Design Patterns Contracts in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 203 205 170
Rank change year-on-year +2 -35 -11
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 194 283 452
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.95% 1.20% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.34% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 194 290
10th Percentile £425 £391 £400
25th Percentile £489 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £638
90th Percentile £850 £750 £701
UK median daily rate £600 £615 £620
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.81% +18.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 16
10th Percentile £66.88 £53.75 £46.25
25th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +17.65% +12.05%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £63.95
90th Percentile - - £65.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £63.25
% change year-on-year -5.08% +16.60% +20.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Design Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Design Patterns in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Design Patterns in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 of England +70 116 £601 +9.20% 66
North West +77 99 £600 +6.57% 35
South East -19 30 £575 +0.88% 45
Scotland -8 24 £606 +3.19% 23
Yorkshire +11 15 £650 +18.18% 18
Midlands +6 11 £469 -22.65% 42
South West +1 9 £525 -12.50% 17
West Midlands +6 8 £463 -11.48% 20
East of England -11 5 £450 +33.33% 10
East Midlands +14 3 £567 -6.44% 22
North East - 2 £588 - 14
Wales +18 1 - - 4
Design Patterns
UK

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.58%) Confluence
1 5 (2.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.55%) IIS
2 3 (1.55%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.55%) nginx
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.58%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.03%) InVision
Business Applications
1 6 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.58%) Temenos T24
3 2 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (26.29%) AWS
2 29 (14.95%) Azure
3 13 (6.70%) GCP
4 8 (4.12%) SaaS
5 6 (3.09%) Kong
5 6 (3.09%) PaaS
6 5 (2.58%) Apigee
6 5 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (2.58%) IaaS
6 5 (2.58%) npm
7 4 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.06%) OCI
7 4 (2.06%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.06%) Serverless
7 4 (2.06%) Yarn
8 3 (1.55%) CloudBees
8 3 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 41 (21.13%) Firewall
2 37 (19.07%) VPN
3 10 (5.15%) Cisco Nexus
3 10 (5.15%) DMZ
4 6 (3.09%) HTTP
5 3 (1.55%) LAN
5 3 (1.55%) Network Security
5 3 (1.55%) WAN
6 2 (1.03%) Broadband
6 2 (1.03%) PPP
6 2 (1.03%) SAN
7 1 (0.52%) IPsec
7 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.52%) NFC
7 1 (0.52%) SMS
7 1 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.92%) MongoDB
2 10 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.12%) MySQL
3 8 (4.12%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.61%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.61%) Redis
5 6 (3.09%) OLAP
5 6 (3.09%) OLTP
5 6 (3.09%) Oracle OLAP
5 6 (3.09%) SQLite
6 5 (2.58%) MariaDB
6 5 (2.58%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.55%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.55%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.55%) HBase
8 2 (1.03%) Big Data
8 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.03%) Metadata
8 2 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (9.79%) JIRA
2 18 (9.28%) GitLab
3 16 (8.25%) Git
4 12 (6.19%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.09%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.58%) Checkstyle
6 5 (2.58%) webpack
7 4 (2.06%) Gradle
7 4 (2.06%) Jasmine
7 4 (2.06%) JUnit
7 4 (2.06%) Karma Test Runner
7 4 (2.06%) Mocha
8 3 (1.55%) Maven
8 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.52%) Valgrind
General
1 32 (16.49%) Banking
2 31 (15.98%) Finance
3 30 (15.46%) Public Sector
4 28 (14.43%) Social Skills
5 10 (5.15%) Investment Banking
5 10 (5.15%) Legal
6 8 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.58%) Retail
8 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.55%) Law
8 3 (1.55%) Marketing
9 2 (1.03%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) Military
10 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Retail Finance
10 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (38.66%) Architect
2 44 (22.68%) Developer
3 37 (19.07%) Lead
4 33 (17.01%) Technical Architect
5 31 (15.98%) Lead Architect
6 26 (13.40%) Technical Leader
7 24 (12.37%) Senior
7 24 (12.37%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.73%) Java Developer
9 11 (5.67%) Designer
9 11 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (5.15%) Blue Coat Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Cisco Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Juniper Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Network Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.12%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (3.61%) .NET Developer
12 7 (3.61%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (25.26%) Node.js
2 30 (15.46%) RESTful
3 24 (12.37%) .NET
4 22 (11.34%) Kafka
5 16 (8.25%) REST
6 14 (7.22%) .NET Framework
7 13 (6.70%) JSON
7 13 (6.70%) Web Services
8 12 (6.19%) SOAP
9 11 (5.67%) .NET Core
9 11 (5.67%) React
9 11 (5.67%) Spring
10 10 (5.15%) XML
11 9 (4.64%) HTML
11 9 (4.64%) Spring Boot
12 8 (4.12%) AngularJS
12 8 (4.12%) CSS
13 6 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.58%) IBM Integration Bus
14 5 (2.58%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.01%) Public Cloud
2 16 (8.25%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.19%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.15%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.61%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.58%) DataPower
7 5 (2.58%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.03%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.03%) Derivative
10 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.03%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (19.07%) Windows
2 33 (17.01%) Android
3 30 (15.46%) Windows Server
4 28 (14.43%) Apple iOS
5 15 (7.73%) Linux
6 7 (3.61%) Unix
7 4 (2.06%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (47.42%) Agile
2 70 (36.08%) DevOps
3 67 (34.54%) CI/CD
4 61 (31.44%) Microservices
5 50 (25.77%) Software Engineering
6 45 (23.20%) Risk Management
7 34 (17.53%) Architectural Patterns
8 33 (17.01%) Security Architecture
9 30 (15.46%) OO
10 29 (14.95%) Threat Intelligence
11 27 (13.92%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 27 (13.92%) Mobile Device Management
11 27 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (13.92%) Zero Trust
12 25 (12.89%) Roadmaps
13 24 (12.37%) Scrum
14 20 (10.31%) CRM
15 18 (9.28%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (9.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (20.62%) Java
2 30 (15.46%) C#
3 26 (13.40%) SQL
4 21 (10.82%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.76%) Python
6 12 (6.19%) Scala
7 8 (4.12%) Bash
8 7 (3.61%) PL/SQL
9 6 (3.09%) Perl
9 6 (3.09%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.06%) C++
10 4 (2.06%) Go
10 4 (2.06%) Groovy
10 4 (2.06%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.06%) PHP
10 4 (2.06%) Ruby
11 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.03%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.52%) XAML
Qualifications
1 30 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.25%) Degree
3 15 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.06%) CISM
7 4 (2.06%) CISSP
8 3 (1.55%) CCNA
8 3 (1.55%) CCNP
9 2 (1.03%) HND
9 2 (1.03%) PMP
10 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.52%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.52%) PhD
10 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.19%) QA
2 5 (2.58%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.06%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.55%) GDPR
4 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.52%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) SLA
5 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (6.19%) Docker
2 3 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (11.86%) Terraform
2 9 (4.64%) Grafana
3 8 (4.12%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.58%) Ansible
5 4 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.55%) SCCM
7 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.52%) FreeIPA
8 1 (0.52%) Icinga
8 1 (0.52%) Istio
8 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (8.76%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.19%) Oracle
3 10 (5.15%) Blue Coat
3 10 (5.15%) CheckPoint
3 10 (5.15%) Cisco
3 10 (5.15%) Fortinet
3 10 (5.15%) Juniper
4 9 (4.64%) Google
5 7 (3.61%) Avaloq
6 5 (2.58%) Apple
6 5 (2.58%) IBM
6 5 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.58%) TSYS
7 4 (2.06%) Pega
7 4 (2.06%) Splunk
7 4 (2.06%) VMware
8 3 (1.55%) F5
8 3 (1.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Adobe
9 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow