Pair Programming Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Pair Programming
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 270 302 303
Rank change year-on-year +32 +1 +71
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 34 43 178
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.28% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.32% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 36 139
10th Percentile £414 £413 £459
25th Percentile £452 £445 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £485 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -15.65% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £696
90th Percentile £668 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £595
% change year-on-year -4.76% -11.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £60.50
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £69.50
90th Percentile - - £72.80
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -0.76% -15.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Pair Programming
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Pair Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Pair Programming trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Pair Programming.

Pair Programming daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Pair Programming over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Pair Programming daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Pair Programming.

Pair Programming hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pair 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) AWS
2 10 (29.41%) Azure
3 6 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (17.65%) Serverless
4 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
4 5 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (14.71%) GitHub
5 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.76%) GCP
5 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (11.76%) Sentry
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.94%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (11.76%) CockroachDB
2 4 (11.76%) Redis
2 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.88%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.94%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) CircleCI
2 4 (11.76%) JIRA
3 3 (8.82%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.88%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (5.88%) Gradle
4 2 (5.88%) HP UFT
4 2 (5.88%) IntelliJ
4 2 (5.88%) JUnit
4 2 (5.88%) Maven
4 2 (5.88%) NetBeans
4 2 (5.88%) Selenium
4 2 (5.88%) Subversion
5 1 (2.94%) Git
5 1 (2.94%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (26.47%) Public Sector
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Electronics
4 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.82%) Marketing
4 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 24 (70.59%) Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Python Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Senior
4 7 (20.59%) Senior Developer
5 4 (11.76%) .NET Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Lead
5 4 (11.76%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Developer
6 3 (8.82%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (8.82%) C# Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Django Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead .NET Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead C# Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Python/Django Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior C# .NET Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) Node.js
2 10 (29.41%) React
3 7 (20.59%) .NET
3 7 (20.59%) REST
4 6 (17.65%) CSS
4 6 (17.65%) Django
4 6 (17.65%) HTML
4 6 (17.65%) Spring Boot
5 5 (14.71%) AWS CDK
6 4 (11.76%) .NET Core
6 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
6 4 (11.76%) Express.js
6 4 (11.76%) Kafka
7 3 (8.82%) Next.js
7 3 (8.82%) Spring
7 3 (8.82%) Web Services
8 2 (5.88%) Ajax
8 2 (5.88%) Bootstrap
8 2 (5.88%) Hibernate
8 2 (5.88%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 5 (14.71%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Replication
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Agile
1 21 (61.76%) TDD
2 11 (32.35%) SOLID
3 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 10 (29.41%) Microservices
3 10 (29.41%) Scrum
3 10 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (20.59%) DevOps
7 6 (17.65%) BDD
7 6 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
7 6 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (14.71%) Clean Code
8 5 (14.71%) Design Patterns
8 5 (14.71%) Kanban
8 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
8 5 (14.71%) OO
8 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) JavaScript
1 15 (44.12%) Python
2 12 (35.29%) Java
2 12 (35.29%) SQL
3 8 (23.53%) TypeScript
4 7 (20.59%) C#
5 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
6 4 (11.76%) Go
7 3 (8.82%) Kotlin
7 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Terraform
2 4 (11.76%) Grafana
3 3 (8.82%) Ansible
3 3 (8.82%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.88%) Puppet
5 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) SAP
4 2 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.94%) VMware