Pair Programming Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Pair Programming
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Pair Programming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 - 116
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 9 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.40% - 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% - 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £469 - £545
25th Percentile £474 - £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - £633
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.26%
75th Percentile £491 - £741
90th Percentile £497 - £836
Central London median daily rate £483 - £633
% change year-on-year - - -18.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Pair Programming falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,996 1,644 1,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.31% 94.21% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,376 1,101 1,226
10th Percentile £368 £325 £365
25th Percentile £456 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £50.59 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pair Programming relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Pair Programming job vacancy trend in the City of London

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Pair Programming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Pair Programming

Pair Programming
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Pair Programming.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Pair Programming

Pair Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Magento
1 1 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
1 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) Gatling
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Mockito
1 1 (11.11%) PHPUnit
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Front Office
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Sales Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) UI Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Magento Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) React
2 5 (55.56%) HTML
3 4 (44.44%) CSS
4 3 (33.33%) REST
5 2 (22.22%) GraphQL
5 2 (22.22%) Next.js
6 1 (11.11%) AssertJ
6 1 (11.11%) CSS3
6 1 (11.11%) Kafka
6 1 (11.11%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (11.11%) Material-UI
6 1 (11.11%) Middleware
6 1 (11.11%) Playwright
6 1 (11.11%) PySpark
6 1 (11.11%) SOAP
6 1 (11.11%) Spring
6 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 1 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (11.11%) Vue
6 1 (11.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Fixed Income
2 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) Observability
3 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 6 (66.67%) TDD
4 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
6 3 (33.33%) DevOps
6 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (33.33%) Micro Frontends
6 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (33.33%) SOA
6 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
7 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 2 (22.22%) OO
7 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
7 2 (22.22%) Validation
8 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Kotlin
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Palantir