The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 December 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills
32,468
70,451
91,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
85.91%
86.03%
87.24%
Number of daily rates quoted
20,259
46,030
60,471
Median daily rate
£475
£475
£463
Median daily rate % change year-on-year
-
+2.70%
+2.78%
10th Percentile
£294
£288
£300
90th Percentile
£650
£650
£638
UK excluding London median daily rate
£430
£433
£425
% change year-on-year
-0.58%
+1.76%
+6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted
1,269
2,292
2,380
Median hourly rate
£35.00
£23.75
£22.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.37%
+7.95%
-4.35%
10th Percentile
£12.50
£12.00
£11.18
90th Percentile
£57.50
£53.28
£50.25
Median hourly rate
£29.00
£22.50
£21.00
% change year-on-year
+28.89%
+7.14%
-9.25%
Pair Programming Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Pair Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Pair Programming Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pair Programming.
Pair Programming Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming over the 6 months to 5 December 2020.
Pair Programming Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pair Programming.
Pair Programming Top 14 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 5 December 2020. 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
For the 6 months to 5 December 2020, IT contractor jobs citing Pair Programming also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Pair Programming.
Pair Programming Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
