Pair Programming Contracts

Pair Programming
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Pair Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pair Programming over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 349 368
Rank change year-on-year -60 +19 -49
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 185 416 634
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.70% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.78% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 321 488
10th Percentile £363 £463 £475
25th Percentile £427 £505 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £595 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.18% -2.86% +21.29%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -12.36% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 11
10th Percentile - £59.25 £73.15
25th Percentile £61.25 £64.75 £75.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £77.32
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -15.29% +18.95%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £78.75
90th Percentile - £88.00 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £77.32
% change year-on-year - -15.93% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Pair 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 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pair Programming within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 -24 159 £550 -12.00% 61
London +17 92 £550 -18.52% 20
UK excluding London -62 85 £482 -12.36% 44
East of England +22 43 £493 -1.99% 5
Work from Home -7 40 £484 -15.83% 31
Scotland -2 20 £463 -3.44% 1
North of England -23 14 £575 +1.10% 22
Yorkshire 0 7 £650 -3.70% 6
North West -14 7 £525 -4.55% 13
East Midlands +22 3 £419 +28.92%
Midlands +16 3 £419 -29.58% 1
South East +6 3 £441 -11.75% 11
South West -2 2 - - 6

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 3 (1.62%) CMS
2 1 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.54%) Confluence
2 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 67 (36.22%) AWS
2 32 (17.30%) GCP
3 17 (9.19%) Amazon S3
4 15 (8.11%) Serverless
5 13 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (6.49%) Azure
7 8 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.32%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.78%) GitHub
9 5 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.08%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.08%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.08%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 37 (20.00%) Modbus
1 37 (20.00%) RS-422
1 37 (20.00%) RS-485
2 29 (15.68%) HTTP
3 5 (2.70%) SSH
4 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.22%) Apache Cassandra
2 21 (11.35%) MongoDB
3 15 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (3.78%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.78%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.24%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.16%) Redis
9 3 (1.62%) CockroachDB
9 3 (1.62%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.08%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.08%) SSDT
10 2 (1.08%) Tableau
11 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (12.97%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.27%) Cypress.io
2 19 (10.27%) Mockito
3 15 (8.11%) Git
4 9 (4.86%) JIRA
5 8 (4.32%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.32%) JUnit
6 6 (3.24%) GitLab
7 5 (2.70%) Gatling
7 5 (2.70%) Gradle
7 5 (2.70%) Maven
8 4 (2.16%) ScalaTest
9 3 (1.62%) JMeter
9 3 (1.62%) Mocha
9 3 (1.62%) Postman
9 3 (1.62%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.62%) Selenium
9 3 (1.62%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.62%) TestNG
9 3 (1.62%) WebDriver
General
1 50 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 37 (20.00%) Electronics
3 16 (8.65%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.11%) Finance
5 10 (5.41%) Advertising
6 6 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.24%) Banking
7 3 (1.62%) Games
7 3 (1.62%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.62%) Retail
8 2 (1.08%) Front Office
8 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (60.00%) Developer
2 45 (24.32%) Senior
3 44 (23.78%) Software Engineer
4 33 (17.84%) Java Developer
4 33 (17.84%) Scala Developer
5 32 (17.30%) Senior Developer
6 28 (15.14%) C++ Software Engineer
7 17 (9.19%) Lead
8 15 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
9 12 (6.49%) Full Stack Developer
9 12 (6.49%) JavaScript Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Software Developer
11 8 (4.32%) C Software Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) C/C++ Software Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Lead Developer
12 7 (3.78%) Python Developer
13 6 (3.24%) Digital Developer
14 5 (2.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 5 (2.70%) Full Stack Java Developer
14 5 (2.70%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (27.57%) Kafka
2 32 (17.30%) Akka
2 32 (17.30%) Node.js
2 32 (17.30%) RESTful
3 31 (16.76%) React
4 23 (12.43%) REST
4 23 (12.43%) Spring
5 21 (11.35%) CSS
6 19 (10.27%) HTML
7 18 (9.73%) JAX-RS
8 15 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
8 15 (8.11%) Web Services
9 14 (7.57%) AWS CDK
10 13 (7.03%) Spring Boot
11 11 (5.95%) Redux
12 10 (5.41%) Express.js
12 10 (5.41%) Jest
13 9 (4.86%) AngularJS
13 9 (4.86%) JSON
13 9 (4.86%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.68%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.62%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.08%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.08%) Replication
7 1 (0.54%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.54%) Equities
7 1 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.54%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.54%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.59%) Linux
2 26 (14.05%) Unix
3 17 (9.19%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (86.49%) TDD
2 155 (83.78%) Agile
3 87 (47.03%) DevOps
4 77 (41.62%) Continuous Integration
5 71 (38.38%) Microservices
6 60 (32.43%) Software Engineering
7 57 (30.81%) Unit Testing
8 50 (27.03%) Test Automation
9 43 (23.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (22.70%) Software Testing
11 41 (22.16%) BDD
12 40 (21.62%) Clean Code
13 39 (21.08%) CI/CD
14 37 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
15 28 (15.14%) Coaching
16 27 (14.59%) GitOps
17 26 (14.05%) Machine Learning
18 25 (13.51%) Continuous Deployment
18 25 (13.51%) Personalization
19 24 (12.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 59 (31.89%) JavaScript
2 58 (31.35%) Java
3 44 (23.78%) C#
4 41 (22.16%) TypeScript
5 40 (21.62%) C
6 37 (20.00%) C++
7 35 (18.92%) Scala
8 29 (15.68%) Python
9 26 (14.05%) SQL
10 9 (4.86%) Kotlin
11 8 (4.32%) Bash
12 6 (3.24%) Go
13 5 (2.70%) Perl
14 2 (1.08%) PHP
14 2 (1.08%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.08%) Ruby
14 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.49%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.73%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.70%) QA
3 2 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.54%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (11.89%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) zsh
3 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.11%) Grafana
3 6 (3.24%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.62%) Kibana
5 2 (1.08%) Terraform
6 1 (0.54%) Matomo
Vendors
1 18 (9.73%) Typelevel
2 10 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.86%) Oracle
4 5 (2.70%) Google
5 3 (1.62%) Pega
6 2 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.08%) SAP
7 1 (0.54%) Atlassian