Cambridge Programmer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT jobs within the Cambridge 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Programmer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carshalton Caterham Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleveland Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Daresbury Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Folkestone Frome Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Great Yarmouth Greenock Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Humberside Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Immingham Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughton Luton Maidenhead Maldon Manchester Margate Market Harborough Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oakham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Ramsgate Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Runcorn Rutland Sale Scotland Seaford Sheffield Sidmouth Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Thornton Heath Tonbridge Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	70
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	80	57
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	2.895 %	2.249 %
Salaries quoted	61	45
Average minimum salary	£27,484	£28,200
Average salary	£31,144	£31,344
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Average maximum salary	£34,805	£34,489
UK excluding London average salary	£33,383	£32,610
% change on same period last year	+2.36 %
Job Titles Cambridge
Matching permanent IT job ads	2763	2535
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.529 %	1.063 %
Salaries quoted	2350	2084
Average minimum salary	£32,384	£33,456
Average salary	£35,603	£36,484
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Average maximum salary	£38,821	£39,512
UK excluding London average salary	£38,058	£39,448
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
Programmer Cambridgeshire

Programmer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Programmer across the Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Programmer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Programmer across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 76 (45.24 %) Degree 2 59 (35.12 %) C# 3 57 (33.93 %) .NET 3 57 (33.93 %) Windows 3 57 (33.93 %) OO 4 49 (29.17 %) C++ 5 48 (28.57 %) Java 6 45 (26.79 %) Computer Science 7 39 (23.21 %) Pensions 7 39 (23.21 %) UNIX 8 34 (20.24 %) SQL Server 8 34 (20.24 %) Mathematics 9 32 (19.05 %) ASP.NET 10 30 (17.86 %) SQL Server 2000 10 30 (17.86 %) Health

10 30 (17.86 %) C 10 30 (17.86 %) Microsoft 11 28 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2005 12 27 (16.07 %) Internet 13 26 (15.48 %) Intranet 13 26 (15.48 %) SQL 14 24 (14.29 %) GIS 14 24 (14.29 %) Magik 14 24 (14.29 %) Smallworld 15 23 (13.69 %) HTML 16 21 (12.50 %) MS Excel 17 20 (11.90 %) CSS 18 19 (11.31 %) UML 19 18 (10.71 %) PhD 20 17 (10.12 %) CAD

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 57 (33.93 %) .NET 2 32 (19.05 %) ASP.NET 3 23 (13.69 %) HTML 4 20 (11.90 %) CSS 5 17 (10.12 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 14 (8.333 %) XML 7 13 (7.738 %) ASP 8 10 (5.952 %) AJAX 9 7 (4.167 %) STL 10 6 (3.571 %) DirectX 11 5 (2.976 %) WebServices 12 4 (2.381 %) Struts 12 4 (2.381 %) J2EE 13 3 (1.786 %) JSP 13 3 (1.786 %) EJB 13 3 (1.786 %) OpenGL 14 2 (1.190 %) XSL 14 2 (1.190 %) XSLT 15 1 (0.595 %) Swing 15 1 (0.595 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 24 (14.29 %) Smallworld 2 5 (2.976 %) Apache 3 2 (1.190 %) CICS 4 1 (0.595 %) NetWeaver 4 1 (0.595 %) MQSeries 4 1 (0.595 %) SAS 4 1 (0.595 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 21 (12.50 %) MS Excel 2 3 (1.786 %) MATLAB 3 2 (1.190 %) MS Visio 3 2 (1.190 %) 3ds Max 4 1 (0.595 %) S-PLUS	Business Applications 1 1 (0.595 %) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking 1 27 (16.07 %) Internet 2 26 (15.48 %) Intranet 3 16 (9.524 %) RFID 4 4 (2.381 %) HTTP 5 3 (1.786 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 34 (20.24 %) SQL Server 2 30 (17.86 %) SQL Server 2000 3 28 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2005 4 24 (14.29 %) GIS 5 7 (4.167 %) MySQL 5 7 (4.167 %) KDB 6 4 (2.381 %) MS Access 7 3 (1.786 %) RDBMS 7 3 (1.786 %) Oracle 10g 8 2 (1.190 %) DB2 8 2 (1.190 %) Oracle 9i 9 1 (0.595 %) SAP BI 9 1 (0.595 %) SAP BW 9 1 (0.595 %) Base SAS
Development Applications 1 8 (4.762 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (1.786 %) Subversion 3 1 (0.595 %) ClearQuest 3 1 (0.595 %) ChangeMan	General 1 39 (23.21 %) Pensions 2 30 (17.86 %) Health 3 16 (9.524 %) Finance 4 13 (7.738 %) Games 5 8 (4.762 %) Multimedia 6 3 (1.786 %) Investment Banking 6 3 (1.786 %) Banking 6 3 (1.786 %) Retail 6 3 (1.786 %) Education 6 3 (1.786 %) Government 7 2 (1.190 %) 3D Graphics 7 2 (1.190 %) Pharmaceutical 7 2 (1.190 %) Electronics 8 1 (0.595 %) Marketing 8 1 (0.595 %) Back Office 8 1 (0.595 %) Automotive
Miscellaneous 1 45 (26.79 %) Computer Science 2 34 (20.24 %) Mathematics 3 9 (5.357 %) Physics 4 3 (1.786 %) N-Tier 4 3 (1.786 %) Smartcard 4 3 (1.786 %) PDA 5 2 (1.190 %) Statistics 5 2 (1.190 %) IVR 5 2 (1.190 %) Chemistry 5 2 (1.190 %) Biology 6 1 (0.595 %) Applied Mathematics 6 1 (0.595 %) Wiki 6 1 (0.595 %) Economics 6 1 (0.595 %) Informatics 6 1 (0.595 %) Mainframe 6 1 (0.595 %) Management Information System 6 1 (0.595 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)	Operating Systems 1 57 (33.93 %) Windows 2 39 (23.21 %) UNIX 3 10 (5.952 %) Linux 4 1 (0.595 %) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 57 (33.93 %) OO 2 19 (11.31 %) UML 3 17 (10.12 %) CAD 3 17 (10.12 %) Technical Architecture 4 16 (9.524 %) Zachman Framework 5 11 (6.548 %) Software Engineering 6 9 (5.357 %) OOP 7 8 (4.762 %) Business Intelligence 8 6 (3.571 %) OOD 8 6 (3.571 %) Bioinformatics 9 5 (2.976 %) CAE 10 4 (2.381 %) Computer Forensics 11 3 (1.786 %) E-business 11 3 (1.786 %) OOA/OOD 11 3 (1.786 %) E-Commerce 11 3 (1.786 %) ERP 11 3 (1.786 %) Web Development 12 2 (1.190 %) Agile Software Development 12 2 (1.190 %) RUP 12 2 (1.190 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 59 (35.12 %) C# 2 49 (29.17 %) C++ 3 48 (28.57 %) Java 4 30 (17.86 %) C 5 26 (15.48 %) SQL 6 24 (14.29 %) Magik 7 14 (8.333 %) JavaScript 8 13 (7.738 %) Perl 9 12 (7.143 %) Python 10 11 (6.548 %) VB.NET 11 10 (5.952 %) VB 12 8 (4.762 %) VB6 13 6 (3.571 %) PL/SQL 14 3 (1.786 %) Lua 14 3 (1.786 %) Embedded C++ 14 3 (1.786 %) DHTML 15 2 (1.190 %) COBOL 15 2 (1.190 %) PHP 16 1 (0.595 %) Assembly Language 16 1 (0.595 %) SAPscript
Qualifications 1 76 (45.24 %) Degree 2 18 (10.71 %) PhD 3 3 (1.786 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (1.786 %) MCP 3 3 (1.786 %) MCSD 4 1 (0.595 %) Sun Certification	System Software 1 2 (1.190 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.595 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 1 (0.595 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 30 (17.86 %) Microsoft 2 11 (6.548 %) Oracle 3 4 (2.381 %) Macromedia 4 1 (0.595 %) Sun 4 1 (0.595 %) HP 4 1 (0.595 %) Sony 4 1 (0.595 %) Wall Street Systems 4 1 (0.595 %) SAP 4 1 (0.595 %) IBM