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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 114 117
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +27
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 5 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.21% 0.18% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.19% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £603 - £469
25th Percentile £606 - £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £694
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.73%
75th Percentile £638 - £744
90th Percentile - - £750
Central London median daily rate £625 - £694
% change year-on-year - - +6.73%
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 2,015 1,582 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.56% 93.66% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 998 1,364
10th Percentile £358 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 13
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +7.90% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.85% -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
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 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Magento
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (40.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (40.00%) Claude Code
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Mocha
2 2 (40.00%) webpack
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 2 (40.00%) Advertising
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js Developer
2 2 (40.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Magento Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) Enzyme
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) Jest
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 2 (40.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (20.00%) Material-UI
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) Next.js
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Programming
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 1 (20.00%) B2B
4 1 (20.00%) B2C
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk