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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 304 323
Rank change year-on-year +27 +19 +33
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 40 42 134
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.29% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.33% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 32 109
10th Percentile £388 £413 £435
25th Percentile £425 £427 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -4.05% -12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £660 £638
90th Percentile £668 £750 £717
UK median daily rate £500 £539 £575
% change year-on-year -7.19% -6.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £60.50
25th Percentile - £69.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £72.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.92% -13.71%
75th Percentile - £74.50 £69.50
90th Percentile - - £72.80
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.75%

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 9,332 12,732 21,621
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 87.28% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,321 8,571 15,258
10th Percentile £325 £325 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.93%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 553 521
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.17 £18.49
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%

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 5 July 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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) AWS
2 13 (32.50%) Azure
3 11 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (20.00%) Serverless
5 6 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 5 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (10.00%) GitHub
8 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (7.50%) Sentry
9 2 (5.00%) GCP
10 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.50%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.50%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.50%) Redis
4 2 (5.00%) CockroachDB
4 2 (5.00%) MySQL
4 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Git
1 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.00%) JIRA
3 3 (7.50%) CircleCI
3 3 (7.50%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.00%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (5.00%) Gradle
4 2 (5.00%) HP UFT
4 2 (5.00%) IntelliJ
4 2 (5.00%) JUnit
4 2 (5.00%) Maven
4 2 (5.00%) NetBeans
4 2 (5.00%) Selenium
4 2 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 14 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Finance
4 8 (20.00%) Electronics
4 8 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 8 (20.00%) Marketing
4 8 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 3 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Aviation
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (75.00%) Developer
2 13 (32.50%) Senior
3 12 (30.00%) Senior Developer
4 10 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 10 (25.00%) Lead
5 9 (22.50%) Lead .NET Developer
5 9 (22.50%) Lead Developer
6 8 (20.00%) Azure Developer
6 8 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 8 (20.00%) C# Developer
6 8 (20.00%) Lead C# Developer
6 8 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
6 8 (20.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
6 8 (20.00%) Senior C# Developer
7 5 (12.50%) Python Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Java Developer
9 2 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) Node.js
2 11 (27.50%) .NET
2 11 (27.50%) .NET Core
2 11 (27.50%) React
3 6 (15.00%) REST
3 6 (15.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (12.50%) AWS CDK
4 5 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 5 (12.50%) RESTful
5 4 (10.00%) CSS
5 4 (10.00%) HTML
5 4 (10.00%) Kafka
6 3 (7.50%) Django
6 3 (7.50%) Express.js
6 3 (7.50%) Next.js
6 3 (7.50%) Spring
6 3 (7.50%) Web Services
7 2 (5.00%) Bootstrap
7 2 (5.00%) HTML5
7 2 (5.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (75.00%) Agile
2 27 (67.50%) TDD
3 15 (37.50%) SOLID
4 13 (32.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 13 (32.50%) DevOps
4 13 (32.50%) Scrum
5 12 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 11 (27.50%) Deployment Automation
6 11 (27.50%) Software Engineering
7 10 (25.00%) BDD
7 10 (25.00%) OO
8 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
8 9 (22.50%) OWASP
8 9 (22.50%) Project Delivery
8 9 (22.50%) Service-Level Objective
9 8 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
9 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (20.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) JavaScript
1 14 (35.00%) SQL
2 12 (30.00%) Java
2 12 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 11 (27.50%) C#
3 11 (27.50%) Python
4 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.00%) Go
6 3 (7.50%) Kotlin
6 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Ansible
2 3 (7.50%) Grafana
2 3 (7.50%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.00%) Puppet
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) SAP
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle
4 2 (5.00%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) VMware