Bedford Programmer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT jobs within the Bedford region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Programmer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alfreton Altrincham Amersham Avon Banbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carshalton Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Douglas Droitwich Dumfries Dumfries and Galloway Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Grantham Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Loughton Ludlow Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Malvern Manchester Mansfield Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcham Mitcheldean Morecambe New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oakham Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Rutland Saffron Walden Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swanley Swindon Tamworth Taunton Tayside Telford Thames Valley Thornton Heath Tonbridge Torquay Tring Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	29
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching permanent IT job ads	1	6
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.398 %	2.135 %
Salaries quoted	1	5
Average minimum salary	£30,000	£30,000
Average salary	£32,500	£32,200
% change on same period last year	+0.93 %
Average maximum salary	£35,000	£34,400
UK excluding London average salary	£33,361	£33,112
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Job Titles Bedford
Matching permanent IT job ads	251	281
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.169 %	0.128 %
Salaries quoted	235	258
Average minimum salary	£31,182	£33,818
Average salary	£33,927	£38,506
% change on same period last year	-11.89 %
Average maximum salary	£36,673	£43,194
UK excluding London average salary	£38,491	£39,065
% change on same period last year	-1.46 %
Programmer Bedfordshire

Programmer
Demand Trend

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

Programmer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Programmer across the Bedford region.

Programmer
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled with Programmer in their job title.

1 2 (66.67 %) HTML 1 2 (66.67 %) Java 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 1 2 (66.67 %) EJB 1 2 (66.67 %) JSP 1 2 (66.67 %) Struts 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 1 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (33.33 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) WCF 2 1 (33.33 %) WPF 2 1 (33.33 %) Silverlight 2 1 (33.33 %) Unit Testing

2 1 (33.33 %) Continuous Integration 2 1 (33.33 %) Subversion 2 1 (33.33 %) OO 2 1 (33.33 %) Biometrics 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled with Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 1 2 (66.67 %) EJB 1 2 (66.67 %) JSP 1 2 (66.67 %) Struts 1 2 (66.67 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) WCF 2 1 (33.33 %) WPF 2 1 (33.33 %) Silverlight	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (33.33 %) Subversion	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Biometrics	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) OO 1 1 (33.33 %) Unit Testing 1 1 (33.33 %) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) Java 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) C#