The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 18 June 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pair Programming
Rank 365 399 425
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +26
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 173 151 157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.395% 0.285% 0.275%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.552% 0.414% 0.405%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 115 111
Average daily rate £450 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £325 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £600 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +30.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £67.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -44.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 -
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
31333 36462 38743
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.57% 68.77% 67.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 19221 21322 22496
Average daily rate £420 £405 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 935 1194 1381
Average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.13 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.42 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
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Pair Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

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 England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

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 England region.

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 England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +15 124 £450 +5.88% 54
South East +23 15 £350 -56.25% 8
North West +24 13 £323 - 3
East of England +23 13 £468 +10.00% 8
South West +29 5 £410 +26.23% 7
East Midlands - 4 £450 -
North East - - - - 5
Yorkshire - - - - 4
West Midlands - - - - 6
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Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 273 (83.74%) TDD
2 231 (70.86%) Java
3 212 (65.03%) Agile Software Development
4 204 (62.58%) BDD
5 148 (45.40%) Spring
6 142 (43.56%) JavaScript
7 130 (39.88%) Scrum
8 113 (34.66%) Web Services
9 112 (34.36%) HTML
9 112 (34.36%) CSS
10 109 (33.44%) Continuous Integration
11 105 (32.21%) SQL
12 93 (28.53%) REST
13 90 (27.61%) Hibernate
14 86 (26.38%) MVC
15 81 (24.85%) JUnit
15 81 (24.85%) jQuery
16 80 (24.54%) OO
17 75 (23.01%) JSON
18 70 (21.47%) C#
19 65 (19.94%) SQL Server
19 65 (19.94%) Git (software)
20 62 (19.02%) XML
21 60 (18.40%) SOAP
21 60 (18.40%) Maven
22 58 (17.79%) Open Source
23 57 (17.48%) .NET
24 54 (16.56%) RESTful
25 52 (15.95%) E-Commerce
26 50 (15.34%) Java EE

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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
1 148 (45.40%) Spring
2 113 (34.66%) Web Services
3 112 (34.36%) HTML
3 112 (34.36%) CSS
4 93 (28.53%) REST
5 90 (27.61%) Hibernate
6 81 (24.85%) jQuery
7 75 (23.01%) JSON
8 62 (19.02%) XML
9 60 (18.40%) SOAP
10 57 (17.48%) .NET
11 54 (16.56%) RESTful
12 50 (15.34%) Spring MVC
12 50 (15.34%) Java EE
13 43 (13.19%) JMS
14 40 (12.27%) JAXB
14 40 (12.27%) JPA
15 39 (11.96%) Spring Web Flow
16 38 (11.66%) Spring Security
16 38 (11.66%) JTA
Application Platforms
1 14 (4.294%) BizTalk Server
2 12 (3.681%) Tomcat
3 8 (2.454%) Apache
4 7 (2.147%) GlassFish
5 6 (1.840%) Amazon AWS
6 4 (1.227%) ESB
6 4 (1.227%) Windows Azure
7 3 (0.920%) CMS
7 3 (0.920%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.920%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (0.613%) Rackspace Cloud
8 2 (0.613%) Gunicorn
8 2 (0.613%) Magento
8 2 (0.613%) nginx
8 2 (0.613%) Liferay
8 2 (0.613%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.613%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.613%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.307%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.307%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (1.840%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.613%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.613%) Mingle
3 1 (0.307%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.613%) ION MarketView
1 2 (0.613%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.307%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.362%) HTTP
2 12 (3.681%) Internet
3 3 (0.920%) SSH
4 1 (0.307%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (19.94%) SQL Server
2 34 (10.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 34 (10.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 18 (5.521%) NoSQL
4 15 (4.601%) MySQL
5 14 (4.294%) SQL Server 2008
6 7 (2.147%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.147%) SQLite
7 5 (1.534%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.613%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.613%) Big Data
8 2 (0.613%) MarkLogic
9 1 (0.307%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (0.307%) DB2
9 1 (0.307%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 81 (24.85%) JUnit
2 65 (19.94%) Git (software)
3 60 (18.40%) Maven
4 49 (15.03%) Selenium
5 44 (13.50%) Mockito
6 42 (12.88%) Jenkins
7 40 (12.27%) Subversion
8 29 (8.896%) Cucumber
9 21 (6.442%) WebDriver
10 18 (5.521%) Hudson
11 16 (4.908%) Jasmine
12 14 (4.294%) SpecFlow
12 14 (4.294%) TeamCity
12 14 (4.294%) Ant
12 14 (4.294%) Eclipse
13 12 (3.681%) JBehave
13 12 (3.681%) QUnit
14 11 (3.374%) IntelliJ
15 8 (2.454%) CruiseControl
15 8 (2.454%) ReSharper
General
1 38 (11.66%) Finance
2 23 (7.055%) Banking
3 21 (6.442%) Games
4 20 (6.135%) Front Office
5 16 (4.908%) Publishing
5 16 (4.908%) Investment Banking
6 12 (3.681%) Retail
7 7 (2.147%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.227%) Music Industry
9 2 (0.613%) Marketing
9 2 (0.613%) Law
10 1 (0.307%) Legal
10 1 (0.307%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.307%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.307%) Back Office
10 1 (0.307%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 264 (80.98%) Developer
2 141 (43.25%) Java Developer
3 45 (13.80%) Senior Developer
4 42 (12.88%) Agile Java Developer
5 31 (9.509%) Senior Java Developer
6 24 (7.362%) Software Engineer
6 24 (7.362%) .NET Developer
7 19 (5.828%) C# Developer
8 15 (4.601%) JavaScript Developer
9 12 (3.681%) Software Developer
9 12 (3.681%) Web Developer
9 12 (3.681%) Analyst
10 11 (3.374%) Technical Leader
11 10 (3.067%) Front-End Developer
11 10 (3.067%) Android Developer
12 9 (2.761%) Agile C# Developer
12 9 (2.761%) Test Analyst
12 9 (2.761%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (2.761%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (2.147%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 58 (17.79%) Open Source
2 19 (5.828%) Derivative
3 18 (5.521%) Equity Derivative
4 12 (3.681%) New Media
4 12 (3.681%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.147%) SaaS
6 6 (1.840%) Interactive TV
6 6 (1.840%) N-Tier
7 5 (1.534%) Statistics
7 5 (1.534%) Blog
8 4 (1.227%) Computer Science
8 4 (1.227%) Video on Demand
8 4 (1.227%) Kinect
8 4 (1.227%) Digital Media
8 4 (1.227%) Mathematics
8 4 (1.227%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.920%) Equities
9 3 (0.920%) RIA
10 2 (0.613%) Semantic Web
10 2 (0.613%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.27%) Linux
2 24 (7.362%) UNIX
3 14 (4.294%) Windows
4 12 (3.681%) Android
5 5 (1.534%) Windows 8
6 4 (1.227%) Windows Phone
7 3 (0.920%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.613%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.613%) CentOS
8 2 (0.613%) Debian
9 1 (0.307%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (83.74%) TDD
2 212 (65.03%) Agile Software Development
3 204 (62.58%) BDD
4 130 (39.88%) Scrum
5 109 (33.44%) Continuous Integration
6 86 (26.38%) MVC
7 80 (24.54%) OO
8 52 (15.95%) E-Commerce
9 46 (14.11%) Web Development
10 43 (13.19%) Kanban
11 37 (11.35%) Software Architecture
12 35 (10.74%) UML
13 33 (10.12%) OOD
14 31 (9.509%) Test Automation
15 29 (8.896%) Extreme Programming
16 26 (7.975%) Dependency Injection
16 26 (7.975%) Unit Testing
16 26 (7.975%) Release Management
17 24 (7.362%) Continuous Improvement
18 19 (5.828%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 231 (70.86%) Java
2 142 (43.56%) JavaScript
3 105 (32.21%) SQL
4 70 (21.47%) C#
5 47 (14.42%) Ruby
6 25 (7.669%) PHP
7 24 (7.362%) Groovy
8 22 (6.748%) Python
9 20 (6.135%) Scala
10 16 (4.908%) C++
11 12 (3.681%) Clojure
12 11 (3.374%) XQuery
12 11 (3.374%) Shell Script
12 11 (3.374%) XPath
13 8 (2.454%) SPARQL
14 6 (1.840%) Bash shell
14 6 (1.840%) XAML
14 6 (1.840%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.534%) Perl
15 5 (1.534%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (2.454%) Degree
2 3 (0.920%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 3 (0.920%) SC Cleared
2 3 (0.920%) Security Cleared
2 3 (0.920%) MCSD
2 3 (0.920%) ISEB
2 3 (0.920%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (0.920%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.202%) QA
2 3 (0.920%) ISO 9000
2 3 (0.920%) TickIT
2 3 (0.920%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.920%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 1 (0.307%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (10.43%) JBoss
2 23 (7.055%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.908%) Oracle
4 11 (3.374%) Twitter
5 3 (0.920%) IBM
5 3 (0.920%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.613%) Rackspace
6 2 (0.613%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.613%) DevExpress
6 2 (0.613%) Sencha
6 2 (0.613%) Adobe
6 2 (0.613%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.307%) Zend
7 1 (0.307%) Apple
7 1 (0.307%) Salesforce.com
7 1 (0.307%) ATG
7 1 (0.307%) Sybase
7 1 (0.307%) SAP
Greater Manchester, North West
Experience of Spring and Hibernate. * Knowledge of agile methodologies including TDD, SCRUM and Pair Programming. * Working knowledge of database systems, SQL, stored procedures, data modelling. * Experience in applying...
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
London
Java Developer with extensive knowledge of Spring and Web Services... You will have been involved with all aspects of software delivery and life cycle, including programming, architecture, build...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £500 to £600 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
The team is Agile with a particular focus on TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. In addition, to the usual technical responsibilities the client is...
TRG
Posted: 19 May 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
ad Contract Software Engineers / Developers, with excellent C# or Java or C++ (or other relevant OO language), excellent knowledge of Agile, Scrum or TDD and experience of leading...
Kyna Associates
Rate: £450 - 550 Per Day Up to £550 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
West London
They are adopting and adapting agile development techniques such as test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration... Ideal Skills and Experience: - Expert, object-oriented PHP coding. - Any...
Forman Computer Staff
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
FIRST POINT IT RESOURCING
Rate: £300 - £340 per day + BONUS 26 DAYS HOLIDAY!
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
NFP Group Ltd
Rate: £300 - £340 per day + BONUS 26 DAYS HOLIDAY!
Posted: 14 June 2013
West London
BBC Worldwide Ltd
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Personnel IT
Rate: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Central London / West End
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £500 - £575 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £325.00 - £375.00 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £400.00 - £450.00 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
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