The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 182 181 218
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +37
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 23 34 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.358% 0.426% 0.238%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.488% 0.595% 0.331%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 31 18
Average daily rate £450 £445 £406
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% +9.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £400 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £600 £498
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4709 5713 6944
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.25% 71.60% 71.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3551 4136 5135
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 96 98
Average hourly rate £41.50 £24.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.91% -4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £15.00 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Pair Programming
London

Pair Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Pair Programming Jobs Demand Trend

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Pair Programming across the City of London region.

City of London Pair Programming Daily Rate Trend

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Pair Programming across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London Pair Programming Daily Rate Histogram

Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 45 (93.75%) TDD
2 39 (81.25%) Agile Software Development
3 36 (75.00%) BDD
4 28 (58.33%) Java
5 17 (35.42%) Unit Testing
5 17 (35.42%) Scrum
6 15 (31.25%) C#
7 14 (29.17%) Front Office
7 14 (29.17%) Derivative
7 14 (29.17%) Equity Derivative
8 13 (27.08%) .NET
8 13 (27.08%) Dependency Injection
9 12 (25.00%) HTML
9 12 (25.00%) OO
10 11 (22.92%) Linux
10 11 (22.92%) Web Services
10 11 (22.92%) JavaScript
11 10 (20.83%) SQL
12 9 (18.75%) MVC
13 8 (16.67%) Finance
13 8 (16.67%) XML
13 8 (16.67%) CSS
13 8 (16.67%) Selenium
13 8 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (16.67%) Hibernate
13 8 (16.67%) Spring
13 8 (16.67%) Ruby
13 8 (16.67%) Jenkins
14 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
14 7 (14.58%) RESTful

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 13 (27.08%) .NET
2 12 (25.00%) HTML
3 11 (22.92%) Web Services
4 8 (16.67%) XML
4 8 (16.67%) CSS
4 8 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 8 (16.67%) Spring
5 7 (14.58%) RESTful
5 7 (14.58%) WPF
6 6 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 6 (12.50%) SOAP
7 5 (10.42%) REST
7 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (10.42%) WCF
7 5 (10.42%) J2EE
8 4 (8.333%) NHibernate
9 3 (6.250%) CSS3
9 3 (6.250%) Castle Windsor
9 3 (6.250%) Grails
9 3 (6.250%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.250%) Apache
2 2 (4.167%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.083%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (2.083%) ESB
3 1 (2.083%) Mule
3 1 (2.083%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (2.083%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.083%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.250%) HTTP
2 1 (2.083%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.083%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (16.67%) Selenium
1 8 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.58%) Maven
2 7 (14.58%) Subversion
2 7 (14.58%) JUnit
3 6 (12.50%) WebDriver
3 6 (12.50%) Git (software)
4 5 (10.42%) SpecFlow
5 4 (8.333%) Hudson
6 3 (6.250%) Cucumber
6 3 (6.250%) Ant
7 2 (4.167%) Eclipse
8 1 (2.083%) QUnit
8 1 (2.083%) Jasmine
8 1 (2.083%) Capybara
8 1 (2.083%) RSpec
8 1 (2.083%) JBehave
8 1 (2.083%) NUnit
8 1 (2.083%) JIRA
8 1 (2.083%) WATIR
General
1 14 (29.17%) Front Office
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (8.333%) Investment Banking
3 4 (8.333%) Banking
4 3 (6.250%) Publishing
5 1 (2.083%) Back Office
5 1 (2.083%) Games
Job Titles
1 38 (79.17%) Developer
2 22 (45.83%) Java Developer
3 15 (31.25%) Agile Java Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Test Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.333%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (8.333%) .NET Developer
5 4 (8.333%) WPF Developer
6 3 (6.250%) C# Developer
6 3 (6.250%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.167%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Test Analyst
8 1 (2.083%) Development Engineer
8 1 (2.083%) iOS Developer
8 1 (2.083%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (2.083%) Senior WinForms Developer
8 1 (2.083%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) Derivative
1 14 (29.17%) Equity Derivative
2 6 (12.50%) Open Source
3 2 (4.167%) Interactive TV
4 1 (2.083%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.083%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (2.083%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.083%) Social Network
4 1 (2.083%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.083%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.92%) Linux
2 3 (6.250%) UNIX
2 3 (6.250%) Windows
3 1 (2.083%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (93.75%) TDD
2 39 (81.25%) Agile Software Development
3 36 (75.00%) BDD
4 17 (35.42%) Unit Testing
4 17 (35.42%) Scrum
5 13 (27.08%) Dependency Injection
6 12 (25.00%) OO
7 9 (18.75%) MVC
8 8 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
9 7 (14.58%) Kanban
10 6 (12.50%) Extreme Programming
10 6 (12.50%) Software Testing
11 5 (10.42%) E-Commerce
12 4 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
13 3 (6.250%) MVVM
14 2 (4.167%) SOA
14 2 (4.167%) Release Management
14 2 (4.167%) Software Engineering
15 1 (2.083%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 28 (58.33%) Java
2 15 (31.25%) C#
3 11 (22.92%) JavaScript
4 10 (20.83%) SQL
5 8 (16.67%) Ruby
6 5 (10.42%) Groovy
7 4 (8.333%) Scala
8 3 (6.250%) C++
8 3 (6.250%) Objective-C
9 2 (4.167%) C
9 2 (4.167%) PHP
10 1 (2.083%) Bash shell
10 1 (2.083%) T-SQL
10 1 (2.083%) XAML
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.167%) Apple
2 2 (4.167%) Oracle
3 1 (2.083%) JBoss