The first table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool 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 21 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 Liverpool 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Programmer
Rank 20 21 20
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Programmer 3 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 1.974% 5.464% 1.911%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.027% 5.714% 2.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
Average daily rate £500 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -21.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £31.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+21.93% -4.61%
All Job Titles
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
148 175 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 97.37% 95.63% 94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 97 86
Average daily rate £325 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £215 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £468 £469
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 11
Average hourly rate £11.50 £16.50 £16.61
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.30% -0.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.87 £9.64 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £100.00 £29.50 £21.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Programmer
Merseyside

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (28.57%) ERP
3 2 (28.57%) Baan
3 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Infor
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Azure
3 2 (28.57%) PHP
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (14.29%) Plesk
4 1 (14.29%) HTML5
4 1 (14.29%) CSS3
4 1 (14.29%) Facebook
4 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
4 1 (14.29%) Pentaho
4 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 1 (14.29%) Physics
4 1 (14.29%) Animation

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) jQuery
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) LAMP
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (14.29%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
2 1 (14.29%) Physics
2 1 (14.29%) Animation
2 1 (14.29%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) ERP
2 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Plesk
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Baan
1 2 (28.57%) Infor
2 1 (14.29%) Facebook