Pair Programming Contracts in Scotland

Pair Programming
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 116 147
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 -19
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 16 56 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.73% 2.03% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 2.19% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 50 15
10th Percentile £415 £415 £456
25th Percentile £427 £453 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £529
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% -9.45% +17.56%
75th Percentile £486 £503 £544
90th Percentile £506 £545 £545
UK median daily rate £533 £595 £613
% change year-on-year -10.42% -2.86% +21.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,922 2,555 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.29% 92.54% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 1,831 2,264
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £550
90th Percentile £655 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 57 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.30 £19.45
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.50 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% -57.38% -3.23%
75th Percentile £46.24 £47.73 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £65.63 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Pair Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in Scotland

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pair Programming in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in Scotland

Pair Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pair Programming in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Pair Programming in Scotland

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pair Programming within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +5 8 £440 -8.29%
Glasgow +4 4 £496 +10.22%
Pair Programming
UK

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) CMS
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) Amazon S3
2 9 (56.25%) AWS CloudFormation
2 9 (56.25%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (56.25%) Serverless
3 5 (31.25%) OpenShift
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Azure
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) Amazon Aurora
1 9 (56.25%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (31.25%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
5 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) Cypress.io
2 3 (18.75%) GitLab
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 8 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Java Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Pega Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) AWS CDK
2 10 (62.50%) React
3 8 (50.00%) CSS
3 8 (50.00%) Node.js
4 7 (43.75%) HTML
5 6 (37.50%) Spring
5 6 (37.50%) Spring Boot
6 3 (18.75%) JSON
6 3 (18.75%) JSP
6 3 (18.75%) OAuth
6 3 (18.75%) OAuth2
6 3 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (18.75%) REST
6 3 (18.75%) Spring Security
7 2 (12.50%) Spring MVC
7 2 (12.50%) Spring Web Flow
7 2 (12.50%) Thymeleaf
8 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (6.25%) Java EE
8 1 (6.25%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 13 (81.25%) Human-Centred Design
3 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (75.00%) TDD
4 11 (68.75%) Inclusive Design
5 10 (62.50%) Analytics
5 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
6 9 (56.25%) Microservices
6 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
7 8 (50.00%) Code Quality
8 7 (43.75%) ETL
9 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
9 6 (37.50%) Unit Testing
10 5 (31.25%) Architecture Roadmap
10 5 (31.25%) Code Coverage
10 5 (31.25%) DevOps
10 5 (31.25%) Product Roadmap
10 5 (31.25%) Requirements Analysis
10 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
10 5 (31.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 12 (75.00%) Java
3 9 (56.25%) TypeScript
4 5 (31.25%) Python
5 4 (25.00%) Bash
6 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 2 (12.50%) SQL
7 1 (6.25%) C
7 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
7 1 (6.25%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (68.75%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Grafana
2 3 (18.75%) Kibana
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
1 3 (18.75%) Pega