Pair Programming Contracts in Edinburgh

Pair Programming
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Pair Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pair Programming over the 6 months to 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 69 110
Rank change year-on-year +7 +41 -20
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 11 38 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.36% 2.88% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 3.03% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 35 13
10th Percentile - £448 £455
25th Percentile £415 £465 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -10.19% +18.68%
75th Percentile £482 £517 £545
90th Percentile £506 £545 £592
Scotland median daily rate £463 £479 £540
% change year-on-year -3.50% -11.25% +19.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Pair Programming is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 710 1,254 1,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.87% 95.14% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 900 1,295
10th Percentile £225 £262 £256
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £635
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 12 19
10th Percentile £15.91 £12.57 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.31 £17.72 £19.13
Median hourly rate £24.44 £21.26 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.93% -35.58% -39.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.94 £51.25
90th Percentile - £66.20 £53.86
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.05% -40.93% -28.57%

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Amazon S3
2 8 (72.73%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (72.73%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (72.73%) Serverless
3 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Cypress.io
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Pega Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) AWS CDK
1 8 (72.73%) React
2 6 (54.55%) CSS
2 6 (54.55%) HTML
3 4 (36.36%) Node.js
4 3 (27.27%) REST
4 3 (27.27%) Spring
4 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
4 3 (27.27%) Spring Security
5 2 (18.18%) JSON
5 2 (18.18%) JSP
5 2 (18.18%) OAuth
5 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
5 2 (18.18%) Spring MVC
5 2 (18.18%) Spring Web Flow
6 1 (9.09%) Java EE
6 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (9.09%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) Human-Centred Design
2 9 (81.82%) TDD
3 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (63.64%) Inclusive Design
5 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
5 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
6 5 (45.45%) Analytics
6 5 (45.45%) Microservices
7 4 (36.36%) Architecture Roadmap
7 4 (36.36%) Code Coverage
7 4 (36.36%) Code Quality
7 4 (36.36%) ETL
7 4 (36.36%) Full Stack Development
7 4 (36.36%) Product Roadmap
7 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
7 4 (36.36%) User Experience
8 3 (27.27%) Community of Practice
8 3 (27.27%) Software Delivery
8 3 (27.27%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
1 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
1 8 (72.73%) TypeScript
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) Accessibility
2 2 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Pega
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle