Pair Programming Contract Job Trends in the North West

Pair Programming
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 122 113 135
Rank change year-on-year -9 +22 +7
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 9 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.42% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.36% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 8
10th Percentile £355 - £476
25th Percentile £359 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £508 £625
Median % change year-on-year -27.49% -18.80% -
75th Percentile £400 £538 £678
90th Percentile £490 £575 £688
England median daily rate £600 £578 £650
% change year-on-year +3.90% -11.15% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £72.00 -
England median hourly rate - £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -11.68%

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 1,913 1,970 2,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.85% 83.33% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,257 1,145 1,682
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £553 £588 £594
90th Percentile £661 £678 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 107 163
10th Percentile £13.51 £16.40 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.38 £27.38 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%
75th Percentile £50.75 £57.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.42 £70.90 £66.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in the North West

Pair Programming
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 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
Manchester +2 6 £400 -23.81% 4
Cheshire -17 3 £359 -24.42% 5
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 2 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Android Developer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (22.22%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (22.22%) PySpark
2 2 (22.22%) pytest
2 2 (22.22%) React
2 2 (22.22%) YAML
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Entity Framework
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
1 2 (22.22%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Android
3 1 (11.11%) Mac OS X
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Clean Code
3 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) TDD
4 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (33.33%) SOLID
6 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
6 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
6 2 (22.22%) Multivariate Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) RBAC
6 2 (22.22%) Secrets Management
6 2 (22.22%) Secure Coding
6 2 (22.22%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Kotlin
3 2 (22.22%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Control-M
1 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle