The first table below looks at the demand for Extreme Programming skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Extreme Programming over the 3 months to 23 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extreme Programming (XP)
Rank 125 140 152
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +12
Permanent jobs citing Extreme Programming 32 8 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.024% 0.232% 0.142%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.381% 0.329% 0.186%
Number of salaries quoted 16 8 5
Average salary £36,500 £34,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.79% -10.38%
UK excluding London average salary £38,097 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-10.36% -5.55%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2318 2431 2692
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 74.18% 70.61% 76.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1385 1728 1946
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Extreme Programming
UK

Extreme Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Extreme Programming Jobs Demand Trend

Extreme Programming
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Extreme Programming Salary Trend

Extreme Programming
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Extreme Programming across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland Extreme Programming Salary Histogram

Extreme Programming
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Extreme Programming within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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
Glasgow - 14 £47,500 -
Edinburgh +12 11 £36,250 +20.83%
Fife +3 6 £36,500 -2.66%
Extreme Programming
UK

Extreme Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Extreme 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 Extreme Programming.

1 45 (81.82%) Java
2 43 (78.18%) Scrum
3 41 (74.55%) Agile Software Development
4 28 (50.91%) JavaScript
4 28 (50.91%) Unit Testing
5 26 (47.27%) Finance
5 26 (47.27%) Hibernate
6 23 (41.82%) XML
7 22 (40.00%) UNIX
7 22 (40.00%) Banking
8 21 (38.18%) Product Management
8 21 (38.18%) Web Services
8 21 (38.18%) N-Tier
8 21 (38.18%) Data Modelling
8 21 (38.18%) .NET
8 21 (38.18%) Eclipse
9 19 (34.55%) SQL
9 19 (34.55%) Private Banking
10 17 (30.91%) Spring
11 16 (29.09%) Subversion
11 16 (29.09%) Multithreading
11 16 (29.09%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (29.09%) HTML
11 16 (29.09%) CSS
11 16 (29.09%) Tomcat
11 16 (29.09%) JMS
11 16 (29.09%) Clustering
12 15 (27.27%) SQL Server
12 15 (27.27%) jQuery
13 14 (25.45%) JSF

Extreme Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Extreme 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 Extreme Programming. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (47.27%) Hibernate
2 23 (41.82%) XML
3 21 (38.18%) Web Services
3 21 (38.18%) .NET
4 17 (30.91%) Spring
5 16 (29.09%) HTML
5 16 (29.09%) CSS
5 16 (29.09%) JMS
6 15 (27.27%) jQuery
7 14 (25.45%) JSF
7 14 (25.45%) JavaBeans
8 13 (23.64%) Facelets
9 11 (20.00%) JPA
10 8 (14.55%) J2EE
10 8 (14.55%) Ajax
11 7 (12.73%) .NET Framework
11 7 (12.73%) WCF
11 7 (12.73%) ASP
11 7 (12.73%) ASP.NET
11 7 (12.73%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 16 (29.09%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.636%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (12.73%) MS Office
2 5 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.273%) HTTP
2 3 (5.455%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.636%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.818%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.818%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (38.18%) Eclipse
2 16 (29.09%) Subversion
3 11 (20.00%) JIRA
4 8 (14.55%) Maven
5 6 (10.91%) JUnit
6 5 (9.091%) Selenium
7 4 (7.273%) Eclipse RCP
8 3 (5.455%) CruiseControl
8 3 (5.455%) Ant
9 2 (3.636%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (3.636%) MagicDraw
10 1 (1.818%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (47.27%) Finance
2 22 (40.00%) Banking
3 19 (34.55%) Private Banking
4 7 (12.73%) Legal
5 5 (9.091%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.636%) Retail
6 2 (3.636%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (81.82%) Developer
2 35 (63.64%) Java Developer
3 9 (16.36%) .NET Developer
4 7 (12.73%) Agile Java Developer
4 7 (12.73%) C# .NET Developer
4 7 (12.73%) C# Developer
4 7 (12.73%) Senior Java Developer
4 7 (12.73%) Senior Developer
5 5 (9.091%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (9.091%) ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (7.273%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.455%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (3.636%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.636%) C# Software Developer
8 2 (3.636%) .NET Software Developer
9 1 (1.818%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 1 (1.818%) J2EE Developer
9 1 (1.818%) Informatica Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.18%) N-Tier
2 16 (29.09%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (29.09%) Clustering
3 6 (10.91%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.636%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.636%) Derivative
4 2 (3.636%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.636%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.636%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 22 (40.00%) UNIX
2 12 (21.82%) Android
3 2 (3.636%) Windows
3 2 (3.636%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (3.636%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (78.18%) Scrum
2 41 (74.55%) Agile Software Development
3 28 (50.91%) Unit Testing
4 21 (38.18%) Product Management
4 21 (38.18%) Data Modelling
5 16 (29.09%) Multithreading
6 13 (23.64%) Software Engineering
7 11 (20.00%) SOA
8 9 (16.36%) Pair Programming
9 7 (12.73%) Waterfall
9 7 (12.73%) Integration Testing
9 7 (12.73%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (10.91%) UML
11 3 (5.455%) TDD
12 2 (3.636%) OOD
12 2 (3.636%) OOP
12 2 (3.636%) MVC
12 2 (3.636%) Business Intelligence
12 2 (3.636%) Web Development
12 2 (3.636%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (81.82%) Java
2 28 (50.91%) JavaScript
3 19 (34.55%) SQL
4 9 (16.36%) C#
5 7 (12.73%) T-SQL
6 5 (9.091%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (20.00%) Degree
2 8 (14.55%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 14 (25.45%) Oracle
2 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.91%) JBoss
3 6 (10.91%) Sybase
4 4 (7.273%) Pega
5 1 (1.818%) Informatica
Edinburgh, Midlothian
This is a small development team within an enormous global company, that utilises pair-programming, extreme programming and TDD... This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled java...
TEKsystems
Salary: £20000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Working in a super agile team, in a pair programming environment, you will be responsible for the development of new web applications for a Global Provider of Software...
TEKsystems
Salary: £25000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Inverkeithing, Fife
The applicant will have commercial experience of: - Java - JSP/Servlet/JSF - HTML/CSS/JavaScript - Enterprise Java Beans 3 - Persistence frameworks, ideally Hibernate - Oracle (particularly server side programming, PL/...
Northern Recruitment Group
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013