Pair Programming Contracts in England

Pair Programming
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 365 342
Rank change year-on-year -10 -23 -33
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 160 329 552
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.65% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.72% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 245 431
10th Percentile £350 £467 £495
25th Percentile £463 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £716 £725 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £743
UK median daily rate £533 £593 £613
% change year-on-year -10.04% -3.27% +21.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 19 8
10th Percentile - £59.25 £70.63
25th Percentile £61.25 £64.75 £74.54
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £77.41
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -15.39% +19.09%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £80.31
90th Percentile - £88.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £77.41
% change year-on-year -0.76% -15.39% +19.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in England

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in England

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in England

Pair Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pair Programming in England.

Hourly rate trend for Pair Programming in England

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pair Programming within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +18 94 £550 -16.98% 25
East of England +22 42 £493 -1.99% 6
North of England -14 14 £575 +2.22% 14
Yorkshire +9 7 £650 +15.56% 3
North West -17 7 £525 -4.55% 8
East Midlands +19 3 £419 +28.92%
South East +16 3 £441 -11.75% 7
Midlands +11 3 £419 -26.81% 1
South West +2 2 - - 5
Pair Programming
UK

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (0.63%) Confluence
1 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
1 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 49 (30.63%) AWS
2 30 (18.75%) GCP
3 12 (7.50%) Azure
4 8 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.38%) GitHub
6 3 (1.88%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (1.88%) Serverless
7 2 (1.25%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.25%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.25%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.25%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.25%) IaaS
7 2 (1.25%) PaaS
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 36 (22.50%) Modbus
1 36 (22.50%) RS-422
1 36 (22.50%) RS-485
2 27 (16.88%) HTTP
3 5 (3.13%) SSH
4 1 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 17 (10.63%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.38%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.38%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.50%) Redis
5 3 (1.88%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.25%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.25%) SSDT
6 2 (1.25%) Tableau
7 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (11.88%) Mockito
2 14 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.13%) Git
4 11 (6.88%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.38%) JIRA
6 6 (3.75%) Cucumber
6 6 (3.75%) JUnit
7 5 (3.13%) Gatling
8 4 (2.50%) ScalaTest
9 3 (1.88%) Gradle
9 3 (1.88%) Maven
10 2 (1.25%) GitLab
10 2 (1.25%) Postman
10 2 (1.25%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.63%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.63%) Mocha
11 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.63%) TestNG
11 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 47 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.50%) Electronics
3 14 (8.75%) Finance
4 10 (6.25%) Advertising
5 7 (4.38%) Banking
6 6 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.88%) Front Office
8 3 (1.88%) Games
8 3 (1.88%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.88%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.25%) Retail
10 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (56.25%) Developer
2 44 (27.50%) Senior
3 43 (26.88%) Software Engineer
4 31 (19.38%) Scala Developer
4 31 (19.38%) Senior Developer
5 28 (17.50%) Java Developer
6 27 (16.88%) C++ Software Engineer
7 15 (9.38%) Lead
8 14 (8.75%) Senior Java Developer
9 12 (7.50%) JavaScript Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) C Software Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) C/C++ Software Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Lead Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Digital Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (3.75%) Python Developer
13 5 (3.13%) Software Developer
14 4 (2.50%) Full Stack Developer
14 4 (2.50%) Senior Python Developer
15 3 (1.88%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (30.63%) Kafka
2 30 (18.75%) Akka
2 30 (18.75%) RESTful
3 22 (13.75%) Node.js
4 17 (10.63%) React
5 16 (10.00%) JAX-RS
6 15 (9.38%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (8.75%) REST
7 14 (8.75%) Web Services
8 13 (8.13%) Spring
9 11 (6.88%) Redux
10 10 (6.25%) AngularJS
10 10 (6.25%) Express.js
10 10 (6.25%) Jest
11 9 (5.63%) CSS
11 9 (5.63%) Hibernate
11 9 (5.63%) JPA
12 7 (4.38%) HTML
13 6 (3.75%) SOAP
13 6 (3.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.50%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.25%) Replication
6 1 (0.63%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.63%) Equities
6 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.63%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.25%) Linux
1 26 (16.25%) Unix
2 17 (10.63%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (87.50%) TDD
2 133 (83.13%) Agile
3 77 (48.13%) Continuous Integration
4 76 (47.50%) DevOps
5 57 (35.63%) Microservices
5 57 (35.63%) Software Engineering
6 47 (29.38%) Unit Testing
7 41 (25.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (25.63%) Software Testing
8 39 (24.38%) BDD
9 38 (23.75%) Clean Code
10 36 (22.50%) Customer Requirements
11 35 (21.88%) Test Automation
12 25 (15.63%) GitOps
13 24 (15.00%) Coaching
13 24 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
13 24 (15.00%) Machine Learning
14 23 (14.38%) Personalization
14 23 (14.38%) Scrum
14 23 (14.38%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 44 (27.50%) C#
2 40 (25.00%) Java
2 40 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 36 (22.50%) C
3 36 (22.50%) C++
4 33 (20.63%) Scala
5 28 (17.50%) TypeScript
6 22 (13.75%) SQL
7 17 (10.63%) Python
8 9 (5.63%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.75%) Go
10 5 (3.13%) Perl
11 4 (2.50%) Bash
12 3 (1.88%) Ruby
13 2 (1.25%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.75%) QA
2 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.63%) JSP 440
2 1 (0.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (8.13%) Docker
2 4 (2.50%) zsh
3 2 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (23.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.75%) Grafana
2 6 (3.75%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.25%) Terraform
4 1 (0.63%) Matomo
Vendors
1 18 (11.25%) Typelevel
2 7 (4.38%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.75%) Google
4 4 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.63%) Optimizely