Pair Programming Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Pair Programming
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Pair Programming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 65 73
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +18
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 7 15 20
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.13% 1.81% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 2.10% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 19
10th Percentile £489 £439 £400
25th Percentile £496 £446 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £462 £480
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -3.75% -1.84%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £500
90th Percentile £544 £494 £503
Scotland median daily rate £525 £469 £473
% change year-on-year +11.94% -0.74% -3.37%

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 586 714 920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.82% 86.02% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 375 567
10th Percentile £303 £213 £213
25th Percentile £413 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.39% -5.26% -1.55%
75th Percentile £550 £532 £538
90th Percentile £600 £619 £600
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +153.33%
75th Percentile £41.45 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £63.88 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.49% -2.30%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pair Programming relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Pair Programming job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Pair Programming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Pair Programming

Pair Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Serverless
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
3 5 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (57.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (57.14%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Dagster
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MLflow
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) webpack
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) FastAPI
1 6 (85.71%) NumPy
1 6 (85.71%) Pandas
2 5 (71.43%) AWS CDK
2 5 (71.43%) Hugging Face
2 5 (71.43%) OpenCV
2 5 (71.43%) PyTorch
2 5 (71.43%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (42.86%) JWT
3 3 (42.86%) OAuth
4 2 (28.57%) boto
4 2 (28.57%) REST
5 1 (14.29%) Jest
5 1 (14.29%) React
5 1 (14.29%) RESTful
5 1 (14.29%) Spring
5 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (85.71%) LLM
2 6 (85.71%) Machine Learning
3 5 (71.43%) Async-Await
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) OCR
3 5 (71.43%) TDD
4 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 4 (57.14%) OOP
5 3 (42.86%) API Development
5 3 (42.86%) API Integration
5 3 (42.86%) Computer Vision
5 3 (42.86%) Kanban
5 3 (42.86%) Scrum
6 2 (28.57%) A/B Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (28.57%) Deep Learning
6 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform