Pair Programming Contracts with Work from Home Options

Pair Programming
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 303 297 358
Rank change year-on-year -6 +61 -98
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 38 174 275
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.69% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.77% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 138 205
10th Percentile £403 £456 £463
25th Percentile £415 £479 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £564 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% -5.96% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £691 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £533 £595 £613
% change year-on-year -10.42% -2.86% +21.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £60.50 £73.56
25th Percentile £69.50 £61.25 £74.19
Median hourly rate £72.00 £65.50 £75.91
Median % change year-on-year +9.92% -13.71% +16.78%
75th Percentile £74.50 £69.50 £76.95
90th Percentile - £72.80 £77.17
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £77.16
% change year-on-year -0.38% -15.44% +19.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Pair Programming
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Pair Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Pair Programming trend for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Pair Programming.

Pair Programming daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Pair Programming over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Pair Programming daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Pair Programming.

Pair Programming hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (5.26%) CMS
2 1 (2.63%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 19 (50.00%) AWS
2 11 (28.95%) Amazon S3
3 9 (23.68%) Serverless
4 7 (18.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (18.42%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (15.79%) GCP
6 4 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (10.53%) Azure
6 4 (10.53%) GitHub
6 4 (10.53%) OpenShift
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) HTTP
2 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (18.42%) MongoDB
3 5 (13.16%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (7.89%) CockroachDB
5 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
5 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database
6 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Git
2 9 (23.68%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.53%) Cypress.io
3 4 (10.53%) GitLab
3 4 (10.53%) Mockito
4 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.26%) Gradle
4 2 (5.26%) JIRA
4 2 (5.26%) JMeter
4 2 (5.26%) JUnit
4 2 (5.26%) Maven
4 2 (5.26%) Mocha
4 2 (5.26%) REST Assured
4 2 (5.26%) Selenium
4 2 (5.26%) SoapUI
4 2 (5.26%) TestNG
4 2 (5.26%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.63%) Gatling
5 1 (2.63%) ScalaTest
General
1 9 (23.68%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.63%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (73.68%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Senior
2 8 (21.05%) Senior Developer
3 7 (18.42%) Java Developer
3 7 (18.42%) Software Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Lead
5 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Scala Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Django Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (7.89%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 3 (7.89%) Python Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Python/Django Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Python Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Automation Tester
8 2 (5.26%) Cloud Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (39.47%) React
2 12 (31.58%) Kafka
3 11 (28.95%) Node.js
4 10 (26.32%) AWS CDK
4 10 (26.32%) REST
5 8 (21.05%) Spring
6 7 (18.42%) CSS
6 7 (18.42%) HTML
6 7 (18.42%) Spring Boot
7 5 (13.16%) JAX-RS
8 4 (10.53%) Akka
8 4 (10.53%) RESTful
9 3 (7.89%) .NET
9 3 (7.89%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
9 3 (7.89%) Django
9 3 (7.89%) Spring MVC
10 2 (5.26%) .NET Core
10 2 (5.26%) OAuth2
10 2 (5.26%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Unix
3 3 (7.89%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (76.32%) TDD
2 27 (71.05%) Agile
3 19 (50.00%) Microservices
3 19 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 15 (39.47%) CI/CD
5 10 (26.32%) Code Quality
5 10 (26.32%) DevOps
5 10 (26.32%) Human-Centred Design
5 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (23.68%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (21.05%) Analytics
7 8 (21.05%) Clean Code
7 8 (21.05%) Inclusive Design
8 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
9 6 (15.79%) BDD
9 6 (15.79%) Coaching
9 6 (15.79%) Data Modelling
9 6 (15.79%) ETL
9 6 (15.79%) Software Delivery
9 6 (15.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Java
2 15 (39.47%) JavaScript
3 13 (34.21%) Python
4 11 (28.95%) TypeScript
5 8 (21.05%) SQL
6 6 (15.79%) Bash
7 5 (13.16%) Scala
8 3 (7.89%) C#
9 2 (5.26%) C
10 1 (2.63%) Ruby
10 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.68%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) zsh
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.16%) Grafana
3 3 (7.89%) Kibana
4 1 (2.63%) Matomo
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Oracle
2 3 (7.89%) Google
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) SAP
3 2 (5.26%) Pega
3 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.63%) Typelevel