Design Patterns Contracts with Work from Home Options

Design Patterns
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 178 142 127
Rank change year-on-year -36 -15 +5
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 179 447 924
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.19% 1.78% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.98% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 319 671
10th Percentile £383 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £480 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £753 £750 £676
90th Percentile £850 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £615 £620
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.81% +18.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 21
10th Percentile £66.75 £62.90 £46.25
25th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +16.00% +10.62%
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Design Patterns
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Design Patterns trend for jobs with a WFH option

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design Patterns.

Design Patterns daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Design Patterns over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Design Patterns daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design Patterns.

Design Patterns hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Design Patterns over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Design Patterns hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.79%) Confluence
2 4 (2.23%) CMS
2 4 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.68%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.68%) IIS
4 2 (1.12%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.12%) Mule
5 1 (0.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.23%) Temenos T24
3 2 (1.12%) Endur
4 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (27.93%) Azure
2 44 (24.58%) AWS
3 12 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.03%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.47%) SaaS
6 7 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.35%) IaaS
7 6 (3.35%) npm
7 6 (3.35%) PaaS
8 5 (2.79%) Serverless
9 4 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (2.23%) Apigee
9 4 (2.23%) Azure AKS
9 4 (2.23%) GCP
9 4 (2.23%) GitHub
9 4 (2.23%) Kong
9 4 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.68%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.59%) Firewall
1 10 (5.59%) VPN
2 3 (1.68%) LAN
2 3 (1.68%) Network Security
2 3 (1.68%) WAN
3 2 (1.12%) BGP
3 2 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.12%) DMZ
3 2 (1.12%) PPP
3 2 (1.12%) SAN
4 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.56%) DHCP
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.56%) FTP
4 1 (0.56%) Multicast
4 1 (0.56%) NFC
4 1 (0.56%) OSPF
4 1 (0.56%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.64%) SQL Server
2 20 (11.17%) Relational Database
3 15 (8.38%) NoSQL
4 14 (7.82%) MySQL
5 12 (6.70%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.79%) OLAP
6 5 (2.79%) OLTP
6 5 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.79%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.23%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (2.23%) Power BI
8 3 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.68%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.68%) Redis
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.12%) Big Data
9 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.12%) HBase
Development Applications
1 22 (12.29%) JIRA
2 20 (11.17%) Git
3 10 (5.59%) Visual Studio
4 8 (4.47%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.35%) webpack
6 5 (2.79%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.79%) GitLab
6 5 (2.79%) MSI
6 5 (2.79%) WiX
7 4 (2.23%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.68%) Gradle
8 3 (1.68%) PHPUnit
9 2 (1.12%) Maven
9 2 (1.12%) Moq
9 2 (1.12%) MSTest
9 2 (1.12%) NUnit
9 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.12%) XCTest
9 2 (1.12%) XCUITest
General
1 58 (32.40%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.55%) Finance
3 29 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (15.08%) Banking
5 18 (10.06%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.15%) Front Office
6 11 (6.15%) Retail
7 8 (4.47%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.91%) Retail Banking
9 6 (3.35%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (2.23%) Legal
10 4 (2.23%) Marketing
11 3 (1.68%) Law
11 3 (1.68%) Publishing
12 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Back Office
13 1 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 76 (42.46%) Developer
2 60 (33.52%) Architect
3 32 (17.88%) Senior
4 19 (10.61%) Full Stack Developer
4 19 (10.61%) Senior Developer
4 19 (10.61%) Technical Architect
5 17 (9.50%) Software Engineer
5 17 (9.50%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (8.38%) C# Developer
7 12 (6.70%) Lead
8 11 (6.15%) React Developer
9 10 (5.59%) .NET Developer
9 10 (5.59%) AWS Architect
9 10 (5.59%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (5.03%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 9 (5.03%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) Applications Developer
11 8 (4.47%) Pega Architect
11 8 (4.47%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (24.58%) .NET
2 36 (20.11%) REST
3 34 (18.99%) React
4 27 (15.08%) Node.js
5 26 (14.53%) ASP.NET
6 23 (12.85%) HTML
7 21 (11.73%) CSS
8 19 (10.61%) .NET Framework
8 19 (10.61%) AngularJS
8 19 (10.61%) Web Services
9 16 (8.94%) SOAP
10 14 (7.82%) Entity Framework
10 14 (7.82%) JSON
10 14 (7.82%) RESTful
10 14 (7.82%) Vue
11 12 (6.70%) XML
12 11 (6.15%) ASP.NET Web API
13 10 (5.59%) ASP.NET Core
13 10 (5.59%) Kafka
14 9 (5.03%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.70%) Public Cloud
2 10 (5.59%) Algorithms
3 8 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.35%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.79%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.79%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.79%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.79%) Web 2.0
6 4 (2.23%) DataPower
6 4 (2.23%) Derivative
7 3 (1.68%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.17%) Android
1 20 (11.17%) Windows
2 16 (8.94%) Apple iOS
3 14 (7.82%) Linux
4 10 (5.59%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.35%) Unix
6 2 (1.12%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.56%) tvOS
7 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.87%) Agile
2 49 (27.37%) DevOps
3 46 (25.70%) Software Engineering
4 39 (21.79%) CI/CD
4 39 (21.79%) Microservices
4 39 (21.79%) OO
5 32 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (15.64%) Architectural Patterns
7 22 (12.29%) SOLID
8 21 (11.73%) Full Stack Development
9 20 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (10.61%) Web Development
11 18 (10.06%) Code Quality
11 18 (10.06%) MVC
12 17 (9.50%) Clean Code
12 17 (9.50%) Test Automation
12 17 (9.50%) Unit Testing
13 16 (8.94%) Computer Science
13 16 (8.94%) Risk Management
13 16 (8.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 59 (32.96%) C#
2 43 (24.02%) JavaScript
3 38 (21.23%) Java
3 38 (21.23%) SQL
4 24 (13.41%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.94%) Python
6 11 (6.15%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.03%) Scala
8 8 (4.47%) PHP
9 6 (3.35%) Bash
9 6 (3.35%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.79%) C++
11 4 (2.23%) Go
11 4 (2.23%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.68%) Perl
12 3 (1.68%) Ruby
13 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.12%) Swift
13 2 (1.12%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 35 (19.55%) Degree
2 15 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.82%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.59%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.47%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.68%) CISM
7 3 (1.68%) CISSP
8 2 (1.12%) CCNA
8 2 (1.12%) CCNP
9 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CEH
9 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.56%) PhD
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.06%) QA
2 6 (3.35%) GDPR
2 6 (3.35%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.79%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.12%) MiFID
5 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (8.38%) Docker
2 5 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (6.15%) Kubernetes
1 11 (6.15%) Terraform
2 4 (2.23%) Grafana
2 4 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.68%) Puppet
4 2 (1.12%) Ansible
4 2 (1.12%) CloudHub
4 2 (1.12%) Istio
4 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.12%) SCCM
5 1 (0.56%) Argo
5 1 (0.56%) FreeIPA
5 1 (0.56%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.56%) Icinga
5 1 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.56%) Oozie
5 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 23 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.26%) Oracle
3 8 (4.47%) Pega
4 4 (2.23%) IBM
4 4 (2.23%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.23%) TSYS
5 3 (1.68%) Cisco
5 3 (1.68%) F5
5 3 (1.68%) Splunk
5 3 (1.68%) Workday
6 2 (1.12%) Apple
6 2 (1.12%) Avaloq
6 2 (1.12%) Checkmarx
6 2 (1.12%) Google
6 2 (1.12%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.12%) VMware
6 2 (1.12%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.56%) Blue Coat
7 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow