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

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 366 370
Rank change year-on-year -48 +4 -59
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 187 366 623
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.66% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.73% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 280 470
10th Percentile £363 £463 £468
25th Percentile £456 £494 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% -3.33% +16.50%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -11.64% +0.92% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 20 14
10th Percentile - £59.63 £69.73
25th Percentile £61.25 £64.88 £70.64
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £75.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -13.86% +18.36%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £77.00
90th Percentile - £87.75 £77.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.50
% change year-on-year - -7.80% +13.71%

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 36,910 49,947 79,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 89.66% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,591 34,538 56,189
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
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 £648
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,563 1,686 1,877
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.54 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 8 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 8 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 -8 165 £550 -11.29% 49
London +35 104 £550 -15.38% 21
UK excluding London -80 74 £486 -11.64% 31
East of England +9 39 £485 -3.48% 4
Work from Home 0 38 £484 -8.68% 31
Scotland -2 16 £469 -2.14% 2
North of England -17 15 £600 +6.67% 11
North West -8 8 £508 -7.73% 7
Yorkshire -2 7 £650 -3.70% 3
South East -3 2 £441 -14.32% 9
East Midlands +9 1 £419 +29.92% 2
Midlands +3 1 £419 -29.58% 2
South West -3 1 - - 3

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 (1.07%) 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 (40.11%) AWS
2 42 (22.46%) GCP
3 15 (8.02%) Amazon S3
4 14 (7.49%) Serverless
5 13 (6.95%) Azure
6 12 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.74%) OpenShift
9 6 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.21%) GitHub
10 4 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.07%) Azure App Service
12 2 (1.07%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (1.07%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.07%) IaaS
12 2 (1.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (19.79%) HTTP
2 34 (18.18%) Modbus
2 34 (18.18%) RS-422
2 34 (18.18%) RS-485
3 9 (4.81%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.72%) Apache Cassandra
2 22 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (3.21%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.21%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.67%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.14%) Redis
8 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.07%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (11.23%) Jenkins
1 21 (11.23%) Mockito
2 12 (6.42%) Git
3 11 (5.88%) JIRA
4 10 (5.35%) Cucumber
4 10 (5.35%) JUnit
5 7 (3.74%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.67%) Gatling
7 4 (2.14%) Postman
7 4 (2.14%) ScalaTest
8 3 (1.60%) Gradle
8 3 (1.60%) Maven
9 2 (1.07%) GitLab
9 2 (1.07%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.53%) Mocha
10 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.53%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
General
1 48 (25.67%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.18%) Electronics
3 24 (12.83%) Finance
4 15 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.42%) Banking
6 10 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.21%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.67%) Advertising
8 5 (2.67%) Front Office
9 4 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.60%) Retail
11 1 (0.53%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (65.78%) Developer
2 46 (24.60%) Software Engineer
3 42 (22.46%) Scala Developer
4 40 (21.39%) Java Developer
5 39 (20.86%) Senior
6 32 (17.11%) Senior Developer
7 25 (13.37%) C++ Software Engineer
8 17 (9.09%) Lead
9 15 (8.02%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
11 9 (4.81%) Lead Developer
12 8 (4.28%) Python Developer
13 7 (3.74%) Software Developer
14 6 (3.21%) C Software Engineer
14 6 (3.21%) C/C++ Software Engineer
14 6 (3.21%) Digital Developer
14 6 (3.21%) JavaScript Engineer
15 5 (2.67%) Lead Python Developer
15 5 (2.67%) Senior Python Developer
16 4 (2.14%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (33.69%) Kafka
2 42 (22.46%) RESTful
3 41 (21.93%) Akka
4 28 (14.97%) Node.js
4 28 (14.97%) React
4 28 (14.97%) Spring
5 23 (12.30%) REST
6 21 (11.23%) Web Services
7 18 (9.63%) CSS
8 17 (9.09%) JAX-RS
9 16 (8.56%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (8.56%) HTML
10 15 (8.02%) AWS CDK
11 13 (6.95%) Hibernate
11 13 (6.95%) JPA
11 13 (6.95%) Spring Boot
12 10 (5.35%) JSON
12 10 (5.35%) SOAP
12 10 (5.35%) XML
13 9 (4.81%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.97%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (4.81%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (4.81%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.14%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.14%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.07%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.07%) Derivative
5 2 (1.07%) 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 (17.11%) Linux
1 32 (17.11%) Unix
2 18 (9.63%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (88.77%) TDD
2 152 (81.28%) Agile
3 91 (48.66%) DevOps
4 81 (43.32%) Microservices
5 79 (42.25%) Continuous Integration
6 64 (34.22%) Software Engineering
7 54 (28.88%) Unit Testing
8 45 (24.06%) BDD
9 42 (22.46%) Test Automation
10 41 (21.93%) CI/CD
10 41 (21.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (20.32%) Clean Code
11 38 (20.32%) Software Testing
12 35 (18.72%) Coaching
12 35 (18.72%) GitOps
13 34 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
14 31 (16.58%) Machine Learning
15 30 (16.04%) Personalization
16 28 (14.97%) Continuous Deployment
16 28 (14.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 61 (32.62%) Java
2 46 (24.60%) Scala
3 44 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 42 (22.46%) C#
5 39 (20.86%) TypeScript
6 36 (19.25%) C
7 34 (18.18%) C++
8 28 (14.97%) SQL
9 25 (13.37%) Python
10 11 (5.88%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.74%) Bash
11 7 (3.74%) Go
12 6 (3.21%) Perl
13 2 (1.07%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.07%) Ruby
13 2 (1.07%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (6.95%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.07%) Degree
4 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.95%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.81%) QA
3 2 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 23 (12.30%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) zsh
3 2 (1.07%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.49%) Grafana
3 7 (3.74%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.14%) 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 22 (11.76%) Typelevel
2 12 (6.42%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.74%) Oracle
4 4 (2.14%) Google
5 2 (1.07%) SAP
6 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.53%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.53%) Salesforce