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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 123 106
Rank change year-on-year -7 -17 +53
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 11 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.47% 0.11% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.11% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile £479 - £503
25th Percentile £500 - £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £688
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 - £750
90th Percentile - - £780
Central London median daily rate £600 - £688
% change year-on-year - - -5.17%
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 2,060 1,759 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.51% 94.27% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,155 1,273
10th Percentile £379 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £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 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.35 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +4.91% -1.82%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £57.49 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.83 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -21.47% +7.67% -22.86%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in the City of London

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 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Magento
1 1 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) GitHub
2 3 (27.27%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (18.18%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
2 2 (18.18%) CircleCI
2 2 (18.18%) Claude Code
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Mocha
2 2 (18.18%) webpack
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) Gatling
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) JUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Mockito
3 1 (9.09%) PHPUnit
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Advertising
2 2 (18.18%) Front Office
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Node.js Developer
2 2 (18.18%) React Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Magento Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Sales Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) React
2 4 (36.36%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) CSS
3 3 (27.27%) REST
4 2 (18.18%) Enzyme
4 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
4 2 (18.18%) Jest
4 2 (18.18%) Next.js
4 2 (18.18%) Node.js
5 1 (9.09%) AssertJ
5 1 (9.09%) CSS3
5 1 (9.09%) Kafka
5 1 (9.09%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (9.09%) Material-UI
5 1 (9.09%) Playwright
5 1 (9.09%) PySpark
5 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 1 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (9.09%) Vue
5 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Fixed Income
1 2 (18.18%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) TDD
3 6 (54.55%) Observability
4 5 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Functional Programming
6 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
7 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
7 2 (18.18%) Micro Frontends
7 2 (18.18%) OO
7 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (18.18%) SOA
7 2 (18.18%) Software Architecture
7 2 (18.18%) Validation
8 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) TypeScript
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) Kotlin
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (9.09%) PHP
5 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Palantir
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk