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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 257 334
Rank change year-on-year -71 +77 -37
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 37 123 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.76% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.86% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 75 89
10th Percentile £425 £363 £463
25th Percentile £520 £506 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £565 £635
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% -11.02% -2.31%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £738
90th Percentile £700 £773 £750
England median daily rate £520 £578 £625
% change year-on-year -9.96% -7.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £73.75
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £78.91
75th Percentile - - £89.14
90th Percentile - - £90.00
England median hourly rate - £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -11.68%

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 12,619 14,380 21,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.28% 88.85% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,440 10,110 15,658
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 200 230
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.05 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £24.38
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.61 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% -13.73% +11.21%
75th Percentile £48.94 £54.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.08 £71.31 £82.28
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.63% +58.11%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -3 2 - - 1
West London -15 2 - - 1
South London - 1 £622 -
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 (2.70%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) GitHub
3 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (10.81%) Serverless
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.41%) Sentry
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.70%) dbt
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.41%) CockroachDB
3 2 (5.41%) MySQL
3 2 (5.41%) Redis
3 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Git
2 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.81%) Eclipse
4 2 (5.41%) CircleCI
4 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.41%) Gradle
4 2 (5.41%) IntelliJ
4 2 (5.41%) JIRA
4 2 (5.41%) Maven
4 2 (5.41%) Subversion
4 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.70%) Storybook
General
1 7 (18.92%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Electronics
5 2 (5.41%) Front Office
5 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.41%) Marketing
5 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) Developer
2 12 (32.43%) Senior
3 8 (21.62%) Python Developer
3 8 (21.62%) Senior Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.41%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Front Office Developer
7 2 (5.41%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Lead C# Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.41%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) React
2 11 (29.73%) Node.js
3 9 (24.32%) GraphQL
4 7 (18.92%) REST
5 6 (16.22%) Next.js
6 4 (10.81%) RESTful
7 3 (8.11%) .NET
7 3 (8.11%) Kafka
7 3 (8.11%) Redux
8 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
8 2 (5.41%) Django
8 2 (5.41%) Express.js
8 2 (5.41%) Hystrix
8 2 (5.41%) OpenAPI
8 2 (5.41%) Playwright
8 2 (5.41%) Spring
8 2 (5.41%) Swagger
8 2 (5.41%) Web Services
9 1 (2.70%) Akka
9 1 (2.70%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.81%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (8.11%) Equities
4 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.41%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Replication
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Agile
2 21 (56.76%) TDD
3 18 (48.65%) Software Engineering
4 14 (37.84%) DevOps
5 12 (32.43%) Clean Code
6 10 (27.03%) Mentoring
7 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
7 9 (24.32%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (21.62%) Data Ingestion
8 8 (21.62%) Test Automation
9 7 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (18.92%) Microservices
10 6 (16.22%) BDD
10 6 (16.22%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (16.22%) Scrum
11 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (13.51%) SDLC
12 4 (10.81%) DataOps
12 4 (10.81%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) Python
2 12 (32.43%) SQL
3 10 (27.03%) Java
3 10 (27.03%) TypeScript
4 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.81%) Bash
6 2 (5.41%) C#
6 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.41%) Scala
6 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
2 4 (10.81%) zsh
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.11%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) Ansible
3 2 (5.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Databricks
1 4 (10.81%) Oracle
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.41%) SAP
2 2 (5.41%) Sybase
3 1 (2.70%) Typelevel