Pair Programming Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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.

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 367 433 400
Rank change year-on-year
+66 -33
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 177 150 185
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.375% 0.257% 0.308%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.529% 0.379% 0.454%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 115 136
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £329 £311
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £583 £550
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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 33459 39616 40749
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.87% 67.77% 67.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 19984 22785 23155
Average daily rate £413 £401 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.99% -8.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 998 1285 1448
Average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%

Pair Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Pair Programming Daily Rate Histogram

Pair Programming
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Pair Programming within the UK.

Pair Programming Hourly Rate Trend

Pair Programming
Top 30 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 UK 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
England +68 173 £425 -
London +8 120 £450 +1.40%
South East +43 27 £350 +7.69%
City of London +5 24 £450 +1.12%
Hampshire - 23 £350 -
Basingstoke - 23 £350 -
North West +28 14 £323 -19.37%
Hounslow +6 14 £450 +12.50%
Manchester +26 12 £323 -19.37%
Salford +6 6 £323 -19.37%
East Midlands +5 5 £725 -
Leicestershire - 5 £725 -
East of England +13 4 £375 -11.76%
Scotland -10 4 £375 -
South West +23 3 £458 +28.11%
Hertfordshire - 3 £375 -
Somerset - 3 £458 -
West Lothian - 3 £400 -
Taunton - 3 £458 -
Stockport - 3 £350 -
St Albans - 3 £375 -
Brentford - 3 £465 -
Brighton - 2 £358 -
Livingston - 2 £365 -
East Sussex - 2 £358 -
Surrey +17 1 £401 -
Berkshire +9 1 £350 -6.66%
Cheshire - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £350 -
Reading - 1 £350 -

Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 254 (81.15%) TDD
2 227 (72.52%) Java
3 202 (64.54%) Agile Software Development
4 183 (58.47%) BDD
5 142 (45.37%) Spring
6 138 (44.09%) JavaScript
7 124 (39.62%) HTML
8 120 (38.34%) Scrum
9 114 (36.42%) CSS
10 109 (34.82%) Web Services
11 106 (33.87%) SQL
12 104 (33.23%) Continuous Integration
13 93 (29.71%) REST
14 87 (27.80%) Hibernate
15 85 (27.16%) MVC
16 80 (25.56%) JUnit
17 78 (24.92%) jQuery
18 76 (24.28%) JSON
19 72 (23.00%) XML
20 70 (22.36%) SOAP
21 68 (21.73%) SQL Server
21 68 (21.73%) OO
22 60 (19.17%) Maven
22 60 (19.17%) Git (software)
23 56 (17.89%) RESTful
24 53 (16.93%) C#
25 50 (15.97%) Java EE
26 49 (15.65%) Spring MVC
26 49 (15.65%) JMS
27 48 (15.34%) Open Source

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 142 (45.37%) Spring
2 124 (39.62%) HTML
3 114 (36.42%) CSS
4 109 (34.82%) Web Services
5 93 (29.71%) REST
6 87 (27.80%) Hibernate
7 78 (24.92%) jQuery
8 76 (24.28%) JSON
9 72 (23.00%) XML
10 70 (22.36%) SOAP
11 56 (17.89%) RESTful
12 50 (15.97%) Java EE
13 49 (15.65%) Spring MVC
13 49 (15.65%) JMS
14 44 (14.06%) .NET
15 40 (12.78%) JAXB
15 40 (12.78%) J2EE
15 40 (12.78%) JPA
16 39 (12.46%) Spring Web Flow
17 38 (12.14%) JTA
Application Platforms
1 16 (5.112%) Tomcat
2 14 (4.473%) BizTalk Server
3 12 (3.834%) Apache
4 7 (2.236%) GlassFish
5 5 (1.597%) ESB
6 4 (1.278%) Windows Azure
7 3 (0.958%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.958%) Liferay
7 3 (0.958%) Mule
7 3 (0.958%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (0.639%) Gunicorn
8 2 (0.639%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.639%) Magento
8 2 (0.639%) nginx
8 2 (0.639%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.639%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (0.639%) CMS
8 2 (0.639%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (0.639%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.319%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (1.917%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.639%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.319%) Fireworks
3 1 (0.319%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 2 (0.639%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.639%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.319%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.987%) HTTP
2 9 (2.875%) Internet
3 2 (0.639%) NFC
3 2 (0.639%) SSH
4 1 (0.319%) SMS
4 1 (0.319%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (21.73%) SQL Server
2 34 (10.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 34 (10.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 20 (6.390%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.153%) SQL Server 2008
5 7 (2.236%) SQLite
5 7 (2.236%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.917%) MySQL
7 3 (0.958%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.958%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.958%) Big Data
8 2 (0.639%) MarkLogic
8 2 (0.639%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.319%) DB2
9 1 (0.319%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (0.319%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.319%) Jackrabbit
Development Applications
1 80 (25.56%) JUnit
2 60 (19.17%) Maven
2 60 (19.17%) Git (software)
3 46 (14.70%) Selenium
4 44 (14.06%) Mockito
5 39 (12.46%) Subversion
6 37 (11.82%) Jenkins
7 29 (9.265%) Cucumber
8 21 (6.709%) Hudson
9 20 (6.390%) WebDriver
10 15 (4.792%) Eclipse
10 15 (4.792%) Ant
11 13 (4.153%) JBehave
11 13 (4.153%) TeamCity
12 12 (3.834%) QUnit
12 12 (3.834%) Jasmine
12 12 (3.834%) SpecFlow
13 11 (3.514%) IntelliJ
14 7 (2.236%) Visual Studio
14 7 (2.236%) CruiseControl
General
1 33 (10.54%) Finance
2 24 (7.668%) Banking
3 23 (7.348%) Front Office
4 18 (5.751%) Games
5 17 (5.431%) Investment Banking
6 16 (5.112%) Publishing
7 7 (2.236%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.917%) Retail
9 2 (0.639%) Music
10 1 (0.319%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.319%) Electronics
10 1 (0.319%) Back Office
10 1 (0.319%) Law
10 1 (0.319%) Legal
10 1 (0.319%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.319%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 254 (81.15%) Developer
2 145 (46.33%) Java Developer
3 41 (13.10%) Senior Developer
4 36 (11.50%) Agile Java Developer
5 30 (9.585%) Senior Java Developer
6 20 (6.390%) .NET Developer
7 19 (6.070%) Software Engineer
8 15 (4.792%) Software Developer
9 14 (4.473%) JavaScript Developer
10 12 (3.834%) Analyst
11 11 (3.514%) Front-End Developer
11 11 (3.514%) Web Developer
11 11 (3.514%) Technical Leader
12 10 (3.195%) C# Developer
13 9 (2.875%) Test Analyst
13 9 (2.875%) Java Software Engineer
14 7 (2.236%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (2.236%) Senior Software Developer
14 7 (2.236%) Android Developer
15 6 (1.917%) Java Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 48 (15.34%) Open Source
2 20 (6.390%) Derivative
2 20 (6.390%) Equity Derivative
3 15 (4.792%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.514%) New Media
5 6 (1.917%) Video on Demand
5 6 (1.917%) Interactive TV
6 5 (1.597%) Statistics
7 4 (1.278%) Digital Media
7 4 (1.278%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.278%) Kinect
7 4 (1.278%) SaaS
7 4 (1.278%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.958%) N-Tier
8 3 (0.958%) Equities
8 3 (0.958%) Streaming Video
8 3 (0.958%) Blog
9 2 (0.639%) Semantic Web
9 2 (0.639%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.639%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 39 (12.46%) Linux
2 17 (5.431%) UNIX
3 14 (4.473%) Windows
4 9 (2.875%) Android
5 6 (1.917%) Windows Phone
6 5 (1.597%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.597%) Windows 8
7 2 (0.639%) Windows Phone 7
7 2 (0.639%) CentOS
7 2 (0.639%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.639%) Debian
7 2 (0.639%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.319%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (81.15%) TDD
2 202 (64.54%) Agile Software Development
3 183 (58.47%) BDD
4 120 (38.34%) Scrum
5 104 (33.23%) Continuous Integration
6 85 (27.16%) MVC
7 68 (21.73%) OO
8 47 (15.02%) Web Development
9 42 (13.42%) Kanban
10 37 (11.82%) E-Commerce
11 36 (11.50%) Unit Testing
12 35 (11.18%) Software Architecture
13 33 (10.54%) Test Automation
14 32 (10.22%) UML
15 28 (8.946%) OOD
15 28 (8.946%) Dependency Injection
16 27 (8.626%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (7.668%) Extreme Programming
17 24 (7.668%) Release Management
18 16 (5.112%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 227 (72.52%) Java
2 138 (44.09%) JavaScript
3 106 (33.87%) SQL
4 53 (16.93%) C#
5 42 (13.42%) Ruby
6 26 (8.307%) Groovy
7 23 (7.348%) PHP
8 17 (5.431%) Scala
9 14 (4.473%) C++
9 14 (4.473%) Python
10 11 (3.514%) C
10 11 (3.514%) XQuery
10 11 (3.514%) XPath
11 10 (3.195%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.875%) Clojure
13 8 (2.556%) Objective-C
14 6 (1.917%) SPARQL
14 6 (1.917%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.597%) XAML
15 5 (1.597%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 9 (2.875%) Degree
2 3 (0.958%) MCSD
2 3 (0.958%) ISEB
2 3 (0.958%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (0.958%) ISEB Practitioner
2 3 (0.958%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 3 (0.958%) SC Cleared
2 3 (0.958%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.946%) QA
2 3 (0.958%) ISO 9000
2 3 (0.958%) TickIT
2 3 (0.958%) COBIT
2 3 (0.958%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (0.319%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (9.904%) JBoss
2 22 (7.029%) Oracle
3 20 (6.390%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.514%) Twitter
5 5 (1.597%) ATG
6 3 (0.958%) Apple
6 3 (0.958%) IBM
6 3 (0.958%) Adobe
7 2 (0.639%) Sencha
7 2 (0.639%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.639%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.639%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.639%) Sybase
8 1 (0.319%) SAP
8 1 (0.319%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.319%) Salesforce.com
8 1 (0.319%) Zend
8 1 (0.319%) Atlassian
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