Pair Programming Contracts in England

Pair Programming
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 427 384 358
Rank change year-on-year -43 -26 -11
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 58 159 330
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.43% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.49% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 79 246
10th Percentile £400 £350 £467
25th Percentile £425 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £668 £697 £721
90th Percentile £755 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £595
% change year-on-year -4.76% -11.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 36 19
10th Percentile - - £59.25
25th Percentile - £61.25 £64.75
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% -15.29%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £88.00
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -0.76% -15.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 -26 29 £600 +9.09% 93
North of England +18 13 £450 -21.74% 34
Midlands +27 8 £460 +9.79% 7
North West +18 8 £426 -18.86% 27
South West +49 5 £650 - 10
Yorkshire +6 5 £450 -30.77% 6
West Midlands - 5 £460 - 2
East Midlands +10 3 £413 -1.43% 3
South East +45 2 £463 +4.82% 22
East of England -11 1 £468 -5.08% 5
Pair Programming
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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 4 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.86%) AWS
2 11 (18.97%) Azure
3 7 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (8.62%) GitHub
4 5 (8.62%) Serverless
5 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.90%) Sentry
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.45%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.72%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.72%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.72%) dbt
8 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.62%) CockroachDB
2 5 (8.62%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.62%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.90%) Redis
4 3 (5.17%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.45%) MySQL
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.72%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.07%) JIRA
3 6 (10.34%) Git
4 5 (8.62%) Gradle
4 5 (8.62%) IntelliJ
4 5 (8.62%) Maven
4 5 (8.62%) Subversion
5 4 (6.90%) CircleCI
6 3 (5.17%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (5.17%) Eclipse
6 3 (5.17%) HP UFT
6 3 (5.17%) JUnit
6 3 (5.17%) NetBeans
6 3 (5.17%) Selenium
7 2 (3.45%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.72%) Grunt
8 1 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.72%) webpack
General
1 12 (20.69%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.52%) Finance
2 9 (15.52%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Marketing
4 4 (6.90%) Retail
5 3 (5.17%) Electronics
5 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.45%) Back Office
6 2 (3.45%) Front Office
7 1 (1.72%) Aviation
7 1 (1.72%) Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (60.34%) Developer
2 19 (32.76%) Senior
3 13 (22.41%) Senior Developer
4 11 (18.97%) Java Developer
5 8 (13.79%) Lead
5 8 (13.79%) Python Developer
6 6 (10.34%) .NET Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Lead Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Django Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Python/Django Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Azure Developer
9 3 (5.17%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (5.17%) C# Developer
9 3 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior C# .NET Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior C# Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.41%) Node.js
1 13 (22.41%) React
2 9 (15.52%) REST
3 8 (13.79%) .NET
3 8 (13.79%) CSS
3 8 (13.79%) HTML
4 7 (12.07%) Django
5 6 (10.34%) .NET Core
5 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
6 5 (8.62%) Kafka
6 5 (8.62%) Next.js
6 5 (8.62%) Spring
6 5 (8.62%) Spring Boot
6 5 (8.62%) Web Services
7 4 (6.90%) Express.js
7 4 (6.90%) HTML5
8 3 (5.17%) Bootstrap
8 3 (5.17%) Hibernate
8 3 (5.17%) J2EE
8 3 (5.17%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.34%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.17%) Equities
3 3 (5.17%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.45%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Replication
4 2 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Unix
2 3 (5.17%) Linux
3 2 (3.45%) Android
3 2 (3.45%) Windows
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (67.24%) Agile
2 34 (58.62%) TDD
3 27 (46.55%) Software Engineering
4 21 (36.21%) CI/CD
4 21 (36.21%) Microservices
5 17 (29.31%) DevOps
5 17 (29.31%) Test Automation
6 16 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (24.14%) BDD
7 14 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (20.69%) SOLID
9 10 (17.24%) Mentoring
10 9 (15.52%) Clean Code
10 9 (15.52%) Scrum
11 7 (12.07%) Coaching
11 7 (12.07%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (12.07%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (12.07%) OO
12 6 (10.34%) Data Modelling
12 6 (10.34%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 24 (41.38%) Java
2 21 (36.21%) SQL
3 17 (29.31%) Python
4 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
5 9 (15.52%) C#
6 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
7 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
8 5 (8.62%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.45%) Go
9 2 (3.45%) Scala
9 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.72%) COBOL
10 1 (1.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) SC Cleared
1 13 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.72%) ISEB
2 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) QA
2 4 (6.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (15.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Terraform
2 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.90%) Grafana
3 4 (6.90%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.17%) Ansible
4 3 (5.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Oracle
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.90%) SAP
3 4 (6.90%) VMware
4 3 (5.17%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (5.17%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.45%) Sybase
6 1 (1.72%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.72%) Adobe
6 1 (1.72%) Sitecore