The first table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester 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 23 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Programmer
Rank 157 129 144
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Programmer 32 46 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.786% 1.263% 0.670%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.822% 1.310% 0.699%
Number of salaries quoted 29 44 26
Average salary £34,000 £32,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.81% +9.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £22,500 £22,250
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £39,550 £36,750
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3893 3511 3865
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.58% 96.40% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3363 3119 3535
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £21,850
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Programmer
North West

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Programmer Salary Trend

Programmer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Programmer across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Manchester Programmer Salary Histogram

Programmer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Programmer within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 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
Stockport +2 9 £34,000 +16.23%
Altrincham -5 2 £40,000 +33.33%
Bolton +1 1 £31,500 +40.00%
Programmer
North West

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 83 (69.17%) .NET
2 77 (64.17%) C#
3 74 (61.67%) SQL
4 48 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 48 (40.00%) ASP.NET
5 42 (35.00%) JavaScript
6 36 (30.00%) TDD
7 34 (28.33%) HTML
8 32 (26.67%) CSS
8 32 (26.67%) MVC
9 31 (25.83%) T-SQL
10 24 (20.00%) Marketing
11 23 (19.17%) Digital Marketing
11 23 (19.17%) New Media
11 23 (19.17%) Continuous Integration
11 23 (19.17%) Git (software)
12 22 (18.33%) Windows
13 21 (17.50%) Degree
14 19 (15.83%) .NET Framework
15 18 (15.00%) Java
15 18 (15.00%) Information Management
16 17 (14.17%) C++
16 17 (14.17%) Web Services
16 17 (14.17%) Oracle
17 16 (13.33%) IIS
17 16 (13.33%) Microsoft
18 15 (12.50%) jQuery
18 15 (12.50%) WCF
19 14 (11.67%) ADO.NET
20 13 (10.83%) XML

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 83 (69.17%) .NET
2 48 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 34 (28.33%) HTML
4 32 (26.67%) CSS
5 19 (15.83%) .NET Framework
6 17 (14.17%) Web Services
7 15 (12.50%) jQuery
7 15 (12.50%) WCF
8 14 (11.67%) ADO.NET
9 13 (10.83%) XML
9 13 (10.83%) WPF
9 13 (10.83%) Silverlight
10 12 (10.00%) WinForms
11 11 (9.167%) Ajax
11 11 (9.167%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 9 (7.500%) HTML5
13 8 (6.667%) Spring
14 7 (5.833%) DirectX
14 7 (5.833%) ASP.NET MVC
14 7 (5.833%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 16 (13.33%) IIS
2 5 (4.167%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.500%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.500%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.667%) SAS
4 2 (1.667%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 12 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.500%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.500%) HTTP
3 2 (1.667%) NAS
3 2 (1.667%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.500%) GIS
3 3 (2.500%) MySQL
3 3 (2.500%) DB2
3 3 (2.500%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.667%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (1.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.667%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (1.667%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.667%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (0.833%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.833%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (0.833%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 23 (19.17%) Git (software)
2 8 (6.667%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.333%) NUnit
4 3 (2.500%) JUnit
4 3 (2.500%) MSTest
5 2 (1.667%) Subversion
6 1 (0.833%) Oracle Forms
General
1 24 (20.00%) Marketing
2 10 (8.333%) Games
3 7 (5.833%) Finance
4 2 (1.667%) Manufacturing
4 2 (1.667%) Advertising
4 2 (1.667%) Electronics
4 2 (1.667%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.17%) New Media
2 10 (8.333%) Informatics
3 8 (6.667%) LIMS
4 3 (2.500%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.667%) iSeries
5 2 (1.667%) Social Media
5 2 (1.667%) Arduino
5 2 (1.667%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.667%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.667%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.667%) AS400
5 2 (1.667%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (0.833%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.833%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.33%) Windows
2 2 (1.667%) Android
2 2 (1.667%) Linux
2 2 (1.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (30.00%) TDD
2 32 (26.67%) MVC
3 23 (19.17%) Digital Marketing
3 23 (19.17%) Continuous Integration
4 18 (15.00%) Information Management
5 11 (9.167%) OO
6 7 (5.833%) Workflow
7 6 (5.000%) Web Application Development
7 6 (5.000%) Game Development
7 6 (5.000%) Test Scripting
7 6 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (4.167%) Web Development
8 5 (4.167%) Unit Testing
9 4 (3.333%) Analytics
9 4 (3.333%) ERP
10 3 (2.500%) E-Commerce
10 3 (2.500%) OOP
10 3 (2.500%) Dependency Injection
11 2 (1.667%) 3D Programming
11 2 (1.667%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 77 (64.17%) C#
2 74 (61.67%) SQL
3 42 (35.00%) JavaScript
4 31 (25.83%) T-SQL
5 18 (15.00%) Java
6 17 (14.17%) C++
7 6 (5.000%) VB.NET
8 4 (3.333%) PHP
9 2 (1.667%) RPG IV
9 2 (1.667%) VC++
9 2 (1.667%) C
9 2 (1.667%) VBA
9 2 (1.667%) VB
9 2 (1.667%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.667%) RPG
9 2 (1.667%) Perl
9 2 (1.667%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.667%) VB6
10 1 (0.833%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (17.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 17 (14.17%) Oracle
2 16 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.833%) VMware
4 3 (2.500%) JBoss
5 2 (1.667%) Infor
5 2 (1.667%) Zend
5 2 (1.667%) Business Objects
5 2 (1.667%) Teradata
5 2 (1.667%) SolidWorks
6 1 (0.833%) IBM
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