Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 15 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the England region.

 System Programmer
Location
3 months to
15 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank643635891
Rank change year-on-year
Down-8Up+256
Matching permanent IT job ads123046
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England0.015 %0.037 %0.024 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.016 %0.040 %0.026 %
Salaries quoted102345
Average salary£42,500£35,000£38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42 %-9.090 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£37,500£27,500£27,186
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£48,000£46,000£55,500
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+21.42 %-
England IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7421675891179576
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England93.38 %93.65 %94.39 %
Salaries quoted6193762863147944
Average salary£40,500£38,189£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.050 %-4.520 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£72,500£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.420 %-
Systems Programmer UKSystems Programmer
UK

Systems Programmer
Demand Trend

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

England Systems Programmer Demand Trend

Systems Programmer
Salary Trend

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

England Systems Programmer Salary Trend

Systems Programmer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Programmer across the England region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010.

England Systems Programmer Salary Histogram

Systems Programmer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Programmer within the England region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South EastUp+96£42,500-5.55 %
South WestNew entry-4£37,500-
LondonDown-242£52,500-
Systems Programmer UKSystems Programmer
UK

Systems Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT jobs across the England region that cited Systems 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 Systems Programmer in their job title.

114 (53.85 %)SQL Server
29 (34.62 %).NET
38 (30.77 %)HTML
38 (30.77 %)JavaScript
38 (30.77 %)XML
47 (26.92 %)Windows
47 (26.92 %)ASP
47 (26.92 %)Finance
47 (26.92 %)SQL Server 2005
56 (23.08 %)SQL
56 (23.08 %)CSS
65 (19.23 %)UNIX
65 (19.23 %)Dreamweaver
65 (19.23 %)IBM
65 (19.23 %)CICS
65 (19.23 %)PHP
65 (19.23 %)C#
65 (19.23 %)COBOL
65 (19.23 %)ASP.NET
65 (19.23 %)BizTalk Server
65 (19.23 %)SQL Server 2008
65 (19.23 %)Web Development
74 (15.38 %)Replication
74 (15.38 %)Mainframe
74 (15.38 %)MS Visio
74 (15.38 %)Crystal Reports
74 (15.38 %)T-SQL
74 (15.38 %)VB.NET
74 (15.38 %)C
74 (15.38 %)EDI

Systems Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT jobs across the England region that cited Systems 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 Systems Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
19 (34.62 %).NET
28 (30.77 %)XML
28 (30.77 %)HTML
37 (26.92 %)ASP
46 (23.08 %)CSS
55 (19.23 %)ASP.NET
64 (15.38 %)EDI
72 (7.692 %)XSLT
72 (7.692 %)AJAX
81 (3.846 %)jQuery
81 (3.846 %)Spring.NET
81 (3.846 %)EDIFACT
81 (3.846 %)Spring
81 (3.846 %)Web Services
England IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15 (19.23 %)CICS
15 (19.23 %)BizTalk Server
21 (3.846 %)SAS
England IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (15.38 %)MS Visio
England IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
114 (53.85 %)SQL Server
27 (26.92 %)SQL Server 2005
35 (19.23 %)SQL Server 2008
44 (15.38 %)Crystal Reports
52 (7.692 %)MySQL
England IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (19.23 %)Dreamweaver
21 (3.846 %)Team Foundation Server
21 (3.846 %)Visual Studio
England IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
17 (26.92 %)Finance
22 (7.692 %)Education
22 (7.692 %)Games
22 (7.692 %)Retail
England IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
14 (15.38 %)Mainframe
14 (15.38 %)Replication
22 (7.692 %)IBM Mainframe
31 (3.846 %)W3C
31 (3.846 %)Web 2.0
31 (3.846 %)Device Driver
England IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
17 (26.92 %)Windows
25 (19.23 %)UNIX
33 (11.54 %)Linux
33 (11.54 %)zOS
42 (7.692 %)Windows Vista
England IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (19.23 %)Web Development
23 (11.54 %)Agile Software Development
31 (3.846 %)Content Management
31 (3.846 %)Systems Analysis
31 (3.846 %)Enterprise Architecture
31 (3.846 %)UML
31 (3.846 %)OO
31 (3.846 %)CRM
31 (3.846 %)E-Commerce
31 (3.846 %)ERP
31 (3.846 %)Web Accessibility
England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
18 (30.77 %)JavaScript
26 (23.08 %)SQL
35 (19.23 %)C#
35 (19.23 %)COBOL
35 (19.23 %)PHP
44 (15.38 %)C
44 (15.38 %)T-SQL
44 (15.38 %)VB.NET
53 (11.54 %)JCL
62 (7.692 %)PL/1
62 (7.692 %)C++
71 (3.846 %)Delphi
71 (3.846 %)Shell Script
England IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (7.692 %)Degree
21 (3.846 %)MCTS
England IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15 (19.23 %)IBM
21 (3.846 %)Sybase