South West Senior Programmer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Senior Programmer role in IT jobs within the South West 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 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Programmer
Location Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Bristol Burnley Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Kent Kingswinford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maldon Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Newcastle North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Rugby Scotland Sidmouth South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Stirling Stourbridge Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tayside Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	225	237
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching permanent IT job ads	20	33
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	0.212 %	0.296 %
Salaries quoted	18	19
Average minimum salary	£36,263	£42,526
Average salary	£38,447	£47,605
% change on same period last year	-19.23 %
Average maximum salary	£40,632	£52,684
UK excluding London average salary	£38,826	£39,090
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Job Titles South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	9451	11155
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	6.117 %	4.974 %
Salaries quoted	8352	9464
Average minimum salary	£32,467	£33,638
Average salary	£35,478	£36,451
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Average maximum salary	£38,488	£39,265
UK excluding London average salary	£38,454	£39,134
% change on same period last year	-1.73 %
Senior Programmer England

Senior Programmer
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Programmer across the South West region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

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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 South West region over the 3 months to 18 November 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
Wiltshire	+9	7	£40,333	-25.03 %
Bristol	-1	4	£31,667	-23.23 %
Devon	-	2	£29,250	-
Cornwall	-	2	£37,500	-
Gloucestershire	-7	1	£50,000	+33.33 %
Dorset	+18	1	£45,000	+0.18 %

Senior Programmer England

Senior Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the South West 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 33 (53.23 %) C# 2 31 (50.00 %) SQL Server 3 27 (43.55 %) SQL 4 25 (40.32 %) .NET 5 19 (30.65 %) XML 6 17 (27.42 %) ASP.NET 7 16 (25.81 %) VB 8 15 (24.19 %) SQL Server 2000 9 12 (19.35 %) BizTalk Server 9 12 (19.35 %) Finance 9 12 (19.35 %) SQL Server 2005 9 12 (19.35 %) JavaScript 9 12 (19.35 %) Visual Studio 9 12 (19.35 %) N-Tier 10 11 (17.74 %) WebServices

10 11 (17.74 %) Java 11 10 (16.13 %) C 11 10 (16.13 %) C++ 11 10 (16.13 %) HTML 12 8 (12.90 %) Workflow 13 7 (11.29 %) ASP 13 7 (11.29 %) Microsoft 13 7 (11.29 %) UNIX 14 6 (9.677 %) DB2 14 6 (9.677 %) EJB 14 6 (9.677 %) J2EE 14 6 (9.677 %) Middleware 14 6 (9.677 %) Pensions 14 6 (9.677 %) AWD 15 5 (8.065 %) WebSphere

Senior Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the South West 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 25 (40.32 %) .NET 2 19 (30.65 %) XML 3 17 (27.42 %) ASP.NET 4 11 (17.74 %) WebServices 5 10 (16.13 %) HTML 6 7 (11.29 %) ASP 7 6 (9.677 %) EJB 7 6 (9.677 %) J2EE 7 6 (9.677 %) Middleware 8 5 (8.065 %) WebSphere 9 4 (6.452 %) JDBC 9 4 (6.452 %) JSP 9 4 (6.452 %) Spring 10 3 (4.839 %) WCF 10 3 (4.839 %) Windows SharePoint Services 10 3 (4.839 %) MFC 10 3 (4.839 %) XSL 11 2 (3.226 %) Struts 11 2 (3.226 %) CSS 12 1 (1.613 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 12 (19.35 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (4.839 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 3 (4.839 %) SharePoint 3 1 (1.613 %) Apache 3 1 (1.613 %) CICS
Applications 1 3 (4.839 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.613 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 6 (9.677 %) AWD 2 3 (4.839 %) Staffware 2 3 (4.839 %) Endur
Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 15 (24.19 %) SQL Server 2000 3 12 (19.35 %) SQL Server 2005 4 6 (9.677 %) DB2 5 5 (8.065 %) RDBMS 6 2 (3.226 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (3.226 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (1.613 %) OLAP 7 1 (1.613 %) MySQL 7 1 (1.613 %) DTS	Development Applications 1 12 (19.35 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (6.452 %) Eclipse 3 2 (3.226 %) Synon
General 1 12 (19.35 %) Finance 2 6 (9.677 %) Pensions 3 3 (4.839 %) Health 4 2 (3.226 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.613 %) Marketing 5 1 (1.613 %) Police	Miscellaneous 1 12 (19.35 %) N-Tier 2 2 (3.226 %) iSeries 3 1 (1.613 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (1.613 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 7 (11.29 %) UNIX 2 3 (4.839 %) Windows 3 1 (1.613 %) MVS 3 1 (1.613 %) Solaris 3 1 (1.613 %) OS/390 3 1 (1.613 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (12.90 %) Workflow 2 5 (8.065 %) Project Management 3 4 (6.452 %) SOA 3 4 (6.452 %) UML 3 4 (6.452 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (4.839 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (4.839 %) Risk Management 4 3 (4.839 %) OOD 5 2 (3.226 %) OO 5 2 (3.226 %) RAD 5 2 (3.226 %) RUP 5 2 (3.226 %) Logistics 6 1 (1.613 %) System Testing 6 1 (1.613 %) DV Cleared 6 1 (1.613 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (1.613 %) Software Testing 6 1 (1.613 %) Pay per click 6 1 (1.613 %) SEO 6 1 (1.613 %) Quality Management 6 1 (1.613 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 33 (53.23 %) C# 2 27 (43.55 %) SQL 3 16 (25.81 %) VB 4 12 (19.35 %) JavaScript 5 11 (17.74 %) Java 6 10 (16.13 %) C 6 10 (16.13 %) C++ 7 5 (8.065 %) Korn 7 5 (8.065 %) VB6 7 5 (8.065 %) Shell Script 7 5 (8.065 %) VB.NET 7 5 (8.065 %) VBScript 8 3 (4.839 %) PL/SQL 8 3 (4.839 %) Ada 9 2 (3.226 %) VC++ 9 2 (3.226 %) RPG 9 2 (3.226 %) PHP 10 1 (1.613 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 1 (1.613 %) ISEB 1 1 (1.613 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 3 (4.839 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 7 (11.29 %) Microsoft 2 4 (6.452 %) Oracle 2 4 (6.452 %) Sybase 3 3 (4.839 %) OpenLink 3 3 (4.839 %) IBM 4 2 (3.226 %) JD Edwards 5 1 (1.613 %) Sun