Manchester Senior Programmer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Senior Programmer role in IT jobs within the Manchester 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 Senior Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Programmer
Location Aylesbury Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Daresbury Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Maldon Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Scotland Sidmouth Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Ives Stirling Stourbridge Surrey Swindon Tayside Tewkesbury Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	157	196
Rank change on same period last year	+39
Matching permanent IT job ads	13	16
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.301 %	0.247 %
Salaries quoted	13	16
Average minimum salary	£38,385	£30,094
Average salary	£39,962	£33,297
% change on same period last year	+20.01 %
Average maximum salary	£41,538	£36,500
UK excluding London average salary	£38,332	£39,278
% change on same period last year	-2.40 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	4325	6488
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.524 %	2.781 %
Salaries quoted	3751	5476
Average minimum salary	£33,818	£37,101
Average salary	£38,880	£41,973
% change on same period last year	-7.37 %
Average maximum salary	£43,942	£46,846
UK excluding London average salary	£38,201	£39,267
% change on same period last year	-2.71 %
Senior Programmer North West

Senior Programmer
Demand Trend

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

Senior Programmer
Salary Trend

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

Senior Programmer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Programmer across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

Senior Programmer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Programmer within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
Bury	-	3	£37,500	-

Senior Programmer North West

Senior Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Senior 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 Senior Programmer in their job title.

1 20 (50.00 %) Progress 2 15 (37.50 %) Finance 3 10 (25.00 %) SQL Server 3 10 (25.00 %) Degree 4 8 (20.00 %) Retail 4 8 (20.00 %) UNIX 4 8 (20.00 %) COBOL 4 8 (20.00 %) Progress 4GL 5 7 (17.50 %) Micro Focus 5 7 (17.50 %) WebSpeed 5 7 (17.50 %) Mainframe 5 7 (17.50 %) Windows 5 7 (17.50 %) Oracle 5 7 (17.50 %) Systems Analysis 6 5 (12.50 %) VC++

6 5 (12.50 %) C++ 6 5 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 6 5 (12.50 %) Games 7 4 (10.00 %) ASP.NET 7 4 (10.00 %) C# 7 4 (10.00 %) .NET 7 4 (10.00 %) Logistics 8 3 (7.500 %) MCTS 8 3 (7.500 %) Pensions 8 3 (7.500 %) MCAD 8 3 (7.500 %) MCSD 8 3 (7.500 %) Microsoft 8 3 (7.500 %) Microsoft Certification 8 3 (7.500 %) MFGPRO 9 2 (5.000 %) Project Management

Senior Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Senior 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 Senior Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (10.00 %) .NET 1 4 (10.00 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (2.500 %) JDBC 2 1 (2.500 %) JSP 2 1 (2.500 %) Servlets 2 1 (2.500 %) WebServices 2 1 (2.500 %) XML 2 1 (2.500 %) XSLT 2 1 (2.500 %) XHTML 2 1 (2.500 %) Spring 2 1 (2.500 %) WebSphere 2 1 (2.500 %) WCF 2 1 (2.500 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.500 %) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications 1 3 (7.500 %) MFGPRO	Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.000 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (25.00 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 7 (17.50 %) WebSpeed 2 5 (12.50 %) Visual Studio
General 1 15 (37.50 %) Finance 2 8 (20.00 %) Retail 3 5 (12.50 %) Games 4 3 (7.500 %) Pensions 5 1 (2.500 %) Telecoms	Miscellaneous 1 7 (17.50 %) Mainframe 2 1 (2.500 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 8 (20.00 %) UNIX 2 7 (17.50 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (17.50 %) Systems Analysis 2 4 (10.00 %) Logistics 3 2 (5.000 %) Supply Chain Management 3 2 (5.000 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.500 %) E-business 4 1 (2.500 %) Web Design 4 1 (2.500 %) OO 4 1 (2.500 %) CRM 4 1 (2.500 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (2.500 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 8 (20.00 %) COBOL 1 8 (20.00 %) Progress 4GL 2 5 (12.50 %) VC++ 2 5 (12.50 %) C++ 3 4 (10.00 %) C# 4 2 (5.000 %) Java 4 2 (5.000 %) SQL 5 1 (2.500 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (2.500 %) VB 5 1 (2.500 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 10 (25.00 %) Degree 2 3 (7.500 %) MCAD 2 3 (7.500 %) MCSD 2 3 (7.500 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (7.500 %) MCTS
Vendors 1 20 (50.00 %) Progress 2 7 (17.50 %) Oracle 2 7 (17.50 %) Micro Focus 3 3 (7.500 %) Microsoft