 (7.692%) Subversion
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Retail
3 1 (7.692%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (7.692%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Online Games
1 1 (7.692%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) MVC
2 2 (15.38%) Scrum
2 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (15.38%) TDD
3 1 (7.692%) Web Development
3 1 (7.692%) Multithreading
3 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce
3 1 (7.692%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) PHP
2 3 (23.08%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Java
4 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) CDISC
Vendors
1 1 (7.692%) Zend
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle
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