Software Programmer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Programmer role in IT contracts across the UK compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Programmer
Location Aberdeen Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Devon East Midlands East of England England Exeter London Oxfordshire Scotland South East South West UK	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	524	631
Rank change on same period last year	+107
Matching contract IT job ads	12	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	0.022 %	0.015 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£450
Average daily rate	£308	£463
% change on same period last year	-33.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£275	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£23.69
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£25.90
% change on same period last year	-13.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£28.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-10.00 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	54924	84848
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	88.25 %	91.12 %
Daily rates quoted	17215	25391
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£386
Average daily rate	£388	£410
% change on same period last year	-5.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£434
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	5300	7586
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.03	£23.19
Average hourly rate	£23.48	£24.74
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.92	£26.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %

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.

Software Programmer
Demand Trend

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

Software Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Programmer within the UK.

Software Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Programmer within the UK over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

Software Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Software Programmer
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Programmer within the UK over the 3 months to 2 December 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
England	+97	11	£308	-33.33 %
South West	-	5	-	-
Bristol	-	2	-	-
Exeter	-	2	-	-
London	+100	2	£375	-18.91 %
Devon	-	2	-	-
Oxfordshire	-	2	£275	-
South East	+60	2	£275	-
Aberdeen	-	1	-	-
East Midlands	-	1	-	-
Cambridgeshire	+12	1	-	-
Cambridge	+6	1	-	-
Scotland	-	1	-	-
East of England	+33	1	-	-

Software Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Software 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 Software Programmer in their job title.

1 9 (34.62 %) C++ 2 8 (30.77 %) C 3 6 (23.08 %) Java 3 6 (23.08 %) .NET 3 6 (23.08 %) VB 4 5 (19.23 %) VB.NET 4 5 (19.23 %) Linux 4 5 (19.23 %) Python 5 4 (15.38 %) OO 5 4 (15.38 %) Visual Studio 5 4 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 6 3 (11.54 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (11.54 %) LabVIEW 6 3 (11.54 %) Subversion 6 3 (11.54 %) SQL Server

6 3 (11.54 %) UNIX 6 3 (11.54 %) Windows 6 3 (11.54 %) J2EE 6 3 (11.54 %) Perl 6 3 (11.54 %) UML 6 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft 6 3 (11.54 %) Finance 7 2 (7.692 %) Tomcat 7 2 (7.692 %) WebLogic Portal 7 2 (7.692 %) OOA/OOD 7 2 (7.692 %) Data Mining 7 2 (7.692 %) JBoss 7 2 (7.692 %) LDAP 7 2 (7.692 %) MS Access 7 2 (7.692 %) JavaScript

Software Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Software 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 Software Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (23.08 %) .NET 2 3 (11.54 %) J2EE 3 2 (7.692 %) ODBC 3 2 (7.692 %) AJAX 3 2 (7.692 %) ASP 3 2 (7.692 %) HTML 4 1 (3.846 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (3.846 %) STL 4 1 (3.846 %) WebServices 4 1 (3.846 %) XML 4 1 (3.846 %) Ruby on Rails 4 1 (3.846 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 2 (7.692 %) WebLogic 1 2 (7.692 %) JBoss 1 2 (7.692 %) Tomcat 1 2 (7.692 %) WebLogic Portal 2 1 (3.846 %) SAS
Applications 1 2 (7.692 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (7.692 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (11.54 %) SQL Server 2 2 (7.692 %) OLAP 2 2 (7.692 %) MS Access 2 2 (7.692 %) Data Mining 3 1 (3.846 %) RDBMS 3 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (3.846 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 11g 3 1 (3.846 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 4 (15.38 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (11.54 %) LabVIEW 2 3 (11.54 %) Subversion 3 1 (3.846 %) Ant
General 1 3 (11.54 %) Finance 2 1 (3.846 %) Aerospace 2 1 (3.846 %) Automotive 2 1 (3.846 %) Education 2 1 (3.846 %) Government 2 1 (3.846 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (3.846 %) Military 2 1 (3.846 %) Multimedia 2 1 (3.846 %) Music 2 1 (3.846 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) Client/Server 1 1 (3.846 %) Device Driver 1 1 (3.846 %) Speech Recognition 1 1 (3.846 %) IPTV 1 1 (3.846 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 5 (19.23 %) Linux 2 3 (11.54 %) UNIX 2 3 (11.54 %) Windows 3 1 (3.846 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (3.846 %) Windows XP 3 1 (3.846 %) Windows CE 3 1 (3.846 %) Red Hat Linux 3 1 (3.846 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (15.38 %) OO 1 4 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (11.54 %) SC Cleared 2 3 (11.54 %) UML 3 2 (7.692 %) OOA/OOD 3 2 (7.692 %) Requirements Analysis 3 2 (7.692 %) Web Development 4 1 (3.846 %) Time Management 4 1 (3.846 %) RUP 4 1 (3.846 %) OOD 4 1 (3.846 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (3.846 %) Validation 4 1 (3.846 %) TDD 4 1 (3.846 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (3.846 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 9 (34.62 %) C++ 2 8 (30.77 %) C 3 6 (23.08 %) Java 3 6 (23.08 %) VB 4 5 (19.23 %) VB.NET 4 5 (19.23 %) Python 5 3 (11.54 %) Perl 6 2 (7.692 %) JavaScript 6 2 (7.692 %) VB6 6 2 (7.692 %) SQL 7 1 (3.846 %) Ruby 7 1 (3.846 %) Shell Script 7 1 (3.846 %) C# 7 1 (3.846 %) PHP 7 1 (3.846 %) VC++	Vendors 1 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft 2 2 (7.692 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.846 %) Business Objects 3 1 (3.846 %) Adobe 3 1 (3.846 %) SIMUL8