Pair Programming Contracts in Edinburgh

Pair Programming
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Pair Programming skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pair Programming over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 61 74
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +43
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 5 11 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 1.35% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.53% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 35
10th Percentile - - £448
25th Percentile £450 £415 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -7.22% -9.35%
75th Percentile £480 £482 £517
90th Percentile £488 £506 £545
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £479
% change year-on-year -0.54% -3.50% -10.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Pair Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in Edinburgh

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pair Programming in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in Edinburgh

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (20.00%) Metadata
4 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) AWS CDK
2 4 (80.00%) React
3 3 (60.00%) Next.js
3 3 (60.00%) Node.js
3 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (20.00%) Spring
4 1 (20.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Kanban
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Human-Centred Design
2 4 (80.00%) Inclusive Design
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (40.00%) Code Coverage
4 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) User Experience
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (20.00%) Community of Practice
5 1 (20.00%) Data Security
5 1 (20.00%) Document Management
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (80.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle