Pair Programming Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Pair Programming over the 3 months to 21 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 North West 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pair Programming
Rank 105 133 123
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -10
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 14 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.593% 0.063% 0.233%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.839% 0.103% 0.356%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 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 £358 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1669 1945 1965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.69% 61.67% 65.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 1005 1027
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 84 96
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £21.12
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -5.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £13.35 £12.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £37.50 £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Manchester +26 12 £323 -19.37%
Cheshire - 1 - -
Pair Programming
England

Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 20 (86.96%) Java
1 20 (86.96%) TDD
2 19 (82.61%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (82.61%) Spring
3 15 (65.22%) J2EE
4 12 (52.17%) RESTful
4 12 (52.17%) BDD
5 11 (47.83%) REST
5 11 (47.83%) JavaScript
5 11 (47.83%) Web Services
5 11 (47.83%) XML
5 11 (47.83%) RDF
5 11 (47.83%) OO
6 10 (43.48%) XQuery
6 10 (43.48%) XSLT
6 10 (43.48%) Enterprise Architecture
6 10 (43.48%) XPath
6 10 (43.48%) JSON
6 10 (43.48%) JAX-RS
7 9 (39.13%) Test Automation
7 9 (39.13%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (39.13%) Benchmarking
8 7 (30.43%) Hibernate
8 7 (30.43%) SQL
8 7 (30.43%) HTML
9 6 (26.09%) CSS
9 6 (26.09%) jQuery
10 5 (21.74%) Scrum
10 5 (21.74%) MVC
10 5 (21.74%) Statistics

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 19 (82.61%) Spring
2 15 (65.22%) J2EE
3 12 (52.17%) RESTful
4 11 (47.83%) REST
4 11 (47.83%) Web Services
4 11 (47.83%) XML
5 10 (43.48%) XSLT
5 10 (43.48%) JSON
5 10 (43.48%) JAX-RS
6 7 (30.43%) Hibernate
6 7 (30.43%) HTML
7 6 (26.09%) CSS
7 6 (26.09%) jQuery
8 4 (17.39%) Spring MVC
9 2 (8.696%) ASP.NET
9 2 (8.696%) .NET
9 2 (8.696%) Ajax
10 1 (4.348%) Stripes Framework
10 1 (4.348%) HTML5
10 1 (4.348%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) ESB
2 1 (4.348%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Photoshop
1 1 (4.348%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.696%) MarkLogic
3 1 (4.348%) DB2
3 1 (4.348%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
1 3 (13.04%) Gradle
2 2 (8.696%) JUnit
3 1 (4.348%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.348%) Mercurial
3 1 (4.348%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.348%) CruiseControl
3 1 (4.348%) ReSharper
General
1 2 (8.696%) Publishing
2 1 (4.348%) Games
2 1 (4.348%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (78.26%) Developer
2 15 (65.22%) Java Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Software Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Senior Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Agile Java Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Web Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Java Web Developer
7 2 (8.696%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 2 (8.696%) .NET Developer
8 1 (4.348%) User Experience Developer
8 1 (4.348%) Software Developer
8 1 (4.348%) Java Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Statistics
2 2 (8.696%) Interactive TV
2 2 (8.696%) Streaming Video
2 2 (8.696%) Semantic Web
3 1 (4.348%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 2 (8.696%) Mac OS X
2 2 (8.696%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) TDD
2 19 (82.61%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (52.17%) BDD
4 11 (47.83%) RDF
4 11 (47.83%) OO
5 10 (43.48%) Enterprise Architecture
6 9 (39.13%) Test Automation
6 9 (39.13%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (39.13%) Benchmarking
7 5 (21.74%) Scrum
7 5 (21.74%) MVC
8 3 (13.04%) E-Commerce
8 3 (13.04%) SOA
9 2 (8.696%) OOP
9 2 (8.696%) Content Management
10 1 (4.348%) Continuous Improvement
10 1 (4.348%) Business Analysis
10 1 (4.348%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (86.96%) Java
2 11 (47.83%) JavaScript
3 10 (43.48%) XQuery
3 10 (43.48%) XPath
4 7 (30.43%) SQL
5 5 (21.74%) Ruby
6 3 (13.04%) SPARQL
6 3 (13.04%) Shell Script
7 2 (8.696%) C#
7 2 (8.696%) PHP
7 2 (8.696%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) JBoss
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 1 (4.348%) Sybase
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