The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Lothian region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Pair Programming over the 3 months to 19 June 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 West Lothian 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pair Programming
Rank 11 - 12
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Lothian 5.357% - 1.429%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.882% - 2.857%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £400 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £401 £425 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.76% +30.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 -
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Processes & Methodologies
West Lothian
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
51 23 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Lothian 91.07% 45.10% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 15 21
Average daily rate £400 £350 £415
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -15.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £377 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £7.50 £15.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Pair Programming
Scotland

Pair Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Lothian 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 West Lothian region.

West Lothian Pair Programming Daily Rate Trend

Pair Programming
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian 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 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) JDBC
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 4 (100.00%) JMS
1 4 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) iBATIS
1 4 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) J2SE

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian 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 4 (100.00%) JDBC
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) JMS
1 4 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) iBATIS
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) FitNesse
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
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