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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 113 120
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +28
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 2 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.098% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.36% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £619 - £476
25th Percentile £629 - £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £654 - £699
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.47%
75th Percentile £674 - £846
90th Percentile £681 - £850
Central London median daily rate £654 - £699
% change year-on-year - - +7.50%

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 1,810 1,679 2,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.77% 91.85% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,045 1,497
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

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
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 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Mocha
1 1 (50.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (50.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Enzyme
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Android Development
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 1 (50.00%) iOS Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Development
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (50.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (50.00%) Swift
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript