Pair Programming Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Pair Programming
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Pair Programming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs citing Pair Programming 10 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.87% 1.79% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 2.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £418 £383 -
25th Percentile £471 £404 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.54% - -
75th Percentile £572 £473 -
90th Percentile £604 £494 -
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £425 -
% change year-on-year +26.35% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 308 94 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 88.51% 83.93% 77.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 64 22
10th Percentile £400 £215 £264
25th Percentile £441 £367 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £481 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% +20.13% -24.53%
75th Percentile £538 £529 £478
90th Percentile £553 £567 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £12.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +157.02% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 £17.89 -
90th Percentile £38.53 £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%

Pair Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Pair Programming job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Pair Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pair Programming in Shropshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pair Programming in Shropshire

Pair Programming
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Telford -32 10 £537 +22.54% 3
Pair Programming
West Midlands

Pair Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (20.00%) Anypoint
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) Gatling
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Manual Tester
1 3 (30.00%) Scala Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) MuleSoft Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Play Framework
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) MUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Playwright
2 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (10.00%) RAML
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
2 5 (50.00%) User Stories
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Security Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Integration Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Scala
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) MuleSoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat