Pair Programming Job Trends in London

Pair Programming
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Pair Programming skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 326 406
Rank change year-on-year +28 +80 +28
Permanent jobs citing Pair Programming 76 104 46
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.54% 0.67% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.71% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 58 52 34
10th Percentile £64,000 £62,000 £54,810
25th Percentile £66,938 £65,000 £70,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £76,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £93,750 £89,560 £115,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £122,125
England median annual salary £76,000 £68,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.55% -1.79% +3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,269 14,580 16,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.64% 94.60% 92.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,845 8,006 13,563
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Pair Programming job vacancy trend in London

Pair Programming
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Pair Programming.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Pair Programming

Pair Programming
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming in London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Pair Programming in London

Pair Programming
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pair Programming within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South London +41 6 - - 10
Central London +25 6 £75,000 -16.67% 17
West London - 4 £82,500 - 11
East London -9 2 - - 9
Pair Programming
England

Pair Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (3.95%) Apache
1 3 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.32%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 44 (57.89%) AWS
2 32 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
2 32 (42.11%) Serverless
3 20 (26.32%) Amazon S3
4 15 (19.74%) Amazon SQS
5 10 (13.16%) GitHub
6 5 (6.58%) Azure
6 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.95%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.63%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.63%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.32%) iPaaS
9 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.05%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.42%) DynamoDB
2 12 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (14.47%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.95%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.32%) Apache Hudi
6 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.32%) Power BI
6 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (23.68%) Jenkins
2 16 (21.05%) TeamCity
3 7 (9.21%) Git
4 6 (7.89%) JIRA
5 5 (6.58%) Cypress.io
5 5 (6.58%) Visual Studio
5 5 (6.58%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.32%) Deequ
6 1 (1.32%) GitLab
6 1 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (35.53%) Health Technology
1 27 (35.53%) Publishing
1 27 (35.53%) Tech for Good
2 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (22.37%) Finance
4 15 (19.74%) Influencing Skills
4 15 (19.74%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (13.16%) Financial Institution
6 6 (7.89%) Retail
7 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Games
8 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.32%) International Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (53.95%) Developer
2 39 (51.32%) Senior
3 27 (35.53%) Python Developer
4 22 (28.95%) Senior Developer
5 21 (27.63%) AWS Developer
5 21 (27.63%) React Developer
6 17 (22.37%) Software Developer
6 17 (22.37%) Software Engineer
7 15 (19.74%) Lead
7 15 (19.74%) Lead Developer
7 15 (19.74%) Lead Python Developer
8 12 (15.79%) Senior Python Developer
9 11 (14.47%) Java Engineer
10 10 (13.16%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (13.16%) Kafka Engineer
11 9 (11.84%) Senior Software Developer
12 8 (10.53%) Lead Software Developer
12 8 (10.53%) Scala Engineer
13 6 (7.89%) Scala Software Engineer
13 6 (7.89%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (43.42%) RESTful
2 26 (34.21%) Akka
3 16 (21.05%) React
4 12 (15.79%) Swagger
5 11 (14.47%) Kafka
6 10 (13.16%) ActiveMQ
6 10 (13.16%) JMS
6 10 (13.16%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (13.16%) RxJava
6 10 (13.16%) Spring
6 10 (13.16%) Spring Boot
6 10 (13.16%) Spring WebFlux
7 9 (11.84%) GraphQL
8 5 (6.58%) CSS
8 5 (6.58%) Jest
8 5 (6.58%) Node.js
8 5 (6.58%) Nuxt
8 5 (6.58%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (6.58%) Vitest
8 5 (6.58%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.05%) Over-the-Top Content
1 16 (21.05%) Video\Live Streaming
2 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.63%) Derivative
5 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.32%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (93.42%) Agile
2 56 (73.68%) TDD
3 44 (57.89%) Scrum
4 32 (42.11%) CI/CD
5 31 (40.79%) Acceptance Criteria
6 27 (35.53%) Operational Stability
7 26 (34.21%) Analytics
8 23 (30.26%) Mentoring
9 22 (28.95%) Software Engineering
10 18 (23.68%) Code Quality
11 17 (22.37%) Coaching
11 17 (22.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (22.37%) Microservices
12 16 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (21.05%) Data Analytics
12 16 (21.05%) Kanban
12 16 (21.05%) Open Source
12 16 (21.05%) User Stories
13 15 (19.74%) Extreme Programming
13 15 (19.74%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (47.37%) Python
2 21 (27.63%) TypeScript
3 20 (26.32%) Scala
4 13 (17.11%) Java
5 5 (6.58%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.58%) SQL
6 3 (3.95%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.63%) F#
7 2 (2.63%) Haskell
7 2 (2.63%) OCaml
7 2 (2.63%) Ruby
8 1 (1.32%) C#
8 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (2.63%) Degree
1 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
1 2 (2.63%) PhD
1 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (48.68%) QA
2 8 (10.53%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.58%) GDPR
3 5 (6.58%) PERC
4 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 26 (34.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (39.47%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft