Programmer Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram 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 South East 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 24 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 South East 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Programmer
Rank 138 156 152
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Programmer 87 84 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 1.116% 0.828% 0.974%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.206% 0.897% 1.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 47 37
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
Average hourly rate £25.00 £30.75 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.69% -19.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £31.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+19.05% -2.30%
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South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 7211 9367 9611
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.52% 92.32% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3605 4207 4140
Average daily rate £350 £350 £351
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -0.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 716 825
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Programmer
England

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Programmer Daily Rate Trend

Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programmer across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East Programmer Daily Rate Histogram

Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Berkshire +26 22 £225 -40.00%
Hampshire -6 16 £388 +23.01%
Buckinghamshire 0 14 £350 +16.66%
Surrey +2 13 £400 +5.96%
Oxfordshire +9 9 £225 -10.00%
M4 Corridor - 5 - -
Kent - 3 £300 -
Middlesex +5 1 £360 -
Programmer
England

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 55 (31.07%) SQL
2 54 (30.51%) .NET
3 45 (25.42%) C#
4 42 (23.73%) jQuery
5 40 (22.60%) SQL Server
6 36 (20.34%) MVC
7 35 (19.77%) Finance
8 32 (18.08%) JavaScript
9 31 (17.51%) HTML
10 30 (16.95%) Web Services
11 29 (16.38%) CSS
11 29 (16.38%) ASP.NET
12 26 (14.69%) XML
12 26 (14.69%) WCF
13 25 (14.12%) Java
14 22 (12.43%) Oracle
15 20 (11.30%) VB.NET
15 20 (11.30%) Ajax
15 20 (11.30%) Agile Software Development
16 19 (10.73%) ASP.NET MVC
17 18 (10.17%) Jenkins
18 16 (9.040%) C++
18 16 (9.040%) Microsoft
18 16 (9.040%) SQL Server 2008
19 15 (8.475%) SOA
19 15 (8.475%) SAS
19 15 (8.475%) Eclipse
19 15 (8.475%) Apache
19 15 (8.475%) Games
19 15 (8.475%) TDD

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 54 (30.51%) .NET
2 42 (23.73%) jQuery
3 31 (17.51%) HTML
4 30 (16.95%) Web Services
5 29 (16.38%) CSS
5 29 (16.38%) ASP.NET
6 26 (14.69%) XML
6 26 (14.69%) WCF
7 20 (11.30%) Ajax
8 19 (10.73%) ASP.NET MVC
9 10 (5.650%) HTML5
10 9 (5.085%) JSP
10 9 (5.085%) Servlets
10 9 (5.085%) SOAP
10 9 (5.085%) Hibernate
10 9 (5.085%) Spring
10 9 (5.085%) NHibernate
11 8 (4.520%) .NET Framework
11 8 (4.520%) Struts
11 8 (4.520%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 15 (8.475%) SAS
1 15 (8.475%) Apache
2 9 (5.085%) Tomcat
2 9 (5.085%) ESB
3 8 (4.520%) CMS
4 6 (3.390%) Adobe CQ
5 4 (2.260%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (2.260%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.695%) IIS
6 3 (1.695%) MSMQ
6 3 (1.695%) ExpressionEngine
6 3 (1.695%) Drupal
7 2 (1.130%) WordPress
7 2 (1.130%) SharePoint 2013
7 2 (1.130%) concrete5
7 2 (1.130%) OpenCms
7 2 (1.130%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (1.130%) CICS
8 1 (0.565%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.565%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (5.650%) MS Excel
2 9 (5.085%) MS Office
3 2 (1.130%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.565%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.565%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (2.260%) SAP IS-U
1 4 (2.260%) SAP CRM
1 4 (2.260%) HFM
2 2 (1.130%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.565%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.565%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.565%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.695%) Internet
2 2 (1.130%) SMS
2 2 (1.130%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.565%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.565%) FTP
3 1 (0.565%) HTTP
3 1 (0.565%) Modbus
3 1 (0.565%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (22.60%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.040%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (6.780%) MySQL
4 8 (4.520%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.390%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (2.825%) SAP BW
6 5 (2.825%) Base SAS
7 4 (2.260%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (2.260%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.130%) Oracle 11g
8 2 (1.130%) DB2
8 2 (1.130%) TOAD
9 1 (0.565%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.565%) Adabas
9 1 (0.565%) SQL Server 2000
9 1 (0.565%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.565%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 18 (10.17%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.475%) Eclipse
2 15 (8.475%) Maven
3 12 (6.780%) SpecFlow
4 11 (6.215%) Subversion
5 10 (5.650%) Visual Studio
6 9 (5.085%) JUnit
7 6 (3.390%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (3.390%) JIRA
7 6 (3.390%) QuickTest Pro
8 5 (2.825%) Git (software)
9 4 (2.260%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
10 3 (1.695%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 3 (1.695%) NUnit
10 3 (1.695%) JSUnit
11 2 (1.130%) Synon
12 1 (0.565%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.565%) MSBuild
General
1 35 (19.77%) Finance
2 15 (8.475%) Games
3 11 (6.215%) Banking
4 10 (5.650%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.825%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (1.695%) Retail
7 2 (1.130%) Front Office
8 1 (0.565%) Legal
8 1 (0.565%) Publishing
8 1 (0.565%) German Language
8 1 (0.565%) Japanese Language
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.650%) N-Tier
2 6 (3.390%) Mathematics
2 6 (3.390%) AS400
2 6 (3.390%) EPoS
3 5 (2.825%) Animation
3 5 (2.825%) Digital Media
3 5 (2.825%) Computer Science
4 4 (2.260%) NHS
5 3 (1.695%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.130%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.130%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.565%) W3C
7 1 (0.565%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.565%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.565%) E-Learning
7 1 (0.565%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.565%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.565%) SCADA
7 1 (0.565%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (0.565%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.345%) Windows
2 11 (6.215%) UNIX
3 3 (1.695%) Linux
4 2 (1.130%) MVS
5 1 (0.565%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.565%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (20.34%) MVC
2 20 (11.30%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (8.475%) SOA
3 15 (8.475%) TDD
4 14 (7.910%) Scrum
4 14 (7.910%) UML
4 14 (7.910%) OO
5 11 (6.215%) Game Development
6 9 (5.085%) BDD
7 8 (4.520%) Content Management
8 7 (3.955%) Unit Testing
8 7 (3.955%) System Testing
9 6 (3.390%) Validation
9 6 (3.390%) Migration
10 5 (2.825%) Data Modelling
10 5 (2.825%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (2.825%) CRM
11 4 (2.260%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (2.260%) Software Architecture
11 4 (2.260%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 55 (31.07%) SQL
2 45 (25.42%) C#
3 32 (18.08%) JavaScript
4 25 (14.12%) Java
5 20 (11.30%) VB.NET
6 16 (9.040%) C++
7 13 (7.345%) PHP
8 11 (6.215%) T-SQL
9 10 (5.650%) PL/SQL
10 7 (3.955%) COBOL
11 6 (3.390%) C
11 6 (3.390%) PowerHouse
12 5 (2.825%) VB
12 5 (2.825%) SAS Macro
13 4 (2.260%) XPath
13 4 (2.260%) VBA
14 3 (1.695%) Perl
14 3 (1.695%) PHP5
15 2 (1.130%) ALGOL
15 2 (1.130%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 6 (3.390%) Degree
2 1 (0.565%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.565%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.780%) CDISC
2 4 (2.260%) HL7
2 4 (2.260%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.260%) SLA
3 3 (1.695%) GCP
System Software
1 1 (0.565%) XenApp
1 1 (0.565%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 22 (12.43%) Oracle
2 16 (9.040%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.085%) SAP
4 8 (4.520%) Business Objects
5 6 (3.390%) Omniture
5 6 (3.390%) Adobe
6 4 (2.260%) Hyperion
7 3 (1.695%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.695%) Siebel
7 3 (1.695%) JBoss
7 3 (1.695%) Telerik
7 3 (1.695%) Google
7 3 (1.695%) Aquila
7 3 (1.695%) Facebook
7 3 (1.695%) Twitter
7 3 (1.695%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (1.130%) Cognos
8 2 (1.130%) Autodesk
8 2 (1.130%) Unisys
8 2 (1.130%) IBM
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