The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. 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 23 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 West Yorkshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Programmer
Rank 92 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Software Programmer 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.080% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £225 -
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.53%
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1183 1494 1077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.49% 94.56% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 835 501
Average daily rate £313 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 67 76
Average hourly rate £12.75 £12.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.53 £10.30 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Programmer
Yorkshire

Software Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Software Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Programmer
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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Leeds - 1 - -
Software Programmer
Yorkshire

Software Programmer
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Pharmacovigilance
2 1 (50.00%) German Language
2 1 (50.00%) Japanese Language
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL

Software Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (50.00%) German Language
1 1 (50.00%) Japanese Language
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmacovigilance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle