The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 118 108 109
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +1
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 4 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.162% 0.038% 0.256%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.238% 0.059% 0.381%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 6
Average daily rate £375 - £255
90% offered a daily rate of more than £336 - £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £432 - £383
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1682 1696 1838
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.04% 64.17% 67.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 863 956
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £225 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 66 48
Average hourly rate £20.50 £22.75 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.89% -22.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Pair Programming
UK

Pair Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Pair Programming Daily Rate Trend

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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland 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
West Lothian - 3 £400 -
Pair Programming
UK

Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 13 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (92.31%) Java
3 11 (84.62%) TDD
4 9 (69.23%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (69.23%) Spring
5 8 (61.54%) JDBC
6 7 (53.85%) HTML
6 7 (53.85%) Hibernate
7 6 (46.15%) JMS
7 6 (46.15%) XML
7 6 (46.15%) Tomcat
7 6 (46.15%) SQL
8 5 (38.46%) JUnit
8 5 (38.46%) XML Schema
8 5 (38.46%) iBATIS
8 5 (38.46%) FitNesse
8 5 (38.46%) jQuery
9 4 (30.77%) Scrum
10 3 (23.08%) Multithreading
10 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
10 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (23.08%) MVC
10 3 (23.08%) Banking
10 3 (23.08%) CSS
10 3 (23.08%) Oracle
10 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
11 2 (15.38%) J2EE
11 2 (15.38%) Linux
11 2 (15.38%) Finance
11 2 (15.38%) BDD

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 9 (69.23%) Spring
2 8 (61.54%) JDBC
3 7 (53.85%) HTML
3 7 (53.85%) Hibernate
4 6 (46.15%) JMS
4 6 (46.15%) XML
5 5 (38.46%) XML Schema
5 5 (38.46%) iBATIS
5 5 (38.46%) jQuery
6 3 (23.08%) CSS
7 2 (15.38%) J2EE
7 2 (15.38%) Ajax
8 1 (7.692%) Java EE
8 1 (7.692%) JSF
8 1 (7.692%) Grails
8 1 (7.692%) GWT
8 1 (7.692%) Velocity
8 1 (7.692%) Spring MVC
8 1 (7.692%) Ext JS
8 1 (7.692%) Apache CXF
Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.692%) ESB
2 1 (7.692%) Mule
2 1 (7.692%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) JUnit
1 5 (38.46%) FitNesse
2 1 (7.692%) Maven
2 1 (7.692%) Selenium
2 1 (7.692%) Hudson
2 1 (7.692%) Subversion
2 1 (7.692%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 10 (76.92%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.692%) ScrumMaster
3 1 (7.692%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Designer
3 1 (7.692%) Web Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (15.38%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (84.62%) TDD
3 9 (69.23%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Multithreading
5 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
5 3 (23.08%) MVC
6 2 (15.38%) BDD
6 2 (15.38%) Kanban
7 1 (7.692%) Web Development
7 1 (7.692%) Refactoring
7 1 (7.692%) Domain-Driven Design
7 1 (7.692%) Risk Management
7 1 (7.692%) Data Modelling
7 1 (7.692%) OO
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 1 (7.692%) TIBCO
2 1 (7.692%) Sybase
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Posted: 16 May 2013