The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 198 238 232
Rank change year-on-year
+40 -6
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 27 9 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.345% 0.089% 0.117%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.508% 0.138% 0.180%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 6 7
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
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
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5312 6532 6680
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 67.92% 64.58% 64.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2748 3133 3027
Average daily rate £375 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 327 358
Average hourly rate £27.00 £27.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.50 £13.73
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 20 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
Hampshire - 23 £350 -
East Sussex - 2 £358 -
Surrey +20 1 £401 -
Berkshire +17 1 £350 -6.66%
Pair Programming
England

Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 41 (93.18%) BDD
2 40 (90.91%) JavaScript
3 38 (86.36%) MVC
4 37 (84.09%) SQL
4 37 (84.09%) Git (software)
4 37 (84.09%) jQuery
5 36 (81.82%) SQL Server
5 36 (81.82%) CSS
6 35 (79.55%) HTML
7 34 (77.27%) SOAP
8 33 (75.00%) Software Architecture
9 32 (72.73%) JPA
9 32 (72.73%) Spring
9 32 (72.73%) Java EE
9 32 (72.73%) Web Services
9 32 (72.73%) Java
9 32 (72.73%) JUnit
9 32 (72.73%) Hibernate
10 31 (70.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 31 (70.45%) JAXB
10 31 (70.45%) EJB
10 31 (70.45%) JMS
10 31 (70.45%) JSON
10 31 (70.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 31 (70.45%) Web Development
10 31 (70.45%) JTA
10 31 (70.45%) Maven
10 31 (70.45%) Spring MVC
10 31 (70.45%) Spring Security
10 31 (70.45%) Spring Web Flow

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 37 (84.09%) jQuery
2 36 (81.82%) CSS
3 35 (79.55%) HTML
4 34 (77.27%) SOAP
5 32 (72.73%) Web Services
5 32 (72.73%) Hibernate
5 32 (72.73%) Spring
5 32 (72.73%) JPA
5 32 (72.73%) Java EE
6 31 (70.45%) JSON
6 31 (70.45%) Spring MVC
6 31 (70.45%) EJB
6 31 (70.45%) Spring Security
6 31 (70.45%) REST
6 31 (70.45%) JTA
6 31 (70.45%) JMS
6 31 (70.45%) JAXB
6 31 (70.45%) Spring Web Flow
7 21 (47.73%) JSP
8 20 (45.45%) Apache CXF
Application Platforms
1 13 (29.55%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.273%) Windows Azure
2 1 (2.273%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.273%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (11.36%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.273%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (81.82%) SQL Server
2 31 (70.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 31 (70.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 4 (9.091%) MySQL
4 4 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 37 (84.09%) Git (software)
2 32 (72.73%) JUnit
3 31 (70.45%) Maven
3 31 (70.45%) Mockito
4 17 (38.64%) Selenium
5 11 (25.00%) JBehave
6 4 (9.091%) SpecFlow
6 4 (9.091%) ReSharper
6 4 (9.091%) NUnit
6 4 (9.091%) Subversion
7 3 (6.818%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (4.545%) Rhino Mocks
8 2 (4.545%) Visual Studio
9 1 (2.273%) Log4j
9 1 (2.273%) FitNesse
General
1 6 (13.64%) Finance
2 1 (2.273%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.273%) Marketing
2 1 (2.273%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (2.273%) Electronics
2 1 (2.273%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (100.00%) Developer
2 31 (70.45%) Java Developer
3 9 (20.45%) Technical Leader
4 4 (9.091%) Agile C# Developer
4 4 (9.091%) C# Developer
4 4 (9.091%) Software Developer
5 2 (4.545%) Lead Developer
5 2 (4.545%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (2.273%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 1 (2.273%) Technical Developer
6 1 (2.273%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.273%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (2.273%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.091%) SaaS
2 2 (4.545%) Open Source
3 1 (2.273%) Health Informatics
3 1 (2.273%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.273%) NHS
3 1 (2.273%) DTV
3 1 (2.273%) Informatics
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.273%) UNIX
1 1 (2.273%) Linux
1 1 (2.273%) Android
1 1 (2.273%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (93.18%) BDD
2 38 (86.36%) MVC
3 33 (75.00%) Software Architecture
4 31 (70.45%) Web Development
5 28 (63.64%) UML
5 28 (63.64%) OOD
6 19 (43.18%) Agile Software Development
6 19 (43.18%) TDD
6 19 (43.18%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (29.55%) Dependency Injection
8 10 (22.73%) Scrum
9 8 (18.18%) OO
10 4 (9.091%) Technical Architecture
10 4 (9.091%) OOP
10 4 (9.091%) Kanban
11 2 (4.545%) Multithreading
11 2 (4.545%) Change Data Capture
11 2 (4.545%) SOA
11 2 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
11 2 (4.545%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (90.91%) JavaScript
2 37 (84.09%) SQL
3 32 (72.73%) Java
4 9 (20.45%) C#
5 5 (11.36%) Python
6 4 (9.091%) C++
7 2 (4.545%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.545%) Ruby
8 1 (2.273%) Groovy
8 1 (2.273%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.273%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 26 (59.09%) JBoss
2 11 (25.00%) Twitter
3 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.545%) DevExpress
5 1 (2.273%) Oracle
5 1 (2.273%) SAP
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