Pair Programming Contracts in Cheshire

Pair Programming
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Pair Programming skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pair Programming over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 56 41
Rank change year-on-year 0 -15 -
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 2 2 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.45% 0.40% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.47% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 22
10th Percentile £371 - £513
25th Percentile £377 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.95% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £394 £488 £575
90th Percentile £399 - -
North West median daily rate £426 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -18.86% -4.55% -15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Pair Programming falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in Cheshire

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in Cheshire

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford - 2 £385 -
Pair Programming
North West

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) HP UFT
1 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) NetBeans
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CA Agile Central