Pair Programming Contracts with Work from Home Options

Pair Programming
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 301 306 362
Rank change year-on-year +5 +56 -77
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 38 147 278
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.69% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 119 207
10th Percentile £363 £452 £463
25th Percentile £415 £475 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -7.83% +13.75%
75th Percentile £506 £656 £668
90th Percentile £750 £717 £713
UK median daily rate £533 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -8.10% -3.33% +15.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £60.50 £73.56
25th Percentile £69.50 £61.25 £74.19
Median hourly rate £72.00 £65.50 £75.91
Median % change year-on-year +9.92% -13.71% +19.54%
75th Percentile £74.50 £69.50 £76.95
90th Percentile - £72.80 £77.17
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £75.75
% change year-on-year -0.38% -13.86% +18.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,810 21,394 40,150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.31% 89.63% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,622 15,186 29,240
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 497 521
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +68.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.30 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Pair Programming
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Pair Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Pair Programming trend for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Pair Programming.

Pair Programming daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Pair Programming over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Pair Programming daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Pair Programming.

Pair Programming hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.63%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 23 (60.53%) AWS
2 12 (31.58%) Amazon S3
3 11 (28.95%) Serverless
4 9 (23.68%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (23.68%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (18.42%) GCP
6 6 (15.79%) OpenShift
7 4 (10.53%) Azure
8 3 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
9 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (5.26%) GitHub
10 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (18.42%) MongoDB
3 6 (15.79%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (5.26%) CockroachDB
6 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database
6 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 7 (18.42%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) Mockito
4 2 (5.26%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.63%) Gatling
5 1 (2.63%) GitLab
5 1 (2.63%) Gradle
5 1 (2.63%) JMeter
5 1 (2.63%) JUnit
5 1 (2.63%) Maven
5 1 (2.63%) Mocha
5 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.63%) ScalaTest
5 1 (2.63%) Selenium
5 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.63%) TestNG
5 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.63%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (76.32%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Java Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Senior
2 8 (21.05%) Senior Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Lead
3 6 (15.79%) Software Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Scala Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.26%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Django Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (5.26%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Python Team Leader
7 2 (5.26%) Python/Django Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (39.47%) React
2 13 (34.21%) Kafka
3 12 (31.58%) AWS CDK
4 11 (28.95%) Node.js
4 11 (28.95%) REST
5 9 (23.68%) CSS
5 9 (23.68%) HTML
6 8 (21.05%) Spring
7 7 (18.42%) Spring Boot
8 5 (13.16%) Akka
8 5 (13.16%) RESTful
9 4 (10.53%) .NET
9 4 (10.53%) JAX-RS
9 4 (10.53%) Spring MVC
10 3 (7.89%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (7.89%) OAuth
10 3 (7.89%) OAuth2
10 3 (7.89%) Spring Security
10 3 (7.89%) Spring Web Flow
10 3 (7.89%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (13.16%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Unix
3 3 (7.89%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (86.84%) TDD
2 26 (68.42%) Agile
3 22 (57.89%) Microservices
4 16 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 16 (42.11%) Test Automation
5 13 (34.21%) Code Quality
5 13 (34.21%) DevOps
6 11 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (26.32%) Human-Centred Design
8 9 (23.68%) Analytics
8 9 (23.68%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (21.05%) Clean Code
9 8 (21.05%) Inclusive Design
10 7 (18.42%) Full Stack Development
10 7 (18.42%) Roadmaps
10 7 (18.42%) Unit Testing
10 7 (18.42%) User Experience
11 6 (15.79%) Coaching
11 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
11 6 (15.79%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Java
2 14 (36.84%) JavaScript
3 13 (34.21%) TypeScript
4 10 (26.32%) Python
5 8 (21.05%) SQL
6 6 (15.79%) Scala
7 5 (13.16%) Bash
8 4 (10.53%) C#
9 1 (2.63%) C
9 1 (2.63%) Go
9 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.63%) Ruby
9 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.95%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) zsh
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 7 (18.42%) Grafana
3 3 (7.89%) Kibana
4 1 (2.63%) Matomo
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Oracle
2 2 (5.26%) Google
2 2 (5.26%) SAP
2 2 (5.26%) Typelevel
3 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) Salesforce