Pair Programming Job Trends in England

Pair Programming
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Pair Programming skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 493 529
Rank change year-on-year -7 +36 -12
Permanent jobs citing Pair Programming 117 193 151
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.44% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 89 113 112
10th Percentile £54,500 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £64,000 £57,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £88,125
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £76,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.59% -3.57% +3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Pair Programming falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Pair Programming relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Pair Programming job vacancy trend in England

Pair Programming
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Pair Programming.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Pair Programming

Pair Programming
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Pair Programming in England

Pair Programming
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pair Programming within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +26 76 £76,000 - 65
North of England -8 20 £65,000 +4.00% 19
North West +1 11 £62,500 -3.85% 10
South West +13 7 £50,000 -16.67% 22
Yorkshire -10 7 £75,000 - 7
North East +14 4 £65,000 +18.18% 2
West Midlands +23 3 £65,000 +36.84% 3
Midlands +23 3 £65,000 +6.12% 11
South East +2 3 £55,000 -12.00% 52
East of England +19 2 £68,750 -8.33% 22
Pair Programming
UK

Pair Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.42%) Apache
1 4 (3.42%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.85%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Superset
2 1 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 62 (52.99%) AWS
2 35 (29.91%) Serverless
3 33 (28.21%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (17.95%) Amazon S3
5 15 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
5 15 (12.82%) Azure
6 11 (9.40%) GitHub
7 5 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.42%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.71%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.71%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.71%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.80%) Broadband
2 2 (1.71%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.82%) DynamoDB
1 15 (12.82%) MongoDB
2 12 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.42%) Power BI
4 4 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.56%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.71%) MySQL
6 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.85%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (21.37%) Jenkins
2 22 (18.80%) TeamCity
3 10 (8.55%) Git
4 6 (5.13%) Cypress.io
4 6 (5.13%) JIRA
5 5 (4.27%) Visual Studio
5 5 (4.27%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.56%) GitLab
7 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.85%) Deequ
7 1 (0.85%) Gatling
7 1 (0.85%) Maven
7 1 (0.85%) Postman
7 1 (0.85%) Selenium
7 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (24.79%) Tech for Good
2 27 (23.08%) Health Technology
2 27 (23.08%) Publishing
3 24 (20.51%) Finance
4 23 (19.66%) Social Skills
5 15 (12.82%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (12.82%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (11.11%) Financial Institution
7 8 (6.84%) Retail
8 5 (4.27%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.42%) Legal
10 3 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.56%) Games
11 2 (1.71%) Law
11 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.85%) Banking
12 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.85%) International Banking
12 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (48.72%) Senior
2 52 (44.44%) Developer
3 37 (31.62%) Software Engineer
4 29 (24.79%) Python Developer
5 27 (23.08%) Senior Developer
6 22 (18.80%) React Developer
6 22 (18.80%) Software Developer
7 21 (17.95%) AWS Developer
8 19 (16.24%) Lead
9 15 (12.82%) Java Engineer
9 15 (12.82%) Lead Developer
9 15 (12.82%) Lead Python Developer
9 15 (12.82%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (11.97%) Java Software Engineer
11 13 (11.11%) Kafka Engineer
11 13 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
12 12 (10.26%) Senior Python Developer
13 11 (9.40%) Scala Engineer
14 9 (7.69%) Data Engineer
14 9 (7.69%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (31.62%) RESTful
2 35 (29.91%) Akka
3 32 (27.35%) React
4 20 (17.09%) Spring
4 20 (17.09%) Spring Boot
5 16 (13.68%) Kafka
6 13 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
6 13 (11.11%) JMS
6 13 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
6 13 (11.11%) RxJava
6 13 (11.11%) Spring WebFlux
7 12 (10.26%) Swagger
8 10 (8.55%) .NET
9 9 (7.69%) GraphQL
9 9 (7.69%) REST
10 8 (6.84%) Node.js
11 7 (5.98%) .NET Core
11 7 (5.98%) CSS
11 7 (5.98%) HTML
12 6 (5.13%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.80%) Over-the-Top Content
1 22 (18.80%) Video\Live Streaming
2 10 (8.55%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.98%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.71%) Derivative
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.85%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.85%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.85%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.71%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (81.20%) Agile
2 82 (70.09%) TDD
3 50 (42.74%) Scrum
4 49 (41.88%) CI/CD
5 46 (39.32%) Software Engineering
6 37 (31.62%) Acceptance Criteria
7 36 (30.77%) Analytics
8 32 (27.35%) Microservices
9 31 (26.50%) Mentoring
10 27 (23.08%) Operational Stability
11 23 (19.66%) Code Quality
11 23 (19.66%) Data Analytics
12 22 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (18.80%) Kanban
12 22 (18.80%) Open Source
13 20 (17.09%) Coaching
14 18 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
15 16 (13.68%) BDD
15 16 (13.68%) Process Improvement
15 16 (13.68%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 44 (37.61%) Python
2 29 (24.79%) TypeScript
3 28 (23.93%) Scala
4 27 (23.08%) Java
5 14 (11.97%) JavaScript
5 14 (11.97%) SQL
6 13 (11.11%) C#
7 5 (4.27%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.71%) F#
8 2 (1.71%) Go
8 2 (1.71%) Haskell
8 2 (1.71%) OCaml
8 2 (1.71%) Ruby
9 1 (0.85%) PHP
9 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (5.13%) SC Cleared
1 6 (5.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.71%) Degree
2 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
2 2 (1.71%) PhD
3 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.85%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (36.75%) QA
2 11 (9.40%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.27%) GDPR
3 5 (4.27%) PERC
4 4 (3.42%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (40.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.56%) Oracle
3 1 (0.85%) Databricks
3 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.85%) OneLogin