Systems Programmer Contracts in England

System Programmer
UK > England

The median System Programmer daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 591 744
Rank change year-on-year +76 +153 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Programmer 36 46 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.098% 0.097% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.10% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 3 9
10th Percentile £310 - £455
25th Percentile £430 £463 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -20.83% +60.00%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £625
90th Percentile £625 - £630
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £505
% change year-on-year - -5.94% +12.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Systems Programmer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Systems Programmer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Programmer in England

Systems Programmer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Programmer in England.

Daily rate trend for Systems Programmer in England

Systems Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Programmer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Programmer in England

Systems Programmer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Programmer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Programmer in England

Systems Programmer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Programmer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +16 21 £475 -
Yorkshire +11 21 £475 -
London +85 9 £505 +6.21% 2
East of England - 4 £300 -
South East - 2 £600 - 1
Systems Programmer
UK

Systems Programmer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Systems Programmer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Systems Programmer in the job title.

1 32 (88.89%) zOS
2 23 (63.89%) Mainframe
3 21 (58.33%) IBM
3 21 (58.33%) ISPF
3 21 (58.33%) JCL
3 21 (58.33%) Time Sharing Option
4 19 (52.78%) Social Skills
4 19 (52.78%) Performance Monitoring
4 19 (52.78%) OMEGAMON
4 19 (52.78%) Risk Management
4 19 (52.78%) REXX
5 18 (50.00%) SAS
6 17 (47.22%) Assembly Language
6 17 (47.22%) Splunk
6 17 (47.22%) Broadcom
7 13 (36.11%) ACF2
7 13 (36.11%) RACF
8 6 (16.67%) Banking
9 4 (11.11%) CA
10 3 (8.33%) OpenEdge
10 3 (8.33%) SDLC
11 2 (5.56%) CLIST
11 2 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (5.56%) Data Protection
12 1 (2.78%) Device Driver
12 1 (2.78%) Multimedia
12 1 (2.78%) RTSP
12 1 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared

Systems Programmer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (50.00%) SAS
2 3 (8.33%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
1 1 (2.78%) RTSP
1 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
General
1 19 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Multimedia
3 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (58.33%) ISPF
2 1 (2.78%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (63.89%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) Device Driver
3 1 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (88.89%) zOS
2 1 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) Performance Monitoring
1 19 (52.78%) Risk Management
2 3 (8.33%) SDLC
3 2 (5.56%) Data Protection
3 2 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (2.78%) Device Driver Development
4 1 (2.78%) Linux Kernel Development
4 1 (2.78%) Value Proposition
4 1 (2.78%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) JCL
2 19 (52.78%) REXX
3 17 (47.22%) Assembly Language
4 2 (5.56%) CLIST
5 1 (2.78%) C
5 1 (2.78%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 21 (58.33%) Time Sharing Option
2 13 (36.11%) ACF2
2 13 (36.11%) RACF
3 1 (2.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (52.78%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 21 (58.33%) IBM
2 17 (47.22%) Broadcom
2 17 (47.22%) Splunk
3 4 (11.11%) CA