Design Patterns Contracts

Design Patterns
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 207 157 124
Rank change year-on-year -50 -33 -4
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 505 1,012 1,939
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 1.69% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.88% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 711 1,346
10th Percentile £418 £406 £430
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £620 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.22% +16.67%
75th Percentile £780 £750 £743
90th Percentile £850 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £595 £538 £540
% change year-on-year +10.70% -0.46% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 22 28
10th Percentile £60.65 £51.25 £48.88
25th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £63.43
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +16.28% +15.32%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - - £76.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Design Patterns over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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
England -28 449 £625 - 291
London -40 254 £650 - 114
UK excluding London +7 195 £595 +10.70% 203
Work from Home -48 172 £585 -2.50% 199
North of England +84 125 £607 +10.28% 60
North West +80 106 £598 +13.81% 35
South East -6 26 £550 -3.00% 50
Scotland -23 20 £650 +14.04% 23
Yorkshire +5 17 £677 +23.09% 16
Midlands +5 15 £596 +19.20% 36
South West +2 9 £525 -12.50% 18
West Midlands +9 8 £463 -7.50% 18
East Midlands +20 6 £665 +23.63% 18
East of England +1 4 £450 +33.33% 13
North East - 2 £588 - 9

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.18%) Confluence
3 6 (1.19%) Apache
3 6 (1.19%) CMS
3 6 (1.19%) IIS
4 5 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.99%) SAS
5 4 (0.79%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.59%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.59%) nginx
7 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) Mule
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.19%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.40%) InVision
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.99%) Endur
2 5 (0.99%) Shopify
2 5 (0.99%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.20%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 108 (21.39%) Azure
2 105 (20.79%) AWS
3 33 (6.53%) Serverless
4 30 (5.94%) npm
4 30 (5.94%) SaaS
5 27 (5.35%) GCP
6 26 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (5.15%) IaaS
7 25 (4.95%) PaaS
8 14 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (2.18%) GitHub
10 11 (2.18%) Power Platform
11 8 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.39%) Azure AKS
12 7 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (1.19%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 43 (8.51%) Firewall
2 39 (7.72%) VPN
3 12 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
4 11 (2.18%) DMZ
5 6 (1.19%) HTTP
5 6 (1.19%) Network Security
6 5 (0.99%) LAN
6 5 (0.99%) WAN
7 3 (0.59%) BGP
7 3 (0.59%) PPP
8 2 (0.40%) Broadband
8 2 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.40%) DHCP
8 2 (0.40%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.40%) FTP
8 2 (0.40%) OSPF
8 2 (0.40%) SAN
8 2 (0.40%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.40%) Wireless
9 1 (0.20%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (10.89%) Relational Database
2 46 (9.11%) SQL Server
3 39 (7.72%) NoSQL
4 36 (7.13%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (3.76%) Big Data
7 18 (3.56%) MySQL
7 18 (3.56%) RDBMS
8 14 (2.77%) Redis
9 13 (2.57%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.98%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.78%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.78%) HBase
12 8 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.58%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.39%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.39%) Metadata
14 6 (1.19%) OLAP
14 6 (1.19%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 69 (13.66%) JIRA
2 55 (10.89%) Git
3 31 (6.14%) webpack
4 26 (5.15%) Jenkins
5 21 (4.16%) TeamCity
6 19 (3.76%) GitLab
7 13 (2.57%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.57%) Maven
7 13 (2.57%) Visual Studio
8 10 (1.98%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.58%) Gradle
10 5 (0.99%) Checkstyle
10 5 (0.99%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.99%) JUnit
10 5 (0.99%) Mocha
10 5 (0.99%) Mockito
10 5 (0.99%) MSI
10 5 (0.99%) Pylint
10 5 (0.99%) Subversion
10 5 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 150 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 102 (20.20%) Finance
3 85 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (14.26%) Banking
5 56 (11.09%) Public Sector
6 51 (10.10%) Front Office
7 23 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 18 (3.56%) Retail
9 16 (3.17%) Marketing
10 11 (2.18%) Legal
11 10 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.58%) Back Office
12 8 (1.58%) Law
13 6 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.19%) Retail Banking
14 5 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (0.99%) Games
14 5 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.79%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 195 (38.61%) Developer
2 151 (29.90%) Architect
3 81 (16.04%) Senior
4 58 (11.49%) Lead
5 49 (9.70%) Technical Architect
6 43 (8.51%) Software Engineer
7 39 (7.72%) Senior Developer
8 35 (6.93%) Technical Leader
9 33 (6.53%) Java Developer
10 32 (6.34%) Full Stack Developer
10 32 (6.34%) Lead Architect
11 29 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (5.35%) C# Developer
13 26 (5.15%) React Developer
13 26 (5.15%) Security Architect
14 24 (4.75%) .NET Developer
14 24 (4.75%) Cloud Architect
15 22 (4.36%) Angular Developer
16 21 (4.16%) Applications Developer
16 21 (4.16%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (17.43%) React
2 87 (17.23%) REST
3 86 (17.03%) .NET
4 76 (15.05%) Node.js
5 52 (10.30%) CSS
6 46 (9.11%) HTML
6 46 (9.11%) RESTful
7 43 (8.51%) AngularJS
8 40 (7.92%) Kafka
9 37 (7.33%) ASP.NET
10 36 (7.13%) Web Services
11 30 (5.94%) Spring
12 29 (5.74%) WebSockets
13 28 (5.54%) .NET Framework
14 24 (4.75%) JSON
15 22 (4.36%) Redux
15 22 (4.36%) RxJS
15 22 (4.36%) XML
16 19 (3.76%) .NET Core
16 19 (3.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.32%) Algorithms
2 37 (7.33%) Public Cloud
3 34 (6.73%) Data Structures
4 29 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (5.74%) Product Ownership
5 27 (5.35%) Mobile App
6 26 (5.15%) Management Information System
7 23 (4.55%) Fixed Income
8 19 (3.76%) Derivative
9 18 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (3.17%) IoT
11 14 (2.77%) Cloud Native
12 12 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.78%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
16 6 (1.19%) CMDB
16 6 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
16 6 (1.19%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (9.31%) Android
2 44 (8.71%) Windows
3 38 (7.52%) Apple iOS
4 32 (6.34%) Windows Server
5 31 (6.14%) Linux
6 18 (3.56%) Unix
7 4 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) tvOS
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (47.13%) Agile
2 132 (26.14%) CI/CD
2 132 (26.14%) Software Engineering
3 127 (25.15%) DevOps
4 108 (21.39%) Microservices
5 92 (18.22%) OO
6 87 (17.23%) Architectural Patterns
7 84 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (12.08%) Continuous Integration
9 59 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (10.50%) Scrum
10 53 (10.50%) SDLC
11 50 (9.90%) Security Architecture
11 50 (9.90%) TDD
12 48 (9.50%) Risk Management
12 48 (9.50%) Test Automation
13 46 (9.11%) SOLID
14 45 (8.91%) Electronic Trading
14 45 (8.91%) Infrastructure as Code
15 44 (8.71%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 128 (25.35%) Java
2 127 (25.15%) C#
3 121 (23.96%) JavaScript
4 103 (20.40%) SQL
5 68 (13.47%) Python
6 66 (13.07%) TypeScript
7 30 (5.94%) Scala
8 26 (5.15%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.57%) C++
10 10 (1.98%) Bash
10 10 (1.98%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.98%) PHP
11 9 (1.78%) Go
11 9 (1.78%) Ruby
12 8 (1.58%) Perl
12 8 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.39%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.19%) Groovy
14 6 (1.19%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.99%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 79 (15.64%) Degree
2 48 (9.50%) Security Cleared
3 33 (6.53%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.18%) CISSP
8 7 (1.39%) CISM
9 5 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.79%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.79%) PMP
10 4 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.59%) CCNA
11 3 (0.59%) CCNP
12 2 (0.40%) HND
13 1 (0.20%) CCIE
13 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.35%) QA
2 21 (4.16%) PCI DSS
3 15 (2.97%) NIST
4 9 (1.78%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.58%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.19%) GDPR
7 4 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.79%) MiFID
8 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.59%) GRC
8 3 (0.59%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (7.33%) Docker
2 8 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.19%) HDFS
4 3 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (10.10%) Terraform
2 33 (6.53%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.77%) Grafana
4 11 (2.18%) Ansible
5 9 (1.78%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.19%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.59%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.59%) SCCM
9 2 (0.40%) Istio
9 2 (0.40%) Puppet
10 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.20%) Argo
10 1 (0.20%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.20%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.20%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.20%) Icinga
10 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.20%) Oozie
10 1 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 44 (8.71%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.55%) Oracle
3 20 (3.96%) Google
4 17 (3.37%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.57%) Cisco
6 11 (2.18%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.98%) Blue Coat
7 10 (1.98%) CheckPoint
7 10 (1.98%) Databricks
7 10 (1.98%) Fortinet
7 10 (1.98%) Juniper
7 10 (1.98%) SAP
8 8 (1.58%) Pega
9 7 (1.39%) Adobe
9 7 (1.39%) Apple
9 7 (1.39%) Avaloq
9 7 (1.39%) ION Trading
10 6 (1.19%) VMware
11 5 (0.99%) IBM
11 5 (0.99%) Sitecore