Programmer Contracts in the South West
 
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 West 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 17 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 West 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Programmer
Rank 91 116 91
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Programmer 24 23 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.172% 0.694% 0.928%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.244% 0.746% 0.983%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 16
Average daily rate £525 £335 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+56.71% +27.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £235 £140
10% offered a daily rate of more than £680 £413 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £30.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+22.92% -5.38%
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1930 3082 2645
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 94.24% 93.00% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1158 1838 1307
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £228 £200
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 138 193 247
Average hourly rate £15.40 £23.88 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.49% +13.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £12.29
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Programmer
England

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Wiltshire +4 8 £525 +56.71%
Bristol +13 7 £313 +20.19%
Gloucestershire +31 5 - -
Somerset - 3 £200 -
Devon +1 1 £350 -22.22%
Programmer
England

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 29 (48.33%) C#
1 29 (48.33%) .NET
2 17 (28.33%) SQL Server
3 15 (25.00%) C++
4 14 (23.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 13 (21.67%) JavaScript
5 13 (21.67%) UML
6 12 (20.00%) Visual Studio
7 11 (18.33%) Web Services
7 11 (18.33%) Finance
8 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
8 10 (16.67%) Unit Testing
8 10 (16.67%) .NET Framework
8 10 (16.67%) ESRI
8 10 (16.67%) ArcGIS
8 10 (16.67%) ASP.NET
8 10 (16.67%) CSS
8 10 (16.67%) Windows
8 10 (16.67%) HTML
8 10 (16.67%) SQL
9 9 (15.00%) IIS
9 9 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
10 8 (13.33%) VB
10 8 (13.33%) Client/Server
10 8 (13.33%) WCF
10 8 (13.33%) Silverlight
10 8 (13.33%) RIA
10 8 (13.33%) DV Cleared
10 8 (13.33%) MSTest
10 8 (13.33%) Windows 7

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 29 (48.33%) .NET
2 11 (18.33%) Web Services
3 10 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 10 (16.67%) CSS
3 10 (16.67%) HTML
3 10 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 8 (13.33%) WCF
4 8 (13.33%) Silverlight
4 8 (13.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 8 (13.33%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 6 (10.00%) jQuery
5 6 (10.00%) XML
6 5 (8.333%) MFC
6 5 (8.333%) OpenGL
6 5 (8.333%) DirectX
6 5 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (5.000%) HTML5
7 3 (5.000%) iOS SDK
7 3 (5.000%) Ajax
7 3 (5.000%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 10 (16.67%) ArcGIS
2 9 (15.00%) IIS
3 4 (6.667%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.333%) SAS
4 2 (3.333%) CMS
4 2 (3.333%) MQSeries
4 2 (3.333%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (1.667%) Apache
5 1 (1.667%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.667%) Drupal
5 1 (1.667%) WordPress
5 1 (1.667%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.667%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 1 (1.667%) 3ds Max
1 1 (1.667%) Poser
Business Applications
1 3 (5.000%) Visualfiles
2 2 (3.333%) INSURE/90
3 1 (1.667%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.33%) SQL Server
2 14 (23.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (5.000%) DB2
4 2 (3.333%) GIS
4 2 (3.333%) MySQL
4 2 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.667%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.667%) MS Access
5 1 (1.667%) Ingres
5 1 (1.667%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.667%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 8 (13.33%) MSTest
2 8 (13.33%) Moq
3 6 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.667%) Xcode
4 1 (1.667%) ChangeMan
General
1 11 (18.33%) Finance
2 3 (5.000%) Legal
2 3 (5.000%) Retail
3 2 (3.333%) Retail Banking
3 2 (3.333%) Banking
4 1 (1.667%) Electronics
4 1 (1.667%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Client/Server
1 8 (13.33%) RIA
2 5 (8.333%) EPoS
2 5 (8.333%) Mathematics
3 4 (6.667%) APACS
3 4 (6.667%) EMV
3 4 (6.667%) Chip and PIN
3 4 (6.667%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.000%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.333%) iPhone
5 2 (3.333%) iPad
6 1 (1.667%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.667%) Open Source
6 1 (1.667%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.667%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (1.667%) E-Learning
6 1 (1.667%) Tandem
6 1 (1.667%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.67%) Windows
2 8 (13.33%) Windows 7
3 5 (8.333%) Linux
4 3 (5.000%) Apple iOS
4 3 (5.000%) Android
5 2 (3.333%) MVS
6 1 (1.667%) VME
6 1 (1.667%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.667%) UNIX
6 1 (1.667%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.67%) UML
2 10 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 9 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (11.67%) MVC
5 4 (6.667%) Data Security
6 3 (5.000%) OO
7 2 (3.333%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (3.333%) Time Management
8 1 (1.667%) 3D Modelling
8 1 (1.667%) Business Development
8 1 (1.667%) ITIL
8 1 (1.667%) SOA
8 1 (1.667%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 29 (48.33%) C#
2 15 (25.00%) C++
3 13 (21.67%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.67%) SQL
5 8 (13.33%) VB
6 7 (11.67%) C
7 6 (10.00%) VB.NET
8 5 (8.333%) Fortran
8 5 (8.333%) VC++
9 4 (6.667%) VBScript
10 3 (5.000%) PHP
10 3 (5.000%) COBOL
10 3 (5.000%) Objective-C
11 2 (3.333%) Python
11 2 (3.333%) RPG IV
11 2 (3.333%) Java
11 2 (3.333%) RPG
12 1 (1.667%) ABAP
12 1 (1.667%) ActionScript
12 1 (1.667%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (8.333%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.667%) ISEB
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) ESRI
2 5 (8.333%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.667%) Oracle
3 4 (6.667%) VeriFone
4 1 (1.667%) Allen-Bradley
4 1 (1.667%) ICL
4 1 (1.667%) Zend
4 1 (1.667%) SAP
4 1 (1.667%) Siemens
PLC Programmer - Contract - Bristol
Bristol, South West
As a result of a number of key projects, we are looking for someone to support a key profile project... No terminology in this advert is intended to...
Amoria Bond
Posted: 14 May 2013
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