The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Pair Programming over the 3 months to 24 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pair Programming
Rank 102 118 88
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -30
Permanent jobs citing Pair Programming 21 10 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.167% 0.498% 1.878%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.529% 0.647% 2.736%
Number of salaries quoted 9 10 31
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £34,850 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,500 £45,000 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,600 £42,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.29% +21.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1373 1545 1133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.32% 76.94% 68.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1057 1355 965
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £61,350
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Pair Programming
North West

Pair Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Pair Programming Jobs Demand Trend

Pair Programming
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Pair Programming across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Pair Programming Salary Trend

Pair Programming
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Pair Programming across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire Pair Programming Salary Histogram

Pair Programming
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pair Programming within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 20 £45,000 -
Warrington +18 1 - -
Pair Programming
North West

Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Pair Programming.

1 38 (95.00%) Scrum
2 36 (90.00%) TDD
3 31 (77.50%) Agile Software Development
4 30 (75.00%) Java
5 24 (60.00%) .NET
6 21 (52.50%) C#
7 20 (50.00%) HTML
7 20 (50.00%) Spring
8 18 (45.00%) JavaScript
9 15 (37.50%) E-Commerce
10 14 (35.00%) CSS
10 14 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (32.50%) HTTP
12 12 (30.00%) J2EE
12 12 (30.00%) SQL
13 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
14 10 (25.00%) Web Services
14 10 (25.00%) jQuery
14 10 (25.00%) hybris
15 9 (22.50%) Apple
15 9 (22.50%) Hibernate
16 8 (20.00%) MVC
16 8 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
16 8 (20.00%) HTML5
16 8 (20.00%) CSS3
16 8 (20.00%) RESTful
16 8 (20.00%) JSON
17 7 (17.50%) Extreme Programming
17 7 (17.50%) Requirements Management
17 7 (17.50%) T-SQL

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Pair Programming. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (60.00%) .NET
2 20 (50.00%) HTML
2 20 (50.00%) Spring
3 14 (35.00%) CSS
4 12 (30.00%) J2EE
5 10 (25.00%) Web Services
5 10 (25.00%) jQuery
6 9 (22.50%) Hibernate
7 8 (20.00%) HTML5
7 8 (20.00%) CSS3
7 8 (20.00%) RESTful
7 8 (20.00%) JSON
8 6 (15.00%) XML
8 6 (15.00%) Struts
8 6 (15.00%) Stripes Framework
9 5 (12.50%) COM
10 3 (7.500%) ASP.NET
11 2 (5.000%) J2SE
11 2 (5.000%) JDBC
11 2 (5.000%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.00%) Apache
1 6 (15.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 13 (32.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.000%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.000%) JUnit
2 1 (2.500%) Selenium
2 1 (2.500%) Hudson
2 1 (2.500%) QUnit
2 1 (2.500%) Jasmine
2 1 (2.500%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (2.500%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.500%) NUnit
2 1 (2.500%) Subversion
2 1 (2.500%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.500%) IntelliJ
General
1 3 (7.500%) Finance
Job Titles
1 33 (82.50%) Developer
2 15 (37.50%) .NET Developer
3 12 (30.00%) Java Developer
4 10 (25.00%) Software Developer
5 9 (22.50%) Agile .NET Developer
6 6 (15.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 5 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
7 5 (12.50%) J2EE Developer
8 3 (7.500%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (7.500%) C# Developer
8 3 (7.500%) Senior Developer
8 3 (7.500%) J2EE Software Engineer
8 3 (7.500%) Java Software Developer
8 3 (7.500%) Software Engineer
9 2 (5.000%) Web Developer
9 2 (5.000%) C# Software Developer
10 1 (2.500%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 1 (2.500%) Financial Services Business Analyst
10 1 (2.500%) Junior Analyst
10 1 (2.500%) Agile Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.500%) Blog
1 1 (2.500%) New Media
1 1 (2.500%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.000%) UNIX
1 2 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (95.00%) Scrum
2 36 (90.00%) TDD
3 31 (77.50%) Agile Software Development
4 15 (37.50%) E-Commerce
5 14 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (20.00%) MVC
6 8 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
7 7 (17.50%) Extreme Programming
7 7 (17.50%) Requirements Management
8 5 (12.50%) Configuration Management
9 4 (10.00%) Kanban
10 3 (7.500%) BDD
11 1 (2.500%) Test Automation
11 1 (2.500%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) Java
2 21 (52.50%) C#
3 18 (45.00%) JavaScript
4 12 (30.00%) SQL
5 7 (17.50%) T-SQL
6 3 (7.500%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (7.500%) Degree
2 2 (5.000%) PhD
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.00%) hybris
3 9 (22.50%) Apple
4 6 (15.00%) JBoss
5 3 (7.500%) ATG
5 3 (7.500%) Oracle