Extreme Programming (XP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Extreme Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Extreme 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 884 935 1022
Rank change year-on-year +51 +87 -189
Permanent jobs citing Extreme Programming 18 37 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.037% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.038% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13 29 85
10th Percentile - £69,500 -
25th Percentile £59,250 £82,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £95,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.32% +46.15% +3.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £105,000 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.57% +12.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Extreme Programming is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Extreme Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Extreme Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Extreme Programming in the UK

Extreme Programming
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Extreme Programming.

Salary trend for Extreme Programming in the UK

Extreme Programming
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Extreme Programming within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +81 18 £60,500 -37.14% 13
London +83 9 £72,500 -27.50% 6
UK excluding London +8 9 £60,500 -13.57% 7
South East +3 4 £60,500 -13.57% 1
South West - 3 £60,500 - 1
Work from Home +46 2 - - 9
East of England - 2 - - 5

Extreme Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (38.89%) Confluence
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 16 (88.89%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) AWS
3 6 (33.33%) Akamai
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (72.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (38.89%) NoSQL
2 7 (38.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (38.89%) Git
2 7 (38.89%) JIRA
2 7 (38.89%) Selenium
3 6 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 6 (33.33%) GitLab
4 5 (27.78%) Maven
5 3 (16.67%) Gradle
General
1 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Senior
2 7 (38.89%) Cloud Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Java Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Senior Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Senior Java Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Full Stack Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Full Stack Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) Spring
2 7 (38.89%) AngularJS
2 7 (38.89%) React
3 6 (33.33%) OAuth
4 3 (16.67%) CSS
4 3 (16.67%) CSS3
4 3 (16.67%) HTML
4 3 (16.67%) HTML5
4 3 (16.67%) REST
4 3 (16.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 6 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Continuous Integration
1 13 (72.22%) Mentoring
2 11 (61.11%) Agile
3 10 (55.56%) Pair Programming
3 10 (55.56%) TDD
4 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (38.89%) Disruptive Innovation
4 7 (38.89%) Logistics
4 7 (38.89%) Microservices
4 7 (38.89%) Refactoring
5 6 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 6 (33.33%) DevOps
5 6 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (33.33%) Kanban
5 6 (33.33%) Scrum
6 3 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) User Experience
6 3 (16.67%) UX Design
6 3 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
1 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) QA
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Kubernetes
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 6 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 6 (33.33%) Puppet
2 6 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Oracle
2 7 (38.89%) Google
3 6 (33.33%) ForgeRock
3 6 (33.33%) Zscaler