Pair Programming Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Pair Programming
North West > Merseyside

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.40% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
North West median daily rate £383 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% -22.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 226 165 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 90.04% 72.69% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 85 74
10th Percentile £130 £149 £222
25th Percentile £151 £188 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £413 £456
Median % change year-on-year -32.12% -9.59% -3.95%
75th Percentile £500 £501 £572
90th Percentile £643 £630 £618
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 14
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.28 £13.77
25th Percentile £15.18 £15.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.04 £20.19 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +7.68% +6.78%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.53 £26.71
90th Percentile - £26.02 £43.70
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +1.53% -9.83% +37.54%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pair Programming relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Pair Programming job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Liverpool - 1 £450 -
Pair Programming
North West

Pair Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker