Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT jobs advertised for the South East 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the South East region.

 Programmer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank1219377
Rank change year-on-year
Down-28Down-16
Matching permanent IT job ads2623681100
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East1.691 %2.072 %2.566 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.791 %2.228 %2.714 %
Salaries quoted236311962
Average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,300£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£43,500£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£33,000
% change year-on-year
--1.510 %
South East IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
146261651740528
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East94.39 %93.01 %94.54 %
Salaries quoted122001383933738
Average salary£40,000£38,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.260 %+1.330 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£24,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£57,500£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
Programmer EnglandProgrammer
England

Programmer
Demand Trend

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

South East Programmer Demand Trend

Programmer
Salary Trend

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

South East Programmer Salary Trend

Programmer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Programmer across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
BerkshireUp+1666£42,500+21.42 %
SurreyDown-365£35,000-
HampshireDown-641£30,000-14.28 %
West SussexUp+1035£29,500-19.17 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1914£35,000-12.50 %
Home CountiesDown-226£45,000+60.71 %
East SussexDown-34£40,000+17.64 %
OxfordshireDown-293£38,500-3.75 %
KentDown-313£35,000-
Thames ValleyUp+11£35,000-9.67 %
Programmer EnglandProgrammer
England

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1203 (34.70 %)SQL
2170 (29.06 %).NET
3151 (25.81 %)SQL Server
3151 (25.81 %)C#
4105 (17.95 %)XML
5103 (17.61 %)Oracle
698 (16.75 %)JavaScript
796 (16.41 %)C++
796 (16.41 %)Finance
892 (15.73 %)CSS
989 (15.21 %)ASP.NET
989 (15.21 %)HTML
1081 (13.85 %)PHP
1178 (13.33 %)Java
1178 (13.33 %)Degree
1277 (13.16 %)Web Services
1371 (12.14 %)VB
1469 (11.79 %)C
1469 (11.79 %)Games
1564 (10.94 %)VB.NET
1564 (10.94 %)Microsoft
1662 (10.60 %)Unit Testing
1761 (10.43 %)UNIX
1858 (9.915 %)PL/SQL
1858 (9.915 %)AJAX
1955 (9.402 %)SAS
2052 (8.889 %)Insurance
2052 (8.889 %)E-Commerce
2149 (8.376 %)Windows
2245 (7.692 %)Linux

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the South East 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.

South East IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1170 (29.06 %).NET
2105 (17.95 %)XML
392 (15.73 %)CSS
489 (15.21 %)HTML
489 (15.21 %)ASP.NET
577 (13.16 %)Web Services
658 (9.915 %)AJAX
738 (6.496 %)ASP
830 (5.128 %)J2EE
927 (4.615 %)XSLT
1026 (4.444 %)XHTML
1125 (4.274 %).NET Framework
1222 (3.761 %)XSL
1321 (3.590 %)Spring
1418 (3.077 %)jQuery
1517 (2.906 %)Spring MVC
1616 (2.735 %)WPF
1714 (2.393 %)JSP
1812 (2.051 %)Servlets
1812 (2.051 %)EJB
South East IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
155 (9.402 %)SAS
222 (3.761 %)Apache
321 (3.590 %)CMS
419 (3.248 %)BizTalk Server
515 (2.564 %)Oracle Application Server
614 (2.393 %)WebLogic
713 (2.222 %)CICS
811 (1.880 %)JCAPS
99 (1.538 %)SharePoint
108 (1.368 %)IIS
117 (1.197 %)ColdFusion
126 (1.026 %)lighttpd
134 (0.684 %)GlassFish
134 (0.684 %)ESB
143 (0.513 %)ColdFusion MX
152 (0.342 %)Commerce Server
152 (0.342 %)Tomcat
152 (0.342 %)SharePoint Server 2007
161 (0.171 %)DotNetNuke
161 (0.171 %)Drupal
South East IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
140 (6.838 %)MS Excel
219 (3.248 %)MS Office
38 (1.368 %)MS PowerPoint
44 (0.684 %)MS Visio
52 (0.342 %)SPSS
61 (0.171 %)3ds Max
61 (0.171 %)PrintSoft PReS
61 (0.171 %)Photoshop
61 (0.171 %)MS Project
South East IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
14 (0.684 %)Remedy ITSM
14 (0.684 %)Remedy AR System
22 (0.342 %)SalesLogix
31 (0.171 %)Oracle 11i
31 (0.171 %)WebTrends
31 (0.171 %)Oracle Applications
South East IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
120 (3.419 %)Internet
217 (2.906 %)Firewall
313 (2.222 %)Extranet
46 (1.026 %)TCP/IP
53 (0.513 %)Intranet
53 (0.513 %)FTP
53 (0.513 %)HTTP
62 (0.342 %)LAN
62 (0.342 %)SMTP
62 (0.342 %)DSL
62 (0.342 %)SSH
71 (0.171 %)Wireless
South East IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1151 (25.81 %)SQL Server
244 (7.521 %)SQL Server 2005
343 (7.350 %)MySQL
436 (6.154 %)SQL Server 2000
436 (6.154 %)Base SAS
529 (4.957 %)Crystal Reports
628 (4.786 %)Datawarehouse
721 (3.590 %)RDBMS
819 (3.248 %)Oracle 9i
819 (3.248 %)SQL Server 2008
913 (2.222 %)Oracle Reports
1012 (2.051 %)Oracle 10g
1012 (2.051 %)DTS
1111 (1.880 %)BusinessObjects
1210 (1.709 %)SQL Server Integration Services
139 (1.538 %)DB2
147 (1.197 %)PostgreSQL
156 (1.026 %)OLAP
156 (1.026 %)MS Access
165 (0.855 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
South East IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
141 (7.009 %)Visual Studio
223 (3.932 %)ProC
223 (3.932 %)Subversion
321 (3.590 %)Oracle Forms
417 (2.906 %)JUnit
513 (2.222 %)Ant
513 (2.222 %)Maven
612 (2.051 %)Dreamweaver
76 (1.026 %)VSS/SourceSafe
76 (1.026 %)VisualAge Generator
84 (0.684 %)InstallShield
84 (0.684 %)Synon
93 (0.513 %)COOL2E
93 (0.513 %)NUnit
102 (0.342 %)CruiseControl
102 (0.342 %)Team Foundation Server
111 (0.171 %)PEAR
111 (0.171 %)Visual Studio Team System
111 (0.171 %)PowerBuilder
111 (0.171 %)WebSpeed
South East IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
196 (16.41 %)Finance
269 (11.79 %)Games
352 (8.889 %)Insurance
434 (5.812 %)Pensions
533 (5.641 %)Marketing
613 (2.222 %)Retail
712 (2.051 %)Health
811 (1.880 %)Back Office
99 (1.538 %)Telecoms
99 (1.538 %)Education
108 (1.368 %)Pharmaceutical
108 (1.368 %)Advertising
108 (1.368 %)Publishing
117 (1.197 %)Financial Institution
126 (1.026 %)Police
126 (1.026 %)Manufacturing
126 (1.026 %)Military
135 (0.855 %)Government
144 (0.684 %)Banking
152 (0.342 %)Billing
South East IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
129 (4.957 %)Computer Science
224 (4.103 %)Mathematics
314 (2.393 %)Multithreading
413 (2.222 %)Mainframe
512 (2.051 %)Web 2.0
611 (1.880 %)IBM Mainframe
78 (1.368 %)French Language
78 (1.368 %)German Language
86 (1.026 %)iSeries
86 (1.026 %)VSAM
86 (1.026 %)W3C
95 (0.855 %)Client/Server
95 (0.855 %)AS400
95 (0.855 %)Open Source
95 (0.855 %)Statistics
95 (0.855 %)Social Network
104 (0.684 %)SaaS
104 (0.684 %)NHS
113 (0.513 %)Device Driver
122 (0.342 %)Life Science
South East IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
161 (10.43 %)UNIX
249 (8.376 %)Windows
345 (7.692 %)Linux
416 (2.735 %)Solaris
57 (1.197 %)Windows Server 2003
57 (1.197 %)Windows Vista
65 (0.855 %)AIX
74 (0.684 %)HPUX
83 (0.513 %)zOS
92 (0.342 %)Windows XP
101 (0.171 %)VMS
South East IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
162 (10.60 %)Unit Testing
252 (8.889 %)E-Commerce
344 (7.521 %)Web Development
435 (5.983 %)System Testing
526 (4.444 %)Time Management
526 (4.444 %)OO
526 (4.444 %)Agile Software Development
624 (4.103 %)MVC
718 (3.077 %)SOA
816 (2.735 %)Web Design
914 (2.393 %)Project Management
1012 (2.051 %)Data Management
1012 (2.051 %)Data Analysis
1111 (1.880 %)Content Management
1111 (1.880 %)CRM
1210 (1.709 %)Systems Analysis
139 (1.538 %)Integration Testing
139 (1.538 %)User Acceptance Testing
139 (1.538 %)Business Intelligence
139 (1.538 %)UML
South East IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1203 (34.70 %)SQL
2151 (25.81 %)C#
398 (16.75 %)JavaScript
496 (16.41 %)C++
581 (13.85 %)PHP
678 (13.33 %)Java
771 (12.14 %)VB
869 (11.79 %)C
964 (10.94 %)VB.NET
1058 (9.915 %)PL/SQL
1136 (6.154 %)Perl
1235 (5.983 %)VB6
1325 (4.274 %)PHP5
1422 (3.761 %)PHP4
1517 (2.906 %)COBOL
1614 (2.393 %)SAS Macro
1712 (2.051 %)T-SQL
1811 (1.880 %)XPath
1910 (1.709 %)RPG
209 (1.538 %)Shell Script
South East IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
178 (13.33 %)Degree
210 (1.709 %)Microsoft Certification
39 (1.538 %)SAS Certification
39 (1.538 %)Security Cleared
47 (1.197 %)MCP
55 (0.855 %)MCAD
55 (0.855 %)Postgraduate
55 (0.855 %)SC Cleared
63 (0.513 %)MCPD
71 (0.171 %)MCSD
71 (0.171 %)PMI Certification
71 (0.171 %)MCTS
South East IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
19 (1.538 %)QA
22 (0.342 %)GCP
South East IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (0.513 %)MSMQ
South East IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (0.513 %)Tivoli
South East IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1103 (17.61 %)Oracle
264 (10.94 %)Microsoft
324 (4.103 %)Progress
417 (2.906 %)IBM
516 (2.735 %)Sybase
614 (2.393 %)TIBCO
712 (2.051 %)BroadVision
712 (2.051 %)FatWire
811 (1.880 %)Business Objects
811 (1.880 %)Macromedia
811 (1.880 %)Sun
98 (1.368 %)Cognos
106 (1.026 %)Siebel
115 (0.855 %)Remedy
124 (0.684 %)BMC
124 (0.684 %)Agresso
133 (0.513 %)Sage
133 (0.513 %)UC4
133 (0.513 %)JD Edwards
142 (0.342 %)SAP