The first table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex 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 22 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Programmer
Rank 42 57 71
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Programmer 16 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 3.053% 0.196% 0.714%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.200% 0.214% 0.778%
Number of salaries quoted 15 1 5
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% +5.88%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
500 468 643
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 95.42% 91.59% 91.86%
Number of salaries quoted 404 387 494
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% +4.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Programmer
South East

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Programmer Salary Trend

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 18 (85.71%) Java
2 17 (80.95%) C#
2 17 (80.95%) SQL
3 16 (76.19%) JavaScript
4 15 (71.43%) .NET
4 15 (71.43%) SQL Server
4 15 (71.43%) MS Project
4 15 (71.43%) MS Office
4 15 (71.43%) Visual Studio
4 15 (71.43%) ASP.NET
4 15 (71.43%) Web Services
4 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
4 15 (71.43%) Subversion
4 15 (71.43%) SQLBase
5 14 (66.67%) Statistics
5 14 (66.67%) Mathematics
5 14 (66.67%) QA
6 10 (47.62%) C++
7 8 (38.10%) VB
8 7 (33.33%) Web Development
8 7 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (33.33%) VBA
9 3 (14.29%) Git (software)
9 3 (14.29%) SCOM
9 3 (14.29%) C
9 3 (14.29%) UNIX
9 3 (14.29%) Linux
9 3 (14.29%) Degree
9 3 (14.29%) Lucene
9 3 (14.29%) Spring

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 15 (71.43%) .NET
1 15 (71.43%) ASP.NET
1 15 (71.43%) Web Services
2 3 (14.29%) Lucene
2 3 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (4.762%) JPA
3 1 (4.762%) Drools
3 1 (4.762%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.762%) XML
3 1 (4.762%) XSL
3 1 (4.762%) JMS
3 1 (4.762%) CSS
3 1 (4.762%) JDBC
3 1 (4.762%) HTML
3 1 (4.762%) HTML5
3 1 (4.762%) REST
3 1 (4.762%) Symfony
3 1 (4.762%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.524%) Apache Solr
2 1 (4.762%) CMS
2 1 (4.762%) Joomla!
2 1 (4.762%) Drupal
2 1 (4.762%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 15 (71.43%) MS Project
1 15 (71.43%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) DVB
1 1 (4.762%) HTTP
1 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (71.43%) SQL Server
1 15 (71.43%) SQLBase
2 1 (4.762%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (71.43%) Visual Studio
1 15 (71.43%) Subversion
2 7 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (14.29%) Git (software)
4 1 (4.762%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.762%) Maven
General
1 2 (9.524%) Aerospace
1 2 (9.524%) Avionics
2 1 (4.762%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 14 (66.67%) Statistics
1 14 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 1 (4.762%) DTV
2 1 (4.762%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) UNIX
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (4.762%) Multithreading
2 1 (4.762%) OOP
2 1 (4.762%) Content Management
2 1 (4.762%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) Java
2 17 (80.95%) C#
2 17 (80.95%) SQL
3 16 (76.19%) JavaScript
4 10 (47.62%) C++
5 8 (38.10%) VB
6 7 (33.33%) VBA
7 3 (14.29%) C
8 1 (4.762%) PHP
8 1 (4.762%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle
2 1 (4.762%) Zend