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 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 550 680 601
Rank change year-on-year +130 -79 -414
Permanent jobs citing Pair Programming 163 232 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.23% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.27% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 134 161 260
10th Percentile £50,750 £42,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £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 £97,813
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 51,242 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%

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 28 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 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
England +74 129 £70,000 +3.70% 192
Work from Home +83 87 £75,000 +7.14% 116
UK excluding London +139 75 £65,000 +7.44% 98
London +96 74 £82,500 -2.94% 136
South East +87 24 £65,000 +18.18% 37
North of England +2 21 £65,000 +4.00% 25
North West -34 19 £65,000 +4.00% 16
Scotland +130 17 £125,226 +49.83% 11
Midlands +60 5 £40,000 -38.46% 11
West Midlands +63 4 £45,000 -30.77% 6
Wales - 4 £70,000 - 1
East of England +38 3 £105,000 +78.72% 4
North East - 2 £55,750 - 1
South West +100 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £35,000 - 5

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 (0.61%) Apache
1 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.61%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 73 (44.79%) AWS
2 31 (19.02%) Serverless
3 28 (17.18%) Azure
4 25 (15.34%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (7.98%) GitHub
6 12 (7.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (6.13%) Azure API Management
8 8 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.68%) GCP
10 5 (3.07%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.45%) Adobe Analytics
11 4 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.45%) Google Analytics
12 3 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.84%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (1.23%) SaaS
14 1 (0.61%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.91%) Internet
2 1 (0.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.50%) DynamoDB
2 15 (9.20%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.45%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.23%) MySQL
7 1 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (11.04%) Jenkins
2 13 (7.98%) Git
3 9 (5.52%) Maven
4 6 (3.68%) IntelliJ
4 6 (3.68%) webpack
5 3 (1.84%) Xcode
5 3 (1.84%) XCTest
5 3 (1.84%) XCUITest
6 2 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.23%) Vite
7 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.61%) git-flow
7 1 (0.61%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.61%) JUnit
7 1 (0.61%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.61%) Postman
7 1 (0.61%) Protractor
7 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (35.58%) Finance
2 25 (15.34%) Financial Institution
3 21 (12.88%) Banking
4 20 (12.27%) Tech for Good
5 18 (11.04%) Health Technology
6 16 (9.82%) Publishing
7 15 (9.20%) Law
8 13 (7.98%) Games
8 13 (7.98%) Social Skills
9 6 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.84%) Marketing
10 3 (1.84%) Retail
11 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.23%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.61%) Electronics
12 1 (0.61%) Front Office
12 1 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 76 (46.63%) Software Engineer
2 75 (46.01%) Senior
3 56 (34.36%) Developer
4 44 (26.99%) Java Engineer
5 38 (23.31%) Java Software Engineer
6 34 (20.86%) Senior Developer
7 31 (19.02%) Senior Software Engineer
8 22 (13.50%) Lead
8 22 (13.50%) Senior Java Engineer
8 22 (13.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 13 (7.98%) Software Developer
10 12 (7.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (6.75%) Python Developer
12 10 (6.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 9 (5.52%) .NET Developer
14 8 (4.91%) Android Engineer
14 8 (4.91%) Java Developer
14 8 (4.91%) Senior Python Developer
14 8 (4.91%) Senior Software Developer
15 6 (3.68%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (31.90%) React
2 39 (23.93%) RESTful
3 34 (20.86%) .NET
4 30 (18.40%) Spring
5 29 (17.79%) Spring Boot
6 28 (17.18%) AngularJS
7 26 (15.95%) Kafka
8 25 (15.34%) Akka
9 17 (10.43%) REST
10 15 (9.20%) RxJava
10 15 (9.20%) Spring WebFlux
11 14 (8.59%) .NET Core
11 14 (8.59%) Swagger
12 12 (7.36%) Android Jetpack
12 12 (7.36%) Jetpack Compose
13 11 (6.75%) Vue
14 10 (6.13%) Middleware
15 9 (5.52%) CSS
15 9 (5.52%) Node.js
16 8 (4.91%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.20%) Product Ownership
2 14 (8.59%) Mobile App
3 11 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (6.13%) Algorithms
5 9 (5.52%) Public Cloud
6 8 (4.91%) Online Banking
6 8 (4.91%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.68%) Blog
8 5 (3.07%) e-Learning
9 4 (2.45%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.84%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.23%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.61%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.61%) Housing Association
12 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.36%) Android
2 7 (4.29%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.84%) Unix
4 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (68.10%) TDD
2 98 (60.12%) Agile
3 91 (55.83%) Software Engineering
4 77 (47.24%) CI/CD
5 48 (29.45%) DevOps
6 47 (28.83%) Microservices
7 40 (24.54%) Test Automation
8 39 (23.93%) BDD
8 39 (23.93%) Fintech
9 33 (20.25%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (17.18%) Containerisation
11 27 (16.56%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (15.95%) User Experience
13 23 (14.11%) Continuous Delivery
13 23 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (14.11%) Scrum
14 19 (11.66%) Open Source
15 18 (11.04%) Mentoring
16 16 (9.82%) Operational Stability
17 15 (9.20%) Concurrent Programming
Programming Languages
1 67 (41.10%) Java
2 47 (28.83%) Python
3 42 (25.77%) TypeScript
4 34 (20.86%) C#
5 30 (18.40%) JavaScript
5 30 (18.40%) SQL
6 12 (7.36%) Go
7 8 (4.91%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.29%) Swift
9 3 (1.84%) Ruby
9 3 (1.84%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (3.68%) Degree
1 6 (3.68%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.84%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.50%) QA
2 13 (7.98%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.07%) NIST
4 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (33.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) zsh
Systems Management
1 61 (37.42%) Kubernetes
2 20 (12.27%) Terraform
3 4 (2.45%) Grafana
4 3 (1.84%) Kibana
5 2 (1.23%) Ansible
6 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (7.98%) Databricks
2 12 (7.36%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.68%) Google
4 4 (2.45%) Adobe
4 4 (2.45%) Tealium
5 3 (1.84%) Oracle
6 1 (0.61%) Sybase