Pair Programming
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Pair Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Pair Programming over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 671 587 214
Rank change year-on-year -84 -373 +122
Permanent jobs citing Pair Programming 226 432 2,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.41% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.43% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 161 291 699
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,900 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £68,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Pair 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pair Programming within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -43 214 £71,250 -5.00% 54
UK excluding London -25 129 £60,500 -12.00% 35
Work from Home +1 111 £70,000 -6.67% 26
London -13 93 £90,000 -2.70% 25
North of England +34 67 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North West -1 60 £65,000 -7.14% 8
South East +43 24 £50,000 -9.09% 7
South West +4 19 £60,000 -4.00% 5
Scotland -79 8 £83,577 -7.14% 2
Yorkshire +91 7 £83,577 +45.35% 3
West Midlands +21 7 £65,000 +8.33% 1
Midlands -8 7 £65,000 -7.14% 1
East of England +7 4 £65,000 +13.04% 6

Pair 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 14 (6.19%) Confluence
2 4 (1.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.77%) IIS
3 3 (1.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.88%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.88%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 110 (48.67%) AWS
2 57 (25.22%) Azure
3 36 (15.93%) Serverless
4 32 (14.16%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (11.06%) GitHub
6 21 (9.29%) GCP
7 15 (6.64%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.54%) SaaS
10 6 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.21%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.33%) AWS CodeCommit
12 3 (1.33%) AWS KMS
12 3 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.33%) dbt
12 3 (1.33%) IaaS
13 2 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.88%) BigCommerce
13 2 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.54%) HTTP
2 5 (2.21%) Internet
3 4 (1.77%) Broadband
4 3 (1.33%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.33%) Modbus
4 3 (1.33%) RS-232
4 3 (1.33%) RS-422
4 3 (1.33%) RS-485
5 2 (0.88%) SSH
5 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.44%) Firewall
6 1 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.95%) Amazon RDS
1 27 (11.95%) DynamoDB
2 24 (10.62%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.52%) NoSQL
4 16 (7.08%) Relational Database
5 13 (5.75%) MySQL
6 12 (5.31%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.65%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.33%) Event Store
9 2 (0.88%) Big Data
9 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.88%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.88%) Looker
9 2 (0.88%) Tableau
10 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 82 (36.28%) Git
2 33 (14.60%) GitLab
3 22 (9.73%) JUnit
4 16 (7.08%) JIRA
4 16 (7.08%) TeamCity
5 14 (6.19%) Selenium
6 13 (5.75%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.75%) Gradle
7 12 (5.31%) IntelliJ
7 12 (5.31%) Mockito
8 11 (4.87%) Jenkins
9 9 (3.98%) CircleCI
10 8 (3.54%) Cypress.io
10 8 (3.54%) WebDriver
11 7 (3.10%) CMake
12 6 (2.65%) JMeter
12 6 (2.65%) PHPUnit
13 5 (2.21%) Jasmine
13 5 (2.21%) webpack
14 4 (1.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.03%) Finance
3 15 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (6.64%) Retail
4 14 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.87%) Banking
6 7 (3.10%) Games
6 7 (3.10%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.65%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.77%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.33%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.33%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.33%) Marketing
10 2 (0.88%) Advertising
10 2 (0.88%) Billing
10 2 (0.88%) Law
10 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.88%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 121 (53.54%) Developer
2 71 (31.42%) Senior
3 60 (26.55%) Software Engineer
4 41 (18.14%) Senior Developer
5 40 (17.70%) Java Developer
6 29 (12.83%) Software Developer
7 18 (7.96%) Full Stack Developer
7 18 (7.96%) Senior Software Engineer
8 16 (7.08%) Lead
9 15 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (6.64%) Python Engineer
10 13 (5.75%) AWS Software Engineer
10 13 (5.75%) Python Software Engineer
11 12 (5.31%) C# Developer
11 12 (5.31%) Cloud Developer
12 10 (4.42%) C# Software Developer
12 10 (4.42%) React Developer
12 10 (4.42%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.98%) Senior Software Developer
14 8 (3.54%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (28.32%) React
2 45 (19.91%) Node.js
3 43 (19.03%) RESTful
4 37 (16.37%) GraphQL
4 37 (16.37%) REST
5 34 (15.04%) CSS
5 34 (15.04%) HTML
6 33 (14.60%) Spring
7 29 (12.83%) Django
8 27 (11.95%) .NET
9 20 (8.85%) AngularJS
9 20 (8.85%) Spring Boot
10 19 (8.41%) Kafka
11 17 (7.52%) HTML5
11 17 (7.52%) Vue
12 15 (6.64%) React Native
13 12 (5.31%) Jest
13 12 (5.31%) Laravel
14 10 (4.42%) .NET Core
14 10 (4.42%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.50%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.64%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.10%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.65%) Hackathon
5 6 (2.65%) IoT
5 6 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.65%) Social Media
6 5 (2.21%) Blog
6 5 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.33%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.33%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.33%) Derivative
8 3 (1.33%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.33%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.88%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.98%) Linux
2 8 (3.54%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.10%) Mac OS
3 7 (3.10%) Windows
4 6 (2.65%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.88%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (79.20%) Agile
2 136 (60.18%) TDD
3 107 (47.35%) Software Engineering
4 77 (34.07%) Full Stack Development
5 64 (28.32%) CI/CD
5 64 (28.32%) DevOps
6 61 (26.99%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (19.47%) Continuous Integration
8 43 (19.03%) Microservices
9 33 (14.60%) Mentoring
10 31 (13.72%) Test Automation
11 29 (12.83%) BDD
12 26 (11.50%) Continuous Delivery
12 26 (11.50%) Scrum
13 24 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.62%) SDLC
14 23 (10.18%) Computer Science
14 23 (10.18%) Design Patterns
15 22 (9.73%) Front End Development
16 19 (8.41%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 89 (39.38%) JavaScript
2 83 (36.73%) Java
3 52 (23.01%) Python
4 49 (21.68%) TypeScript
5 44 (19.47%) C#
6 33 (14.60%) SQL
7 17 (7.52%) Kotlin
7 17 (7.52%) PHP
8 14 (6.19%) C
9 12 (5.31%) Ruby
10 10 (4.42%) Go
11 8 (3.54%) C++
12 4 (1.77%) Ada
12 4 (1.77%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.88%) Bicep
13 2 (0.88%) Perl
14 1 (0.44%) Elixir
14 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.44%) R
14 1 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (12.83%) DBS Check
2 17 (7.52%) Degree
3 6 (2.65%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.33%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.41%) QA
2 6 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (23.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (24.78%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.96%) Terraform
3 3 (1.33%) Consul
3 3 (1.33%) Packer
4 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (0.44%) Grafana
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (7.52%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.42%) Google
3 7 (3.10%) Oracle
4 5 (2.21%) Splunk
5 4 (1.77%) Adobe
5 4 (1.77%) Facebook
6 3 (1.33%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.88%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.88%) Murex
7 2 (0.88%) New Relic
7 2 (0.88%) SAP
8 1 (0.44%) Databricks
8 1 (0.44%) NVIDIA