The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 62 82 66
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -16
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 11 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.204% 0.154% 0.482%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.711% 0.240% 0.745%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 3
Average daily rate £323 £400 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.37% +34.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £354 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.06% +8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
643 835 671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.35% 64.18% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 413 300
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £456 £454
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 41 38
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £80.50 £37.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Pair Programming
North West

Pair Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester Pair Programming Daily Rate Histogram

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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 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
Salford +6 5 £323 -19.37%
Stockport - 3 £350 -
Pair Programming
North West

Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 17 (89.47%) Java
1 17 (89.47%) Spring
2 16 (84.21%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (84.21%) TDD
3 11 (57.89%) RESTful
3 11 (57.89%) J2EE
3 11 (57.89%) BDD
4 10 (52.63%) OO
5 9 (47.37%) RDF
5 9 (47.37%) Web Services
5 9 (47.37%) XML
5 9 (47.37%) REST
6 8 (42.11%) JAX-RS
6 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
6 8 (42.11%) XSLT
6 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
6 8 (42.11%) XQuery
6 8 (42.11%) Benchmarking
6 8 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (42.11%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (42.11%) XPath
6 8 (42.11%) JSON
7 6 (31.58%) Ruby
7 6 (31.58%) Hibernate
7 6 (31.58%) HTML
7 6 (31.58%) SQL
7 6 (31.58%) Linux
8 4 (21.05%) Statistics
9 3 (15.79%) MVC
9 3 (15.79%) CSS

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 17 (89.47%) Spring
2 11 (57.89%) RESTful
2 11 (57.89%) J2EE
3 9 (47.37%) Web Services
3 9 (47.37%) XML
3 9 (47.37%) REST
4 8 (42.11%) JAX-RS
4 8 (42.11%) JSON
4 8 (42.11%) XSLT
5 6 (31.58%) Hibernate
5 6 (31.58%) HTML
6 3 (15.79%) Spring MVC
6 3 (15.79%) jQuery
6 3 (15.79%) CSS
7 2 (10.53%) .NET
7 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
8 1 (5.263%) Castle Windsor
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.53%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
1 3 (15.79%) Gradle
2 1 (5.263%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.263%) CruiseControl
2 1 (5.263%) ReSharper
2 1 (5.263%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.263%) Mercurial
General
1 2 (10.53%) Publishing
1 2 (10.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Developer
2 13 (68.42%) Java Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Software Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
6 3 (15.79%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Web Developer
6 3 (15.79%) Java Web Developer
6 3 (15.79%) Agile Java Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
7 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Statistics
2 2 (10.53%) Semantic Web
2 2 (10.53%) Streaming Video
2 2 (10.53%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Mac OS X
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Agile Software Development
1 16 (84.21%) TDD
2 11 (57.89%) BDD
3 10 (52.63%) OO
4 9 (47.37%) RDF
5 8 (42.11%) Benchmarking
5 8 (42.11%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.79%) MVC
6 3 (15.79%) Scrum
6 3 (15.79%) SOA
7 2 (10.53%) OOP
7 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
7 2 (10.53%) Content Management
8 1 (5.263%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Java
2 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
2 8 (42.11%) XQuery
2 8 (42.11%) XPath
3 6 (31.58%) Ruby
3 6 (31.58%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) PHP
4 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
4 3 (15.79%) SPARQL
5 2 (10.53%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
1 3 (15.79%) JBoss
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