Pair Programming Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Pair Programming
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Pair Programming skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 53 43
Rank change year-on-year -17 -10 +22
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.48% 0.39% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.45% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £352 - £468
25th Percentile £355 £463 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £364 £488 £542
90th Percentile £366 - £629
North West median daily rate £368 £508 £625
% change year-on-year -27.49% -18.80% -

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 578 440 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.75% 85.77% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 274 190
10th Percentile £300 £326 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £506 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 30
10th Percentile - £16.00 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.82 £30.31 £22.13
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +46.19%
75th Percentile £34.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Pair Programming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Pair Programming

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 16 September 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 £359 - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) SOLID
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft