Design Patterns Contracts in the West Midlands

Design Patterns
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 110 133
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 -25
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 8 30 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.42% 1.26% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.42% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 25
10th Percentile £404 £464 £378
25th Percentile £409 £483 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -7.41% +35.00%
75th Percentile £497 £700 £586
90th Percentile £503 £738 £621
England median daily rate £625 £625 £625
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,114 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.67% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,452 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the West Midlands

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the West Midlands

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the West Midlands

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Coventry +9 2 £475 -12.84%
Birmingham +4 2 - - 14
Warwickshire -15 2 - - 3
Shropshire - 1 £400 -
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (12.50%) DMZ
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) IPsec
1 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) BPEL
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Content Management
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Blue Coat
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow