The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pair Programming
Rank 147 175 171
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -4
Permanent jobs citing Pair Programming 42 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 1.025% 0.027% 0.128%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.333% 0.038% 0.187%
Number of salaries quoted 37 1 5
Average salary £36,000 £47,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.21% +50.79%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £47,500 £27,600
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £47,500 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,600 £42,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+7.29% +18.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3151 2645 2674
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 76.91% 72.64% 68.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2715 2327 2416
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £60,000 £52,500
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 Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Pair Programming Salary Trend

Pair Programming
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Pair Programming across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bolton - 1 - -
Pair Programming
North West

Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 61 (87.14%) TDD
2 50 (71.43%) SQL
3 44 (62.86%) Scrum
4 38 (54.29%) Java
5 37 (52.86%) JavaScript
6 31 (44.29%) Agile Software Development
7 28 (40.00%) C#
8 25 (35.71%) MySQL
8 25 (35.71%) CSS
8 25 (35.71%) Ruby
8 25 (35.71%) Ruby on Rails
8 25 (35.71%) Git (software)
9 23 (32.86%) E-Commerce
10 22 (31.43%) .NET
11 21 (30.00%) Back Office
11 21 (30.00%) BDD
12 20 (28.57%) Unit Testing
12 20 (28.57%) Spring
12 20 (28.57%) Web Development
12 20 (28.57%) Hibernate
12 20 (28.57%) J2EE
13 19 (27.14%) XHTML
14 18 (25.71%) Oracle
15 15 (21.43%) Degree
16 13 (18.57%) MVC
17 12 (17.14%) JSF
17 12 (17.14%) RDBMS
17 12 (17.14%) JDBC
17 12 (17.14%) JSP
17 12 (17.14%) J2SE

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 25 (35.71%) CSS
1 25 (35.71%) Ruby on Rails
2 22 (31.43%) .NET
3 20 (28.57%) Spring
3 20 (28.57%) Hibernate
3 20 (28.57%) J2EE
4 19 (27.14%) XHTML
5 12 (17.14%) JSF
5 12 (17.14%) JDBC
5 12 (17.14%) JSP
5 12 (17.14%) J2SE
6 8 (11.43%) Web Services
6 8 (11.43%) ASP.NET
7 7 (10.00%) SOAP
7 7 (10.00%) JSON
8 6 (8.571%) HTML5
8 6 (8.571%) REST
8 6 (8.571%) HTML
9 2 (2.857%) Struts
9 2 (2.857%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.429%) ESB
1 1 (1.429%) Mule
1 1 (1.429%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.143%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (35.71%) MySQL
2 12 (17.14%) RDBMS
3 5 (7.143%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.857%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.857%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (2.857%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.429%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (35.71%) Git (software)
2 6 (8.571%) Capistrano
3 5 (7.143%) JUnit
4 2 (2.857%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.857%) ReSharper
4 2 (2.857%) CruiseControl
4 2 (2.857%) Subversion
4 2 (2.857%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.857%) Mercurial
4 2 (2.857%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.429%) NUnit
General
1 21 (30.00%) Back Office
2 1 (1.429%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (85.71%) Developer
2 30 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 21 (30.00%) .NET Developer
4 17 (24.29%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 14 (20.00%) C# Developer
6 13 (18.57%) C# .NET Developer
7 12 (17.14%) J2EE Developer
8 7 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 7 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 7 (10.00%) ASP.NET Developer
8 7 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (8.571%) C# Web Developer
9 6 (8.571%) Senior Java Consultant
9 6 (8.571%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 6 (8.571%) Java Consultant
9 6 (8.571%) .NET Web Developer
9 6 (8.571%) Web Developer
9 6 (8.571%) Senior Consultant
9 6 (8.571%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.714%) Open Source
1 4 (5.714%) Computer Science
2 2 (2.857%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.429%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.14%) UNIX
1 12 (17.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (87.14%) TDD
2 44 (62.86%) Scrum
3 31 (44.29%) Agile Software Development
4 23 (32.86%) E-Commerce
5 21 (30.00%) BDD
6 20 (28.57%) Unit Testing
6 20 (28.57%) Web Development
7 13 (18.57%) MVC
8 10 (14.29%) OO
9 9 (12.86%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (10.00%) Extreme Programming
11 6 (8.571%) User Stories
12 4 (5.714%) OOP
13 3 (4.286%) B2C
14 2 (2.857%) RUP
14 2 (2.857%) Kanban
15 1 (1.429%) Test Scripting
15 1 (1.429%) Requirements Management
15 1 (1.429%) Refactoring
15 1 (1.429%) UML
Programming Languages
1 50 (71.43%) SQL
2 38 (54.29%) Java
3 37 (52.86%) JavaScript
4 28 (40.00%) C#
5 25 (35.71%) Ruby
6 6 (8.571%) C++
7 2 (2.857%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.429%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) Degree
2 11 (15.71%) PhD
3 4 (5.714%) SCJP
3 4 (5.714%) SCJA
Vendors
1 18 (25.71%) Oracle
2 1 (1.429%) Microsoft
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Greythorn
Salary: £40000.00 per annum + Benfits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
3+ years’ experience using SQL Server 2008/2008R2/2012... Experience of working in an agile environment (Scrum, XP, RUP, Kanban). Pair Programming. Test Driven Development... Experience of working...
Laterooms Ltd
Salary: Competitive + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 12 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
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Stafford-Sharp Associates
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum + Bens + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bolton, Lancashire
Here’s a non-exhaustive list of technologies/tools we currently use: - C# - JavaScript & associated libraries (eg JQuery) - ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.Net MVC, WCF - NHibernate - Castle...
Appliance Online
Salary: Competitive Salary - Negotiable dependant on Experience
Posted: 29 April 2013