Pair Programming Contracts in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 299 315 258
Rank change year-on-year +16 -57 +111
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 37 84 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.40% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.48% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 42 166
10th Percentile £400 £404 £456
25th Percentile £425 £443 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £482 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -12.36% -1.12%
75th Percentile £497 £547 £647
90th Percentile £675 £670 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £595
% change year-on-year -4.76% -11.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 36 12
10th Percentile - - £56.63
25th Percentile - £61.25 £60.94
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £66.50
90th Percentile - - £69.88
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -0.76% -15.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pair Programming in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pair Programming in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Pair Programming in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +18 13 £450 -21.74% 34
Midlands +27 8 £460 +9.79% 8
North West +18 8 £426 -18.86% 27
Scotland 0 7 £460 -0.54% 3
South West +49 5 £650 - 10
Yorkshire +6 5 £450 -30.77% 6
West Midlands - 5 £460 - 3
East Midlands +10 3 £413 -1.43% 3
South East +45 2 £463 +4.82% 22
East of England -11 1 £468 -5.08% 5
Wales - 1 - - 4
Pair Programming
UK

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (10.81%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) AWS
2 9 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (24.32%) Serverless
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon S3
3 8 (21.62%) Azure
4 7 (18.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.41%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.70%) dbt
8 1 (2.70%) GCP
8 1 (2.70%) GitHub
8 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (16.22%) NoSQL
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (10.81%) DynamoDB
4 3 (8.11%) CockroachDB
4 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.70%) IDMS
6 1 (2.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Cypress.io
1 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) CA Release Automation
2 3 (8.11%) Gradle
2 3 (8.11%) HP UFT
2 3 (8.11%) IntelliJ
2 3 (8.11%) JUnit
2 3 (8.11%) Maven
2 3 (8.11%) NetBeans
2 3 (8.11%) Selenium
2 3 (8.11%) Subversion
3 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.70%) CA Gen
3 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.70%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (29.73%) Public Sector
2 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Back Office
5 1 (2.70%) Aviation
5 1 (2.70%) Electronics
5 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.70%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (64.86%) Developer
2 9 (24.32%) Senior
3 7 (18.92%) Senior Developer
4 4 (10.81%) .NET Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Software Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Python Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Python Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Android Developer
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Django Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.41%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Python/Django Developer
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Developer
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) Node.js
1 9 (24.32%) React
2 7 (18.92%) CSS
2 7 (18.92%) HTML
2 7 (18.92%) Spring Boot
3 6 (16.22%) AngularJS
3 6 (16.22%) AWS CDK
4 5 (13.51%) .NET
4 5 (13.51%) Next.js
4 5 (13.51%) Spring
5 4 (10.81%) Kafka
5 4 (10.81%) REST
6 3 (8.11%) Ajax
6 3 (8.11%) Django
6 3 (8.11%) Hibernate
6 3 (8.11%) HTML5
6 3 (8.11%) J2EE
6 3 (8.11%) jQuery
6 3 (8.11%) Spring Integration
6 3 (8.11%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.81%) Data Structures
4 3 (8.11%) Mainframe
5 2 (5.41%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Android
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Unix
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) Agile
2 23 (62.16%) TDD
3 18 (48.65%) Microservices
4 16 (43.24%) CI/CD
5 14 (37.84%) Test Automation
6 12 (32.43%) Software Engineering
7 11 (29.73%) Scrum
8 8 (21.62%) BDD
9 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (16.22%) DevOps
10 6 (16.22%) Kanban
11 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (13.51%) Data Modelling
11 5 (13.51%) Mob Programming
11 5 (13.51%) SOLID
11 5 (13.51%) User Experience
12 4 (10.81%) Continuous Delivery
12 4 (10.81%) Deployment Automation
12 4 (10.81%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) Java
2 12 (32.43%) JavaScript
3 10 (27.03%) SQL
4 9 (24.32%) Python
4 9 (24.32%) TypeScript
5 5 (13.51%) C#
5 5 (13.51%) Kotlin
6 3 (8.11%) Go
6 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.70%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) COBOL
7 1 (2.70%) Scala
7 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.70%) ISEB
2 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) QA
2 4 (10.81%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) Progress Chef
3 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Puppet
4 1 (2.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle
2 4 (10.81%) VMware
3 3 (8.11%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.70%) Ab Initio
5 1 (2.70%) SAP