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 West 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 West region.

 Programmer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank686853
Rank change year-on-year
No change0Down-15
Matching permanent IT job ads143140357
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West2.853 %2.263 %3.073 %
As % of the Job Titles category3.014 %2.430 %3.248 %
Salaries quoted130121315
Average salary£30,750£35,000£32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.14 %+9.370 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,500£27,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£37,500£42,500£38,200
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£33,000
% change year-on-year
--1.510 %
South West IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4744576210992
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West94.63 %93.15 %94.60 %
Salaries quoted414850068957
Average salary£32,500£35,000£34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.140 %+2.940 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£24,000£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£50,000£50,000
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South West 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 West region.

South West Programmer Salary Trend

Programmer
Salary Histogram

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

South West 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 West 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
BristolUp+2366£31,500-16.00 %
WiltshireUp+3241£28,750-20.13 %
SomersetDown-117£26,000-31.57 %
DorsetDown-115£37,500+11.11 %
GloucestershireDown-205£30,000-11.76 %
DevonUp+63£25,000-29.07 %
Programmer EnglandProgrammer
England

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1129 (46.24 %).NET
2109 (39.07 %)SQL Server
391 (32.62 %)C#
478 (27.96 %)SQL
569 (24.73 %)ASP.NET
655 (19.71 %)JavaScript
751 (18.28 %)HTML
846 (16.49 %)XML
945 (16.13 %)Finance
1041 (14.70 %)Java
1041 (14.70 %)VB.NET
1140 (14.34 %)VB
1237 (13.26 %)RPG
1335 (12.54 %)Microsoft
1431 (11.11 %)AS400
1431 (11.11 %)Web Services
1530 (10.75 %)Windows
1627 (9.677 %)PHP
1627 (9.677 %)VB6
1725 (8.961 %)C++
1824 (8.602 %)CSS
1923 (8.244 %)C
2021 (7.527 %)JSP
2021 (7.527 %)Spring
2021 (7.527 %)Pensions
2120 (7.168 %)Insurance
2120 (7.168 %)OO
2120 (7.168 %)SAS
2218 (6.452 %)MS Excel
2218 (6.452 %)Degree

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the South West 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 West IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1129 (46.24 %).NET
269 (24.73 %)ASP.NET
351 (18.28 %)HTML
446 (16.49 %)XML
531 (11.11 %)Web Services
624 (8.602 %)CSS
721 (7.527 %)JSP
721 (7.527 %)Spring
818 (6.452 %)AJAX
914 (5.018 %)ASP
914 (5.018 %)J2EE
1013 (4.659 %)JSF
1111 (3.943 %)XSL
1210 (3.584 %)Hibernate
139 (3.226 %).NET Framework
148 (2.867 %)XSLT
157 (2.509 %)Struts
166 (2.151 %)Servlets
175 (1.792 %)JDBC
175 (1.792 %)Swing
South West IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
120 (7.168 %)SAS
213 (4.659 %)BizTalk Server
312 (4.301 %)SharePoint Server 2007
312 (4.301 %)SharePoint
49 (3.226 %)IIS
55 (1.792 %)WebLogic
64 (1.434 %)Tomcat
73 (1.075 %)Oracle Workflow
82 (0.717 %)Commerce Server
82 (0.717 %)ESB
82 (0.717 %)WebSphere Application Server
91 (0.358 %)Apache
91 (0.358 %)ColdFusion
91 (0.358 %)Mathematica
South West IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
118 (6.452 %)MS Excel
22 (0.717 %)MS PowerPoint
22 (0.717 %)Spreadsheet
31 (0.358 %)FastStats
31 (0.358 %)MATLAB
31 (0.358 %)Photoshop
South West IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (0.717 %)Endur
12 (0.717 %)Findur
South West IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
110 (3.584 %)Extranet
25 (1.792 %)Intranet
32 (0.717 %)GSM
41 (0.358 %)SMS
41 (0.358 %)HTTP
41 (0.358 %)TCP/IP
41 (0.358 %)DNS
41 (0.358 %)GPRS
41 (0.358 %)3G
41 (0.358 %)RFID
South West IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1109 (39.07 %)SQL Server
212 (4.301 %)SQL Server 2005
39 (3.226 %)MySQL
48 (2.867 %)Crystal Reports
48 (2.867 %)SQL Server 2008
57 (2.509 %)SQL Server 2000
65 (1.792 %)Datawarehouse
65 (1.792 %)RDBMS
65 (1.792 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
73 (1.075 %)OLAP
82 (0.717 %)Oracle Reports
82 (0.717 %)MS Access
82 (0.717 %)ETL
82 (0.717 %)Data Mart
91 (0.358 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
91 (0.358 %)SQL Server Integration Services
91 (0.358 %)Oracle OLAP
91 (0.358 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
91 (0.358 %)Base SAS
91 (0.358 %)Oracle 8/8i
South West IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
116 (5.735 %)Visual Studio
212 (4.301 %)Subversion
310 (3.584 %)Eclipse
45 (1.792 %)Maven
52 (0.717 %)JUnit
61 (0.358 %)Ant
61 (0.358 %)VSS/SourceSafe
61 (0.358 %)CheckStyle
61 (0.358 %)Bugzilla
61 (0.358 %)CruiseControl
South West IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
145 (16.13 %)Finance
221 (7.527 %)Pensions
320 (7.168 %)Insurance
417 (6.093 %)Health
58 (2.867 %)Marketing
66 (2.151 %)Government
75 (1.792 %)Education
75 (1.792 %)Billing
84 (1.434 %)Advertising
93 (1.075 %)Retail
93 (1.075 %)Games
102 (0.717 %)Music
102 (0.717 %)Back Office
111 (0.358 %)Electronics
111 (0.358 %)Telecoms
111 (0.358 %)Police
111 (0.358 %)Legal
111 (0.358 %)Manufacturing
111 (0.358 %)Music Industry
111 (0.358 %)Local Government
South West IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
131 (11.11 %)AS400
215 (5.376 %)iSeries
36 (2.151 %)Replication
45 (1.792 %)Open Source
45 (1.792 %)Social Network
54 (1.434 %)W3C
54 (1.434 %)Web 2.0
63 (1.075 %)Client/Server
63 (1.075 %)Credit Risk
72 (0.717 %)N-Tier
72 (0.717 %)Computer Science
72 (0.717 %)Statistics
81 (0.358 %)Physics
81 (0.358 %)Wiki
81 (0.358 %)FMCG
South West IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
130 (10.75 %)Windows
212 (4.301 %)Linux
36 (2.151 %)UNIX
42 (0.717 %)OS/400
51 (0.358 %)Windows Server 2003
51 (0.358 %)Windows XP
South West IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
120 (7.168 %)OO
214 (5.018 %)Business Intelligence
311 (3.943 %)Release Management
410 (3.584 %)ITIL
59 (3.226 %)E-Commerce
59 (3.226 %)ERP
59 (3.226 %)Software Testing
59 (3.226 %)Agile Software Development
68 (2.867 %)Content Management
77 (2.509 %)Scrum
77 (2.509 %)SOA
86 (2.151 %)OOP
86 (2.151 %)Direct Marketing
95 (1.792 %)Continuous Integration
95 (1.792 %)UML
104 (1.434 %)CRM
104 (1.434 %)SEO
104 (1.434 %)Web Development
104 (1.434 %)Unit Testing
104 (1.434 %)Systems Analysis
South West IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
191 (32.62 %)C#
278 (27.96 %)SQL
355 (19.71 %)JavaScript
441 (14.70 %)Java
441 (14.70 %)VB.NET
540 (14.34 %)VB
637 (13.26 %)RPG
727 (9.677 %)PHP
727 (9.677 %)VB6
825 (8.961 %)C++
923 (8.244 %)C
1014 (5.018 %)T-SQL
118 (2.867 %)Perl
118 (2.867 %)FoxPro (VFP)
127 (2.509 %)VC++
135 (1.792 %)Ruby
144 (1.434 %)Delphi
144 (1.434 %)VBScript
144 (1.434 %)VBA
153 (1.075 %)COBOL
South West IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
118 (6.452 %)Degree
26 (2.151 %)Security Cleared
33 (1.075 %)SC Cleared
41 (0.358 %)MCTS
South West IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (0.717 %)QA
South West IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
135 (12.54 %)Microsoft
216 (5.735 %)Oracle
35 (1.792 %)VMware
44 (1.434 %)Sybase
53 (1.075 %)JBoss
62 (0.717 %)IBM
62 (0.717 %)OpenLink
71 (0.358 %)BT
71 (0.358 %)Adobe
71 (0.358 %)Borland
71 (0.358 %)Alterian
71 (0.358 %)Fujitsu
71 (0.358 %)Unica