Pair Programming Contracts in London

Pair Programming
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 324 298 322
Rank change year-on-year -26 +24 -46
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 29 93 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.52% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.59% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 54 136
10th Percentile £440 £336 £466
25th Percentile £523 £428 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £663
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -16.98% +6.00%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £743
90th Percentile £783 £750 £800
England median daily rate £500 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £70.80
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - £90.00
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -0.76% -15.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in London

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in London

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in London

Pair Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Pair Programming in London

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +1 4 - - 12
West London -7 2 - - 5
Pair Programming
England

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (3.45%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 4 (13.79%) GitHub
2 4 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (13.79%) Sentry
3 3 (10.34%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.45%) BigCommerce
4 1 (3.45%) dbt
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.79%) CockroachDB
2 4 (13.79%) Redis
2 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) CircleCI
4 3 (10.34%) Eclipse
4 3 (10.34%) JIRA
5 2 (6.90%) Gradle
5 2 (6.90%) IntelliJ
5 2 (6.90%) Maven
5 2 (6.90%) Subversion
5 2 (6.90%) TeamCity
6 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.45%) ESLint
6 1 (3.45%) Grunt
6 1 (3.45%) webpack
General
1 6 (20.69%) Finance
1 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Marketing
3 3 (10.34%) Retail
4 2 (6.90%) Electronics
4 2 (6.90%) Front Office
4 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Developer
2 13 (44.83%) Senior
3 9 (31.03%) Senior Developer
4 8 (27.59%) Java Developer
5 7 (24.14%) Python Developer
6 6 (20.69%) Lead
6 6 (20.69%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (13.79%) Lead Developer
8 3 (10.34%) Django Developer
8 3 (10.34%) Python/Django Developer
8 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
9 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
9 2 (6.90%) C# Developer
9 2 (6.90%) Front Office Developer
9 2 (6.90%) Lead .NET Developer
9 2 (6.90%) Lead C# Developer
9 2 (6.90%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (6.90%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (6.90%) Senior C# .NET Developer
9 2 (6.90%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) React
2 8 (27.59%) Node.js
3 7 (24.14%) REST
4 6 (20.69%) Django
5 4 (13.79%) Express.js
6 3 (10.34%) .NET
6 3 (10.34%) .NET Core
6 3 (10.34%) Next.js
7 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
7 2 (6.90%) GraphQL
7 2 (6.90%) Hystrix
7 2 (6.90%) Kafka
7 2 (6.90%) OpenAPI
7 2 (6.90%) Swagger
7 2 (6.90%) Web Services
8 1 (3.45%) CSS3
8 1 (3.45%) HTML5
8 1 (3.45%) LESS
8 1 (3.45%) Sass
8 1 (3.45%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Equities
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Replication
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Unix
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Agile
2 18 (62.07%) TDD
3 16 (55.17%) Software Engineering
4 11 (37.93%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (37.93%) DevOps
4 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (31.03%) Microservices
5 9 (31.03%) SOLID
6 7 (24.14%) BDD
6 7 (24.14%) Clean Code
6 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
7 6 (20.69%) Design Patterns
7 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
8 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
8 5 (17.24%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (17.24%) OO
9 4 (13.79%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (13.79%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
9 4 (13.79%) Functional Testing
9 4 (13.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) SQL
2 12 (41.38%) Java
3 11 (37.93%) Python
4 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.79%) C#
5 4 (13.79%) TypeScript
6 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
7 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.45%) PHP
8 1 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Grafana
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Ansible
3 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Salesforce
2 3 (10.34%) SAP
3 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.90%) Sybase
4 1 (3.45%) Adobe
4 1 (3.45%) Sitecore