Design Patterns Contracts in Scotland

Design Patterns
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 88 102
Rank change year-on-year -23 +14 -6
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 20 83 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.91% 2.91% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 3.14% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 71 46
10th Percentile £500 £405 £361
25th Percentile £541 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £570 £478
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% +19.25% +0.63%
75th Percentile £746 £750 £599
90th Percentile £830 - £713
UK median daily rate £601 £620 £613
% change year-on-year -3.13% +1.22% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Design Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in Scotland

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in Scotland

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in Scotland

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in Scotland

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Edinburgh +24 11 £650 +54.76% 9
Glasgow -40 8 £568 -15.93% 11
West Lothian - 1 - -
Design Patterns
UK

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (15.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (5.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) LAN
1 3 (15.00%) WAN
2 2 (10.00%) Broadband
2 2 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (15.00%) MySQL
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Gradle
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) JUnit
2 2 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) gulp
3 1 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.00%) Terragrunt
3 1 (5.00%) Travis CI
3 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 10 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Lead
2 7 (35.00%) Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Java Scala Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Lead Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Linux Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Linux Scripter
4 4 (20.00%) Scala Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Data Designer
6 2 (10.00%) Designer
7 1 (5.00%) Android Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Android Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Mobile Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Security Technical Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (10.00%) Dagger
1 2 (10.00%) Java EE
1 2 (10.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (10.00%) JSON
1 2 (10.00%) RESTful
1 2 (10.00%) Retrofit
2 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
2 1 (5.00%) CSS3
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) HTML5
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) Redux
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
2 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Unix
3 3 (15.00%) Windows
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.00%) Android
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) OO
2 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 5 (25.00%) Information Security
2 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 5 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (15.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (15.00%) Microservices
4 3 (15.00%) Organisational Awareness
4 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.00%) SOLID
4 3 (15.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Data Design
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
2 4 (20.00%) Scala
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) Kotlin
4 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) Groovy
5 1 (5.00%) PHP
5 1 (5.00%) Ruby
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) CCNA
1 3 (15.00%) CCNP
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (15.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) SCCM
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) FreeIPA
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Icinga
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) F5
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk