Pair Programming Contracts in the Midlands

Pair Programming
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 103 130 152
Rank change year-on-year +27 +22 +43
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 8 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.42% 0.11% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.13% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 12
10th Percentile £378 - £466
25th Percentile £419 £404 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £419 £573
Median % change year-on-year +9.79% -26.81% +14.50%
75th Percentile £488 £435 £595
90th Percentile £503 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in the Midlands

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in the Midlands

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands - 5 £460 - 2
East Midlands +10 3 £413 -1.43% 3
Pair Programming
England

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (12.50%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Gradle
2 2 (25.00%) HP UFT
2 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) NetBeans
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) CA Gen
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (25.00%) Back Office
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Ab Initio Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) Ajax
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) Bootstrap
2 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (25.00%) HTML5
2 2 (25.00%) J2EE
2 2 (25.00%) jQuery
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) Next.js
2 2 (25.00%) React
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Spring MVC
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) TDD
5 3 (37.50%) BDD
5 3 (37.50%) Scrum
6 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
6 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
6 2 (25.00%) MVC
6 2 (25.00%) Open Source
6 2 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (12.50%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (25.00%) Puppet
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (12.50%) Ab Initio
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft