The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Systems Programmer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Systems Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 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 currently tracked.

System Programmer
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank866838728
Rank change year-on-year
Down-28Down-110
Matching permanent IT job ads92724
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.007 %0.022 %0.025 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.008 %0.023 %0.027 %
Number of salaries quoted72322
Average salary£44,000£42,000£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.76 %-6.66 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£26,000£36,420
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£126,000£47,500
UK excluding London average salary£44,500£38,750£45,000
% change year-on-year
+14.83 %-13.88 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
11420611553789084
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK94.71 %94.23 %93.30 %
Number of salaries quoted979339761273729
Average salary£42,500£42,500£42,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£75,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£37,500£36,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33 %+2.73 %

Systems Programmer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Systems Programmer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Systems Programmer Demand Trend

Systems Programmer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Systems Programmer within the UK.

Systems Programmer Salary Trend

Systems Programmer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Programmer over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Systems Programmer Salary Histogram

Systems Programmer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Programmer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. 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
EnglandDown-329£44,000+4.76 %
LondonDown-155£32,500-76.78 %
BirminghamNew entry-2--
West MidlandsNew entry-2--
City of LondonNew entry-1£50,000-
YorkshireNew entry-1£45,000-
South YorkshireNew entry-1£45,000-

Systems Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK that cited Systems 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 Systems Programmer in their job title.

118 (60.00 %)SQL
29 (30.00 %)C#
37 (23.33 %).NET
37 (23.33 %)Oracle
37 (23.33 %)Degree
46 (20.00 %)SQL Server
46 (20.00 %)T-SQL
46 (20.00 %)Java
55 (16.67 %)Web Services
55 (16.67 %)Windows
55 (16.67 %)IBM
64 (13.33 %)Microsoft
64 (13.33 %)Oracle 10g
64 (13.33 %)SAP BW
64 (13.33 %)NetWeaver
64 (13.33 %)SOA
64 (13.33 %)JSP
64 (13.33 %)SOAP
64 (13.33 %)WebLogic
64 (13.33 %)SAP
64 (13.33 %)JavaScript
64 (13.33 %)C++
64 (13.33 %)VB
64 (13.33 %)J2EE
64 (13.33 %)PL/SQL
64 (13.33 %)ABAP
64 (13.33 %)Oracle 11g
64 (13.33 %)Finance
64 (13.33 %)BPEL
64 (13.33 %)Oracle ADF

Systems Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK that cited Systems 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 Systems Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
17 (23.33 %).NET
25 (16.67 %)Web Services
34 (13.33 %)JSP
34 (13.33 %)SOAP
34 (13.33 %)J2EE
34 (13.33 %)Oracle ADF
34 (13.33 %)soapUI
43 (10.00 %)HTML
43 (10.00 %)XML
52 (6.667 %)ASP
52 (6.667 %)ASP.NET
52 (6.667 %)ISPF
52 (6.667 %)jQuery
52 (6.667 %)MooTools
61 (3.333 %)WinForms
61 (3.333 %)Ajax
61 (3.333 %)Ruby on Rails
61 (3.333 %)COM
61 (3.333 %)Flash
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (13.33 %)WebLogic
14 (13.33 %)NetWeaver
14 (13.33 %)Oracle Service Bus
21 (3.333 %)Exchange Server 2003
21 (3.333 %)Exchange Server 2007
21 (3.333 %)IIS
21 (3.333 %)SharePoint
21 (3.333 %)MS Exchange
21 (3.333 %)SAS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (6.667 %)MS Office
21 (3.333 %)MS Excel
21 (3.333 %)MS Visio
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
14 (13.33 %)Oracle BPM
21 (3.333 %)Dynamics CRM
21 (3.333 %)Dynamics AX
21 (3.333 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (3.333 %)DHCP
11 (3.333 %)TCP/IP
11 (3.333 %)DNS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (20.00 %)SQL Server
24 (13.33 %)Oracle 11g
24 (13.33 %)Oracle 10g
24 (13.33 %)SAP BW
32 (6.667 %)SQL Server 2000
32 (6.667 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
32 (6.667 %)SQL Server Integration Services
32 (6.667 %)SQL Server 2008
41 (3.333 %)Data Warehouse
41 (3.333 %)ETL
41 (3.333 %)MySQL
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (3.333 %)Maven
11 (3.333 %)Flash Builder
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (13.33 %)Finance
22 (6.667 %)Retail
31 (3.333 %)Front Office
31 (3.333 %)Games
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (6.667 %)Mainframe
21 (3.333 %)Clustering
21 (3.333 %)Derivative
21 (3.333 %)Informatics
21 (3.333 %)Video Conferencing
21 (3.333 %)Hedge funds
21 (3.333 %)Health Informatics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15 (16.67 %)Windows
23 (10.00 %)Windows Server 2008
23 (10.00 %)Windows 2000 Server
32 (6.667 %)zOS
32 (6.667 %)Linux
32 (6.667 %)UNIX
41 (3.333 %)Windows NT
41 (3.333 %)VMS
41 (3.333 %)Windows Server 2003
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14 (13.33 %)SOA
14 (13.33 %)Change Management
14 (13.33 %)BPEL
23 (10.00 %)Business Intelligence
23 (10.00 %)Configuration Management
23 (10.00 %)System Testing
32 (6.667 %)User Acceptance Testing
32 (6.667 %)OO
41 (3.333 %)CRM
41 (3.333 %)ERP
41 (3.333 %)OOD
41 (3.333 %)Project Management
41 (3.333 %)Service Management
41 (3.333 %)CMMI
41 (3.333 %)Service Delivery
41 (3.333 %)Logistics
41 (3.333 %)Knowledge Management
41 (3.333 %)Incident Management
41 (3.333 %)Enterprise Architecture
41 (3.333 %)Resource Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
118 (60.00 %)SQL
29 (30.00 %)C#
36 (20.00 %)Java
36 (20.00 %)T-SQL
44 (13.33 %)VB
44 (13.33 %)ABAP
44 (13.33 %)JavaScript
44 (13.33 %)C++
44 (13.33 %)PL/SQL
53 (10.00 %)Perl
53 (10.00 %)VB.NET
53 (10.00 %)VB6
53 (10.00 %)REXX
62 (6.667 %)JCL
62 (6.667 %)Python
62 (6.667 %)Assembly Language
62 (6.667 %)C
71 (3.333 %)COBOL
71 (3.333 %)PHP
71 (3.333 %)VC++
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (23.33 %)Degree
21 (3.333 %)MCSE
21 (3.333 %)Microsoft Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (3.333 %)SLA
11 (3.333 %)QA
11 (3.333 %)HL7
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (3.333 %)VMware Infrastructure
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (3.333 %)MOM
11 (3.333 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 (3.333 %)WSUS
11 (3.333 %)HP Quality Center
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
17 (23.33 %)Oracle
25 (16.67 %)IBM
34 (13.33 %)Microsoft
34 (13.33 %)SAP
41 (3.333 %)Cognos
41 (3.333 %)Adobe
41 (3.333 %)HP
41 (3.333 %)Compaq
41 (3.333 %)Citrix
41 (3.333 %)VMware