The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Pair Programming over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pair Programming
Rank - 53 -
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.158% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.251% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £360 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
298 398 291
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.27% 62.97% 57.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 215 179
Average daily rate £355 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.57% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £497
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 9
Average hourly rate £34.75 £15.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+131.66% -18.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.28 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.60 £34.80 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Pair Programming
West Midlands

Pair Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Pair Programming across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Birmingham Pair Programming Jobs Demand Trend

Pair Programming
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Pair Programming also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Pair Programming.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Java EE
1 2 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Pair Programming also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Pair Programming. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Java EE
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Birmingham, West Midlands
The developer will use agile practises including pair programming, estimating, planning, design and TDD... The technical requirements of the Developer should possess a minimum of 5 years; Java,...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 21 May 2013