Mob Programming Contracts

Mob Programming
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mob Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mob Programming over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 686 838
Rank change year-on-year +110 +152 -138
Contract jobs citing Mob Programming 3 8 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.014% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.016% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 16
10th Percentile £503 - £481
25th Percentile £506 £613 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £544
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +14.94% +8.75%
75th Percentile £538 £713 £638
90th Percentile - £750 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £625 £519
% change year-on-year -18.00% +20.48% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mob Programming is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Mob Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mob Programming in the UK

Mob Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mob Programming.

Daily rate trend for Mob Programming in the UK

Mob Programming
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mob Programming within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +111 3 £525 -16.00% 3
UK excluding London +50 2 £513 -18.00% 2
London +99 1 £525 - 1
North of England +27 1 £525 -16.00% 1
North West +13 1 £525 -16.00% 1
East of England - 1 £500 -

Mob 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Contentful
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Full Stack Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google