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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 - 121
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 7 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.33% - 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - 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%

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 1,944 1,631 1,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.46% 94.44% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,350 1,107 1,218
10th Percentile £365 £325 £366
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
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 £768 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 20
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Gatling
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Mockito
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Front Office
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Sales Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) UI Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) React
2 4 (57.14%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) AssertJ
4 1 (14.29%) CSS3
4 1 (14.29%) HTML5
4 1 (14.29%) Kafka
4 1 (14.29%) Next.js
4 1 (14.29%) Playwright
4 1 (14.29%) PySpark
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Fixed Income
2 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (71.43%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) SOA
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Micro Frontends
4 2 (28.57%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) ETL Development
5 1 (14.29%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Palantir