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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 340 365
Rank change year-on-year -51 +25 -47
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 180 399 635
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.70% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.78% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 308 484
10th Percentile £363 £463 £475
25th Percentile £453 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% -1.25% +18.75%
75th Percentile £681 £693 £675
90th Percentile £750 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.64% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 10
10th Percentile - £59.63 £71.57
25th Percentile £61.25 £64.88 £72.14
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -15.26% +20.31%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £77.24
90th Percentile - £87.75 £77.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £77.32
% change year-on-year - -15.93% +178.83%

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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 May 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 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -31 159 £550 -12.00% 67
London +29 97 £550 -15.38% 33
UK excluding London -67 73 £486 -11.64% 47
East of England +7 41 £493 -1.99% 6
Work from Home -20 37 £485 -13.87% 39
Scotland +2 14 £469 -2.14% 1
North of England -17 13 £600 +6.67% 14
North West -7 7 £500 -9.09% 7
Yorkshire -7 6 £650 - 3
South East +20 3 £441 -11.75% 21
East Midlands +12 1 £419 +29.92%
Midlands +7 1 £419 -26.81%
South West -11 1 - - 7

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 (1.11%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 67 (37.22%) AWS
2 37 (20.56%) GCP
3 15 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 12 (6.67%) Serverless
5 11 (6.11%) Azure
6 10 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.89%) GitHub
9 6 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.78%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (1.11%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (1.11%) Azure Storage
13 2 (1.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 35 (19.44%) Modbus
1 35 (19.44%) RS-422
1 35 (19.44%) RS-485
2 33 (18.33%) HTTP
3 7 (3.89%) SSH
4 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.78%) Apache Cassandra
2 21 (11.67%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.22%) Redis
8 3 (1.67%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.11%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 22 (12.22%) Jenkins
2 20 (11.11%) Mockito
3 16 (8.89%) Git
4 12 (6.67%) Cypress.io
5 10 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 10 (5.56%) JIRA
5 10 (5.56%) JUnit
6 5 (2.78%) Gatling
6 5 (2.78%) Gradle
6 5 (2.78%) Maven
7 4 (2.22%) Postman
7 4 (2.22%) ScalaTest
8 3 (1.67%) GitLab
8 3 (1.67%) JMeter
8 3 (1.67%) Mocha
8 3 (1.67%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.67%) Selenium
8 3 (1.67%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.67%) TestNG
8 3 (1.67%) WebDriver
General
1 48 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.44%) Electronics
3 18 (10.00%) Finance
4 12 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.00%) Advertising
5 9 (5.00%) Banking
6 8 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.67%) Retail
9 2 (1.11%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Games
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (61.67%) Developer
2 44 (24.44%) Software Engineer
3 42 (23.33%) Senior
4 36 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 36 (20.00%) Scala Developer
5 31 (17.22%) Senior Developer
6 26 (14.44%) C++ Software Engineer
7 18 (10.00%) Lead
8 14 (7.78%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (6.11%) JavaScript Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) Lead Developer
10 9 (5.00%) Software Developer
11 8 (4.44%) Full Stack Developer
12 7 (3.89%) C Software Engineer
12 7 (3.89%) C/C++ Software Engineer
12 7 (3.89%) Python Developer
13 6 (3.33%) Digital Developer
14 5 (2.78%) Senior Python Developer
15 4 (2.22%) AWS Developer
15 4 (2.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (31.11%) Kafka
2 37 (20.56%) RESTful
3 36 (20.00%) Akka
4 34 (18.89%) Node.js
5 27 (15.00%) Spring
6 26 (14.44%) React
7 19 (10.56%) REST
8 18 (10.00%) JAX-RS
8 18 (10.00%) Web Services
9 16 (8.89%) CSS
10 15 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (7.78%) AWS CDK
11 14 (7.78%) Spring Boot
12 13 (7.22%) HTML
13 11 (6.11%) Hibernate
13 11 (6.11%) JPA
14 10 (5.56%) Jest
14 10 (5.56%) Redux
14 10 (5.56%) SOAP
15 9 (5.00%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.56%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.89%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.56%) Equities
7 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.11%) Linux
1 29 (16.11%) Unix
2 17 (9.44%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (87.22%) TDD
2 152 (84.44%) Agile
3 85 (47.22%) DevOps
4 77 (42.78%) Continuous Integration
5 72 (40.00%) Microservices
6 60 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 53 (29.44%) Unit Testing
8 44 (24.44%) BDD
9 42 (23.33%) Test Automation
10 41 (22.78%) CI/CD
10 41 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (22.22%) Clean Code
12 38 (21.11%) Software Testing
13 35 (19.44%) Customer Requirements
14 31 (17.22%) Coaching
15 30 (16.67%) GitOps
16 28 (15.56%) Machine Learning
17 27 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
17 27 (15.00%) Personalization
18 26 (14.44%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 56 (31.11%) Java
2 50 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 41 (22.78%) TypeScript
4 40 (22.22%) C#
4 40 (22.22%) Scala
5 38 (21.11%) C
6 35 (19.44%) C++
7 27 (15.00%) Python
8 24 (13.33%) SQL
9 11 (6.11%) Kotlin
10 8 (4.44%) Bash
11 7 (3.89%) Go
12 5 (2.78%) Perl
13 2 (1.11%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.11%) Ruby
13 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.11%) Degree
4 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.11%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.89%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (12.78%) Docker
2 4 (2.22%) zsh
3 2 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.67%) Grafana
3 7 (3.89%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.22%) Kibana
5 2 (1.11%) Terraform
6 1 (0.56%) Ansible
6 1 (0.56%) Matomo
6 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.56%) Puppet
6 1 (0.56%) Salt
6 1 (0.56%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 20 (11.11%) Typelevel
2 13 (7.22%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.44%) Oracle
4 5 (2.78%) Google
5 3 (1.67%) SAP
6 2 (1.11%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.56%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace