Pair Programming Contracts with Work from Home Options

Pair Programming
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 299 362
Rank change year-on-year -7 +63 -90
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 37 170 283
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.69% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.77% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 136 209
10th Percentile £363 £454 £463
25th Percentile £415 £479 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £563 £580
Median % change year-on-year -13.87% -3.02% +16.00%
75th Percentile £625 £689 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £533 £593 £601
% change year-on-year -10.04% -1.33% +18.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £60.50 £73.56
25th Percentile £69.50 £61.25 £74.19
Median hourly rate £72.00 £65.50 £75.91
Median % change year-on-year +9.92% -13.71% +16.78%
75th Percentile £74.50 £69.50 £76.95
90th Percentile - £72.80 £77.17
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £77.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% -15.26% +20.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,003 22,075 40,116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.68% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,632 29,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 503 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.68 £20.43
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.21% +61.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Pair Programming
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Pair Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Pair Programming trend for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Pair Programming.

Pair Programming daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Pair Programming over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Pair Programming daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Pair Programming.

Pair Programming hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.70%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 21 (56.76%) AWS
2 11 (29.73%) Amazon S3
3 9 (24.32%) Serverless
4 7 (18.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (18.92%) GCP
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (10.81%) Azure
5 4 (10.81%) GitHub
5 4 (10.81%) OpenShift
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) HTTP
2 1 (2.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (18.92%) MongoDB
3 6 (16.22%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (5.41%) CockroachDB
6 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
6 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Git
1 10 (27.03%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.81%) Mockito
3 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.41%) GitLab
3 2 (5.41%) Gradle
3 2 (5.41%) JMeter
3 2 (5.41%) JUnit
3 2 (5.41%) Maven
3 2 (5.41%) Mocha
3 2 (5.41%) REST Assured
3 2 (5.41%) Selenium
3 2 (5.41%) SoapUI
3 2 (5.41%) TestNG
3 2 (5.41%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.70%) Gatling
4 1 (2.70%) JIRA
4 1 (2.70%) ScalaTest
General
1 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (72.97%) Developer
2 8 (21.62%) Senior
2 8 (21.62%) Senior Developer
3 7 (18.92%) Java Developer
3 7 (18.92%) Software Developer
4 6 (16.22%) Lead
5 5 (13.51%) Scala Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (8.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (8.11%) GCP Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Automation Tester
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Django Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (5.41%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) React
2 12 (32.43%) Kafka
2 12 (32.43%) Node.js
3 10 (27.03%) AWS CDK
4 9 (24.32%) REST
5 8 (21.62%) Spring
6 7 (18.92%) CSS
6 7 (18.92%) HTML
6 7 (18.92%) Spring Boot
7 5 (13.51%) Akka
7 5 (13.51%) JAX-RS
7 5 (13.51%) RESTful
8 3 (8.11%) .NET
8 3 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (8.11%) Spring MVC
9 2 (5.41%) JAXB
9 2 (5.41%) Middleware
9 2 (5.41%) SOAP
9 2 (5.41%) Spring Security
9 2 (5.41%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (13.51%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.81%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Unix
3 3 (8.11%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (81.08%) TDD
2 25 (67.57%) Agile
3 19 (51.35%) Microservices
4 16 (43.24%) CI/CD
4 16 (43.24%) Test Automation
5 11 (29.73%) Code Quality
5 11 (29.73%) DevOps
6 9 (24.32%) Clean Code
6 9 (24.32%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (21.62%) Human-Centred Design
8 7 (18.92%) Analytics
8 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
9 6 (16.22%) BDD
9 6 (16.22%) Coaching
9 6 (16.22%) Inclusive Design
9 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
9 6 (16.22%) Software Delivery
9 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
10 5 (13.51%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) Java
2 14 (37.84%) JavaScript
3 12 (32.43%) Python
3 12 (32.43%) TypeScript
4 7 (18.92%) SQL
5 6 (16.22%) Bash
5 6 (16.22%) Scala
6 3 (8.11%) C#
7 2 (5.41%) C
8 1 (2.70%) Go
8 1 (2.70%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.70%) Ruby
8 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.70%) JSP 440
2 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.51%) Grafana
3 3 (8.11%) Kibana
4 1 (2.70%) Matomo
4 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) Google
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) SAP
3 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.41%) Typelevel
4 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace