The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Pair Programming over the 3 months to 17 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 Glasgow 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pair Programming
Rank - 59 -
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow - 0.130% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.191% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £354 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.06% +8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
641 524 476
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 68.05% 67.88% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 285 285
Average daily rate £338 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £236 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £499
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 14
Average hourly rate £9.25 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Pair Programming
Scotland

Pair Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Pair Programming Daily Rate Trend

Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 8 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (87.50%) Java
3 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) TDD
4 5 (62.50%) jQuery
5 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (50.00%) HTML
5 4 (50.00%) Spring
6 3 (37.50%) Scrum
6 3 (37.50%) Banking
6 3 (37.50%) Oracle
6 3 (37.50%) MVC
6 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
6 3 (37.50%) CSS
6 3 (37.50%) JDBC
6 3 (37.50%) Multithreading
6 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
7 2 (25.00%) Open Source
7 2 (25.00%) BDD
7 2 (25.00%) Kanban
7 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (25.00%) Ajax
7 2 (25.00%) Linux
7 2 (25.00%) Finance
7 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
8 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
8 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
8 1 (12.50%) Sybase
8 1 (12.50%) Subversion
8 1 (12.50%) JSF

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 5 (62.50%) jQuery
2 4 (50.00%) HTML
2 4 (50.00%) Spring
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
3 3 (37.50%) JDBC
4 2 (25.00%) Ajax
4 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 1 (12.50%) Ext JS
5 1 (12.50%) Apache CXF
5 1 (12.50%) soapUI
5 1 (12.50%) Velocity
5 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
5 1 (12.50%) Grails
5 1 (12.50%) GWT
5 1 (12.50%) JSF
5 1 (12.50%) J2EE
5 1 (12.50%) SOAP
5 1 (12.50%) Web Services
5 1 (12.50%) XML
5 1 (12.50%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
1 1 (12.50%) ESB
1 1 (12.50%) Mule
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) Hudson
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) ScrumMaster
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (75.00%) TDD
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Multithreading
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
4 3 (37.50%) MVC
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Kanban
6 1 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
6 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 1 (12.50%) OO
6 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 1 (12.50%) Web Development
6 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Sybase
2 1 (12.50%) TIBCO