Kent Programmer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT jobs within the Kent 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Programmer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ashby-de-la-Zouch 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 Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carshalton Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Daresbury Darlington 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 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 Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield 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 Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Ramsgate Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Runcorn Rutland Ryde Scotland Seaford Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Torquay Truro Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Ware Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	22
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching permanent IT job ads	63	111
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	4.776 %	7.751 %
Salaries quoted	39	87
Average minimum salary	£34,689	£28,676
Average salary	£35,383	£30,957
% change on same period last year	+14.29 %
Average maximum salary	£36,078	£33,239
UK excluding London average salary	£33,370	£32,648
% change on same period last year	+2.21 %
Job Titles Kent
Matching permanent IT job ads	1319	1432
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.710 %	0.597 %
Salaries quoted	1066	1187
Average minimum salary	£32,446	£30,635
Average salary	£34,942	£32,752
% change on same period last year	+6.68 %
Average maximum salary	£37,439	£34,868
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Programmer South East

Programmer
Demand Trend

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

Programmer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Programmer across the Kent region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Programmer within the Kent region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Canterbury	+8	12	£43,929	+75.71 %
Margate	-	6	£35,000	-
Folkestone	-	6	£35,917	-
Ramsgate	-	6	£35,000	-
Rochester	+1	5	£25,000	-25.96 %
Tunbridge Wells	-2	4	£30,167	+20.66 %
Dover	0	1	-	-

Programmer South East

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Kent 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 67 (60.36 %) SQL 2 44 (39.64 %) RPG 3 32 (28.83 %) AS400 4 28 (25.23 %) Java 4 28 (25.23 %) .NET 5 27 (24.32 %) SQL Server 6 18 (16.22 %) JavaScript 6 18 (16.22 %) XHTML 7 17 (15.32 %) CSS 8 16 (14.41 %) XML 8 16 (14.41 %) Finance 9 15 (13.51 %) OO 9 15 (13.51 %) ERP 10 14 (12.61 %) Microsoft 10 14 (12.61 %) HTML

10 14 (12.61 %) MySQL 11 13 (11.71 %) PL/SQL 11 13 (11.71 %) C# 12 11 (9.910 %) ASP.NET 12 11 (9.910 %) Windows 12 11 (9.910 %) Internet 12 11 (9.910 %) Degree 13 10 (9.009 %) AJAX 13 10 (9.009 %) Swing 13 10 (9.009 %) Linux 13 10 (9.009 %) IIS 13 10 (9.009 %) MS Office 13 10 (9.009 %) ASP 13 10 (9.009 %) Oracle 13 10 (9.009 %) J2EE

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Kent 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 28 (25.23 %) .NET 2 18 (16.22 %) XHTML 3 17 (15.32 %) CSS 4 16 (14.41 %) XML 5 14 (12.61 %) HTML 6 11 (9.910 %) ASP.NET 7 10 (9.009 %) J2EE 7 10 (9.009 %) ASP 7 10 (9.009 %) Swing 7 10 (9.009 %) AJAX 8 8 (7.207 %) WebServices 9 6 (5.405 %) Hibernate 10 5 (4.505 %) Symfony 10 5 (4.505 %) script.aculo.us 10 5 (4.505 %) MVC 10 5 (4.505 %) JSP 10 5 (4.505 %) Servlets 10 5 (4.505 %) Struts 11 4 (3.604 %) Java SE 12 3 (2.703 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 10 (9.009 %) IIS 2 5 (4.505 %) JBoss 3 1 (0.901 %) Apache 3 1 (0.901 %) Tomcat 3 1 (0.901 %) OpenEdge 3 1 (0.901 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 10 (9.009 %) MS Office 2 4 (3.604 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.802 %) MS Project 3 2 (1.802 %) Fireworks 4 1 (0.901 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (1.802 %) Microsoft CRM 1 2 (1.802 %) INSURE/90
Communications & Networking 1 11 (9.910 %) Internet 2 5 (4.505 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (4.505 %) DNS 3 2 (1.802 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (24.32 %) SQL Server 2 14 (12.61 %) MySQL 3 3 (2.703 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 3 (2.703 %) RDBMS 4 2 (1.802 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (0.901 %) FileMaker 5 1 (0.901 %) DB2 5 1 (0.901 %) MS Access 5 1 (0.901 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 2 (1.802 %) Flash 2 1 (0.901 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (0.901 %) Synon 2 1 (0.901 %) WebSpeed	General 1 16 (14.41 %) Finance 2 9 (8.108 %) Manufacturing 3 7 (6.306 %) Health 4 6 (5.405 %) Pensions 4 6 (5.405 %) Retail 5 5 (4.505 %) Advertising 6 2 (1.802 %) Insurance 6 2 (1.802 %) Telecoms 7 1 (0.901 %) Back Office 7 1 (0.901 %) Education 7 1 (0.901 %) Games
Miscellaneous 1 32 (28.83 %) AS400 2 7 (6.306 %) Computer Science 3 5 (4.505 %) W3C 4 3 (2.703 %) N-Tier 5 2 (1.802 %) Statistics 6 1 (0.901 %) Multithreading 6 1 (0.901 %) Web 2.0 6 1 (0.901 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 11 (9.910 %) Windows 2 10 (9.009 %) Linux 3 8 (7.207 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (13.51 %) OO 1 15 (13.51 %) ERP 2 8 (7.207 %) Web Development 3 6 (5.405 %) Systems Analysis 4 5 (4.505 %) Unit Testing 4 5 (4.505 %) SEO 4 5 (4.505 %) OOP 4 5 (4.505 %) Data Analysis 5 4 (3.604 %) System Testing 5 4 (3.604 %) Business Analysis 6 3 (2.703 %) Workflow 7 2 (1.802 %) CRM 7 2 (1.802 %) Investment Management 8 1 (0.901 %) Fund Management 8 1 (0.901 %) Problem Management 8 1 (0.901 %) Change Management 8 1 (0.901 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 67 (60.36 %) SQL 2 44 (39.64 %) RPG 3 28 (25.23 %) Java 4 18 (16.22 %) JavaScript 5 13 (11.71 %) C# 5 13 (11.71 %) PL/SQL 6 9 (8.108 %) PHP 7 7 (6.306 %) Transact-SQL 8 5 (4.505 %) VB 9 4 (3.604 %) VB.NET 10 3 (2.703 %) VB6 11 1 (0.901 %) Progress 4GL 11 1 (0.901 %) VBScript 11 1 (0.901 %) COBOL 11 1 (0.901 %) Delphi
Qualifications 1 11 (9.910 %) Degree	Vendors 1 14 (12.61 %) Microsoft 2 10 (9.009 %) Oracle 3 6 (5.405 %) IBM 4 2 (1.802 %) Avaya 5 1 (0.901 %) Sony 5 1 (0.901 %) Progress