Extreme Programming Contracts

Extreme Programming (XP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Extreme Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Extreme Programming over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 712 776
Rank change year-on-year +134 +64 -151
Contract jobs citing Extreme Programming 8 10 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.017% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.019% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 38
10th Percentile £306 £594 £454
25th Percentile £308 £706 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £750 £564
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% +33.10% +7.33%
75th Percentile £430 £819 £650
90th Percentile £465 £950 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 - £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £68.17
Median % change year-on-year - +32.03% -
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £68.17

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Extreme 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

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 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Extreme Programming in the UK

Extreme Programming
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 7 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 25 April 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
England +118 8 £350 -53.33% 9
London +102 6 £350 -53.33% 5
Work from Home +126 4 £363 -59.72% 5
UK excluding London - 2 £395 - 4
North of England - 1 £475 -
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
South East - 1 £315 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Akamai
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (50.00%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) Gatling
2 4 (50.00%) Mockito
2 4 (50.00%) ScalaTest
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) Maven
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (12.50%) GitLab
4 1 (12.50%) Gradle
General
1 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Scala Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Scala Developer
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Spring
2 4 (50.00%) Akka
2 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (50.00%) JPA
2 4 (50.00%) Play Framework
2 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 4 (50.00%) spray
2 4 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) DOM
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) OAuth
4 1 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (75.00%) Pair Programming
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
2 6 (75.00%) TDD
3 5 (62.50%) Kanban
3 5 (62.50%) Service Delivery
4 4 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (50.00%) Architectural Design
4 4 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (50.00%) BDD
4 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
4 4 (50.00%) High Availability
4 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 4 (50.00%) MVC
4 4 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Release Management
4 4 (50.00%) Software Delivery
4 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Scala
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
1 5 (62.50%) Prometheus
2 4 (50.00%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) ForgeRock
1 1 (12.50%) NetCracker
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) Zscaler