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 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 446 398 350
Rank change year-on-year -48 -48 +21
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 74 186 411
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.43% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.49% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 102 314
10th Percentile £401 £363 £463
25th Percentile £425 £433 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -11.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £700
90th Percentile £718 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £482 £550
% change year-on-year -4.56% -12.36% -1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 36 19
10th Percentile - - £59.25
25th Percentile - £61.25 £64.75
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% -15.29%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -15.93%

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 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%

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 1 May 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 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 -43 58 £500 -9.09% 152
UK excluding London +16 37 £460 -4.56% 81
Work from Home +32 34 £523 +7.73% 126
London -26 29 £600 +9.09% 92
North of England +18 13 £450 -21.74% 35
Midlands +27 8 £460 +9.79% 7
North West +18 8 £426 -18.86% 28
Scotland 0 7 £460 -0.54% 4
South West +49 5 £650 - 10
Yorkshire +6 5 £450 -30.77% 6
West Midlands - 5 £460 - 2
East Midlands +10 3 £413 -1.43% 3
South East +45 2 £463 +4.82% 21
East of England -11 1 £468 -5.08% 5
Wales - 1 - - 4

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 4 (5.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.43%) AWS
2 16 (21.62%) Azure
3 10 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (13.51%) Serverless
4 8 (10.81%) Amazon S3
4 8 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.76%) GCP
5 5 (6.76%) GitHub
6 4 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.41%) Sentry
7 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.70%) dbt
9 1 (1.35%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.35%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.35%) BigCommerce
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.57%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.46%) CockroachDB
2 7 (9.46%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.11%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.41%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.41%) Redis
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.70%) MySQL
5 2 (2.70%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.35%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.35%) IDMS
6 1 (1.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (14.86%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.46%) JIRA
3 6 (8.11%) Git
4 5 (6.76%) Cypress.io
4 5 (6.76%) Gradle
4 5 (6.76%) IntelliJ
4 5 (6.76%) Maven
4 5 (6.76%) Subversion
5 4 (5.41%) CircleCI
6 3 (4.05%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (4.05%) Eclipse
6 3 (4.05%) HP UFT
6 3 (4.05%) JUnit
6 3 (4.05%) NetBeans
6 3 (4.05%) Selenium
7 2 (2.70%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 17 (22.97%) Public Sector
2 13 (17.57%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.51%) Finance
4 5 (6.76%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Marketing
5 4 (5.41%) Retail
6 3 (4.05%) Electronics
6 3 (4.05%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.70%) Back Office
7 2 (2.70%) Front Office
8 1 (1.35%) Aviation
8 1 (1.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (66.22%) Developer
2 22 (29.73%) Senior
3 16 (21.62%) Senior Developer
4 14 (18.92%) Python Developer
5 12 (16.22%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.81%) Lead
7 7 (9.46%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (8.11%) .NET Developer
8 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Django Developer
9 5 (6.76%) Lead Developer
9 5 (6.76%) Python/Django Developer
9 5 (6.76%) Senior .NET Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Software Developer
11 3 (4.05%) C# Developer
11 3 (4.05%) Lead .NET Developer
11 3 (4.05%) Lead C# Developer
11 3 (4.05%) Senior C# Developer
11 3 (4.05%) Senior Python Developer
11 3 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.68%) React
2 17 (22.97%) Node.js
3 13 (17.57%) HTML
4 12 (16.22%) CSS
5 11 (14.86%) REST
6 10 (13.51%) .NET
7 9 (12.16%) AngularJS
7 9 (12.16%) Django
8 8 (10.81%) Next.js
8 8 (10.81%) Spring Boot
9 7 (9.46%) AWS CDK
10 6 (8.11%) .NET Core
10 6 (8.11%) Kafka
10 6 (8.11%) Spring
11 5 (6.76%) Web Services
12 4 (5.41%) Express.js
12 4 (5.41%) HTML5
13 3 (4.05%) Bootstrap
13 3 (4.05%) J2EE
13 3 (4.05%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.57%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.11%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.76%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.05%) Equities
4 3 (4.05%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Replication
5 2 (2.70%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.41%) Unix
2 3 (4.05%) Linux
3 2 (2.70%) Android
3 2 (2.70%) Windows
4 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (64.86%) Agile
2 46 (62.16%) TDD
3 28 (37.84%) Software Engineering
4 27 (36.49%) Microservices
5 24 (32.43%) CI/CD
6 20 (27.03%) Test Automation
7 18 (24.32%) DevOps
7 18 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (22.97%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (21.62%) BDD
10 15 (20.27%) Scrum
11 14 (18.92%) SOLID
12 11 (14.86%) Mentoring
13 9 (12.16%) Clean Code
13 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (10.81%) Continuous Delivery
14 8 (10.81%) Data Modelling
14 8 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
14 8 (10.81%) Mob Programming
15 7 (9.46%) OO
Programming Languages
1 32 (43.24%) Java
2 25 (33.78%) JavaScript
3 24 (32.43%) Python
4 23 (31.08%) SQL
5 14 (18.92%) TypeScript
6 12 (16.22%) C#
7 9 (12.16%) Kotlin
8 6 (8.11%) Go
8 6 (8.11%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.05%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.70%) Scala
11 1 (1.35%) Bash
11 1 (1.35%) COBOL
11 1 (1.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) SC Cleared
1 14 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.35%) ISEB
2 1 (1.35%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.76%) QA
3 2 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.81%) Terraform
2 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.41%) Grafana
3 4 (5.41%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.05%) Ansible
4 3 (4.05%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (16.22%) Oracle
2 5 (6.76%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.41%) SAP
3 4 (5.41%) VMware
4 3 (4.05%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (4.05%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.70%) Sybase
6 1 (1.35%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.35%) Adobe
6 1 (1.35%) Sitecore