Software Programmer Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software 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 London 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
Software Programmer
Rank 371 401 -
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Programmer 10 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.046% 0.004% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.004% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
Average daily rate £250 £385 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.06% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £225 -
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.81 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.53%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 20013 24845 28392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.25% 92.53% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 13506 16024 18238
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 607 669
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Programmer
England

Software Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Software Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Software Programmer Daily Rate Trend

Software Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Programmer across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Software Programmer Daily Rate Histogram

Software Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Software Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (38.89%) C#
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) VBA
3 5 (27.78%) .NET
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) MS Excel
4 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 4 (22.22%) VB
4 4 (22.22%) C++
4 4 (22.22%) Java
4 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 4 (22.22%) Electronics
4 4 (22.22%) Qt
5 3 (16.67%) Retail
5 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 3 (16.67%) Web Services
5 3 (16.67%) XML
5 3 (16.67%) UNIX
5 3 (16.67%) PHP
5 3 (16.67%) WinForms
5 3 (16.67%) Front Office
5 3 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
6 2 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (11.11%) French Language
6 2 (11.11%) German Language
6 2 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (5.556%) hybris
7 1 (5.556%) Practice Management

Software Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) Qt
3 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 3 (16.67%) Web Services
3 3 (16.67%) XML
3 3 (16.67%) WinForms
4 1 (5.556%) Java EE
4 1 (5.556%) J2EE
4 1 (5.556%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 4 (22.22%) Electronics
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
2 3 (16.67%) Front Office
3 2 (11.11%) French Language
3 2 (11.11%) German Language
4 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.556%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.556%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) UNIX
2 1 (5.556%) Windows
2 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000
2 1 (5.556%) Windows NT
2 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
2 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (5.556%) CRM
1 1 (5.556%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) Practice Management
1 1 (5.556%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) C#
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) VBA
4 4 (22.22%) VB
4 4 (22.22%) C++
4 4 (22.22%) Java
5 3 (16.67%) PHP
6 1 (5.556%) VB6
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.556%) hybris
Java Software Engineer Java Developer Java Programmer
London
The contract is based in London and requires 2 years experience of the following: Java Coding. Java Design patterns. Java Algorithms. XML Web Services... Lazy loading (dynamic function...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £21.75 - £29.86 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013
PHP Developer / Software Engineer / Web Developer / Programmer (Agile,
London
working in a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) - developing software to use TCP, DNS and HTTP... - NoSQL solutions (Mongo DB, Simple DB, Membase, Redis) - RDBMS technologies (MySQL) -...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
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