The first table below looks at the demand for Pair Programming skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Pair Programming over the 3 months to 20 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pair Programming
Rank 170 232 197
Rank change year-on-year
+62 -35
Permanent jobs citing Pair Programming 71 13 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.999% 0.183% 0.576%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.308% 0.252% 0.840%
Number of salaries quoted 52 13 39
Average salary £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.34% +3.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,750 £45,000 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +13.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5428 5167 4641
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 76.39% 72.89% 68.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4541 4521 4074
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% -2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Pair Programming
England

Pair Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Pair Programming Salary Trend

Pair Programming
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Pair Programming across the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 20 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
Manchester +28 43 £36,000 -24.21%
Cheshire +17 26 £45,000 +20.00%
Merseyside +28 2 - -
Pair Programming
England

Pair Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1 101 (87.83%) TDD
2 86 (74.78%) Scrum
3 69 (60.00%) Java
4 67 (58.26%) Agile Software Development
5 64 (55.65%) SQL
6 60 (52.17%) JavaScript
7 52 (45.22%) C#
8 50 (43.48%) .NET
9 42 (36.52%) CSS
10 41 (35.65%) Spring
11 40 (34.78%) E-Commerce
12 32 (27.83%) J2EE
13 30 (26.09%) HTML
14 29 (25.22%) Hibernate
15 26 (22.61%) Ruby
15 26 (22.61%) Ruby on Rails
15 26 (22.61%) MySQL
15 26 (22.61%) Git (software)
16 24 (20.87%) BDD
16 24 (20.87%) Continuous Integration
17 22 (19.13%) Web Development
17 22 (19.13%) Back Office
18 21 (18.26%) MVC
18 21 (18.26%) Oracle
19 20 (17.39%) Web Services
19 20 (17.39%) XHTML
19 20 (17.39%) Unit Testing
20 18 (15.65%) Degree
20 18 (15.65%) HTTP
21 16 (13.91%) JSON

Pair Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 50 (43.48%) .NET
2 42 (36.52%) CSS
3 41 (35.65%) Spring
4 32 (27.83%) J2EE
5 30 (26.09%) HTML
6 29 (25.22%) Hibernate
7 26 (22.61%) Ruby on Rails
8 20 (17.39%) Web Services
8 20 (17.39%) XHTML
9 16 (13.91%) JSON
10 15 (13.04%) HTML5
10 15 (13.04%) JSP
11 14 (12.17%) J2SE
11 14 (12.17%) JDBC
11 14 (12.17%) jQuery
11 14 (12.17%) JSF
12 11 (9.565%) ASP.NET
13 9 (7.826%) RESTful
13 9 (7.826%) CSS3
14 8 (6.957%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 7 (6.087%) Tomcat
2 6 (5.217%) Apache
3 1 (0.870%) ESB
3 1 (0.870%) Mule
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.61%) MySQL
2 14 (12.17%) RDBMS
3 5 (4.348%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.739%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.739%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.739%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.870%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (22.61%) Git (software)
2 7 (6.087%) JUnit
3 6 (5.217%) Capistrano
4 3 (2.609%) Subversion
5 2 (1.739%) ReSharper
5 2 (1.739%) Selenium
5 2 (1.739%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.739%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.739%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.739%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.739%) Mercurial
5 2 (1.739%) NUnit
5 2 (1.739%) CruiseControl
6 1 (0.870%) Rhino Mocks
6 1 (0.870%) QUnit
6 1 (0.870%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.870%) Hudson
6 1 (0.870%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.870%) IntelliJ
General
1 22 (19.13%) Back Office
2 3 (2.609%) Finance
3 1 (0.870%) Automotive
3 1 (0.870%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 98 (85.22%) Developer
2 42 (36.52%) Java Developer
3 37 (32.17%) .NET Developer
4 23 (20.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 20 (17.39%) C# Developer
6 17 (14.78%) J2EE Developer
7 16 (13.91%) Software Developer
8 15 (13.04%) C# .NET Developer
9 10 (8.696%) Software Engineer
9 10 (8.696%) Senior Developer
10 9 (7.826%) Web Developer
10 9 (7.826%) Agile .NET Developer
11 8 (6.957%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 8 (6.957%) ASP.NET Developer
11 8 (6.957%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (6.087%) Java Software Developer
13 6 (5.217%) C# Web Developer
13 6 (5.217%) Java Consultant
13 6 (5.217%) .NET Web Developer
13 6 (5.217%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.478%) Computer Science
1 4 (3.478%) Open Source
2 3 (2.609%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.739%) Blog
4 1 (0.870%) New Media
4 1 (0.870%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.17%) UNIX
1 14 (12.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (87.83%) TDD
2 86 (74.78%) Scrum
3 67 (58.26%) Agile Software Development
4 40 (34.78%) E-Commerce
5 24 (20.87%) Continuous Integration
5 24 (20.87%) BDD
6 22 (19.13%) Web Development
7 21 (18.26%) MVC
8 20 (17.39%) Unit Testing
9 14 (12.17%) Extreme Programming
10 11 (9.565%) OO
11 9 (7.826%) Requirements Management
11 9 (7.826%) Dependency Injection
12 7 (6.087%) Kanban
13 6 (5.217%) User Stories
13 6 (5.217%) Configuration Management
14 4 (3.478%) OOP
15 3 (2.609%) B2C
16 2 (1.739%) RUP
16 2 (1.739%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (60.00%) Java
2 64 (55.65%) SQL
3 60 (52.17%) JavaScript
4 52 (45.22%) C#
5 26 (22.61%) Ruby
6 10 (8.696%) T-SQL
7 6 (5.217%) C++
8 3 (2.609%) PHP
9 1 (0.870%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (15.65%) Degree
2 13 (11.30%) PhD
3 4 (3.478%) SCJP
3 4 (3.478%) SCJA
Vendors
1 21 (18.26%) Oracle
2 12 (10.43%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.696%) hybris
4 9 (7.826%) Apple
5 6 (5.217%) JBoss
6 3 (2.609%) ATG
7 1 (0.870%) Adobe
Chester, Cheshire
With this role comes a fantastic challenge to be part of a major re platforming programme into Java... Ultimately the client is looking for talented Java developers with...
TEKsystems
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Package
Posted: 14 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Ultimately the client is looking for talented C# .net developers with exposure to web services technology. Experience of an agile environment is preferred but this is a role...
TEKsystems
Salary: Package
Posted: 14 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
NET, C#, Agile, JavaScript, HTML, My client is one of the biggest and most recognisable organisations within the country and are currently planning expansion into Europe... Ultimately the...
TEKsystems
Salary: Package
Posted: 14 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Skills - Ruby on Rails, ROR, Ruby Developer, Programmer Back-end development, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rails, Javascript, MVC, GIT, Ecommerce, User Stories, TDD, GIT Who's the company?.....
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
Skills, C++, C#, Software Developer, Scientific Developer, extreme Programming (XP), TDD, AGILE, Pair Programming, .NET, MS SQL Server, Statistics, Mathematical, algorithms, ASP.NET, Javascript... We are looking for...
Stafford-Sharp Associates
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum + Bens + Bonus
Posted: 13 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