North East Programmer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT contracts within the North East region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Programmer
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ascot Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Hampshire Havant Haywards Heath Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Jersey Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lyndhurst Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Street Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	46
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	9	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	1.538 %	1.816 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£270
Average daily rate	-	£273
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£299
% change on same period last year	+6.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£31.67
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£32.17
% change on same period last year	+24.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£32.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.75	£31.77
% change on same period last year	+9.38 %
Job Titles North East
Matching contract IT job ads	585	771
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.817 %	0.775 %
Daily rates quoted	111	175
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£341
Average daily rate	£338	£357
% change on same period last year	-5.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	92	72
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.10	£23.63
Average hourly rate	£21.46	£24.88
% change on same period last year	-13.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.83	£26.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.74	£25.24
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Programmer England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Programmer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Programmer across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Programmer across the North East region.

Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 North East region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	+14	7	-	-
Teesside	+2	1	-	-

Programmer England

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 (42.86 %) C++ 2 8 (38.10 %) C# 3 6 (28.57 %) Multithreading 3 6 (28.57 %) .NET 3 6 (28.57 %) ATL 4 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft 4 3 (14.29 %) VB.NET 4 3 (14.29 %) SAP 4 3 (14.29 %) RPG 4 3 (14.29 %) SQL 4 3 (14.29 %) HTML 5 2 (9.524 %) C 5 2 (9.524 %) CSS 5 2 (9.524 %) Linux 5 2 (9.524 %) OOP

5 2 (9.524 %) OO 5 2 (9.524 %) Mathematics 5 2 (9.524 %) Manufacturing 5 2 (9.524 %) Banking 5 2 (9.524 %) Pascal 5 2 (9.524 %) AS400 5 2 (9.524 %) Finance 5 2 (9.524 %) Games 6 1 (4.762 %) Hibernate 6 1 (4.762 %) Automotive 6 1 (4.762 %) Telecoms 6 1 (4.762 %) Windows CE 6 1 (4.762 %) TELNET 6 1 (4.762 %) Mainframe 6 1 (4.762 %) SAP .NET Connector

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 6 (28.57 %) ATL 1 6 (28.57 %) .NET 2 3 (14.29 %) HTML 3 2 (9.524 %) CSS 4 1 (4.762 %) JSP 4 1 (4.762 %) SOAP 4 1 (4.762 %) Struts 4 1 (4.762 %) WebServices 4 1 (4.762 %) XML 4 1 (4.762 %) ODBC 4 1 (4.762 %) EDI 4 1 (4.762 %) WSDL 4 1 (4.762 %) Hibernate 4 1 (4.762 %) SAP .NET Connector 4 1 (4.762 %) Spring 4 1 (4.762 %) J2EE 4 1 (4.762 %) ASP 4 1 (4.762 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.762 %) Apache 1 1 (4.762 %) Tomcat 1 1 (4.762 %) SAS
Business Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) BPCS	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.762 %) FTP 1 1 (4.762 %) HTTP 1 1 (4.762 %) HTTPS 1 1 (4.762 %) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.762 %) SQL Server	General 1 2 (9.524 %) Finance 1 2 (9.524 %) Manufacturing 1 2 (9.524 %) Games 1 2 (9.524 %) Banking 2 1 (4.762 %) Automotive 2 1 (4.762 %) Telecoms
Miscellaneous 1 6 (28.57 %) Multithreading 2 2 (9.524 %) AS400 2 2 (9.524 %) Mathematics 3 1 (4.762 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (4.762 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 2 (9.524 %) Linux 2 1 (4.762 %) Windows CE 2 1 (4.762 %) UNIX 2 1 (4.762 %) Windows 2 1 (4.762 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (9.524 %) OOP 1 2 (9.524 %) OO 2 1 (4.762 %) ERP 2 1 (4.762 %) Migration 2 1 (4.762 %) Data Analysis	Programming Languages 1 9 (42.86 %) C++ 2 8 (38.10 %) C# 3 3 (14.29 %) RPG 3 3 (14.29 %) SQL 3 3 (14.29 %) VB.NET 4 2 (9.524 %) Pascal 4 2 (9.524 %) C 5 1 (4.762 %) VB 5 1 (4.762 %) Java 5 1 (4.762 %) Perl 5 1 (4.762 %) PHP 5 1 (4.762 %) SAS Macro 5 1 (4.762 %) ABAP
Vendors 1 3 (14.29 %) SAP 1 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.762 %) Oracle 2 1 (4.762 %) IBM