Pair Programming Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Pair Programming skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 468 455
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 +17
Permanent jobs citing Pair Programming 40 102 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.095% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.32% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 28 74 85
10th Percentile £40,625 £44,825 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £62,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +3.31% -3.20%
75th Percentile £80,938 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,253 £96,774
UK median annual salary £76,000 £67,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +12.59% -1.82% +5.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,148 32,097 30,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.65% 88.84% 88.62%
Number of salaries quoted 19,036 14,497 22,498
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,334
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Pair Programming job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pair Programming.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pair Programming

Pair Programming
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Pair Programming in the UK excluding London

Pair Programming
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
North of England -2 19 £66,250 +1.92% 20
Scotland +10 10 £82,500 +3.68% 2
North West +5 10 £62,500 -3.85% 11
Yorkshire -13 7 £75,000 - 7
South West +4 5 £50,000 -16.67% 24
North East +9 4 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Midlands +28 3 £65,000 +6.12% 14
West Midlands +26 3 £65,000 +36.84% 6
South East -3 3 £55,000 -12.00% 54
East of England +10 2 £68,750 -5.17% 22
Pair Programming
UK

Pair Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (2.50%) Apache
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Superset
1 1 (2.50%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 15 (37.50%) AWS
3 10 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (22.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (22.50%) GitHub
4 9 (22.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (17.50%) Power Automate
6 3 (7.50%) Serverless
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.50%) Datadog
8 1 (2.50%) GCP
8 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) AMQP
2 1 (2.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) Power BI
2 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.00%) MySQL
4 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.50%) Metadata
5 1 (2.50%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) GitLab
2 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.50%) Gatling
3 1 (2.50%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.50%) jMock
3 1 (2.50%) JUnit
3 1 (2.50%) Maven
3 1 (2.50%) Postman
3 1 (2.50%) Selenium
3 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Legal
5 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.50%) Games
6 3 (7.50%) Retail
7 2 (5.00%) Law
7 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (5.00%) Tech for Good
8 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Senior
1 16 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Scala Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Scala Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Java Scala Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (40.00%) React
2 9 (22.50%) .NET
3 8 (20.00%) REST
4 7 (17.50%) Spring
4 7 (17.50%) Spring Boot
5 6 (15.00%) .NET Core
5 6 (15.00%) RESTful
6 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 4 (10.00%) Django
8 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
8 3 (7.50%) Node.js
9 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (5.00%) Blazor
9 2 (5.00%) Entity Framework
9 2 (5.00%) FastAPI
9 2 (5.00%) Flask
9 2 (5.00%) Kafka
9 2 (5.00%) Playwright
9 2 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (17.50%) Low-Code
2 7 (17.50%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 4 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.50%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (2.50%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.50%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (65.00%) Software Engineering
2 24 (60.00%) Agile
3 23 (57.50%) CI/CD
4 16 (40.00%) TDD
5 13 (32.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (32.50%) Test Automation
6 12 (30.00%) DevOps
6 12 (30.00%) Microservices
7 10 (25.00%) AI
7 10 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (25.00%) Coaching
7 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (22.50%) Asset Management
8 9 (22.50%) Mentoring
8 9 (22.50%) Secure Coding
9 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (20.00%) Visualisation
10 7 (17.50%) Analytical Thinking
10 7 (17.50%) Data Analysis
10 7 (17.50%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) SQL
2 16 (40.00%) Python
3 13 (32.50%) Java
4 12 (30.00%) C#
5 9 (22.50%) JavaScript
6 7 (17.50%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.50%) Scala
8 2 (5.00%) Go
8 2 (5.00%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.50%) PHP
9 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace