Extreme Programming Contracts with Work from Home Options

Extreme Programming (XP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 476 596
Rank change year-on-year +121 +120 -144
Contract jobs citing Extreme Programming 4 4 30
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.015% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.017% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 16
10th Percentile £306 £540 £469
25th Percentile £307 £656 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £900 £563
Median % change year-on-year -59.72% +60.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £444 £950 £672
90th Percentile £470 - £753
UK median daily rate £350 £750 £564
% change year-on-year -53.33% +33.10% +7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £90.00 £68.17
% change year-on-year - +32.03% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,515 23,376 40,505
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.86% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,014 16,510 29,383
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 541 540
10th Percentile £15.03 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £30.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +35.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.78
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Extreme Programming
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Extreme Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Extreme Programming trend for jobs with a WFH option

Extreme Programming
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Extreme Programming.

Extreme Programming daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Extreme Programming
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Extreme Programming over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Extreme Programming daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Extreme Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Akamai
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Gatling
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Mockito
2 1 (25.00%) ScalaTest
General
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Akka
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) DOM
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JPA
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) Play Framework
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) spray
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Active Listening
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Scala
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (25.00%) NetCracker
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Zscaler