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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 681 607
Rank change year-on-year +138 -74 -419
Permanent jobs citing Pair Programming 169 234 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.23% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.27% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 138 162 257
10th Percentile £51,750 £42,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £111,250 £91,934 £97,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.44% -6.92% +18.18%

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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -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 30 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 30 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 +74 134 £70,000 +4.09% 434
Work from Home +79 86 £75,000 +7.14% 250
London +95 79 £82,500 -2.94% 96
UK excluding London +137 75 £65,000 +7.44% 410
South East +87 24 £65,000 +26.83% 130
North of England +9 21 £65,000 +4.00% 88
North West -30 19 £65,000 +4.00% 41
Scotland +125 17 £125,226 +49.83% 25
Midlands +86 5 £40,000 -38.46% 69
West Midlands +57 4 £45,000 -30.77% 38
Wales - 4 £70,000 - 11
East of England +42 3 £105,000 +78.72% 52
North East - 2 £55,750 - 9
South West +86 1 - - 43
East Midlands - 1 £35,000 - 26

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 1 (0.59%) Apache
1 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.59%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 78 (46.15%) AWS
2 32 (18.93%) Azure
2 32 (18.93%) Serverless
3 26 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 13 (7.69%) GitHub
5 11 (6.51%) Azure API Management
6 9 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.55%) GCP
8 5 (2.96%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.37%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.37%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.78%) SaaS
11 2 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.73%) Internet
2 1 (0.59%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.61%) DynamoDB
2 16 (9.47%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.96%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.96%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.37%) MySQL
5 4 (2.37%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (10.65%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.88%) Git
3 9 (5.33%) Maven
4 7 (4.14%) IntelliJ
5 6 (3.55%) webpack
6 3 (1.78%) Xcode
6 3 (1.78%) XCTest
6 3 (1.78%) XCUITest
7 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.18%) Vite
8 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.59%) git-flow
8 1 (0.59%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.59%) JUnit
8 1 (0.59%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.59%) Postman
8 1 (0.59%) Protractor
8 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (35.50%) Finance
2 25 (14.79%) Financial Institution
3 21 (12.43%) Banking
3 21 (12.43%) Tech for Good
4 19 (11.24%) Health Technology
5 17 (10.06%) Law
5 17 (10.06%) Publishing
6 13 (7.69%) Social Skills
7 12 (7.10%) Games
8 8 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.96%) Marketing
11 4 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.78%) Retail
13 2 (1.18%) Legal
13 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.18%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.59%) Electronics
14 1 (0.59%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 79 (46.75%) Senior
2 78 (46.15%) Software Engineer
3 59 (34.91%) Developer
4 45 (26.63%) Java Engineer
5 38 (22.49%) Java Software Engineer
6 36 (21.30%) Senior Developer
7 32 (18.93%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (13.61%) Lead
9 22 (13.02%) Senior Java Engineer
9 22 (13.02%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 13 (7.69%) Python Developer
10 13 (7.69%) Software Developer
11 12 (7.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 9 (5.33%) .NET Developer
13 9 (5.33%) Senior Python Developer
14 8 (4.73%) Android Engineer
14 8 (4.73%) Java Developer
14 8 (4.73%) Senior Software Developer
15 7 (4.14%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (33.14%) React
2 41 (24.26%) RESTful
3 35 (20.71%) .NET
4 30 (17.75%) Spring
5 29 (17.16%) Spring Boot
6 28 (16.57%) AngularJS
7 26 (15.38%) Kafka
8 25 (14.79%) Akka
9 20 (11.83%) REST
10 15 (8.88%) RxJava
10 15 (8.88%) Spring WebFlux
10 15 (8.88%) Swagger
11 14 (8.28%) .NET Core
12 12 (7.10%) Android Jetpack
12 12 (7.10%) Jetpack Compose
13 11 (6.51%) Middleware
13 11 (6.51%) Vue
14 9 (5.33%) CSS
14 9 (5.33%) Node.js
15 8 (4.73%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.65%) Product Ownership
2 14 (8.28%) Mobile App
3 11 (6.51%) Algorithms
3 11 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.51%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.73%) Online Banking
4 8 (4.73%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.55%) Blog
6 5 (2.96%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.96%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.37%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.59%) Derivative
10 1 (0.59%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.59%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.59%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.10%) Android
2 7 (4.14%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.96%) Unix
4 2 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (68.05%) TDD
2 103 (60.95%) Agile
3 94 (55.62%) Software Engineering
4 78 (46.15%) CI/CD
5 48 (28.40%) DevOps
6 47 (27.81%) Microservices
7 43 (25.44%) Test Automation
8 39 (23.08%) BDD
8 39 (23.08%) Fintech
9 34 (20.12%) Full-Stack Development
10 29 (17.16%) Containerisation
10 29 (17.16%) Continuous Integration
11 26 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (15.38%) User Experience
12 24 (14.20%) Continuous Delivery
12 24 (14.20%) Scrum
13 20 (11.83%) Mentoring
14 18 (10.65%) Open Source
15 17 (10.06%) Operational Stability
16 16 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 69 (40.83%) Java
2 51 (30.18%) Python
3 45 (26.63%) TypeScript
4 35 (20.71%) C#
5 34 (20.12%) SQL
6 31 (18.34%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.51%) Go
8 8 (4.73%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.14%) Swift
10 5 (2.96%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.78%) Ruby
12 2 (1.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (3.55%) Degree
1 6 (3.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.78%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.61%) QA
2 12 (7.10%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.96%) NIST
4 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 58 (34.32%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) zsh
Systems Management
1 61 (36.09%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.83%) Terraform
3 4 (2.37%) Ansible
3 4 (2.37%) Grafana
4 3 (1.78%) Kibana
5 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (8.88%) Databricks
2 13 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.73%) Google
4 4 (2.37%) Adobe
4 4 (2.37%) Tealium
5 3 (1.78%) Oracle
6 1 (0.59%) Sybase