The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Programmer role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Programmer
Rank 673 674 730
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Programmer 169 193 120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.167% 0.170% 0.102%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.177% 0.180% 0.108%
Number of salaries quoted 157 160 114
Average salary £40,000 £39,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.26% +5.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,250
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +2.01%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95490 107493 111049
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.41% 94.82% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 80297 92843 94497
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,925 £27,500 £26,250
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Programmer
UK

Software Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Software Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Programmer
Salary Trend

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

England Software Programmer Salary Trend

Software Programmer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Programmer across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Software Programmer Salary Histogram

Software Programmer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Programmer within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London +23 52 £50,000 +26.58%
South East +23 39 £37,500 -6.25%
East of England +4 33 £45,000 +8.43%
West Midlands -20 12 £38,750 +13.97%
North West +3 9 £35,000 -12.50%
East Midlands -2 9 £32,500 -18.75%
South West -12 9 £37,500 -
Yorkshire -3 5 £30,000 -9.08%
Midlands - 1 £35,000 -
Software Programmer
UK

Software Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled with Software Programmer in their job title.

1 140 (49.30%) C#
2 131 (46.13%) .NET
3 107 (37.68%) SQL
4 105 (36.97%) C++
5 96 (33.80%) Java
6 95 (33.45%) Degree
7 83 (29.23%) OO
8 78 (27.46%) JavaScript
9 71 (25.00%) SQL Server
10 62 (21.83%) Computer Science
11 60 (21.13%) CSS
12 57 (20.07%) ASP.NET
13 47 (16.55%) HTML
14 45 (15.85%) Linux
14 45 (15.85%) TDD
15 44 (15.49%) XML
16 41 (14.44%) Python
17 39 (13.73%) Agile Software Development
18 37 (13.03%) Windows
19 36 (12.68%) C
20 35 (12.32%) MVC
21 31 (10.92%) VB.NET
21 31 (10.92%) Software Engineering
22 27 (9.507%) Spring
22 27 (9.507%) T-SQL
23 25 (8.803%) Visual Studio
23 25 (8.803%) Apache
23 25 (8.803%) Finance
24 24 (8.451%) WCF
25 23 (8.099%) WPF

Software Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled with Software Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 131 (46.13%) .NET
2 60 (21.13%) CSS
3 57 (20.07%) ASP.NET
4 47 (16.55%) HTML
5 44 (15.49%) XML
6 27 (9.507%) Spring
7 24 (8.451%) WCF
8 23 (8.099%) WPF
8 23 (8.099%) jQuery
9 20 (7.042%) XHTML
10 17 (5.986%) HTML5
11 16 (5.634%) .NET Framework
12 15 (5.282%) XSLT
13 14 (4.930%) ASP.NET MVC
14 13 (4.577%) Ajax
14 13 (4.577%) J2EE
15 12 (4.225%) STL
15 12 (4.225%) Web Services
16 11 (3.873%) LINQ
16 11 (3.873%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 25 (8.803%) Apache
2 5 (1.761%) CMS
3 4 (1.408%) IIS
3 4 (1.408%) Force.com
4 3 (1.056%) SAS
4 3 (1.056%) ESB
5 2 (0.704%) Magento
5 2 (0.704%) Windows Azure
5 2 (0.704%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.704%) WinCC
6 1 (0.352%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.352%) Drupal
6 1 (0.352%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.352%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.352%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 17 (5.986%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.352%) SketchUp
2 1 (0.352%) Revit
2 1 (0.352%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.056%) BusinessWorks
1 3 (1.056%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.704%) Maximo
3 1 (0.352%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.099%) HTTP
1 23 (8.099%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.169%) Internet
3 4 (1.408%) SSH
3 4 (1.408%) ICMP
3 4 (1.408%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.408%) SMTP
4 2 (0.704%) Intranet
4 2 (0.704%) Broadband
4 2 (0.704%) SMS
5 1 (0.352%) UMTS
5 1 (0.352%) GSM
5 1 (0.352%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.521%) GIS
2 10 (3.521%) Big Data
3 8 (2.817%) MySQL
3 8 (2.817%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (1.056%) DB2
4 3 (1.056%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (0.704%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.704%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.704%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.352%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.352%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.352%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.352%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.352%) QlikView
6 1 (0.352%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 25 (8.803%) Visual Studio
2 18 (6.338%) Git (software)
3 8 (2.817%) Subversion
3 8 (2.817%) Eclipse
4 7 (2.465%) Eclipse RCP
5 6 (2.113%) NUnit
6 3 (1.056%) WebDriver
6 3 (1.056%) Rhino Mocks
6 3 (1.056%) Selenium
6 3 (1.056%) Maven
7 2 (0.704%) C++Builder
7 2 (0.704%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.704%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 2 (0.704%) GDB
8 1 (0.352%) GitHub
8 1 (0.352%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.352%) MSTest
8 1 (0.352%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.352%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.352%) Cucumber
General
1 25 (8.803%) Finance
2 14 (4.930%) Marketing
3 13 (4.577%) Games
4 11 (3.873%) Telecoms
5 6 (2.113%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.761%) Banking
6 5 (1.761%) Multimedia
7 4 (1.408%) Retail
8 3 (1.056%) Electronics
8 3 (1.056%) Publishing
8 3 (1.056%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.704%) Advertising
9 2 (0.704%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.704%) Online Betting
10 1 (0.352%) French Language
10 1 (0.352%) Front Office
10 1 (0.352%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.352%) Law
10 1 (0.352%) Legal
10 1 (0.352%) Music
Miscellaneous
1 62 (21.83%) Computer Science
2 16 (5.634%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (4.225%) Mathematics
4 11 (3.873%) New Media
5 6 (2.113%) N-Tier
5 6 (2.113%) Physics
6 5 (1.761%) Open Source
6 5 (1.761%) 3D Graphics
7 4 (1.408%) VHDL
7 4 (1.408%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.408%) Equities
7 4 (1.408%) Derivative
7 4 (1.408%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 4 (1.408%) Swaptions
7 4 (1.408%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.408%) SaaS
8 3 (1.056%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.056%) VSAM
9 2 (0.704%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.704%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.85%) Linux
2 37 (13.03%) Windows
3 21 (7.394%) UNIX
4 7 (2.465%) Android
5 3 (1.056%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.056%) zOS
5 3 (1.056%) MVS
6 2 (0.704%) Windows Mobile
6 2 (0.704%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.352%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (29.23%) OO
2 45 (15.85%) TDD
3 39 (13.73%) Agile Software Development
4 35 (12.32%) MVC
5 31 (10.92%) Software Engineering
6 22 (7.746%) Scrum
7 21 (7.394%) Multithreading
8 17 (5.986%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (3.873%) Digital Marketing
10 10 (3.521%) BDD
11 9 (3.169%) E-Commerce
11 9 (3.169%) Project Management
12 8 (2.817%) OOD
12 8 (2.817%) OOP
12 8 (2.817%) Unit Testing
13 7 (2.465%) SOA
13 7 (2.465%) Risk Management
13 7 (2.465%) Web Development
14 6 (2.113%) Kanban
15 5 (1.761%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 140 (49.30%) C#
2 107 (37.68%) SQL
3 105 (36.97%) C++
4 96 (33.80%) Java
5 78 (27.46%) JavaScript
6 41 (14.44%) Python
7 36 (12.68%) C
8 31 (10.92%) VB.NET
9 27 (9.507%) T-SQL
10 19 (6.690%) Perl
11 16 (5.634%) Erlang
12 15 (5.282%) VB
13 14 (4.930%) PHP
13 14 (4.930%) Haskell
14 9 (3.169%) XPath
15 7 (2.465%) Ruby
16 5 (1.761%) Apex Code
16 5 (1.761%) PHP5
16 5 (1.761%) VB6
17 4 (1.408%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 95 (33.45%) Degree
2 2 (0.704%) ISTQB
2 2 (0.704%) ISEB
2 2 (0.704%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.352%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.352%) DO-178B
1 1 (0.352%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (1.056%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (7.746%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.394%) Oracle
3 5 (1.761%) Salesforce.com
4 4 (1.408%) HP
5 3 (1.056%) hybris
5 3 (1.056%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.056%) Teradata
6 2 (0.704%) Borland
6 2 (0.704%) Siemens
6 2 (0.704%) ATG
6 2 (0.704%) Sybase
6 2 (0.704%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (0.352%) Facebook
7 1 (0.352%) Zend
7 1 (0.352%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.352%) Reuters
7 1 (0.352%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.352%) Thunderhead
7 1 (0.352%) SolidWorks
Norwich, Norfolk
Hydro Projects currently supply and develop a number of bespoke software packages to clients throughout the industry and outside, and need an enthusiastic and keen self starter to...
Hydro Projects Ltd.
Salary: From £25,000 to £45,000 per annum (salary dependant on exp + benefits)
Posted: 13 May 2013
Stevenage area+international travel, East Anglia
They are looking for a software programmer for Crestron/AMX control systems. This is also a good opportunity for a graduate that has the right aptitude for working...
1st Choice Jobs
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 1 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
I am keen to speak with talented Embedded Software Developers and Lead Embedded Software Developers with strong experience in C for Embedded Systems... Essential skills: * Electronics Engineering Degree...
The People Network
Salary: £40000 - £70000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Crawley, West Sussex
C++ Software Developer / C++ Software Engineer / Team Lead / Java / Programmer / C# / MS SQL / TSQL / Java / Agile / Windows / West Sussex / required by my well known West Sussex based client.
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Salary: Bens
Posted: 23 May 2013
Reading, South East
My client has been focused on delivering specialist technology solutions to the retail sector for over 30 years and with over 35,000 installations worldwide they boast unrivalled...
i4 Recruitment
Salary: £30k - 38k per year + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Senior .NET Developer/Perm - ASP.NET/MVC/e-commerce/Agile (TDD/BDD) My client, a market leading organisation, are currently looking for strong, hands-on .NET Developers to...
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £35000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
C# .Net Developer, F#, Risk and Margin, Greenfield, Agile, TDD, BDD... There are a number of projects you will be working on, part of this providing analytics using...
Aston Carter
Salary: £70000 - £100000 per annum + benefits+bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
West London
As a Software Engineer you’ll use Python*, Oracle, JavaScript (jQuery), HTML5, CSS3 and Django on a daily basis... Programming, Graduate Software Engineer, Python, Oracle, JavaScript (jQuery), Django,...
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: From £24,000 to £33,000 per annum 25 days holiday,medical,gym,pension
Posted: 21 May 2013
Burton-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Windows Forms design experience. Degree level education in IT subject. Awareness of N-Tier architecture. SQL Language - practical experience with SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE... DB creation/modification using...
Blues Point Ltd
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + benefits inc pension, bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Based in the heart of the City of London, the company are planning on building a completely Greenfield online eCommerce Trading Platform and wish to form a brand...
Aston Carter
Salary: £70000 - £85000 per annum + top benefits/bonus/perks package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bath, Avon
Experience Essential Programming skills: Oracle SQL. Unix scripting (IBM AIX) Proprietary programming language "Reporter" provided by ERP software vendor. HTML, ASP, XML, JAVA, C# User application screen development...
Sanderson
Salary: £24000 - £34000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013