The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior 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 Reading 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
Senior Programmer
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Programmer 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.118% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.129% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £463 £325
% change year-on-year
-31.89% +42.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
773 978 911
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.48% 91.74% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 327 407
Average daily rate £375 £350 £362
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £215 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 56 39
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% +10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.25 £10.34
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £24.35 £33.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Programmer
Berkshire

Senior Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Senior Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Senior Programmer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Programmer
Top 28 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) Maven
1 5 (83.33%) System Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Apache CXF
1 5 (83.33%) Apache
1 5 (83.33%) Tomcat
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) JUnit
1 5 (83.33%) Eclipse
2 3 (50.00%) Struts
2 3 (50.00%) SOA
2 3 (50.00%) Struts2
2 3 (50.00%) Subversion
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) COBOL
3 1 (16.67%) ALGOL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) DB2
3 1 (16.67%) Unisys
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) CICS
3 1 (16.67%) MVS
3 1 (16.67%) JCL
3 1 (16.67%) Micro Focus
3 1 (16.67%) Mainframe

Senior Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) Apache CXF
2 3 (50.00%) Struts2
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
2 3 (50.00%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) Apache
1 5 (83.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (16.67%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JUnit
1 5 (83.33%) Eclipse
1 5 (83.33%) Maven
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) System Testing
2 3 (50.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) JCL
2 1 (16.67%) ALGOL
2 1 (16.67%) COBOL
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Unisys
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Micro Focus