Pair Programming Contracts in Scotland

Pair Programming
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 109 109 106
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +52
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 7 20 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 0.90% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.02% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 52
10th Percentile - £415 £415
25th Percentile £450 £436 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £479
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -3.50% -10.42%
75th Percentile £480 £485 £505
90th Percentile £488 £506 £545
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £595
% change year-on-year -4.76% -11.76% -2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in Scotland

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in Scotland

Pair Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Pair Programming in Scotland

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh -1 5 £460 +2.22%
Glasgow +1 2 - - 1
Pair Programming
UK

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (71.43%) Serverless
2 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (28.57%) CockroachDB
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
3 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
4 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata
4 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Software Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Django Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Python/Django Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) React
2 5 (71.43%) AWS CDK
3 3 (42.86%) Next.js
3 3 (42.86%) Node.js
3 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
4 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 2 (28.57%) Django
4 2 (28.57%) REST
5 1 (14.29%) Spring
5 1 (14.29%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) TDD
3 5 (71.43%) Kanban
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) Scrum
4 4 (57.14%) Human-Centred Design
4 4 (57.14%) Inclusive Design
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) API Design
5 2 (28.57%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Code Coverage
5 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 2 (28.57%) SOLID
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) Bash
5 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle