Extreme Programming Contracts

Extreme Programming (XP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Extreme Programming skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Extreme 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 518 574 708
Rank change year-on-year +56 +134 +90
Contract jobs citing Extreme Programming 2 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.018% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.021% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 8
10th Percentile £533 £306 £594
25th Percentile £553 £308 £706
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £350 £750
Median % change year-on-year +67.14% -53.33% +29.31%
75th Percentile £618 £430 £819
90th Percentile £637 £465 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate - £395 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Extreme 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Extreme Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Extreme Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Extreme Programming in the UK

Extreme Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Extreme Programming.

Daily rate trend for Extreme Programming in the UK

Extreme Programming
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Extreme Programming over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Extreme Programming in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Extreme Programming.

Hourly rate trend for Extreme Programming in the UK

Extreme Programming
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Extreme Programming within the UK 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
England +51 2 £585 +67.14% 22
London +34 2 £585 +67.14% 15
Work from Home +38 1 £520 +43.45% 18

Extreme Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript