Pair Programming Contracts

Pair Programming
UK

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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 339 365
Rank change year-on-year -67 +26 -58
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 179 409 634
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.70% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.78% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 314 483
10th Percentile £363 £463 £475
25th Percentile £455 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £595 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.25% -2.86% +21.29%
75th Percentile £678 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.73% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 12
10th Percentile - £59.63 £71.80
25th Percentile £61.25 £64.88 £72.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -15.26% +20.31%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £77.68
90th Percentile - £87.75 £84.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £77.32
% change year-on-year - -15.93% +178.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 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 13 May 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 -39 158 £550 -12.00% 62
London +17 95 £550 -17.91% 28
UK excluding London -63 74 £486 -11.73% 36
East of England +11 41 £493 -1.99% 5
Work from Home -15 37 £485 -13.87% 34
Scotland +7 14 £463 -3.44%
North of England -29 14 £600 +6.67% 16
North West -4 8 £525 -4.55% 6
Yorkshire -3 6 £650 - 6
South East +4 3 £441 -11.75% 9
East Midlands +22 1 £419 +29.92%
Midlands +17 1 £419 -26.81%
South West -3 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 2 (1.12%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) CMS
2 1 (0.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 65 (36.31%) AWS
2 35 (19.55%) GCP
3 14 (7.82%) Amazon S3
4 12 (6.70%) Serverless
5 11 (6.15%) Azure
6 10 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.91%) GitHub
9 6 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.79%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (1.12%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.12%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (1.12%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 35 (19.55%) Modbus
1 35 (19.55%) RS-422
1 35 (19.55%) RS-485
2 31 (17.32%) HTTP
3 7 (3.91%) SSH
4 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.32%) Apache Cassandra
2 21 (11.73%) MongoDB
3 12 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (3.91%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.35%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.35%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.23%) Redis
9 3 (1.68%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.12%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.56%) SSDT
11 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (12.29%) Jenkins
2 20 (11.17%) Mockito
3 16 (8.94%) Git
4 13 (7.26%) Cypress.io
5 10 (5.59%) Cucumber
5 10 (5.59%) JIRA
5 10 (5.59%) JUnit
6 5 (2.79%) Gatling
6 5 (2.79%) Gradle
6 5 (2.79%) Maven
7 4 (2.23%) GitLab
7 4 (2.23%) ScalaTest
8 3 (1.68%) JMeter
8 3 (1.68%) Mocha
8 3 (1.68%) Postman
8 3 (1.68%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.68%) Selenium
8 3 (1.68%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.68%) TestNG
8 3 (1.68%) WebDriver
General
1 49 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.55%) Electronics
3 17 (9.50%) Finance
4 12 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.03%) Advertising
5 9 (5.03%) Banking
6 8 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.23%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.12%) Front Office
9 2 (1.12%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Games
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (60.89%) Developer
2 44 (24.58%) Software Engineer
3 42 (23.46%) Senior
4 35 (19.55%) Java Developer
5 34 (18.99%) Scala Developer
6 31 (17.32%) Senior Developer
7 26 (14.53%) C++ Software Engineer
8 17 (9.50%) Lead
9 14 (7.82%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (6.15%) JavaScript Engineer
11 9 (5.03%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.47%) Full Stack Developer
12 8 (4.47%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.91%) C Software Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) C/C++ Software Engineer
14 6 (3.35%) Digital Developer
14 6 (3.35%) Python Developer
15 5 (2.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 4 (2.23%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 4 (2.23%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (29.61%) Kafka
2 35 (19.55%) RESTful
3 34 (18.99%) Akka
3 34 (18.99%) Node.js
4 26 (14.53%) React
4 26 (14.53%) Spring
5 19 (10.61%) REST
6 18 (10.06%) JAX-RS
7 17 (9.50%) CSS
7 17 (9.50%) Web Services
8 15 (8.38%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (7.82%) AWS CDK
9 14 (7.82%) Spring Boot
10 13 (7.26%) HTML
11 11 (6.15%) Hibernate
11 11 (6.15%) JPA
12 10 (5.59%) Jest
12 10 (5.59%) Redux
12 10 (5.59%) SOAP
13 9 (5.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.64%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (5.03%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.79%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.68%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.68%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.56%) Equities
7 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.56%) Replication
7 1 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.20%) Linux
1 29 (16.20%) Unix
2 17 (9.50%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (86.59%) TDD
2 151 (84.36%) Agile
3 84 (46.93%) DevOps
4 76 (42.46%) Continuous Integration
5 70 (39.11%) Microservices
6 59 (32.96%) Software Engineering
7 53 (29.61%) Unit Testing
8 44 (24.58%) BDD
8 44 (24.58%) Test Automation
9 41 (22.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (22.35%) CI/CD
11 39 (21.79%) Clean Code
12 38 (21.23%) Software Testing
13 35 (19.55%) Customer Requirements
14 30 (16.76%) Coaching
15 29 (16.20%) GitOps
16 27 (15.08%) Machine Learning
17 26 (14.53%) Continuous Deployment
17 26 (14.53%) Personalization
17 26 (14.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 56 (31.28%) Java
2 52 (29.05%) JavaScript
3 41 (22.91%) TypeScript
4 40 (22.35%) C#
5 38 (21.23%) C
5 38 (21.23%) Scala
6 35 (19.55%) C++
7 26 (14.53%) Python
8 25 (13.97%) SQL
9 11 (6.15%) Kotlin
10 8 (4.47%) Bash
11 7 (3.91%) Go
12 5 (2.79%) Perl
13 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.12%) Ruby
13 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.56%) PHP
14 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (8.94%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.26%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.12%) Degree
4 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.70%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.91%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (12.85%) Docker
2 4 (2.23%) zsh
3 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (25.14%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.70%) Grafana
3 7 (3.91%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.23%) Kibana
5 2 (1.12%) Terraform
6 1 (0.56%) Ansible
6 1 (0.56%) Matomo
6 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.56%) Puppet
6 1 (0.56%) Salt
6 1 (0.56%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 19 (10.61%) Typelevel
2 12 (6.70%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.47%) Oracle
4 5 (2.79%) Google
5 3 (1.68%) SAP
6 2 (1.12%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.56%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.56%) Pega