Pair Programming Contracts in the North West

Pair Programming
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 112 130 117
Rank change year-on-year +18 -13 +24
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 8 7 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.25% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.29% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 36
10th Percentile £390 - £513
25th Percentile £400 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.86% -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £647
90th Percentile £546 £635 £694
England median daily rate £500 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Pair Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Pair Programming in the North West

Pair Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pair Programming in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Pair Programming in the North West

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in the North West

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +18 6 £450 -18.18% 26
Cheshire 0 2 £385 -18.95% 1
Pair Programming
England

Pair Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (12.50%) Gradle
1 1 (12.50%) HP UFT
1 1 (12.50%) IntelliJ
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) NetBeans
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Android Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (25.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) Ajax
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) J2EE
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) TDD
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Android Development
3 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (25.00%) Mob Programming
3 2 (25.00%) Multivariate Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) API Development
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Secure Coding
4 1 (12.50%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) Kotlin
2 2 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) CA Agile Central