Pair Programming Jobs

Pair Programming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Pair Programming skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Pair Programming over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 671 595
Rank change year-on-year +162 -76 -390
Permanent jobs citing Pair Programming 185 226 429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.23% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.27% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 154 161 291
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.83% -3.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £110,938 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% +22.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +108 143 £70,000 - 151
Work from Home +195 113 £76,000 +8.57% 127
UK excluding London +175 96 £67,500 +11.57% 79
London +92 74 £82,500 -5.71% 92
South East +120 35 £65,000 +30.00% 21
North of England +43 25 £60,000 -11.11% 34
North West -5 23 £65,000 - 27
Scotland +143 20 £122,773 +46.90% 3
Wales - 8 £67,500 - 4
East of England +57 4 £87,500 +34.62% 5
Midlands +78 3 £40,000 -38.46% 7
West Midlands +45 2 £45,000 -30.77% 2
North East - 2 £55,750 - 1
South West +89 1 £60,000 - 10
East Midlands - 1 £35,000 - 3

Pair 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.08%) Apache
1 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.08%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.54%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 77 (41.62%) AWS
2 41 (22.16%) Azure
3 28 (15.14%) Serverless
4 24 (12.97%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (8.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (8.65%) GCP
6 12 (6.49%) Amazon S3
7 11 (5.95%) Azure API Management
7 11 (5.95%) GitHub
8 9 (4.86%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.70%) SaaS
12 4 (2.16%) Adobe Analytics
12 4 (2.16%) Google Analytics
13 3 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (1.08%) Amazon EMR
14 2 (1.08%) AWS Step Functions
14 2 (1.08%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.32%) Internet
2 2 (1.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.19%) DynamoDB
2 11 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (3.24%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.16%) Redis
6 3 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.62%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.62%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.54%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.54%) MySQL
8 1 (0.54%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 22 (11.89%) Git
2 17 (9.19%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.57%) webpack
4 8 (4.32%) Maven
5 5 (2.70%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.70%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.70%) Vite
6 4 (2.16%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.62%) Xcode
7 3 (1.62%) XCTest
7 3 (1.62%) XCUITest
8 2 (1.08%) JUnit
9 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.54%) git-flow
9 1 (0.54%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.54%) Mockito
9 1 (0.54%) Selenium
9 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (30.27%) Finance
2 27 (14.59%) Banking
3 26 (14.05%) Tech for Good
4 23 (12.43%) Financial Institution
5 21 (11.35%) Health Technology
6 19 (10.27%) Publishing
6 19 (10.27%) Social Skills
7 16 (8.65%) Law
8 15 (8.11%) Games
9 13 (7.03%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (2.70%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.62%) Retail
13 2 (1.08%) Electronics
13 2 (1.08%) Marketing
14 1 (0.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 95 (51.35%) Software Engineer
2 86 (46.49%) Senior
3 54 (29.19%) Developer
4 44 (23.78%) Senior Software Engineer
5 39 (21.08%) Java Engineer
6 36 (19.46%) Java Software Engineer
7 28 (15.14%) Lead
8 27 (14.59%) Senior Developer
9 22 (11.89%) Senior Java Engineer
9 22 (11.89%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 18 (9.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 17 (9.19%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 14 (7.57%) Software Developer
13 10 (5.41%) Python Developer
14 9 (4.86%) .NET Developer
14 9 (4.86%) Data Engineer
14 9 (4.86%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 9 (4.86%) Gen AI Engineer
14 9 (4.86%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 8 (4.32%) Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (29.19%) React
2 51 (27.57%) .NET
3 39 (21.08%) RESTful
4 33 (17.84%) Spring
4 33 (17.84%) Spring Boot
5 26 (14.05%) AngularJS
6 24 (12.97%) Kafka
7 23 (12.43%) Akka
7 23 (12.43%) Node.js
8 17 (9.19%) REST
9 16 (8.65%) .NET Core
9 16 (8.65%) CSS
10 15 (8.11%) HTML
10 15 (8.11%) Vue
11 13 (7.03%) RxJava
11 13 (7.03%) Spring WebFlux
12 12 (6.49%) Android Jetpack
12 12 (6.49%) Jetpack Compose
13 11 (5.95%) Jest
13 11 (5.95%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.57%) Mobile App
1 14 (7.57%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.49%) Algorithms
2 12 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.32%) Online Banking
3 8 (4.32%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.78%) Blog
4 7 (3.78%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.16%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.16%) Housing Association
5 4 (2.16%) NHS
6 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.08%) Online Games
6 2 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.54%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.54%) Derivative
7 1 (0.54%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.54%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.49%) Android
2 7 (3.78%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.08%) Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Fedora
4 1 (0.54%) Rocky
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (70.81%) TDD
2 113 (61.08%) Agile
3 111 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 91 (49.19%) CI/CD
5 60 (32.43%) DevOps
6 55 (29.73%) Microservices
7 46 (24.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 45 (24.32%) BDD
9 37 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 37 (20.00%) Fintech
10 32 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (16.76%) Mentoring
12 30 (16.22%) Containerisation
12 30 (16.22%) Test Automation
13 28 (15.14%) Scrum
14 26 (14.05%) User Experience
15 21 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (11.35%) Extreme Programming
16 19 (10.27%) Artificial Intelligence
16 19 (10.27%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 66 (35.68%) Java
2 63 (34.05%) Python
3 51 (27.57%) C#
4 45 (24.32%) JavaScript
5 43 (23.24%) TypeScript
6 37 (20.00%) SQL
7 21 (11.35%) Go
8 8 (4.32%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.78%) Swift
10 6 (3.24%) Ruby
11 2 (1.08%) Bicep
12 1 (0.54%) C++
12 1 (0.54%) PHP
12 1 (0.54%) Rust
12 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (4.32%) Degree
2 6 (3.24%) Azure Certification
2 6 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.16%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.22%) QA
2 17 (9.19%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 48 (25.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 67 (36.22%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.11%) Terraform
3 4 (2.16%) Grafana
4 3 (1.62%) Kibana
5 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (8.65%) Databricks
2 10 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.24%) Google
4 4 (2.16%) Adobe
4 4 (2.16%) Tealium
5 1 (0.54%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle