Systems Programmer Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

System Programmer
Location Bootle Edinburgh England Liverpool London Merseyside North West Scotland UK West Midlands	3 months to 18 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	480	435	555
Rank change year-on-year	-45 +120
Matching contract IT job ads	7	4	51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	0.015 %	0.010 %	0.062 %
As % of the Job Titles category	0.016 %	0.011 %	0.067 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2	5
Average daily rate	£425	£238	£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+78.94 % -32.14 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	£238	£375
% change year-on-year	- -36.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	1
Average hourly rate	-	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-	£20.00
All Job Titles UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Job Titles category	43911	36196	76445
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	91.47 %	91.48 %	93.02 %
Daily rates quoted	20013	11528	23640
Average daily rate	£400	£375	£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.660 % -6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£225	£213	£238
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£550	£600
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£338	£350
% change year-on-year	-3.700 % -3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted	2515	3037	6716
Average hourly rate	£19.50	£20.00	£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-2.500 % -9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£10.00	£11.00	£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£38.00	£37.50	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.50	£20.00	£22.00
% change year-on-year	-12.50 % -9.090 %

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.

Systems Programmer
Demand Trend

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

Systems Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Systems Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Systems Programmer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Programmer within the UK over the 3 months to 18 March 2010. 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	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	-36	6	£425	+78.94 %
Merseyside	-	3	-	-
North West	-	3	-	-
Bootle	-	2	-	-
London	-	2	£425	-
Scotland	-	1	-	-
Edinburgh	-	1	-	-
Liverpool	-	1	-	-
West Midlands	-	1	-	-

Systems Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Systems 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 Systems Programmer in their job title.

1 5 (33.33 %) Mainframe 2 4 (26.67 %) Migration 2 4 (26.67 %) COBOL 2 4 (26.67 %) IBM 3 3 (20.00 %) Adabas 3 3 (20.00 %) Software AG 3 3 (20.00 %) CICS 3 3 (20.00 %) BASE24 3 3 (20.00 %) Retail 4 2 (13.33 %) HP 4 2 (13.33 %) Tandem 4 2 (13.33 %) CA 4 2 (13.33 %) EMV 4 2 (13.33 %) ATM 5 1 (6.667 %) HTTP

5 1 (6.667 %) Microsoft 5 1 (6.667 %) DB2 5 1 (6.667 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 1 (6.667 %) IIS 5 1 (6.667 %) UNIX 5 1 (6.667 %) Linux 5 1 (6.667 %) Apache 5 1 (6.667 %) MVS 5 1 (6.667 %) WebSphere MQ 5 1 (6.667 %) JCL 5 1 (6.667 %) Project Management 5 1 (6.667 %) Assembly Language 5 1 (6.667 %) BMC 5 1 (6.667 %) SAN 5 1 (6.667 %) REXX

Systems Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Systems 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 Systems Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (6.667 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (20.00 %) CICS 2 1 (6.667 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (6.667 %) IIS 2 1 (6.667 %) Apache 2 1 (6.667 %) WebSphere MQ 2 1 (6.667 %) IBM HTTP Server
Business Applications 1 3 (20.00 %) BASE24	Communications & Networking 1 2 (13.33 %) ATM 2 1 (6.667 %) HTTP 2 1 (6.667 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (20.00 %) Adabas 2 1 (6.667 %) DB2	General 1 3 (20.00 %) Retail 2 1 (6.667 %) Finance 2 1 (6.667 %) Banking 2 1 (6.667 %) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous 1 5 (33.33 %) Mainframe 2 2 (13.33 %) Tandem 2 2 (13.33 %) EMV 3 1 (6.667 %) SCADA	Operating Systems 1 1 (6.667 %) UNIX 1 1 (6.667 %) Linux 1 1 (6.667 %) MVS
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (26.67 %) Migration 2 1 (6.667 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (26.67 %) COBOL 2 1 (6.667 %) JCL 2 1 (6.667 %) Assembly Language 2 1 (6.667 %) REXX
Vendors 1 4 (26.67 %) IBM 2 3 (20.00 %) Software AG 3 2 (13.33 %) HP 3 2 (13.33 %) CA 4 1 (6.667 %) Microsoft 4 1 (6.667 %) BMC