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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 321 265
Rank change year-on-year 0 -56 +66
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 36 71 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.34% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.41% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 37 145
10th Percentile £373 £424 £443
25th Percentile £402 £456 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £506 £530
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% -4.53% -3.64%
75th Percentile £476 £600 £638
90th Percentile £601 £660 £688
UK median daily rate £497 £539 £575
% change year-on-year -7.75% -6.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 30 15
10th Percentile - - £60.50
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £67.55
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.75%

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 12,837 17,513 20,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.87% 82.80% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,821 10,325 13,963
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £366 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,089 2,145 1,285
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
% change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +3 11 £450 -25.00% 118
South West +44 8 £653 - 29
North West +5 8 £401 -20.99% 80
Scotland -9 7 £460 -1.87% 14
Midlands - 7 £455 - 35
East Midlands - 4 £380 - 17
Yorkshire 0 3 £450 -28.00% 27
West Midlands - 3 £460 - 18
South East +36 1 - - 58
East of England -9 1 £468 -3.61% 20
Wales - 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 3 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (27.78%) Serverless
3 7 (19.44%) Amazon S3
3 7 (19.44%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (19.44%) Azure
3 7 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.78%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.78%) dbt
5 1 (2.78%) GCP
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 5 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.11%) CockroachDB
3 4 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Cypress.io
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) CA Release Automation
2 3 (8.33%) Gradle
2 3 (8.33%) HP UFT
2 3 (8.33%) IntelliJ
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) JUnit
2 3 (8.33%) Maven
2 3 (8.33%) NetBeans
2 3 (8.33%) Selenium
2 3 (8.33%) Subversion
3 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 11 (30.56%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 7 (19.44%) Finance
4 4 (11.11%) Electronics
4 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 4 (11.11%) Marketing
4 4 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.78%) Aviation
5 1 (2.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 24 (66.67%) Developer
2 10 (27.78%) Senior
3 9 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Lead
5 4 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Azure Developer
5 4 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead .NET Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead C# Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior C# .NET Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior C# Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Django Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) React
2 8 (22.22%) Node.js
3 7 (19.44%) AngularJS
3 7 (19.44%) Spring Boot
4 6 (16.67%) AWS CDK
4 6 (16.67%) REST
5 5 (13.89%) .NET
5 5 (13.89%) CSS
5 5 (13.89%) Django
5 5 (13.89%) HTML
5 5 (13.89%) Next.js
5 5 (13.89%) Spring
6 4 (11.11%) .NET Core
6 4 (11.11%) Kafka
7 3 (8.33%) Ajax
7 3 (8.33%) Bootstrap
7 3 (8.33%) HTML5
7 3 (8.33%) jQuery
7 3 (8.33%) RESTful
7 3 (8.33%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.89%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.11%) Data Structures
4 3 (8.33%) Mainframe
5 2 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Android
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (77.78%) Agile
2 23 (63.89%) TDD
3 15 (41.67%) Microservices
4 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
5 12 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 10 (27.78%) SOLID
7 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (25.00%) Scrum
7 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 8 (22.22%) BDD
8 8 (22.22%) DevOps
9 7 (19.44%) Continuous Delivery
9 7 (19.44%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (16.67%) Kanban
10 6 (16.67%) OO
11 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
11 5 (13.89%) Mob Programming
12 4 (11.11%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (47.22%) Java
2 11 (30.56%) JavaScript
2 11 (30.56%) SQL
3 9 (25.00%) Python
3 9 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 5 (13.89%) C#
5 5 (13.89%) Kotlin
6 3 (8.33%) Go
7 1 (2.78%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) Scala
7 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Terraform
2 5 (13.89%) Progress Chef
3 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.33%) Puppet
5 1 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle
2 4 (11.11%) SAP
2 4 (11.11%) VMware
3 3 (8.33%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.78%) Ab Initio