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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 105 160
Rank change year-on-year -5 +55 -34
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 20 58 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.90% 2.03% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 2.19% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 52 11
10th Percentile £415 £415 £455
25th Percentile £436 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -9.58% +16.48%
75th Percentile £485 £505 £543
90th Percentile £506 £545 £545
UK median daily rate £533 £586 £613
% change year-on-year -9.04% -4.33% +21.17%

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 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

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 26 April 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 +12 11 £450 -7.22% 1
Glasgow -1 4 £486 +6.99% 1
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 (15.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) AWS
2 12 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 12 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 12 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 12 (60.00%) Serverless
3 8 (40.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 12 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (30.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (15.00%) GitLab
4 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (55.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Software Developer
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Pega Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) React Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Full Stack Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (70.00%) AWS CDK
1 14 (70.00%) React
2 12 (60.00%) CSS
2 12 (60.00%) HTML
3 8 (40.00%) Node.js
3 8 (40.00%) REST
3 8 (40.00%) Spring
3 8 (40.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (30.00%) Spring Security
5 5 (25.00%) OAuth
5 5 (25.00%) OAuth2
5 5 (25.00%) Spring MVC
5 5 (25.00%) Spring Web Flow
6 4 (20.00%) Thymeleaf
7 3 (15.00%) JSON
7 3 (15.00%) JSP
7 3 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (5.00%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Agile
2 18 (90.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 17 (85.00%) TDD
4 16 (80.00%) Inclusive Design
4 16 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (70.00%) Analytics
6 13 (65.00%) CI/CD
6 13 (65.00%) Test Automation
7 12 (60.00%) Code Quality
7 12 (60.00%) Microservices
8 9 (45.00%) Unit Testing
9 8 (40.00%) Architecture Roadmap
9 8 (40.00%) Code Coverage
9 8 (40.00%) DevOps
9 8 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
9 8 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
9 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
9 8 (40.00%) User Experience
10 7 (35.00%) Community of Practice
10 7 (35.00%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) JavaScript
2 16 (80.00%) Java
3 13 (65.00%) TypeScript
4 8 (40.00%) Python
5 4 (20.00%) Bash
5 4 (20.00%) SQL
6 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.00%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (80.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Grafana
2 3 (15.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
1 3 (15.00%) Pega