Pair Programming Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Pair Programming
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Pair Programming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -59 - -
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.33% 0.37% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £456 - -
90th Percentile £460 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £638 £750 £625
% change year-on-year -15.00% +20.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 849 255 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 93.92% 95.15% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 162 253
10th Percentile £355 £210 £340
25th Percentile £413 £372 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £679
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +4.26% -1.05% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 13
10th Percentile £14.55 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.27 £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.01 £16.19 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +11.21% +22.37% +24.46%
75th Percentile £23.70 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.15 - £29.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.27 £25.00 £15.12
% change year-on-year -10.94% +65.40% +42.19%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pair Programming relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Pair Programming job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Pair Programming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Pair Programming

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. 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
Sheffield -62 3 £450 - 5
Pair Programming
Yorkshire

Pair Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Scala Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Flask
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform