Pair Programming Contracts in the South East

Pair Programming
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 184 207
Rank change year-on-year +21 +23 +29
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 2 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.056% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £558 £435
25th Percentile £628 £615 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £660 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +24.53% -3.64%
75th Percentile £643 - £540
90th Percentile - - £545
England median daily rate £550 £565 £625
% change year-on-year -2.65% -9.60% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,189 4,059 4,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.93% 82.75% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,990 2,483 3,350
10th Percentile £250 £255 £253
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% -0.09% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £670 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 323 233
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.50 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.51% +14.70% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.09 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.71 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in the South East

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in the South East

Pair Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pair Programming in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Pair Programming in the South East

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Middlesex - 2 £635 -
Pair Programming
England

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus