North West Programmer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Programmer
Location Alderley Edge Barking Basildon Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester City of London Coventry Crewe Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haywards Heath Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Kent Kilmarnock Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Prescot Preston Reading Rochester Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	45
Rank change on same period last year	-32
Matching contract IT job ads	69	96
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.102 %
As % of the category below	1.784 %	2.696 %
Daily rates quoted	10	20
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£271
Average daily rate	£335	£285
% change on same period last year	+17.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£319
% change on same period last year	-2.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.43	£23.17
Average hourly rate	£35.29	£26.47
% change on same period last year	+33.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.14	£29.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.67	£32.66
% change on same period last year	+6.15 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3867	3561
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.099 %	3.777 %
Daily rates quoted	938	706
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£321
Average daily rate	£355	£336
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	439	345
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.90	£21.83
Average hourly rate	£22.76	£23.45
% change on same period last year	-2.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.62	£25.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programmer across the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Programmer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programmer across the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Programmer within the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Manchester	-21	24	-	-
Cheshire	-19	16	£337	+3.58 %
Lancashire	+2	10	-	-
Merseyside	-20	6	£375	+26.87 %

Programmer England

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 34 (24.29 %) SQL 2 33 (23.57 %) .NET 3 30 (21.43 %) SQL Server 4 29 (20.71 %) XML 5 25 (17.86 %) Java 6 23 (16.43 %) C++ 7 21 (15.00 %) C# 7 21 (15.00 %) SAS 8 20 (14.29 %) Windows 9 18 (12.86 %) JavaScript 9 18 (12.86 %) ASP.NET 10 15 (10.71 %) OO 11 13 (9.286 %) Oracle 11 13 (9.286 %) J2EE 11 13 (9.286 %) Finance

12 12 (8.571 %) Pharmaceutical 12 12 (8.571 %) VB.NET 12 12 (8.571 %) ActionScript 12 12 (8.571 %) WebServices 13 11 (7.857 %) C 13 11 (7.857 %) Data Management 14 10 (7.143 %) CSS 14 10 (7.143 %) ASP 14 10 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000 15 9 (6.429 %) N-Tier 15 9 (6.429 %) PHP 15 9 (6.429 %) VB 15 9 (6.429 %) Unix 15 9 (6.429 %) SQL Server 2005 16 8 (5.714 %) Degree

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 33 (23.57 %) .NET 2 29 (20.71 %) XML 3 18 (12.86 %) ASP.NET 4 13 (9.286 %) J2EE 5 12 (8.571 %) WebServices 6 10 (7.143 %) ASP 6 10 (7.143 %) CSS 7 7 (5.000 %) HTML 7 7 (5.000 %) WinForms 7 7 (5.000 %) AJAX 8 5 (3.571 %) WebSphere 8 5 (3.571 %) EDI 8 5 (3.571 %) Struts 9 4 (2.857 %) XSLT 10 3 (2.143 %) SOAP 10 3 (2.143 %) XHTML 10 3 (2.143 %) JSP 10 3 (2.143 %) .NET Framework 11 2 (1.429 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 2 (1.429 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 21 (15.00 %) SAS 2 8 (5.714 %) CICS 3 4 (2.857 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (0.714 %) CMS 4 1 (0.714 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (0.714 %) IIS 4 1 (0.714 %) Apache 4 1 (0.714 %) Tomcat 4 1 (0.714 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 5 (3.571 %) MS Office 1 5 (3.571 %) CATIA 2 2 (1.429 %) DOC1 2 2 (1.429 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.714 %) S-PLUS 3 1 (0.714 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.714 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 5 (3.571 %) Teamcenter 2 3 (2.143 %) GraphTalk 3 2 (1.429 %) SAP R/3 4 1 (0.714 %) Navision 4 1 (0.714 %) Oracle Clinical
Communications & Networking 1 8 (5.714 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (2.143 %) Intranet 3 2 (1.429 %) LDAP 3 2 (1.429 %) FTP 4 1 (0.714 %) SNMP 4 1 (0.714 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 30 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2 10 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000 3 9 (6.429 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (2.857 %) Base SAS 4 4 (2.857 %) DB2 5 3 (2.143 %) MySQL 6 2 (1.429 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (1.429 %) Oracle 9i 6 2 (1.429 %) Easytrieve 6 2 (1.429 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 2 (1.429 %) TOAD 6 2 (1.429 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (0.714 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (0.714 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (0.714 %) BODI 7 1 (0.714 %) GIS 7 1 (0.714 %) MS Access 7 1 (0.714 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (0.714 %) DTS 7 1 (0.714 %) Data Mining
Development Applications 1 7 (5.000 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (2.143 %) JUnit 2 3 (2.143 %) Subversion 2 3 (2.143 %) Flash 3 2 (1.429 %) Rational Rose 3 2 (1.429 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (1.429 %) Oracle Forms 4 1 (0.714 %) Eclipse 4 1 (0.714 %) TestDirector 4 1 (0.714 %) ProC 4 1 (0.714 %) InstallShield 4 1 (0.714 %) NUnit	General 1 13 (9.286 %) Finance 2 12 (8.571 %) Pharmaceutical 3 8 (5.714 %) Government 4 6 (4.286 %) Insurance 5 5 (3.571 %) Pensions 6 3 (2.143 %) Retail 7 2 (1.429 %) Education 7 2 (1.429 %) Health 7 2 (1.429 %) Games 7 2 (1.429 %) Banking 8 1 (0.714 %) Billing 8 1 (0.714 %) Marketing 8 1 (0.714 %) Local Government
Miscellaneous 1 9 (6.429 %) N-Tier 2 7 (5.000 %) Multithreading 3 6 (4.286 %) Mainframe 4 5 (3.571 %) Life Science 5 3 (2.143 %) VSAM 6 2 (1.429 %) PDA 6 2 (1.429 %) Statistics 6 2 (1.429 %) AS400 6 2 (1.429 %) SCORM 6 2 (1.429 %) NHS 6 2 (1.429 %) W3C 7 1 (0.714 %) Blackberry 7 1 (0.714 %) Client/Server 7 1 (0.714 %) E-Learning 7 1 (0.714 %) Psychology 7 1 (0.714 %) Ergonomics 7 1 (0.714 %) Human Factors 7 1 (0.714 %) CCTV 7 1 (0.714 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 20 (14.29 %) Windows 2 9 (6.429 %) Unix 3 6 (4.286 %) Linux 4 2 (1.429 %) Windows CE 5 1 (0.714 %) MVS 5 1 (0.714 %) VME 5 1 (0.714 %) AIX 5 1 (0.714 %) Windows NT 5 1 (0.714 %) OS/2 5 1 (0.714 %) zOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (10.71 %) OO 2 11 (7.857 %) Data Management 3 8 (5.714 %) UML 4 7 (5.000 %) CRM 4 7 (5.000 %) Security Cleared 5 6 (4.286 %) SOA 5 6 (4.286 %) ERP 6 5 (3.571 %) OOD 6 5 (3.571 %) Validation 6 5 (3.571 %) Migration 6 5 (3.571 %) PDM 7 4 (2.857 %) Agile Software Development 7 4 (2.857 %) TDD 7 4 (2.857 %) e-GIF 7 4 (2.857 %) E-Commerce 7 4 (2.857 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 3 (2.143 %) Unit Testing 8 3 (2.143 %) Statistical Analysis 8 3 (2.143 %) ITIL 8 3 (2.143 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 34 (24.29 %) SQL 2 25 (17.86 %) Java 3 23 (16.43 %) C++ 4 21 (15.00 %) C# 5 18 (12.86 %) JavaScript 6 12 (8.571 %) VB.NET 6 12 (8.571 %) ActionScript 7 11 (7.857 %) C 8 9 (6.429 %) PHP 8 9 (6.429 %) VB 9 7 (5.000 %) PL/SQL 9 7 (5.000 %) COBOL 10 5 (3.571 %) Python 10 5 (3.571 %) Lingo 11 4 (2.857 %) VB6 11 4 (2.857 %) Transact-SQL 12 3 (2.143 %) Assembly Language 12 3 (2.143 %) JCL 12 3 (2.143 %) SAS Macro 13 2 (1.429 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 8 (5.714 %) Degree 2 1 (0.714 %) SAS Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.571 %) GCP 2 3 (2.143 %) WCAG 2 3 (2.143 %) WAI
System Software 1 2 (1.429 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (0.714 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 13 (9.286 %) Oracle 2 7 (5.000 %) Microsoft 3 5 (3.571 %) Baan 4 3 (2.143 %) IBM 5 2 (1.429 %) Business Objects 5 2 (1.429 %) SAP 6 1 (0.714 %) Citrix 6 1 (0.714 %) Mapinfo 6 1 (0.714 %) SeeBeyond 6 1 (0.714 %) Autodesk 6 1 (0.714 %) ESRI 6 1 (0.714 %) ICL 6 1 (0.714 %) Endeca