Design Patterns Contracts in the City of London

Design Patterns
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 100 112 136
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 -28
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 19 15 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.08% 0.68% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.75% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 26
10th Percentile £529 £477 £405
25th Percentile £600 £483 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £538 £738
Median % change year-on-year +22.79% -27.12% +3.51%
75th Percentile £718 £672 £759
90th Percentile £812 £725 £900
Central London median daily rate £660 £538 £750
% change year-on-year +22.79% -28.33% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the City of London

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the City of London

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the City of London

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the City of London

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (5.26%) Datadog
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) 3G
2 1 (5.26%) 4G
2 1 (5.26%) 5G
2 1 (5.26%) LTE
2 1 (5.26%) VLAN
2 1 (5.26%) VSAN
2 1 (5.26%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.26%) KDB
3 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MSI
2 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.26%) Gatling
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Hamcrest
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) JUnit
2 1 (5.26%) Postman
2 1 (5.26%) Selenium
2 1 (5.26%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.79%) Front Office
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Security Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Software Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Security Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (5.26%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Network Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.26%) CSS
2 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) Spring
2 1 (5.26%) Vue
2 1 (5.26%) Web Services
2 1 (5.26%) WebSockets
2 1 (5.26%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.53%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
2 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
4 3 (15.79%) Low Latency
4 3 (15.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Debt
5 2 (10.53%) Application Packaging
5 2 (10.53%) Application Virtualisation
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Microservices
5 2 (10.53%) Observability
5 2 (10.53%) OO
5 2 (10.53%) OWASP
5 2 (10.53%) Security Architecture
5 2 (10.53%) Service Design
5 2 (10.53%) SOLID
5 2 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Degree
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) CISM
5 1 (5.26%) CISSP
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GRC
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Citrix
4 1 (5.26%) Ariba
4 1 (5.26%) Ericsson
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) ION Trading
4 1 (5.26%) Mavenir
4 1 (5.26%) Nokia
4 1 (5.26%) Qualys
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) SnapLogic
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) VMware