Design Patterns Contracts in Central London

Design Patterns
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Design Patterns skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Design Patterns over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 118 129
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 -22
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 20 15 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.00% 0.61% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.68% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 27
10th Percentile £533 £477 £409
25th Percentile £613 £483 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £538 £750
Median % change year-on-year +22.79% -28.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £690 £672 £794
90th Percentile £811 £725 £899
London median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Design Patterns falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in Central London

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in Central London

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in Central London

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in Central London

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +12 19 £660 +22.79% 15
Design Patterns
London

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Datadog
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) 3G
2 1 (5.00%) 4G
2 1 (5.00%) 5G
2 1 (5.00%) LTE
2 1 (5.00%) VLAN
2 1 (5.00%) VSAN
2 1 (5.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) KDB
3 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MSI
2 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.00%) Gatling
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Hamcrest
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Postman
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.00%) Front Office
5 1 (5.00%) Back Office
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Lead
3 4 (20.00%) Consultant
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Security Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Software Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Security Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Network Service Designer
6 1 (5.00%) Service Designer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
2 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
2 1 (5.00%) Vue
2 1 (5.00%) Web Services
2 1 (5.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (5.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Windows
3 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile
1 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Low Latency
4 3 (15.00%) OO
4 3 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Debt
5 2 (10.00%) Application Security
5 2 (10.00%) Application Virtualisation
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (10.00%) Observability
5 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (10.00%) Service Design
5 2 (10.00%) SOLID
5 2 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) Degree
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) CISM
5 1 (5.00%) CISSP
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GRC
1 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) Ariba
4 1 (5.00%) Ericsson
4 1 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) ION Trading
4 1 (5.00%) Mavenir
4 1 (5.00%) Nokia
4 1 (5.00%) Qualys
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) SnapLogic
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) VMware