Pair Programming Contracts in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 243 365
Rank change year-on-year -82 +122 -43
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 75 205 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.90% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.01% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 158 106
10th Percentile £415 £450 £464
25th Percentile £455 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +0.46% +15.26%
75th Percentile £557 £650 £655
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £533 £583 £601
% change year-on-year -8.58% -2.91% +17.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 13 4
10th Percentile - £57.00 £68.23
25th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £69.53
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £73.91
Median % change year-on-year - -12.06% +22.17%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £77.32
90th Percentile - £69.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £77.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% -15.26% +20.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pair Programming in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Pair Programming in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
East of England +8 40 £493 -1.99% 4
Scotland -2 16 £469 -2.14% 1
North of England -21 15 £600 +6.67% 14
North West -5 8 £508 -7.73% 8
Yorkshire 0 7 £650 -3.70% 3
South East -1 2 £441 -11.75% 10
East Midlands +10 1 £419 +29.92% 2
Midlands +8 1 £419 -29.58% 2
South West -12 1 - - 4
Pair Programming
UK

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 28 (37.33%) AWS
2 14 (18.67%) Serverless
3 12 (16.00%) Amazon S3
3 12 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (14.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (9.33%) GCP
5 7 (9.33%) OpenShift
6 6 (8.00%) Azure
7 5 (6.67%) GitHub
8 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.67%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (45.33%) Modbus
1 34 (45.33%) RS-422
1 34 (45.33%) RS-485
2 2 (2.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 11 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.33%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.33%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 11 (14.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.33%) Git
3 2 (2.67%) Mockito
4 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (1.33%) JIRA
4 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (45.33%) Electronics
2 30 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.67%) Finance
6 1 (1.33%) Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 41 (54.67%) Software Engineer
2 34 (45.33%) Developer
3 25 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
4 13 (17.33%) Java Developer
5 8 (10.67%) Full Stack Developer
5 8 (10.67%) Software Developer
6 6 (8.00%) C Software Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) C/C++ Software Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Lead
7 4 (5.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (5.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Lead Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Senior
7 4 (5.33%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.00%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 2 (2.67%) Java Software Developer
9 2 (2.67%) JavaScript Developer
9 2 (2.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (34.67%) React
2 15 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 13 (17.33%) CSS
3 13 (17.33%) HTML
3 13 (17.33%) Node.js
3 13 (17.33%) Spring
4 12 (16.00%) Spring Boot
5 9 (12.00%) REST
6 7 (9.33%) Kafka
7 5 (6.67%) .NET
7 5 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.33%) OAuth
8 4 (5.33%) OAuth2
8 4 (5.33%) Spring Security
9 3 (4.00%) Entity Framework
9 3 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (4.00%) RESTful
9 3 (4.00%) Spring MVC
9 3 (4.00%) Spring Web Flow
9 3 (4.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 28 (37.33%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (10.67%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (88.00%) TDD
2 62 (82.67%) Agile
3 47 (62.67%) DevOps
4 44 (58.67%) Software Engineering
5 43 (57.33%) Continuous Integration
5 43 (57.33%) Unit Testing
6 37 (49.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (46.67%) Software Testing
8 34 (45.33%) Customer Requirements
9 22 (29.33%) CI/CD
10 21 (28.00%) Test Automation
11 20 (26.67%) Microservices
12 15 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (18.67%) Full Stack Development
14 13 (17.33%) Code Quality
15 12 (16.00%) Human-Centred Design
15 12 (16.00%) Mentoring
16 11 (14.67%) Analytics
16 11 (14.67%) Inclusive Design
17 9 (12.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 40 (53.33%) C#
2 35 (46.67%) C
3 34 (45.33%) C++
4 27 (36.00%) JavaScript
5 26 (34.67%) Java
6 22 (29.33%) TypeScript
7 8 (10.67%) Bash
8 6 (8.00%) Python
8 6 (8.00%) SQL
9 3 (4.00%) Scala
10 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (2.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (13.33%) Docker
2 4 (5.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Grafana
2 7 (9.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.00%) Kibana
4 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) Terraform
5 1 (1.33%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 5 (6.67%) Oracle
2 4 (5.33%) Google
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.33%) Typelevel