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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

 Programmer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank435882
Rank change year-on-year
Up+15Up+24
Matching permanent IT job ads134149210
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands3.740 %3.211 %2.390 %
As % of the Job Titles category3.932 %3.350 %2.518 %
Salaries quoted125132190
Average salary£30,500£31,500£31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.170 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£22,000£23,400
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£40,000£40,000£40,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£33,000
% change year-on-year
--1.510 %
West Midlands IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
340844488339
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands95.12 %95.84 %94.91 %
Salaries quoted296535647153
Average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£22,500£22,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£55,000£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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Programmer Salary Trend

Programmer
Salary Histogram

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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
BirminghamUp+322£30,500+1.66 %
HerefordshireUp+2618£40,000+14.28 %
CoventryDown-1616£35,000+6.06 %
WorcestershireUp+1312£30,000+9.09 %
StaffordshireUp+412£37,500+7.14 %
WarwickshireDown-512£37,500+8.69 %
DudleyNew entry-9£26,000-
WalsallUp+176£32,500+47.72 %
StourbridgeNew entry-6£26,000-
SolihullDown-74£30,000-7.69 %
ShropshireUp+151£31,000-31.11 %
West BromwichNew entry-1£35,000-
Programmer EnglandProgrammer
England

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

186 (41.95 %).NET
267 (32.68 %)SQL
352 (25.37 %)ASP.NET
445 (21.95 %)SQL Server
542 (20.49 %)VB.NET
639 (19.02 %)Finance
738 (18.54 %)COBOL
834 (16.59 %)C#
930 (14.63 %)Pensions
1029 (14.15 %)AS400
1127 (13.17 %)Oracle
1127 (13.17 %)Degree
1221 (10.24 %)VB
1319 (9.268 %)iSeries
1418 (8.780 %)C++
1418 (8.780 %)C
1418 (8.780 %)Visual Studio
1517 (8.293 %)UNIX
1517 (8.293 %)SQL Server 2005
1616 (7.805 %)Business Intelligence
1715 (7.317 %)ETL
1715 (7.317 %)Oracle 10g
1715 (7.317 %)JavaScript
1814 (6.829 %)PL/SQL
1913 (6.341 %)RPG
1913 (6.341 %)Microsoft
2012 (5.854 %)FoxPro (VFP)
2012 (5.854 %)Games
2012 (5.854 %)Banking
2012 (5.854 %)System Testing

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

West Midlands IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
186 (41.95 %).NET
252 (25.37 %)ASP.NET
311 (5.366 %)XML
311 (5.366 %)AJAX
47 (3.415 %).NET Remoting
56 (2.927 %)HTML
56 (2.927 %)MFC
65 (2.439 %).NET Framework
65 (2.439 %)Web Services
74 (1.951 %)ADO.NET
74 (1.951 %)ASP
74 (1.951 %)J2EE
74 (1.951 %)JSP
83 (1.463 %)CSS
83 (1.463 %)Struts
83 (1.463 %)WCF
83 (1.463 %)WPF
92 (0.976 %)Spring
92 (0.976 %)Middleware
101 (0.488 %)Hibernate
West Midlands IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
19 (4.390 %)NetWeaver
23 (1.463 %)Tomcat
32 (0.976 %)CMS
32 (0.976 %)Lotus Domino
41 (0.488 %)BizTalk Server
41 (0.488 %)ESB
41 (0.488 %)WebSphere Portal
41 (0.488 %)Telligent Community
41 (0.488 %)SharePoint
41 (0.488 %)IIS
41 (0.488 %)Lotus Notes
West Midlands IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
111 (5.366 %)PrintSoft PReS
29 (4.390 %)DOC1
32 (0.976 %)MS Excel
32 (0.976 %)MS Visio
West Midlands IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (2.927 %)Oracle Financials
23 (1.463 %)LabWindows
31 (0.488 %)Academy Housing
31 (0.488 %)Navision
31 (0.488 %)MFGPRO
West Midlands IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
17 (3.415 %)TCP/IP
22 (0.976 %)DSL
31 (0.488 %)DNS
31 (0.488 %)Internet
31 (0.488 %)GPRS
31 (0.488 %)HTTP
West Midlands IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
145 (21.95 %)SQL Server
217 (8.293 %)SQL Server 2005
315 (7.317 %)ETL
315 (7.317 %)Oracle 10g
49 (4.390 %)SAP BW
49 (4.390 %)SAP BI
49 (4.390 %)OLAP
49 (4.390 %)Crystal Reports
49 (4.390 %)Datawarehouse
49 (4.390 %)Xcelsius
58 (3.902 %)BusinessObjects
67 (3.415 %)MySQL
76 (2.927 %)Oracle 8/8i
76 (2.927 %)SQL Server 2008
85 (2.439 %)Oracle 11g
94 (1.951 %)Oracle Reports
103 (1.463 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
112 (0.976 %)DB2
112 (0.976 %)OLTP
112 (0.976 %)RDBMS
West Midlands IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
118 (8.780 %)Visual Studio
28 (3.902 %)VSS/SourceSafe
28 (3.902 %)Oracle Forms
35 (2.439 %)Team Foundation Server
43 (1.463 %)JUnit
52 (0.976 %)Eclipse
61 (0.488 %)JDeveloper
61 (0.488 %)Subversion
61 (0.488 %)Maven
61 (0.488 %)Ant
West Midlands IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
139 (19.02 %)Finance
230 (14.63 %)Pensions
312 (5.854 %)Games
312 (5.854 %)Banking
48 (3.902 %)Insurance
53 (1.463 %)Back Office
62 (0.976 %)Telecoms
62 (0.976 %)Billing
71 (0.488 %)Retail
71 (0.488 %)Automotive
71 (0.488 %)Manufacturing
West Midlands IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
129 (14.15 %)AS400
219 (9.268 %)iSeries
311 (5.366 %)Clustering
410 (4.878 %)N-Tier
410 (4.878 %)Management Information System
410 (4.878 %)Computer Science
59 (4.390 %)Mathematics
66 (2.927 %)Applied Mathematics
73 (1.463 %)Mainframe
82 (0.976 %)Client/Server
82 (0.976 %)Data Protection Act
91 (0.488 %)Physics
91 (0.488 %)Smartcard
West Midlands IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
117 (8.293 %)UNIX
211 (5.366 %)Linux
39 (4.390 %)Windows
46 (2.927 %)Solaris
52 (0.976 %)AIX
52 (0.976 %)OS/400
61 (0.488 %)Windows CE
61 (0.488 %)Windows Mobile
61 (0.488 %)Windows Vista
61 (0.488 %)Windows XP
West Midlands IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
116 (7.805 %)Business Intelligence
212 (5.854 %)System Testing
311 (5.366 %)Project Management
410 (4.878 %)Unit Testing
59 (4.390 %)Wealth Management
68 (3.902 %)Integration Testing
77 (3.415 %)OO
77 (3.415 %)SOA
86 (2.927 %)RAD
95 (2.439 %)Logistics
104 (1.951 %)Matrix Management
113 (1.463 %)Time Management
113 (1.463 %)OOP
113 (1.463 %)OOD
122 (0.976 %)Content Management
122 (0.976 %)ERP
122 (0.976 %)Service Delivery
122 (0.976 %)Test Scripting
122 (0.976 %)Software Engineering
122 (0.976 %)Data Protection
West Midlands IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
167 (32.68 %)SQL
242 (20.49 %)VB.NET
338 (18.54 %)COBOL
434 (16.59 %)C#
521 (10.24 %)VB
618 (8.780 %)C++
618 (8.780 %)C
715 (7.317 %)JavaScript
814 (6.829 %)PL/SQL
913 (6.341 %)RPG
1012 (5.854 %)FoxPro (VFP)
1111 (5.366 %)Java
127 (3.415 %)Perl
127 (3.415 %)VB6
136 (2.927 %)Assembly Language
136 (2.927 %)PHP
136 (2.927 %)Progress 4GL
145 (2.439 %)VBA
154 (1.951 %)Delphi
163 (1.463 %)PHP5
West Midlands IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
127 (13.17 %)Degree
West Midlands IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (0.488 %)QA
West Midlands IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
127 (13.17 %)Oracle
213 (6.341 %)Microsoft
310 (4.878 %)Progress
310 (4.878 %)IBM
49 (4.390 %)SAP
58 (3.902 %)Business Objects
66 (2.927 %)Sun
73 (1.463 %)Northgate
82 (0.976 %)Motorola
82 (0.976 %)Lotus
82 (0.976 %)JD Edwards
82 (0.976 %)GUPTA
91 (0.488 %)Symbian
91 (0.488 %)Orchard
91 (0.488 %)Google
91 (0.488 %)StreamServe
91 (0.488 %)Zend
91 (0.488 %)XMPie