Pair Programming Contracts in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Pair Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pair Programming over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 250 354
Rank change year-on-year -64 +104 -27
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 75 218 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.94% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 1.05% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 169 100
10th Percentile £408 £450 £474
25th Percentile £450 £479 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £576 £650 £675
90th Percentile £655 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £533 £595 £613
% change year-on-year -10.42% -2.86% +21.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 2
10th Percentile - £57.00 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £77.32
Median % change year-on-year - -15.93% +178.83%
75th Percentile - £65.75 -
90th Percentile - £69.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £77.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% -15.26% +20.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Pair Programming is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,155 20,842 27,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.38% 89.51% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,227 14,395 19,059
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £378 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,276 1,366
10th Percentile £12.31 £10.93 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.16
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.46
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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
East of England +17 41 £493 -1.99% 3
Scotland -2 15 £463 -3.44%
North of England -26 14 £600 +6.67% 18
North West 0 8 £525 -4.55% 8
Yorkshire -2 6 £650 - 6
South East +8 3 £441 -11.75% 9
East Midlands +16 1 £419 +29.92%
Midlands +9 1 £419 -26.81%
South West -10 1 - - 6
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 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.33%) CMS
1 1 (1.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.00%) AWS
2 12 (16.00%) Serverless
3 10 (13.33%) Amazon S3
3 10 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (8.00%) Azure
5 6 (8.00%) GCP
6 5 (6.67%) GitHub
6 5 (6.67%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (46.67%) Modbus
1 35 (46.67%) RS-422
1 35 (46.67%) RS-485
2 3 (4.00%) HTTP
3 1 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 9 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.33%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.67%) Git
3 3 (4.00%) JIRA
4 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (1.33%) Mockito
General
1 35 (46.67%) Electronics
2 33 (44.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.67%) Finance
6 1 (1.33%) Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Games
6 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (54.67%) Software Engineer
2 33 (44.00%) Developer
3 26 (34.67%) C++ Software Engineer
4 12 (16.00%) Java Developer
5 8 (10.67%) Software Developer
6 7 (9.33%) C Software Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Lead
8 5 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Senior
9 4 (5.33%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.00%) .NET Developer
10 3 (4.00%) AWS Developer
10 3 (4.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 2 (2.67%) JavaScript Developer
11 2 (2.67%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.00%) React
2 14 (18.67%) AWS CDK
3 12 (16.00%) CSS
3 12 (16.00%) Node.js
3 12 (16.00%) Spring
4 11 (14.67%) Spring Boot
5 10 (13.33%) HTML
6 6 (8.00%) Kafka
6 6 (8.00%) REST
7 5 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.33%) .NET
9 3 (4.00%) Entity Framework
9 3 (4.00%) OAuth
9 3 (4.00%) OAuth2
9 3 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (4.00%) RESTful
9 3 (4.00%) Spring Security
10 2 (2.67%) Akka
10 2 (2.67%) Spring MVC
10 2 (2.67%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (37.33%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (10.67%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Linux
1 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (85.33%) TDD
2 63 (84.00%) Agile
3 45 (60.00%) DevOps
4 44 (58.67%) Software Engineering
5 43 (57.33%) Continuous Integration
6 42 (56.00%) Unit Testing
7 38 (50.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (48.00%) Software Testing
9 35 (46.67%) Customer Requirements
10 21 (28.00%) CI/CD
11 20 (26.67%) Test Automation
12 17 (22.67%) Microservices
13 15 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (17.33%) Mentoring
15 12 (16.00%) Full Stack Development
16 11 (14.67%) Code Quality
16 11 (14.67%) Human-Centred Design
16 11 (14.67%) Scrum
17 10 (13.33%) Analytics
18 9 (12.00%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 40 (53.33%) C#
2 36 (48.00%) C
3 35 (46.67%) C++
4 26 (34.67%) JavaScript
5 23 (30.67%) Java
6 21 (28.00%) TypeScript
7 8 (10.67%) Bash
8 7 (9.33%) Python
9 5 (6.67%) SQL
10 3 (4.00%) Scala
11 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (2.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.33%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (10.67%) Docker
2 4 (5.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) Grafana
1 7 (9.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.00%) Kibana
3 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.67%) Terraform
4 1 (1.33%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 5 (6.67%) Oracle
2 4 (5.33%) Google
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.33%) Pega
4 1 (1.33%) Typelevel