Yorkshire Programmer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT contracts within the Yorkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Programmer
Location Alderley Edge Ascot Barking Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Haywards Heath Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Kent Kilmarnock Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Prescot Reading Rochester Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	54
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	51	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.068 %	0.088 %
As % of the category below	1.739 %	2.528 %
Daily rates quoted	4	14
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£280
Average daily rate	£341	£289
% change on same period last year	+18.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£297
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£311
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.50	£19.50
Average hourly rate	£19.88	£20.38
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.25	£21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.74	£32.73
% change on same period last year	+6.14 %
Job Titles Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2933	3441
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.909 %	3.481 %
Daily rates quoted	625	633
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£314
Average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	288	298
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.52	£23.17
Average hourly rate	£23.29	£24.50
% change on same period last year	-4.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.06	£25.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Programmer England

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Programmer across the Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programmer across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Programmer across the Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programmer across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programmer within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
West Yorkshire	-19	26	£360	+31.93 %
North Yorkshire	+3	5	£323	+7.58 %
South Yorkshire	-2	3	-	-
East Yorkshire	-	1	-	-

Programmer England

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited 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 Programmer in their job title.

1 23 (23.23 %) Finance 2 20 (20.20 %) .NET 2 20 (20.20 %) SAS 3 16 (16.16 %) SQL 4 14 (14.14 %) Oracle 5 13 (13.13 %) COBOL 5 13 (13.13 %) XML 5 13 (13.13 %) Migration 5 13 (13.13 %) IBM 6 12 (12.12 %) Mainframe 6 12 (12.12 %) Base SAS 7 11 (11.11 %) zOS 7 11 (11.11 %) CICS 8 10 (10.10 %) JavaScript 8 10 (10.10 %) VB.NET

8 10 (10.10 %) SQL Server 9 9 (9.091 %) PHP 9 9 (9.091 %) HTML 9 9 (9.091 %) CSS 9 9 (9.091 %) IBM Mainframe 10 8 (8.081 %) SAS Macro 10 8 (8.081 %) System Testing 10 8 (8.081 %) Oracle Forms 10 8 (8.081 %) RPG 11 7 (7.071 %) Banking 11 7 (7.071 %) Retail 11 7 (7.071 %) AS400 11 7 (7.071 %) Synon 11 7 (7.071 %) Java 11 7 (7.071 %) Windows

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited 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 Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 20 (20.20 %) .NET 2 13 (13.13 %) XML 3 9 (9.091 %) HTML 3 9 (9.091 %) CSS 4 6 (6.061 %) ASP.NET 5 5 (5.051 %) AJAX 6 4 (4.040 %) WinForms 6 4 (4.040 %) .NET Framework 6 4 (4.040 %) J2EE 6 4 (4.040 %) ADO.NET 7 3 (3.030 %) YUI 7 3 (3.030 %) jQuery 8 2 (2.020 %) MooTools 8 2 (2.020 %) Dojo 8 2 (2.020 %) JSP 8 2 (2.020 %) WebServices 9 1 (1.010 %) EJB 9 1 (1.010 %) EDI 9 1 (1.010 %) JMS 9 1 (1.010 %) EDIFACT	Application Platforms 1 20 (20.20 %) SAS 2 11 (11.11 %) CICS 3 6 (6.061 %) Lotus Notes 4 5 (5.051 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (1.010 %) WebLogic 5 1 (1.010 %) IIS 5 1 (1.010 %) Gentran
Applications 1 5 (5.051 %) MS Visio 2 3 (3.030 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.010 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.010 %) ArcView	Business Applications 1 1 (1.010 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.030 %) Internet 2 1 (1.010 %) SNMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (12.12 %) Base SAS 2 10 (10.10 %) SQL Server 3 6 (6.061 %) SQL Server 2005 4 5 (5.051 %) Datawarehouse 4 5 (5.051 %) Oracle 9i 4 5 (5.051 %) ETL 4 5 (5.051 %) TOAD 5 3 (3.030 %) Oracle 10g 5 3 (3.030 %) MySQL 6 2 (2.020 %) MS Access 7 1 (1.010 %) DB2 7 1 (1.010 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (1.010 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (1.010 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (1.010 %) GIS 7 1 (1.010 %) DTS 7 1 (1.010 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 8 (8.081 %) Oracle Forms 2 7 (7.071 %) Synon 3 6 (6.061 %) COOL2E 4 4 (4.040 %) Flash 5 3 (3.030 %) QuickTest Pro 6 2 (2.020 %) ProC 7 1 (1.010 %) Ant 7 1 (1.010 %) JUnit 7 1 (1.010 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 23 (23.23 %) Finance 2 7 (7.071 %) Banking 2 7 (7.071 %) Retail 3 6 (6.061 %) Retail Banking 4 4 (4.040 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (2.020 %) Insurance 5 2 (2.020 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (1.010 %) Marketing 6 1 (1.010 %) Electronics 6 1 (1.010 %) Education 6 1 (1.010 %) Health
Miscellaneous 1 12 (12.12 %) Mainframe 2 9 (9.091 %) IBM Mainframe 3 7 (7.071 %) AS400 4 2 (2.020 %) E-Learning 4 2 (2.020 %) RIA 5 1 (1.010 %) SCORM 5 1 (1.010 %) Statistics 5 1 (1.010 %) Data Integration 5 1 (1.010 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 11 (11.11 %) zOS 2 7 (7.071 %) Windows 3 4 (4.040 %) UNIX 4 2 (2.020 %) Linux 5 1 (1.010 %) VMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (13.13 %) Migration 2 8 (8.081 %) System Testing 3 7 (7.071 %) Dimensional Modelling 4 4 (4.040 %) Requirements Analysis 5 3 (3.030 %) Web Development 6 2 (2.020 %) UML 6 2 (2.020 %) RAD 6 2 (2.020 %) Decision Table 6 2 (2.020 %) Performance Testing 7 1 (1.010 %) RUP 7 1 (1.010 %) CRM 7 1 (1.010 %) ERP 7 1 (1.010 %) Data Modelling 7 1 (1.010 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (1.010 %) CHAID 7 1 (1.010 %) Project Management 7 1 (1.010 %) OOP 7 1 (1.010 %) Asset Management 7 1 (1.010 %) Software Engineering 7 1 (1.010 %) Cluster Analysis	Programming Languages 1 16 (16.16 %) SQL 2 13 (13.13 %) COBOL 3 10 (10.10 %) JavaScript 3 10 (10.10 %) VB.NET 4 9 (9.091 %) PHP 5 8 (8.081 %) RPG 5 8 (8.081 %) SAS Macro 6 7 (7.071 %) Java 7 6 (6.061 %) C# 7 6 (6.061 %) PL/SQL 7 6 (6.061 %) VBA 8 5 (5.051 %) VB 9 4 (4.040 %) DHTML 10 3 (3.030 %) C 10 3 (3.030 %) Shell Script 10 3 (3.030 %) PowerHouse 10 3 (3.030 %) ActionScript 11 2 (2.020 %) VB6 11 2 (2.020 %) Perl 12 1 (1.010 %) Delphi
Qualifications 1 3 (3.030 %) SAS Certification 2 1 (1.010 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.010 %) ISO9000 1 1 (1.010 %) Basel II 1 1 (1.010 %) TickIT
System Software 1 1 (1.010 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 14 (14.14 %) Oracle 2 13 (13.13 %) IBM 3 6 (6.061 %) Lotus 4 3 (3.030 %) Microsoft 5 2 (2.020 %) SAP 6 1 (1.010 %) Cognos 6 1 (1.010 %) Business Objects 6 1 (1.010 %) Geac 6 1 (1.010 %) Motorola 6 1 (1.010 %) ESRI 6 1 (1.010 %) ATG 6 1 (1.010 %) Teradata 6 1 (1.010 %) Infor