Senior Programmer Contracts
 
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 Senior Programmer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 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 currently tracked.

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
Senior Programmer
Rank 499 567 521
Rank change year-on-year
+68 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Programmer 30 17 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.065% 0.029% 0.103%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.032% 0.111%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 39
Average daily rate £378 £405 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.79% +4.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £336 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £449 £548
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £450 £325
% change year-on-year
-33.88% +38.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Average hourly rate - - £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
Search 9 Senior Programmer jobs
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Senior Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Senior Programmer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Programmer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Senior Programmer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Senior Programmer within the UK.

Senior Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Programmer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Programmer within the UK 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
England +57 28 £378 -6.79%
London +41 15 £438 +8.69%
Cambridgeshire - 7 - -
East of England - 7 - -
City of London +19 6 £438 -1.68%
South East +16 5 £315 -30.00%
Peterborough - 2 - -
Berkshire - 2 £375 -
Scotland - 2 - -
Kent - 2 £275 -
North West - 1 £280 -
Cheshire - 1 £280 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £315 -
Reading - 1 £375 -
Milton Keynes - 1 £315 -
Dundee - 1 - -

Senior Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 36 (47.37%) C#
2 33 (43.42%) Finance
3 30 (39.47%) SQL
4 29 (38.16%) Java
5 28 (36.84%) .NET
6 21 (27.63%) SQL Server
6 21 (27.63%) Banking
7 20 (26.32%) XML
8 19 (25.00%) Windows
9 18 (23.68%) Oracle
10 17 (22.37%) TDD
11 16 (21.05%) Investment Banking
11 16 (21.05%) Web Services
12 15 (19.74%) jQuery
13 14 (18.42%) JavaScript
14 13 (17.11%) Agile Software Development
15 11 (14.47%) Maven
15 11 (14.47%) Derivative
15 11 (14.47%) HTML
15 11 (14.47%) JUnit
16 10 (13.16%) ASP.NET
16 10 (13.16%) PL/SQL
16 10 (13.16%) UNIX
16 10 (13.16%) Degree
17 9 (11.84%) WCF
17 9 (11.84%) Multithreading
17 9 (11.84%) UML
17 9 (11.84%) OO
17 9 (11.84%) C++
17 9 (11.84%) CSS

Senior Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 28 (36.84%) .NET
2 20 (26.32%) XML
3 16 (21.05%) Web Services
4 15 (19.74%) jQuery
5 11 (14.47%) HTML
6 10 (13.16%) ASP.NET
7 9 (11.84%) WCF
7 9 (11.84%) CSS
8 7 (9.211%) Spring
8 7 (9.211%) .NET Framework
8 7 (9.211%) Java EE
8 7 (9.211%) JMS
8 7 (9.211%) Hibernate
9 6 (7.895%) Middleware
9 6 (7.895%) XSLT
10 5 (6.579%) Apache CXF
10 5 (6.579%) jBPM
10 5 (6.579%) ASP
10 5 (6.579%) WinForms
11 4 (5.263%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 7 (9.211%) Apache
2 6 (7.895%) Tomcat
3 4 (5.263%) ESB
4 3 (3.947%) MSMQ
5 2 (2.632%) SAS
5 2 (2.632%) TIBCO EMS
6 1 (1.316%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (5.263%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.316%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.632%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.263%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (27.63%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (7.895%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (5.263%) SQL Server 2000
5 3 (3.947%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.632%) SQLPlus
6 2 (2.632%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (2.632%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.632%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (2.632%) MS Access
6 2 (2.632%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (2.632%) OLAP
6 2 (2.632%) MySQL
6 2 (2.632%) Oracle OLAP
6 2 (2.632%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.316%) DB2
7 1 (1.316%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Maven
1 11 (14.47%) JUnit
2 7 (9.211%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.895%) Eclipse
4 5 (6.579%) EasyMock
4 5 (6.579%) Visual Studio
4 5 (6.579%) Ant
5 4 (5.263%) JIRA
5 4 (5.263%) Subversion
5 4 (5.263%) SpecFlow
6 3 (3.947%) Rhino Mocks
6 3 (3.947%) NUnit
7 2 (2.632%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (2.632%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (2.632%) MSBuild
8 1 (1.316%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.316%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
8 1 (1.316%) Synon
General
1 33 (43.42%) Finance
2 21 (27.63%) Banking
3 16 (21.05%) Investment Banking
4 6 (7.895%) Games
5 4 (5.263%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.316%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.47%) Derivative
2 6 (7.895%) Computer Science
3 5 (6.579%) Biology
3 5 (6.579%) Mobile Games
3 5 (6.579%) Fixed Income
4 4 (5.263%) Equities
4 4 (5.263%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.947%) W3C
6 2 (2.632%) Statistics
6 2 (2.632%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.316%) iSeries
7 1 (1.316%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.316%) IPTV
7 1 (1.316%) Animation
7 1 (1.316%) Mathematics
7 1 (1.316%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.316%) AS400
7 1 (1.316%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.316%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.00%) Windows
2 10 (13.16%) UNIX
3 7 (9.211%) Linux
4 2 (2.632%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (2.632%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.316%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.37%) TDD
2 13 (17.11%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (11.84%) Multithreading
3 9 (11.84%) UML
3 9 (11.84%) OO
3 9 (11.84%) MVC
4 7 (9.211%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (9.211%) SOA
5 6 (7.895%) Web Development
5 6 (7.895%) Game Development
6 5 (6.579%) System Testing
6 5 (6.579%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (6.579%) Bioinformatics
6 5 (6.579%) Scrum
7 4 (5.263%) Risk Management
7 4 (5.263%) Algorithmic Trading
7 4 (5.263%) Electronic Trading
7 4 (5.263%) Software Architecture
7 4 (5.263%) BDD
7 4 (5.263%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 36 (47.37%) C#
2 30 (39.47%) SQL
3 29 (38.16%) Java
4 14 (18.42%) JavaScript
5 10 (13.16%) PL/SQL
6 9 (11.84%) C++
7 8 (10.53%) VB
8 7 (9.211%) VB.NET
8 7 (9.211%) Python
9 6 (7.895%) T-SQL
9 6 (7.895%) Perl
10 4 (5.263%) VBScript
10 4 (5.263%) VB6
11 2 (2.632%) Objective-C
11 2 (2.632%) VC++
11 2 (2.632%) PHP
11 2 (2.632%) COBOL
11 2 (2.632%) SAS Macro
12 1 (1.316%) HLSL
12 1 (1.316%) GLSL
Qualifications
1 10 (13.16%) Degree
2 5 (6.579%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.632%) CDISC
Vendors
1 18 (23.68%) Oracle
2 6 (7.895%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.947%) Unisys
4 2 (2.632%) TIBCO
4 2 (2.632%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.316%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.316%) Zend
5 1 (1.316%) Siebel
5 1 (1.316%) HP
5 1 (1.316%) Progress
5 1 (1.316%) JBoss
5 1 (1.316%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.316%) Mercator
5 1 (1.316%) IBM
Senior Analyst/Programmer
Cheshire
Essential Skills & Experience: *C# *.NET Runtime *ASP.NET *SQL Server *T-SQL *Ability to communicate clearly with employees of all levels.
Rullion IT Plus
Rate: £280 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Senior SAS Programmer (DWH, SAS, Business Objects) - Surrey - 3 month Contract - £425 daily rate
Surrey
Our client based in Surrey is looking for a Senior SAS Programmer to be responsible for the maintenance and development of the SAS Data Warehouse to include the...
Clearwater People Solutions
Rate: £425 - 450 Per Day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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