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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 349 371
Rank change year-on-year -43 +22 -69
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 190 373 612
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.66% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.74% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 282 463
10th Percentile £363 £463 £475
25th Percentile £456 £494 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £583 £601
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% -2.91% +17.51%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -10.91% +0.46% +15.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 20 13
10th Percentile - £59.63 £69.65
25th Percentile £61.25 £64.88 £71.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -15.26% +20.31%
75th Percentile - £75.00 -
90th Percentile - £87.75 £77.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £73.91
% change year-on-year - -12.06% +22.17%

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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -13 167 £550 -11.29% 66
London +55 105 £550 -15.38% 30
UK excluding London -67 75 £490 -10.91% 38
East of England +11 40 £493 -1.99% 5
Work from Home -4 40 £485 -8.58% 36
Scotland +1 16 £469 -2.14% 1
North of England -15 15 £600 +6.67% 14
North West -10 8 £508 -7.73% 8
Yorkshire +3 7 £650 -3.70% 3
South East -1 2 £441 -11.75% 11
Midlands +10 1 £419 -29.58% 2
East Midlands +8 1 £419 +29.92% 2
South West -8 1 - - 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 2 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 75 (39.47%) AWS
2 42 (22.11%) GCP
3 16 (8.42%) Amazon S3
4 14 (7.37%) Serverless
5 13 (6.84%) Azure
6 12 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (5.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.68%) GitHub
8 7 (3.68%) OpenShift
9 6 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.05%) Azure App Service
12 2 (1.05%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.05%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 36 (18.95%) HTTP
2 34 (17.89%) Modbus
2 34 (17.89%) RS-422
2 34 (17.89%) RS-485
3 9 (4.74%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.89%) Apache Cassandra
2 22 (11.58%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.16%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.63%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.11%) Redis
8 3 (1.58%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.05%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (12.11%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.05%) Mockito
3 14 (7.37%) Git
4 11 (5.79%) Cucumber
4 11 (5.79%) JIRA
4 11 (5.79%) JUnit
5 10 (5.26%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.63%) Gatling
7 4 (2.11%) Gradle
7 4 (2.11%) Maven
7 4 (2.11%) Postman
7 4 (2.11%) ScalaTest
8 3 (1.58%) GitLab
9 2 (1.05%) JMeter
9 2 (1.05%) Mocha
9 2 (1.05%) Selenium
9 2 (1.05%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.05%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.05%) TestNG
9 2 (1.05%) WebDriver
General
1 48 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.89%) Electronics
3 24 (12.63%) Finance
4 15 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.84%) Banking
6 10 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.68%) Advertising
8 6 (3.16%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.63%) Front Office
10 4 (2.11%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.58%) Retail
12 1 (0.53%) Games
12 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (64.74%) Developer
2 47 (24.74%) Software Engineer
3 41 (21.58%) Scala Developer
3 41 (21.58%) Senior
4 40 (21.05%) Java Developer
5 32 (16.84%) Senior Developer
6 25 (13.16%) C++ Software Engineer
7 17 (8.95%) Lead
8 15 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (5.79%) Full Stack Developer
10 9 (4.74%) JavaScript Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) Lead Developer
10 9 (4.74%) Software Developer
11 7 (3.68%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.16%) C Software Engineer
12 6 (3.16%) C/C++ Software Engineer
12 6 (3.16%) Digital Developer
13 5 (2.63%) Senior Python Developer
14 4 (2.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 4 (2.11%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (32.63%) Kafka
2 41 (21.58%) RESTful
3 40 (21.05%) Akka
4 32 (16.84%) Node.js
5 29 (15.26%) React
5 29 (15.26%) Spring
6 24 (12.63%) REST
7 20 (10.53%) Web Services
8 18 (9.47%) CSS
8 18 (9.47%) JAX-RS
9 16 (8.42%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (8.42%) HTML
10 15 (7.89%) AWS CDK
11 14 (7.37%) Spring Boot
12 13 (6.84%) Hibernate
12 13 (6.84%) JPA
13 11 (5.79%) SOAP
14 10 (5.26%) AngularJS
14 10 (5.26%) JSON
14 10 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.74%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (4.74%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (4.74%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (4.74%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.11%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.05%) Derivative
5 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.53%) Equities
6 1 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.84%) Linux
1 32 (16.84%) Unix
2 18 (9.47%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (88.42%) TDD
2 155 (81.58%) Agile
3 91 (47.89%) DevOps
4 81 (42.63%) Microservices
5 80 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
6 64 (33.68%) Software Engineering
7 54 (28.42%) Unit Testing
8 47 (24.74%) BDD
9 44 (23.16%) Test Automation
10 42 (22.11%) CI/CD
11 40 (21.05%) Clean Code
11 40 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (19.47%) Software Testing
13 34 (17.89%) Coaching
13 34 (17.89%) Customer Requirements
13 34 (17.89%) GitOps
14 30 (15.79%) Machine Learning
15 29 (15.26%) Personalization
16 28 (14.74%) Continuous Deployment
16 28 (14.74%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 62 (32.63%) Java
2 49 (25.79%) JavaScript
3 45 (23.68%) Scala
4 43 (22.63%) TypeScript
5 42 (22.11%) C#
6 37 (19.47%) C
7 34 (17.89%) C++
8 28 (14.74%) SQL
9 25 (13.16%) Python
10 11 (5.79%) Kotlin
11 8 (4.21%) Bash
12 7 (3.68%) Go
13 6 (3.16%) Perl
14 2 (1.05%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.05%) Ruby
14 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (7.37%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.05%) Degree
4 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.84%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.74%) QA
3 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 24 (12.63%) Docker
2 4 (2.11%) zsh
3 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (26.84%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.37%) Grafana
3 7 (3.68%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.11%) Kibana
5 1 (0.53%) Ansible
5 1 (0.53%) Matomo
5 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.53%) Puppet
5 1 (0.53%) Salt
5 1 (0.53%) Terraform
5 1 (0.53%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 21 (11.05%) Typelevel
2 13 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.21%) Oracle
4 5 (2.63%) Google
5 3 (1.58%) SAP
6 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.53%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace