Design Patterns Contracts in the North of England

Design Patterns
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Design Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Patterns over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 148 101
Rank change year-on-year +70 -47 +8
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 116 66 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.47% 1.16% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 1.27% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 43 114
10th Percentile £463 £413 £400
25th Percentile £512 £488 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £813 £606 £636
90th Percentile £850 £637 £725
England median daily rate £600 £620 £625
% change year-on-year -3.18% -0.80% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £66.50 £44.24 -
25th Percentile £66.88 £53.90 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% +73.61%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £65.00
90th Percentile £80.50 - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year +10.34% +14.62% +11.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Design Patterns is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Design Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Design Patterns in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
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 Design Patterns within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
North West +77 99 £600 +6.57% 37
Yorkshire +11 15 £650 +18.18% 20
North East - 2 £588 - 13
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (4.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (3.45%) Confluence
3 3 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.59%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.59%) nginx
4 1 (0.86%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Temenos T24
2 4 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (30.17%) AWS
2 13 (11.21%) Azure
3 8 (6.90%) GCP
4 6 (5.17%) Kong
5 5 (4.31%) Apigee
5 5 (4.31%) PaaS
5 5 (4.31%) SaaS
6 4 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.45%) IaaS
6 4 (3.45%) npm
6 4 (3.45%) OCI
6 4 (3.45%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.45%) Yarn
7 3 (2.59%) CloudBees
7 3 (2.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.72%) Serverless
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (26.72%) Firewall
2 28 (24.14%) VPN
3 3 (2.59%) Network Security
4 1 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.86%) DMZ
4 1 (0.86%) HTTP
4 1 (0.86%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.55%) MongoDB
2 7 (6.03%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (4.31%) MySQL
3 5 (4.31%) OLAP
3 5 (4.31%) OLTP
3 5 (4.31%) Oracle OLAP
3 5 (4.31%) Redis
4 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.59%) ClickHouse
5 3 (2.59%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.59%) HBase
5 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.72%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.72%) Metadata
6 2 (1.72%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.86%) Big Data
7 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.86%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (15.52%) GitLab
2 14 (12.07%) JIRA
3 4 (3.45%) Jasmine
3 4 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.45%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (3.45%) Mocha
3 4 (3.45%) webpack
4 3 (2.59%) Git
5 2 (1.72%) JUnit
6 1 (0.86%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.86%) GoCD
6 1 (0.86%) Gradle
6 1 (0.86%) Maven
6 1 (0.86%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (18.97%) Finance
2 17 (14.66%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 15 (12.93%) Banking
5 10 (8.62%) Legal
6 5 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Law
7 3 (2.59%) Retail
8 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.86%) Marketing
8 1 (0.86%) Military
8 1 (0.86%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 55 (47.41%) Architect
2 30 (25.86%) Technical Architect
3 27 (23.28%) Lead
4 26 (22.41%) Lead Architect
5 25 (21.55%) Technical Leader
6 22 (18.97%) Developer
7 17 (14.66%) Senior
8 14 (12.07%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) AWS Architect
9 7 (6.03%) Java Developer
9 7 (6.03%) Project Manager
9 7 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (4.31%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Designer
10 5 (4.31%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.45%) Pega Architect
11 4 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (40.52%) Node.js
2 23 (19.83%) RESTful
3 18 (15.52%) Kafka
4 10 (8.62%) SOAP
4 10 (8.62%) Web Services
5 8 (6.90%) .NET
5 8 (6.90%) Spring
6 7 (6.03%) React
7 5 (4.31%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.31%) HTML
7 5 (4.31%) IBM Integration Bus
7 5 (4.31%) J2EE
7 5 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (4.31%) REST
7 5 (4.31%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.45%) Apache Camel
8 4 (3.45%) CSS
8 4 (3.45%) Spring Integration
9 3 (2.59%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.59%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 31 (26.72%) Public Cloud
2 10 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.17%) Algorithms
3 6 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.17%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.31%) DataPower
5 4 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.72%) Derivative
7 1 (0.86%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.86%) IoT
7 1 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (25.86%) Android
2 28 (24.14%) Windows
3 27 (23.28%) Apple iOS
3 27 (23.28%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.31%) Linux
5 3 (2.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (58.62%) Agile
2 60 (51.72%) CI/CD
3 54 (46.55%) DevOps
4 49 (42.24%) Microservices
5 39 (33.62%) Risk Management
6 28 (24.14%) Threat Intelligence
7 27 (23.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 27 (23.28%) Mobile Device Management
7 27 (23.28%) Security Architecture
7 27 (23.28%) Software Engineering
7 27 (23.28%) Zero Trust
8 15 (12.93%) Architectural Patterns
8 15 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (12.07%) CRM
10 13 (11.21%) Roadmaps
11 12 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (9.48%) Containerisation
12 11 (9.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (9.48%) OO
12 11 (9.48%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 26 (22.41%) Java
2 12 (10.34%) JavaScript
2 12 (10.34%) SQL
3 9 (7.76%) Python
4 8 (6.90%) C#
4 8 (6.90%) Scala
5 7 (6.03%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.59%) Go
6 3 (2.59%) Groovy
6 3 (2.59%) PHP
6 3 (2.59%) Ruby
7 2 (1.72%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.72%) Perl
7 2 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.45%) Degree
5 3 (2.59%) CISM
5 3 (2.59%) CISSP
6 1 (0.86%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.59%) GDPR
3 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.31%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 21 (18.10%) Terraform
2 5 (4.31%) Grafana
3 4 (3.45%) Ansible
3 4 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.59%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.86%) Istio
5 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (7.76%) Oracle
2 8 (6.90%) Google
3 7 (6.03%) Avaloq
4 5 (4.31%) Apple
4 5 (4.31%) IBM
4 5 (4.31%) TSYS
5 4 (3.45%) Pega
6 3 (2.59%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.86%) Blue Coat
8 1 (0.86%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.86%) Cisco
8 1 (0.86%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.86%) Juniper
8 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) VMware