The first table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. 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 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Programmer
Rank 161 140 122
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Programmer 55 79 84
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.064% 1.287% 1.591%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.131% 1.363% 1.688%
Number of salaries quoted 54 60 78
Average salary £35,000 £32,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.37% -1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £23,000 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,250 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4862 5796 4977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 94.10% 94.44% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3861 4940 4138
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Programmer
South East

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Programmer
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Programmer Salary Trend

Programmer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Programmer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Berkshire Programmer Salary Histogram

Programmer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Programmer within the Berkshire 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +6 30 £35,000 +34.61%
Newbury -1 2 £41,250 +26.92%
Bracknell -19 2 £47,500 +15.15%
Maidenhead +4 1 £45,000 +20.00%
Programmer
South East

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 52 (40.63%) SQL
1 52 (40.63%) .NET
1 52 (40.63%) SQL Server
2 49 (38.28%) C#
3 43 (33.59%) Degree
4 40 (31.25%) ASP.NET
5 33 (25.78%) JavaScript
6 26 (20.31%) WCF
7 22 (17.19%) Java
8 21 (16.41%) Finance
9 20 (15.63%) VB.NET
10 17 (13.28%) Microsoft
10 17 (13.28%) LINQ
11 16 (12.50%) jQuery
11 16 (12.50%) CSS
11 16 (12.50%) MVC
12 15 (11.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 15 (11.72%) HTML
12 15 (11.72%) SAS
12 15 (11.72%) OO
13 14 (10.94%) T-SQL
13 14 (10.94%) Visual Studio
14 13 (10.16%) UNIX
14 13 (10.16%) PHP
14 13 (10.16%) Linux
14 13 (10.16%) MS Excel
15 12 (9.375%) Unit Testing
15 12 (9.375%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (8.594%) WPF
16 11 (8.594%) Silverlight

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 52 (40.63%) .NET
2 40 (31.25%) ASP.NET
3 26 (20.31%) WCF
4 17 (13.28%) LINQ
5 16 (12.50%) jQuery
5 16 (12.50%) CSS
6 15 (11.72%) HTML
7 11 (8.594%) WPF
7 11 (8.594%) Silverlight
8 10 (7.813%) XHTML
9 9 (7.031%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (6.250%) XML
11 7 (5.469%) NHibernate
11 7 (5.469%) Castle Windsor
11 7 (5.469%) Hibernate
11 7 (5.469%) JDBC
12 6 (4.688%) J2EE
12 6 (4.688%) Velocity
12 6 (4.688%) JSON
13 5 (3.906%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 15 (11.72%) SAS
2 9 (7.031%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.469%) CMS
3 7 (5.469%) Tomcat
4 6 (4.688%) Jetty
5 1 (0.781%) Apache
5 1 (0.781%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (10.16%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.344%) MS Office
3 1 (0.781%) SketchUp
3 1 (0.781%) Revit
3 1 (0.781%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.781%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.781%) CATIA
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.688%) LDAP
2 1 (0.781%) GSM
2 1 (0.781%) UMTS
2 1 (0.781%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (40.63%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.813%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (7.813%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 10 (7.813%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 10 (7.813%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (7.031%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 9 (7.031%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 9 (7.031%) MySQL
4 8 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
5 7 (5.469%) QlikView
6 3 (2.344%) Adabas
7 1 (0.781%) DB2
Development Applications
1 14 (10.94%) Visual Studio
2 7 (5.469%) Selenium
2 7 (5.469%) NUnit
3 6 (4.688%) Ant
3 6 (4.688%) JUnit
4 4 (3.125%) WebDriver
5 3 (2.344%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.344%) Rhino Mocks
5 3 (2.344%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (2.344%) Subversion
6 2 (1.563%) C++Builder
6 2 (1.563%) QuickTest Pro
6 2 (1.563%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.781%) MSTest
7 1 (0.781%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.781%) Dreamweaver
General
1 21 (16.41%) Finance
2 15 (11.72%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (4.688%) Publishing
3 6 (4.688%) Legal
4 5 (3.906%) Marketing
5 2 (1.563%) Games
6 1 (0.781%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.781%) Automotive
6 1 (0.781%) Advertising
6 1 (0.781%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.375%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (7.031%) Data Conversion
3 8 (6.250%) Computer Science
4 7 (5.469%) Mathematics
5 6 (4.688%) Open Source
6 4 (3.125%) Statistics
7 3 (2.344%) Social Media
7 3 (2.344%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.563%) iPad
8 2 (1.563%) Inversion of Control
9 1 (0.781%) Biometrics
9 1 (0.781%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.781%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.16%) UNIX
1 13 (10.16%) Linux
2 8 (6.250%) Windows
3 1 (0.781%) Android
3 1 (0.781%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.781%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (12.50%) MVC
2 15 (11.72%) OO
3 12 (9.375%) Unit Testing
4 10 (7.813%) Scrum
5 9 (7.031%) Web Development
5 9 (7.031%) ETL
5 9 (7.031%) Data Analysis
5 9 (7.031%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (6.250%) Workflow
6 8 (6.250%) Validation
7 7 (5.469%) Multithreading
7 7 (5.469%) Kanban
7 7 (5.469%) BDD
7 7 (5.469%) CAD
7 7 (5.469%) TDD
7 7 (5.469%) RDF
7 7 (5.469%) Data Modelling
7 7 (5.469%) OOD
7 7 (5.469%) E-Commerce
7 7 (5.469%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 52 (40.63%) SQL
2 49 (38.28%) C#
3 33 (25.78%) JavaScript
4 22 (17.19%) Java
5 20 (15.63%) VB.NET
6 14 (10.94%) T-SQL
7 13 (10.16%) PHP
8 11 (8.594%) C++
9 9 (7.031%) PHP5
10 8 (6.250%) Shell Script
11 7 (5.469%) Python
12 6 (4.688%) Bash shell
13 3 (2.344%) NATURAL
14 2 (1.563%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.563%) PHP4
15 1 (0.781%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.781%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.781%) VB
15 1 (0.781%) C
Qualifications
1 43 (33.59%) Degree
2 1 (0.781%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.688%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.781%) CDISC
Vendors
1 17 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.469%) Oracle
3 3 (2.344%) Sybase
4 2 (1.563%) ATG
4 2 (1.563%) Borland
5 1 (0.781%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.781%) Adobe
5 1 (0.781%) JBoss
5 1 (0.781%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.781%) SolidWorks
Reading, Thames Valley
Extensive experience of client and server-side web development (HTML, CSS, XML, AJAX, JavaScript, MVC Frameworks, Web Standards) and Microsoft SQL Server & Scripting experience including SQL Server 2008...
Salary: £38000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
Technical:The primary development language is C#... Experience designing and coding complex distributed desktop applications.Good experience with .Net 3.5.C++ competence with Win32 applications will be...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Technical: The primary development language is C#... Good experience with .Net 3.5. C++ competence with Win32 applications will be a bonus. ASP.Net experience with AJAX will...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + YES
Posted: 8 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Java, C, C++, Ecommerce Fantastic opportunity to work for the worlds premier ecommerce company. Working in the innovation team you will work with a range of technologies (C,...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Stock
Posted: 20 May 2013