Pair Programming Contracts in Scotland

Pair Programming
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 106 148
Rank change year-on-year -1 +42 -22
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 16 57 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.75% 2.13% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 2.31% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 51 28
10th Percentile £415 £413 £455
25th Percentile £431 £454 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £479 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -7.88% +15.56%
75th Percentile £497 £501 £545
90th Percentile £522 £530 £548
UK median daily rate £533 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -8.10% -3.33% +15.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,845 2,470 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.91% 92.13% 93.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,723 2,271
10th Percentile £220 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.05 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -8.71%
75th Percentile £44.47 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Pair Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in Scotland

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in Scotland

Pair Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Pair Programming in Scotland

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 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
Edinburgh +4 7 £440 -8.29% 1
Glasgow +3 5 £500 +14.29% 1
Pair Programming
UK

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) AWS
2 12 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 11 (68.75%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (68.75%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (68.75%) Serverless
4 7 (43.75%) OpenShift
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (6.25%) Azure
7 1 (6.25%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) Amazon Aurora
1 11 (68.75%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (31.25%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
5 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 10 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (87.50%) React
2 12 (75.00%) AWS CDK
3 10 (62.50%) CSS
4 9 (56.25%) HTML
5 8 (50.00%) Node.js
5 8 (50.00%) Spring
6 7 (43.75%) Spring Boot
7 6 (37.50%) REST
8 4 (25.00%) OAuth
8 4 (25.00%) OAuth2
8 4 (25.00%) Spring Security
9 3 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (18.75%) Spring MVC
9 3 (18.75%) Spring Web Flow
9 3 (18.75%) Thymeleaf
10 2 (12.50%) Kafka
11 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (6.25%) Java EE
11 1 (6.25%) OpenTracing
11 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 14 (87.50%) TDD
3 12 (75.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (68.75%) Inclusive Design
5 10 (62.50%) Analytics
5 10 (62.50%) Code Quality
5 10 (62.50%) Microservices
6 8 (50.00%) DevOps
6 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 8 (50.00%) Unit Testing
7 7 (43.75%) User Experience
8 6 (37.50%) Architecture Roadmap
8 6 (37.50%) Code Coverage
8 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
8 6 (37.50%) Product Roadmap
8 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
9 5 (31.25%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (31.25%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Java
1 13 (81.25%) JavaScript
2 10 (62.50%) TypeScript
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 4 (25.00%) Bash
5 3 (18.75%) SQL
6 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (6.25%) C
7 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
7 1 (6.25%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Grafana
2 3 (18.75%) Kibana
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle