Pair Programming Contracts in the City of London

Pair Programming
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Pair Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pair Programming over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 149 155
Rank change year-on-year +31 +6 -35
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 7 23 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.32% 0.63% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.69% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 36
10th Percentile £494 £463 £463
25th Percentile £598 £522 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 £650 £571
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% +13.79% -6.73%
75th Percentile £744 £728 £638
90th Percentile £750 £813 £728
Central London median daily rate £694 £650 £571
% change year-on-year +6.73% +13.79% -6.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Pair Programming is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,339 3,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.81% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,252 2,942
10th Percentile £359 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Pair Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in the City of London

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pair Programming in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in the City of London

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in the City of London

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Mockito
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Gradle
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Mocha
2 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
2 1 (14.29%) TestNG
2 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Angular Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) JAX-RS
2 3 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (42.86%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) Chai
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) JAXB
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Sass
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Mac OS X
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) BDD
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) TDD
3 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (42.86%) Responsive Web Design
5 3 (42.86%) Web Design
5 3 (42.86%) Web Development
6 1 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
6 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 1 (14.29%) Dependency Management
6 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 1 (14.29%) Micro Frontends
6 1 (14.29%) OOP
6 1 (14.29%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) SDET
6 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (14.29%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft