The first table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool 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 17 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Programmer
Rank 43 64 46
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Programmer 8 7 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.235% 1.373% 2.477%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.319% 1.417% 2.572%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 5
Average salary £33,750 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.57% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
345 494 311
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 96.37% 96.86% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 294 432 247
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Programmer
Merseyside

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Programmer Salary Trend

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 13 (81.25%) .NET
2 8 (50.00%) Java
3 7 (43.75%) C#
4 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
4 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 6 (37.50%) VB.NET
4 6 (37.50%) Degree
4 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
5 5 (31.25%) Resource Management
5 5 (31.25%) Infor
5 5 (31.25%) Manufacturing
5 5 (31.25%) Systems Analysis
5 5 (31.25%) Business Analysis
5 5 (31.25%) ERP
5 5 (31.25%) Baan
5 5 (31.25%) Web Services
5 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
5 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
5 5 (31.25%) SQL
6 4 (25.00%) HTML
6 4 (25.00%) CSS
6 4 (25.00%) OO
6 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (25.00%) MVC
6 4 (25.00%) WCF
7 3 (18.75%) RESTful
7 3 (18.75%) HTML5
7 3 (18.75%) jQuery
7 3 (18.75%) Windows

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 13 (81.25%) .NET
2 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET
3 5 (31.25%) Web Services
4 4 (25.00%) CSS
4 4 (25.00%) WCF
4 4 (25.00%) HTML
5 3 (18.75%) jQuery
5 3 (18.75%) RESTful
5 3 (18.75%) HTML5
5 3 (18.75%) SOAP
6 2 (12.50%) ActiveX
6 2 (12.50%) WinForms
6 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (12.50%) WPF
7 1 (6.250%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (6.250%) CSS3
7 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 1 (6.250%) NHibernate
7 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
7 1 (6.250%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.250%) CMS
2 1 (6.250%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Office
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (6.250%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.250%) NUnit
2 1 (6.250%) Subversion
2 1 (6.250%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.250%) TeamCity
2 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.250%) Moq
General
1 5 (31.25%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.250%) Marketing
2 1 (6.250%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (6.250%) Social Network
2 1 (6.250%) Open Source
2 1 (6.250%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.250%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.250%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (12.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) ERP
1 5 (31.25%) Systems Analysis
1 5 (31.25%) Business Analysis
1 5 (31.25%) Resource Management
2 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (25.00%) MVC
2 4 (25.00%) OO
3 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Scrum
3 2 (12.50%) Web Development
4 1 (6.250%) Test Scripting
4 1 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (6.250%) Time Management
4 1 (6.250%) MVVM
4 1 (6.250%) Web Application Development
4 1 (6.250%) TDD
4 1 (6.250%) Software Testing
4 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
4 1 (6.250%) UML
4 1 (6.250%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) C#
3 6 (37.50%) VB.NET
4 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 5 (31.25%) SQL
5 3 (18.75%) C++
6 2 (12.50%) VB6
6 2 (12.50%) VB
6 2 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Baan
2 5 (31.25%) Infor
3 1 (6.250%) Teradata
3 1 (6.250%) Adobe
3 1 (6.250%) Apple
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle
3 1 (6.250%) Business Objects