The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 111 129 127
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -2
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 5 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.230% 0.067% 0.115%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.345% 0.104% 0.176%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
Average daily rate £375 £425 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% -22.72%
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
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1449 1926 1701
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.56% 64.61% 65.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 932 771
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 160 183
Average hourly rate £35.14 £30.50 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.19% -4.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.39 £12.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Pair Programming
England

Pair Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East of England Pair Programming Daily Rate Histogram

Pair Programming
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Pair Programming across the East of England region.

East of England Pair Programming Hourly Rate Trend

Pair Programming
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pair Programming within the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire - 4 £375 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £350 -
Pair Programming
England

Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 6 (100.00%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) HTML5
4 3 (50.00%) Video on Demand
4 3 (50.00%) CSS3
4 3 (50.00%) Web Development
4 3 (50.00%) jQuery
4 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (50.00%) OO
4 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (50.00%) CSS
5 2 (33.33%) C#
5 2 (33.33%) .NET
5 2 (33.33%) SOA
6 1 (16.67%) Retail
6 1 (16.67%) Spring
6 1 (16.67%) AOP
6 1 (16.67%) Kanban
6 1 (16.67%) JPA
6 1 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
6 1 (16.67%) JSON
6 1 (16.67%) WCF
6 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (16.67%) Middleware
6 1 (16.67%) N-Tier
6 1 (16.67%) JDBC

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 3 (50.00%) HTML5
1 3 (50.00%) CSS3
1 3 (50.00%) jQuery
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) JPA
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) WCF
3 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (16.67%) Middleware
3 1 (16.67%) JDBC
3 1 (16.67%) REST
General
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Video on Demand
2 1 (16.67%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) Web Development
4 3 (50.00%) OO
5 2 (33.33%) SOA
6 1 (16.67%) AOP
6 1 (16.67%) Kanban
6 1 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
6 1 (16.67%) Automation Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft