Programmer Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend 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 Manchester 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 Manchester 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 70 67 67
Rank change year-on-year
-3 0
Contract jobs requiring a Programmer 3 22 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.318% 1.692% 0.694%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.340% 1.846% 0.735%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 2
Average daily rate - £298 £301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.24%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Average hourly rate - £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £31.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+21.93% -4.61%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 883 1192 952
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.54% 91.69% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 590 419
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 75 77
Average hourly rate £16.84 £18.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.00% +15.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.50 £33.32 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Programmer
North West

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 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
Bolton - 1 - -
Programmer
North West

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 9 (52.94%) Java
1 9 (52.94%) J2EE
1 9 (52.94%) Adobe
1 9 (52.94%) Adobe CQ
2 3 (17.65%) IBM
2 3 (17.65%) HTML
2 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
3 2 (11.76%) LDAP
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.76%) DB2
3 2 (11.76%) CICS
3 2 (11.76%) CA
3 2 (11.76%) zOS
3 2 (11.76%) RACF
3 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
3 2 (11.76%) MVC
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Stress Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
3 2 (11.76%) Subversion
3 2 (11.76%) VSAM
3 2 (11.76%) Ruby
3 2 (11.76%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (5.882%) jQuery
4 1 (5.882%) Social Network
4 1 (5.882%) WebSphere
4 1 (5.882%) JSON

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 9 (52.94%) J2EE
2 3 (17.65%) HTML
2 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 2 (11.76%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (5.882%) jQuery
4 1 (5.882%) WebSphere
4 1 (5.882%) JSON
4 1 (5.882%) CSS3
4 1 (5.882%) HTML5
4 1 (5.882%) LAMP
4 1 (5.882%) XML
Application Platforms
1 9 (52.94%) Adobe CQ
2 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
2 2 (11.76%) CICS
3 1 (5.882%) Exstream Dialogue
3 1 (5.882%) SAS
3 1 (5.882%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (5.882%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
1 2 (11.76%) DB2
2 1 (5.882%) Base SAS
2 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
1 2 (11.76%) Subversion
2 1 (5.882%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.882%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) VSAM
2 1 (5.882%) Social Network
2 1 (5.882%) iSeries
2 1 (5.882%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
1 2 (11.76%) MVC
1 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (11.76%) Stress Testing
2 1 (5.882%) SEO
2 1 (5.882%) ETL
2 1 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Ruby
3 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.882%) PHP
3 1 (5.882%) RPG
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) RACF
2 1 (5.882%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) Plesk
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Adobe
2 3 (17.65%) IBM
3 2 (11.76%) CA
4 1 (5.882%) HP
4 1 (5.882%) Facebook
Java Server Programmer (Spring, Hibernate, Maven), Games - Contract
Manchester, Lancashire
In addition the Java Server Programmer (Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat, Maven) should be proficient in the development of multi-tier applications and with a solid knowledge of internet tools...
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Rate: From £250 to £310 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
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