The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Pair Programming over the 3 months to 20 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 Salford 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pair Programming
Rank 5 12 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 20.83% 2.500% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.78% 3.333% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Average daily rate £323 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.37% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £358 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
18 30 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 75.00% 75.00% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 2
Average daily rate £323 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.76% -23.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Pair Programming
Manchester

Pair Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford Pair Programming Daily Rate Trend

Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) Web Services
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) RDF
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
1 8 (100.00%) RESTful
1 8 (100.00%) BDD
1 8 (100.00%) REST
2 7 (87.50%) JAX-RS
2 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (87.50%) XPath
2 7 (87.50%) JSON
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (87.50%) XQuery
2 7 (87.50%) Benchmarking
2 7 (87.50%) J2EE
2 7 (87.50%) OO
2 7 (87.50%) XSLT
3 4 (50.00%) Ruby
4 3 (37.50%) Statistics
4 3 (37.50%) SPARQL
4 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
5 2 (25.00%) Semantic Web
5 2 (25.00%) MarkLogic
5 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (25.00%) Publishing
5 2 (25.00%) Streaming Video

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 8 (100.00%) Web Services
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) RESTful
1 8 (100.00%) REST
2 7 (87.50%) JAX-RS
2 7 (87.50%) JSON
2 7 (87.50%) XSLT
2 7 (87.50%) J2EE
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Java Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Statistics
2 2 (25.00%) Semantic Web
2 2 (25.00%) Streaming Video
2 2 (25.00%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) RDF
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
1 8 (100.00%) BDD
2 7 (87.50%) OO
2 7 (87.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Benchmarking
2 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) Content Management
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) XQuery
2 7 (87.50%) XPath
3 4 (50.00%) Ruby
4 3 (37.50%) SPARQL
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) PHP
5 1 (12.50%) SQL
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