The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pair Programming
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Pair Programming 20 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 5.917% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.117% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
Average salary £45,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,600 £42,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.29% +21.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
281 114 179
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 83.14% 73.08% 71.03%
Number of salaries quoted 147 97 174
Average salary £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Pair Programming
Cheshire

Pair Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Pair Programming Salary Trend

Pair Programming
Salary Histogram

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

Chester Pair Programming Salary Histogram

Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 31 (93.94%) Scrum
1 31 (93.94%) Agile Software Development
1 31 (93.94%) TDD
2 24 (72.73%) .NET
3 23 (69.70%) Java
4 21 (63.64%) C#
5 18 (54.55%) JavaScript
6 17 (51.52%) HTML
7 15 (45.45%) E-Commerce
8 14 (42.42%) CSS
8 14 (42.42%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (39.39%) Spring
10 11 (33.33%) HTTP
10 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
11 10 (30.30%) Web Services
11 10 (30.30%) SQL
11 10 (30.30%) jQuery
11 10 (30.30%) hybris
12 9 (27.27%) Apple
13 8 (24.24%) JSON
13 8 (24.24%) Dependency Injection
13 8 (24.24%) HTML5
13 8 (24.24%) RESTful
13 8 (24.24%) CSS3
14 7 (21.21%) Requirements Management
14 7 (21.21%) T-SQL
15 5 (15.15%) J2EE
15 5 (15.15%) Configuration Management
15 5 (15.15%) COM
16 4 (12.12%) Kanban

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 (72.73%) .NET
2 17 (51.52%) HTML
3 14 (42.42%) CSS
4 13 (39.39%) Spring
5 10 (30.30%) Web Services
5 10 (30.30%) jQuery
6 8 (24.24%) JSON
6 8 (24.24%) HTML5
6 8 (24.24%) RESTful
6 8 (24.24%) CSS3
7 5 (15.15%) J2EE
7 5 (15.15%) COM
8 3 (9.091%) ASP.NET
9 2 (6.061%) Hibernate
9 2 (6.061%) Spring MVC
9 2 (6.061%) Spring.NET
10 1 (3.030%) Stripes Framework
10 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET MVC 2
10 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.030%) Apache
1 1 (3.030%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (6.061%) JUnit
2 1 (3.030%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (3.030%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.030%) Hudson
2 1 (3.030%) QUnit
2 1 (3.030%) Jasmine
2 1 (3.030%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.030%) IntelliJ
2 1 (3.030%) Selenium
2 1 (3.030%) NUnit
2 1 (3.030%) Subversion
General
1 3 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (87.88%) Developer
2 15 (45.45%) .NET Developer
3 10 (30.30%) Software Developer
4 9 (27.27%) Agile .NET Developer
5 8 (24.24%) Java Developer
6 5 (15.15%) .NET Software Developer
7 3 (9.091%) Senior Developer
7 3 (9.091%) Java Software Developer
7 3 (9.091%) C# Developer
8 2 (6.061%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 2 (6.061%) Web Developer
8 2 (6.061%) C# Software Developer
9 1 (3.030%) Agile Java Developer
9 1 (3.030%) Agile Business Analyst
9 1 (3.030%) C# .NET Developer
9 1 (3.030%) Lead Developer
9 1 (3.030%) Analyst
9 1 (3.030%) Business Analyst
9 1 (3.030%) Junior
9 1 (3.030%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.030%) New Media
1 1 (3.030%) Blog
1 1 (3.030%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (93.94%) Scrum
1 31 (93.94%) Agile Software Development
1 31 (93.94%) TDD
2 15 (45.45%) E-Commerce
3 14 (42.42%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (24.24%) Dependency Injection
5 7 (21.21%) Requirements Management
6 5 (15.15%) Configuration Management
7 4 (12.12%) Kanban
8 3 (9.091%) MVC
9 2 (6.061%) Extreme Programming
10 1 (3.030%) Test Automation
10 1 (3.030%) BDD
10 1 (3.030%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (69.70%) Java
2 21 (63.64%) C#
3 18 (54.55%) JavaScript
4 10 (30.30%) SQL
5 7 (21.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.030%) Degree
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (30.30%) hybris
3 9 (27.27%) Apple
4 1 (3.030%) JBoss
4 1 (3.030%) Oracle