Pair Programming Contracts

Pair Programming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 396 364
Rank change year-on-year -59 -32 +4
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 84 198 354
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.46% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.53% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 113 266
10th Percentile £400 £372 £461
25th Percentile £425 £463 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £538 £583
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -7.73% -2.92%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £688
90th Percentile £678 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £506 £530
% change year-on-year -11.07% -4.53% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 30 23
10th Percentile - - £61.90
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £87.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,438 37,047 49,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.78% 85.22% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,912 23,635 34,414
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,399 2,530 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Top 15 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 3 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
England -50 68 £520 -6.52% 582
Work from Home +31 40 £500 +2.99% 295
London -32 40 £590 +7.27% 328
UK excluding London -4 36 £450 -11.07% 274
North of England +2 11 £450 -25.00% 118
South West +39 8 £653 - 29
North West +7 8 £401 -20.99% 80
Scotland -9 7 £460 -1.87% 13
Midlands - 7 £455 - 34
East Midlands - 4 £380 - 16
Yorkshire +1 3 £450 -28.00% 28
West Midlands - 3 £460 - 18
South East +37 1 - - 56
East of England -8 1 £468 -3.61% 20
Wales - 1 - - 6

Pair 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 3 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (38.10%) AWS
2 19 (22.62%) Azure
3 15 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (16.67%) Serverless
5 12 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 7 (8.33%) GitHub
8 6 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.57%) GCP
9 3 (3.57%) Sentry
10 2 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.38%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (2.38%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (2.38%) dbt
11 1 (1.19%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (1.19%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (1.19%) BigCommerce
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.48%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (7.14%) CockroachDB
2 6 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 6 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.76%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.57%) Redis
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.38%) MySQL
5 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.19%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 13 (15.48%) Git
3 8 (9.52%) Cypress.io
4 6 (7.14%) JIRA
5 5 (5.95%) Eclipse
5 5 (5.95%) Gradle
5 5 (5.95%) IntelliJ
5 5 (5.95%) Maven
5 5 (5.95%) Subversion
6 3 (3.57%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (3.57%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.57%) HP UFT
6 3 (3.57%) JUnit
6 3 (3.57%) NetBeans
6 3 (3.57%) Selenium
7 2 (2.38%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.19%) Grunt
8 1 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.19%) webpack
General
1 17 (20.24%) Public Sector
1 17 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.86%) Finance
3 9 (10.71%) Marketing
4 8 (9.52%) Electronics
4 8 (9.52%) Manufacturing
4 8 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Retail
6 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Front Office
7 1 (1.19%) Aviation
7 1 (1.19%) Back Office
7 1 (1.19%) Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (63.10%) Developer
2 25 (29.76%) Senior
3 19 (22.62%) Senior Developer
4 12 (14.29%) Lead
4 12 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 10 (11.90%) .NET Developer
5 10 (11.90%) Java Developer
6 9 (10.71%) Lead .NET Developer
6 9 (10.71%) Lead Developer
7 8 (9.52%) Azure Developer
7 8 (9.52%) C# .NET Developer
7 8 (9.52%) C# Developer
7 8 (9.52%) Lead C# Developer
7 8 (9.52%) Senior .NET Developer
7 8 (9.52%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 8 (9.52%) Senior C# Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Python Developer
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.76%) React
2 21 (25.00%) Node.js
3 15 (17.86%) REST
4 13 (15.48%) .NET
5 11 (13.10%) .NET Core
5 11 (13.10%) Next.js
6 10 (11.90%) GraphQL
7 9 (10.71%) HTML
8 8 (9.52%) AngularJS
8 8 (9.52%) CSS
8 8 (9.52%) Django
8 8 (9.52%) RESTful
8 8 (9.52%) Spring Boot
9 7 (8.33%) AWS CDK
9 7 (8.33%) Spring
10 6 (7.14%) Kafka
11 5 (5.95%) Web Services
12 4 (4.76%) Hibernate
12 4 (4.76%) HTML5
13 3 (3.57%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.81%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.57%) Equities
3 3 (3.57%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.38%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) Replication
4 2 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Unix
3 2 (2.38%) Android
3 2 (2.38%) Windows
4 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (71.43%) Agile
2 52 (61.90%) TDD
3 28 (33.33%) DevOps
4 27 (32.14%) Software Engineering
5 25 (29.76%) CI/CD
6 21 (25.00%) Microservices
7 20 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (23.81%) SOLID
8 18 (21.43%) BDD
8 18 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 18 (21.43%) Test Automation
9 17 (20.24%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (20.24%) Scrum
10 16 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
11 14 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (15.48%) Clean Code
12 13 (15.48%) OO
13 12 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
14 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (10.71%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 33 (39.29%) Java
2 25 (29.76%) JavaScript
2 25 (29.76%) SQL
3 23 (27.38%) Python
4 21 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 14 (16.67%) C#
6 11 (13.10%) PowerShell
7 9 (10.71%) Kotlin
8 6 (7.14%) Go
9 3 (3.57%) Bash
9 3 (3.57%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.38%) Scala
11 1 (1.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) SC Cleared
1 11 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.38%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) QA
2 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (11.90%) Docker
2 2 (2.38%) zsh
Systems Management
1 12 (14.29%) Terraform
2 9 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.95%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.57%) Ansible
4 3 (3.57%) Grafana
4 3 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
1 11 (13.10%) Oracle
2 9 (10.71%) SAP
3 4 (4.76%) VMware
4 3 (3.57%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.38%) Databricks
5 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.38%) Sybase
6 1 (1.19%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.19%) Adobe
6 1 (1.19%) Sitecore