Extreme Programming Jobs

Extreme Programming (XP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Extreme Programming skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Extreme Programming over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 694 886 928
Rank change year-on-year +192 +42 +73
Permanent jobs citing Extreme Programming 17 24 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.023% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.028% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 15 18 27
10th Percentile £64,000 £50,500 £69,000
25th Percentile £107,500 £59,250 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £60,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +131.40% -32.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile - £75,938 £105,000
90th Percentile - £78,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.44% -13.57% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Extreme 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Extreme Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Extreme Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Extreme Programming in the UK

Extreme Programming
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Extreme Programming.

Salary trend for Extreme Programming in the UK

Extreme Programming
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Extreme Programming over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Extreme Programming in the UK

Extreme Programming
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Extreme Programming within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
Work from Home +131 15 £140,000 +154.55% 13
England +140 5 £64,000 +5.79% 14
UK excluding London +183 3 £65,000 +7.44% 5
London +113 3 £64,000 -11.72% 10
South West +116 1 £75,000 +23.97% 1
East of England +39 1 £55,000 - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

Extreme Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Serverless
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Moq
1 1 (5.88%) MSTest
1 1 (5.88%) NUnit
1 1 (5.88%) xUnit.net
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Health Technology
2 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Publishing
2 2 (11.76%) Tech for Good
3 1 (5.88%) Back Office
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Senior
2 12 (70.59%) Software Engineer
3 11 (64.71%) Java Engineer
3 11 (64.71%) Java Software Engineer
3 11 (64.71%) Senior Java Engineer
3 11 (64.71%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 11 (64.71%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Scrum Master
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
2 1 (5.88%) NHibernate
2 1 (5.88%) Ninject
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Pair Programming
1 13 (76.47%) Test Automation
2 12 (70.59%) Fintech
2 12 (70.59%) Software Engineering
3 11 (64.71%) Garbage Collection
3 11 (64.71%) Memory Management
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) Coaching
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (23.53%) TDD
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.76%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
7 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) Operational Stability
7 2 (11.76%) Product Backlog
7 2 (11.76%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.88%) MCSA
1 1 (5.88%) MCSE
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle