Pair Programming Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Pair Programming
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Pair Programming skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 82 101
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 +1
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 6 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.59% 0.42% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.48% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £359 £506 £616
25th Percentile £360 £508 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -19.23% +4.00%
75th Percentile - £569 £678
90th Percentile £535 £588 £684
North West median daily rate £368 £508 £625
% change year-on-year -27.49% -18.80% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £72.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £72.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 910 1,037 1,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.83% 87.29% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 632 1,050
10th Percentile £308 £313 £276
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 35 59
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.95 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.63 £16.74
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -1.27%
75th Percentile £46.94 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.38 £85.60 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.83% +21.43% +55.56%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in Manchester

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in Manchester

Pair Programming
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Pair Programming.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Pair Programming

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Android Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (33.33%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
1 2 (33.33%) pytest
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Mac OS X
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Android Development
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Multivariate Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 2 (33.33%) Trunk-Based Development
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Kotlin
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Control-M
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle