Software 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 Software 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 Software Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Programmer
Rank 501 577 576
Rank change year-on-year
+76 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Software Programmer 33 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.070% 0.015% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.016% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 3 0
Average daily rate £325 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.44% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £225 -
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
Average hourly rate £25.81 £32.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.35% -1.53%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.53%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2155 2623 2895
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 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Software Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Software Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

This 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 Trend

Software Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Programmer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Software Programmer Daily Rate Histogram

Software Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Software Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Programmer
Top 25 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 22 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 +69 21 £525 +133.33%
London +40 11 £250 -35.27%
South Wales - 9 £325 -
Wales - 9 £325 -
South West +30 4 £600 +166.66%
Wiltshire +12 4 £600 -
Swindon +4 4 £563 -
West Midlands +12 3 £525 -
Birmingham +12 3 £525 -
Corsham - 3 £600 -
Scotland -15 2 £240 -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Edinburgh - 2 £240 -
South East +15 1 £375 +66.66%
East of England +15 1 £300 -
East Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Surrey - 1 £375 -
North Yorkshire - 1 - -
Essex - 1 £300 -
York - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -
Leatherhead - 1 £375 -
Hull - 1 - -
Harrogate - 1 - -

Software Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 36 (53.73%) .NET
2 30 (44.78%) SQL Server
3 29 (43.28%) Windows
4 28 (41.79%) Visual Studio
5 27 (40.30%) Finance
6 25 (37.31%) SQL Server 2008
7 24 (35.82%) C#
8 22 (32.84%) .NET Framework
9 21 (31.34%) VB
10 19 (28.36%) VB.NET
11 18 (26.87%) C++
11 18 (26.87%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 18 (26.87%) VB6
12 17 (25.37%) SQL Server 2005
12 17 (25.37%) Performance Management
12 17 (25.37%) ERP
12 17 (25.37%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (17.91%) Web Services
14 10 (14.93%) SQL
14 10 (14.93%) Unit Testing
15 9 (13.43%) WCF
15 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
15 9 (13.43%) UML
16 8 (11.94%) IIS
16 8 (11.94%) ESRI
16 8 (11.94%) ArcGIS
16 8 (11.94%) Client/Server
16 8 (11.94%) Silverlight
16 8 (11.94%) RIA
16 8 (11.94%) MSTest

Software Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 36 (53.73%) .NET
2 22 (32.84%) .NET Framework
3 12 (17.91%) Web Services
4 9 (13.43%) WCF
5 8 (11.94%) Silverlight
5 8 (11.94%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 8 (11.94%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 6 (8.955%) ASP.NET
7 5 (7.463%) MFC
7 5 (7.463%) OpenGL
7 5 (7.463%) DirectX
8 4 (5.970%) jQuery
8 4 (5.970%) XML
8 4 (5.970%) Qt
9 3 (4.478%) WinForms
10 2 (2.985%) Java EE
10 2 (2.985%) CSS
10 2 (2.985%) HTML
10 2 (2.985%) J2EE
11 1 (1.493%) Boost C++ Libraries
Application Platforms
1 8 (11.94%) IIS
1 8 (11.94%) ArcGIS
2 2 (2.985%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.985%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.493%) nginx
3 1 (1.493%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.493%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.493%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (1.493%) Route 53
3 1 (1.493%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (7.463%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.493%) HTTP
1 1 (1.493%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (44.78%) SQL Server
2 25 (37.31%) SQL Server 2008
3 17 (25.37%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (2.985%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.493%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.493%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.493%) SimpleDB
5 1 (1.493%) Redis
5 1 (1.493%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.493%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.493%) MySQL
5 1 (1.493%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.493%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 28 (41.79%) Visual Studio
2 18 (26.87%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 17 (25.37%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (11.94%) MSTest
4 8 (11.94%) Moq
5 1 (1.493%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.493%) GoogleTest
5 1 (1.493%) WebSpeed
5 1 (1.493%) LabVIEW
General
1 27 (40.30%) Finance
2 4 (5.970%) Electronics
3 3 (4.478%) Front Office
3 3 (4.478%) French Language
3 3 (4.478%) German Language
3 3 (4.478%) Retail
4 1 (1.493%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.493%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.493%) Banking
4 1 (1.493%) Japanese Language
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Client/Server
1 8 (11.94%) RIA
2 7 (10.45%) Mathematics
3 4 (5.970%) APACS
3 4 (5.970%) EPoS
3 4 (5.970%) EMV
3 4 (5.970%) Chip and PIN
4 3 (4.478%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.493%) Pharmacovigilance
5 1 (1.493%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 29 (43.28%) Windows
2 8 (11.94%) Windows 7
3 5 (7.463%) Linux
4 3 (4.478%) UNIX
5 1 (1.493%) Windows 2000
5 1 (1.493%) Windows NT
5 1 (1.493%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.493%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.37%) Performance Management
1 17 (25.37%) ERP
2 10 (14.93%) Unit Testing
3 9 (13.43%) UML
4 6 (8.955%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (2.985%) Scrum
5 2 (2.985%) TDD
5 2 (2.985%) Validation
5 2 (2.985%) Configuration Management
5 2 (2.985%) OO
5 2 (2.985%) Web Application Development
6 1 (1.493%) Change Control
6 1 (1.493%) CRM
6 1 (1.493%) E-Commerce
6 1 (1.493%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (1.493%) MVC
6 1 (1.493%) Practice Management
6 1 (1.493%) Automated Testing
6 1 (1.493%) Software Testing
6 1 (1.493%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.82%) C#
2 21 (31.34%) VB
3 19 (28.36%) VB.NET
4 18 (26.87%) C++
4 18 (26.87%) VB6
5 10 (14.93%) SQL
6 6 (8.955%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.463%) Java
7 5 (7.463%) VBA
7 5 (7.463%) Fortran
7 5 (7.463%) VC++
8 4 (5.970%) C
8 4 (5.970%) PHP
9 1 (1.493%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.493%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.493%) Perl
9 1 (1.493%) Ada
9 1 (1.493%) Python
9 1 (1.493%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.94%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.463%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (1.493%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (11.94%) ESRI
2 6 (8.955%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.970%) VeriFone
4 3 (4.478%) Allen-Bradley
5 2 (2.985%) hybris
6 1 (1.493%) Oracle
6 1 (1.493%) Progress
6 1 (1.493%) Google
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