The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bolton 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 Bolton 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bolton - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
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
Bolton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2 14 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bolton 40.00% 63.64% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £260
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
Average hourly rate £17.42 £37.00 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-52.91% +289.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Pair Programming
Manchester

Pair Programming
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bolton 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%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) CruiseControl
2 1 (50.00%) ReSharper
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) Mercurial
2 1 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bolton 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%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (50.00%) ReSharper
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (50.00%) Mercurial
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL