Design Patterns Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Design Patterns
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 30 39
Rank change year-on-year -34 +9 +21
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 11 22 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.67% 4.17% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 4.87% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 6
10th Percentile £329 £340 £484
25th Percentile £350 £373 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £388 £606
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -36.06% +10.18%
75th Percentile £370 £623 -
90th Percentile £423 £746 £625
North West median daily rate £400 £550 £606
% change year-on-year -27.27% -9.24% +5.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £85.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -17.65% +17.24% +32.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 593 452 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 90.12% 85.77% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 280 195
10th Percentile £302 £323 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £634
North West median daily rate £454 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.01% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 30
10th Percentile - £16.00 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.82 - £22.13
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +46.19%
75th Percentile £35.38 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% +21.43% +59.09%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in Cheshire

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Design Patterns.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Design Patterns.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Knutsford -26 8 £358 -6.95% 2
Chester -6 1 - - 1
Warrington - 1 £410 -
Design Patterns
North West

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (54.55%) JBoss
1 6 (54.55%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) OpenShift
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
2 6 (54.55%) Gradle
2 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 6 (54.55%) JIRA
2 6 (54.55%) JUnit
2 6 (54.55%) Maven
2 6 (54.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Developer in Test
4 1 (9.09%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) REST
2 6 (54.55%) SOAP
2 6 (54.55%) Spring
2 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
3 5 (45.45%) Spring Cloud
4 4 (36.36%) RESTful
5 2 (18.18%) .NET
5 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
5 2 (18.18%) Spring MVC
6 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
6 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (9.09%) CSS
6 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
6 1 (9.09%) HTML
6 1 (9.09%) HTML5
6 1 (9.09%) Kafka
6 1 (9.09%) OAuth
6 1 (9.09%) React
6 1 (9.09%) Vue
6 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 6 (54.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Microservices
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) MVC
5 3 (27.27%) OOP
5 3 (27.27%) SOLID
6 2 (18.18%) OO
6 2 (18.18%) Pair Programming
6 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) TDD
7 1 (9.09%) Application Security
7 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
7 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
7 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) Shell Script
3 2 (18.18%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
1 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) F5