The first table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT jobs advertised for the Reading 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 24 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Programmer
Rank 101 104 81
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Programmer 32 28 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.475% 1.237% 2.175%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.552% 1.302% 2.319%
Number of salaries quoted 31 28 38
Average salary £35,000 £26,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+34.61% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £23,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £32,500 £39,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2062 2151 1768
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 95.07% 95.01% 93.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1675 1848 1424
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Programmer
Berkshire

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Programmer Salary Trend

Programmer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Programmer across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Programmer Salary Histogram

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 28 (57.14%) C#
1 28 (57.14%) SQL
1 28 (57.14%) .NET
2 26 (53.06%) ASP.NET
3 23 (46.94%) SQL Server
4 17 (34.69%) VB.NET
5 15 (30.61%) WCF
5 15 (30.61%) Java
6 14 (28.57%) LINQ
7 13 (26.53%) jQuery
7 13 (26.53%) JavaScript
8 12 (24.49%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (20.41%) Finance
10 9 (18.37%) OO
10 9 (18.37%) Degree
11 8 (16.33%) Python
11 8 (16.33%) Data Modelling
11 8 (16.33%) RDF
11 8 (16.33%) CAD
12 7 (14.29%) Multithreading
13 6 (12.24%) Bash shell
13 6 (12.24%) SQL Server 2008
13 6 (12.24%) OWASP
13 6 (12.24%) Open Source
13 6 (12.24%) JSON
13 6 (12.24%) Velocity
13 6 (12.24%) Performance Testing
13 6 (12.24%) Integration Testing
13 6 (12.24%) Jetty
13 6 (12.24%) Linux

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 (57.14%) .NET
2 26 (53.06%) ASP.NET
3 15 (30.61%) WCF
4 14 (28.57%) LINQ
5 13 (26.53%) jQuery
6 6 (12.24%) JSON
6 6 (12.24%) Velocity
6 6 (12.24%) Hibernate
6 6 (12.24%) JDBC
7 5 (10.20%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (10.20%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 4 (8.163%) Web Services
8 4 (8.163%) XML
9 3 (6.122%) CSS
9 3 (6.122%) HTML
9 3 (6.122%) NHibernate
9 3 (6.122%) Lucene
9 3 (6.122%) WF
9 3 (6.122%) Silverlight
9 3 (6.122%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 6 (12.24%) Jetty
1 6 (12.24%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.041%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (6.122%) MS Office
2 1 (2.041%) AutoCAD
2 1 (2.041%) Revit
2 1 (2.041%) SketchUp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (46.94%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.24%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (6.122%) Adabas
4 1 (2.041%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Ant
1 6 (12.24%) JUnit
2 5 (10.20%) Visual Studio
3 3 (6.122%) NUnit
3 3 (6.122%) Selenium
3 3 (6.122%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (6.122%) Rhino Mocks
3 3 (6.122%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.082%) MSTest
4 2 (4.082%) MSBuild
General
1 10 (20.41%) Finance
2 1 (2.041%) Banking
2 1 (2.041%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.49%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (12.24%) Open Source
3 3 (6.122%) Digital Media
3 3 (6.122%) Social Media
4 2 (4.082%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Linux
1 6 (12.24%) UNIX
2 2 (4.082%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.37%) OO
2 8 (16.33%) Data Modelling
2 8 (16.33%) RDF
2 8 (16.33%) CAD
3 7 (14.29%) Multithreading
4 6 (12.24%) OWASP
4 6 (12.24%) Performance Testing
4 6 (12.24%) Integration Testing
4 6 (12.24%) Scrum
5 5 (10.20%) MVC
5 5 (10.20%) Unit Testing
6 3 (6.122%) Workflow
6 3 (6.122%) Validation
6 3 (6.122%) TDD
6 3 (6.122%) Kanban
6 3 (6.122%) Web Application Development
6 3 (6.122%) Scrum-ban
6 3 (6.122%) BDD
7 2 (4.082%) Data Management
8 1 (2.041%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 28 (57.14%) C#
1 28 (57.14%) SQL
2 17 (34.69%) VB.NET
3 15 (30.61%) Java
4 13 (26.53%) JavaScript
5 8 (16.33%) Python
6 6 (12.24%) Bash shell
6 6 (12.24%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.122%) NATURAL
7 3 (6.122%) C++
7 3 (6.122%) T-SQL
8 2 (4.082%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.041%) Embedded C
9 1 (2.041%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Degree
2 1 (2.041%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (6.122%) Oracle
2 1 (2.041%) Autodesk
2 1 (2.041%) Sybase
Reading, Thames Valley
Extensive experience of client and server-side web development (HTML, CSS, XML, AJAX, JavaScript, MVC Frameworks, Web Standards) and Microsoft SQL Server & Scripting experience including SQL Server 2008...
Salary: £38000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
Technical:The primary development language is C#... Experience designing and coding complex distributed desktop applications.Good experience with .Net 3.5.C++ competence with Win32 applications will be...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013