Pair Programming
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Pair Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 657 590 197
Rank change year-on-year -67 -393 +120
Permanent jobs citing Pair Programming 233 405 3,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.41% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.43% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 160 267 709
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £91,934 £96,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £90,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +22.73% +10.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Pair Programming in the UK

Pair Programming
Top 13 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 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -34 218 £70,000 -3.45% 69
UK excluding London -43 131 £60,500 -10.37% 47
Work from Home +6 124 £70,000 -6.67% 37
London -3 98 £85,000 -12.82% 35
North of England +29 62 £62,500 -3.85% 14
North West -14 56 £62,500 -10.71% 7
South East +13 26 £52,500 -10.64% 22
South West -12 19 £60,000 -4.00% 7
Scotland -65 11 £83,577 -12.02%
East of England +9 7 £60,000 +4.35% 6
Yorkshire +68 6 £83,577 +33.72% 3
West Midlands +10 6 £65,000 +8.33%
Midlands -23 6 £65,000 -7.14%

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 15 (6.44%) Confluence
2 4 (1.72%) IIS
3 3 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.29%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.86%) Apache
4 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.86%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 120 (51.50%) AWS
2 56 (24.03%) Azure
3 46 (19.74%) Serverless
4 42 (18.03%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (10.30%) GitHub
6 23 (9.87%) GCP
7 15 (6.44%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (3.86%) SaaS
9 5 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.72%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.29%) dbt
11 3 (1.29%) IaaS
12 2 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.86%) AWS CodeCommit
12 2 (0.86%) AWS KMS
12 2 (0.86%) BigCommerce
12 2 (0.86%) Cloud Composer
12 2 (0.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.58%) HTTP
2 5 (2.15%) Internet
3 4 (1.72%) Broadband
4 3 (1.29%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.29%) Modbus
4 3 (1.29%) RS-232
4 3 (1.29%) RS-422
4 3 (1.29%) RS-485
5 2 (0.86%) SSH
5 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.43%) Firewall
6 1 (0.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.88%) Amazon RDS
1 37 (15.88%) DynamoDB
2 24 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.15%) NoSQL
4 18 (7.73%) Relational Database
5 14 (6.01%) SQL Server
6 13 (5.58%) MySQL
7 5 (2.15%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.29%) Event Store
9 2 (0.86%) Big Data
9 2 (0.86%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.86%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.86%) Looker
9 2 (0.86%) Tableau
10 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 91 (39.06%) Git
2 43 (18.45%) GitLab
3 19 (8.15%) JUnit
4 18 (7.73%) JIRA
5 16 (6.87%) Selenium
6 13 (5.58%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.58%) Jenkins
6 13 (5.58%) TeamCity
7 10 (4.29%) Gradle
8 9 (3.86%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.86%) Cypress.io
8 9 (3.86%) IntelliJ
8 9 (3.86%) Mockito
9 8 (3.43%) WebDriver
9 8 (3.43%) webpack
10 7 (3.00%) CMake
11 6 (2.58%) JMeter
11 6 (2.58%) PHPUnit
12 4 (1.72%) Jasmine
12 4 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.02%) Finance
3 16 (6.87%) Retail
4 14 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (5.58%) Banking
6 12 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.00%) Games
8 6 (2.58%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.15%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.29%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.29%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.86%) Advertising
12 2 (0.86%) Billing
12 2 (0.86%) Law
12 2 (0.86%) Marketing
12 2 (0.86%) Welsh Language
13 1 (0.43%) Legal
13 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 125 (53.65%) Developer
2 69 (29.61%) Senior
3 64 (27.47%) Software Engineer
4 41 (17.60%) Senior Developer
5 40 (17.17%) Java Developer
6 31 (13.30%) Software Developer
7 19 (8.15%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (8.15%) Python Engineer
8 18 (7.73%) Senior Software Engineer
9 17 (7.30%) Cloud Developer
9 17 (7.30%) Full Stack Developer
10 16 (6.87%) AWS Software Engineer
10 16 (6.87%) Python Software Engineer
11 15 (6.44%) Lead
12 12 (5.15%) C# Developer
12 12 (5.15%) React Developer
12 12 (5.15%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (4.72%) AWS Developer
14 10 (4.29%) C# Software Developer
14 10 (4.29%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (29.61%) React
2 51 (21.89%) RESTful
3 47 (20.17%) GraphQL
4 45 (19.31%) Node.js
5 39 (16.74%) Django
6 34 (14.59%) CSS
6 34 (14.59%) HTML
7 33 (14.16%) Spring
8 31 (13.30%) REST
9 25 (10.73%) .NET
10 21 (9.01%) Kafka
11 17 (7.30%) AngularJS
11 17 (7.30%) HTML5
11 17 (7.30%) Jest
11 17 (7.30%) Vue
12 16 (6.87%) React Native
12 16 (6.87%) Spring Boot
13 12 (5.15%) Laravel
14 11 (4.72%) .NET Core
15 10 (4.29%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.15%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.01%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.00%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.58%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.58%) Hackathon
5 6 (2.58%) IoT
5 6 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.58%) Social Media
6 5 (2.15%) Blog
6 5 (2.15%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.29%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.29%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.29%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.29%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.86%) Online Banking
9 2 (0.86%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.43%) Apple iOS
1 8 (3.43%) Linux
2 7 (3.00%) Mac OS
2 7 (3.00%) Windows
3 6 (2.58%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.86%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (77.68%) Agile
2 148 (63.52%) TDD
3 118 (50.64%) Software Engineering
4 89 (38.20%) Full Stack Development
5 78 (33.48%) CI/CD
6 68 (29.18%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (24.46%) DevOps
8 45 (19.31%) Continuous Integration
9 41 (17.60%) Microservices
10 34 (14.59%) Mentoring
11 29 (12.45%) Test Automation
12 28 (12.02%) BDD
13 27 (11.59%) Continuous Delivery
13 27 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (10.73%) Front End Development
15 24 (10.30%) Computer Science
16 23 (9.87%) SDLC
17 22 (9.44%) Coaching
17 22 (9.44%) Design Patterns
18 21 (9.01%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 87 (37.34%) JavaScript
2 81 (34.76%) Java
3 61 (26.18%) Python
4 52 (22.32%) TypeScript
5 42 (18.03%) C#
6 29 (12.45%) SQL
7 19 (8.15%) Kotlin
8 16 (6.87%) PHP
9 13 (5.58%) C
10 12 (5.15%) Ruby
11 11 (4.72%) Go
12 7 (3.00%) C++
13 4 (1.72%) VB.NET
14 3 (1.29%) Ada
15 2 (0.86%) Bicep
15 2 (0.86%) Perl
16 1 (0.43%) Elixir
16 1 (0.43%) R
16 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (16.74%) DBS Check
2 16 (6.87%) Degree
3 5 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (2.15%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.86%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.15%) QA
2 7 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.29%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (22.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (24.46%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.30%) Terraform
3 3 (1.29%) Consul
3 3 (1.29%) Packer
4 1 (0.43%) Grafana
4 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (6.87%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.01%) Google
3 8 (3.43%) Oracle
4 4 (1.72%) Facebook
5 3 (1.29%) Adobe
5 3 (1.29%) Splunk
6 2 (0.86%) Ab Initio
6 2 (0.86%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.43%) Databricks
7 1 (0.43%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.43%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.43%) SAP