Pair Programming Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Pair Programming
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Pair Programming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 160 170
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 28 7 28
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.69% 0.17% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.20% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 23
10th Percentile £360 £533 £481
25th Percentile £401 £576 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £608 £700
90th Percentile £700 £621 -
England median daily rate £600 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £72.00 -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,602 3,480 4,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.81% 84.32% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,367 1,931 3,000
10th Percentile £263 £300 £276
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% - -
75th Percentile £575 £576 £600
90th Percentile £675 £669 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 181 207
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +27.27% +30.95%
75th Percentile £37.56 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £66.65 £70.00 £64.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +42.26%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Pair Programming job vacancy trend in the North of England

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Pair Programming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Pair Programming

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in the North of England

Pair Programming
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Pair Programming.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Pair Programming

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Yorkshire -8 16 £650 +8.33% 5
North West -7 10 £400 -27.77% 9
North East -2 3 - - 3
Pair Programming
England

Pair Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (10.71%) Serverless
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (7.14%) GitHub
3 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.57%) Azure
4 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (57.14%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) GIS
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (53.57%) Mockito
2 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (85.71%) Developer
2 19 (67.86%) Java Developer
3 15 (53.57%) Senior
4 13 (46.43%) Senior Developer
4 13 (46.43%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Agile Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Agile Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Android Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Digital Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Digital Transformation
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Agile Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Agile Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) Kafka
2 15 (53.57%) ActiveMQ
2 15 (53.57%) JAX-RS
3 2 (7.14%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (7.14%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (7.14%) PySpark
3 2 (7.14%) pytest
3 2 (7.14%) React
3 2 (7.14%) RESTful
3 2 (7.14%) YAML
4 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.57%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.57%) HTML
4 1 (3.57%) HTML5
4 1 (3.57%) OAuth
4 1 (3.57%) Spring
4 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) Unix
2 15 (53.57%) Linux
3 12 (42.86%) Mac OS X
4 2 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) Agile
2 23 (82.14%) TDD
3 22 (78.57%) Test Automation
4 21 (75.00%) Microservices
5 20 (71.43%) BDD
6 16 (57.14%) Continuous Deployment
7 13 (46.43%) Responsive Web Design
7 13 (46.43%) Web Design
8 10 (35.71%) Web Development
9 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (25.00%) Clean Code
11 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
12 5 (17.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
13 3 (10.71%) API Development
13 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
13 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
13 3 (10.71%) SOLID
14 2 (7.14%) API Integration
14 2 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 23 (82.14%) Java
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Kotlin
3 2 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Control-M
3 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle