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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 101 123
Rank change year-on-year -2 +22 -25
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 24 27 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.27% 1.32% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.44% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 28
10th Percentile £495 £468 £429
25th Percentile £550 £516 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £650 £676
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -3.77% -9.93%
75th Percentile £728 £822 £769
90th Percentile £825 £936 £890
Central London median daily rate £660 £650 £688
% change year-on-year +1.54% -5.52% -6.39%

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 1,776 1,876 3,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.02% 91.47% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,280 2,045
10th Percentile £331 £375 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £793 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 16
10th Percentile £17.57 £17.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.43 £15.00
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -13.60% -31.12%
75th Percentile £54.75 £82.19 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £61.25
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.81% -22.86% -18.36%

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 3 August 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 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (4.17%) Fidessa
1 1 (4.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) GCP
3 5 (20.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (16.67%) AWS
5 3 (12.50%) Apigee
5 3 (12.50%) GitHub
5 3 (12.50%) Stackdriver
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.33%) Serverless
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.17%) dbt
7 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.33%) Big Data
3 2 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.33%) KDB
4 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.17%) Metadata
4 1 (4.17%) Power BI
4 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) GitLab
2 3 (12.50%) Gradle
2 3 (12.50%) Maven
3 2 (8.33%) Postman
4 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.17%) Gatling
4 1 (4.17%) Hamcrest
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) JUnit
4 1 (4.17%) Selenium
4 1 (4.17%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (54.17%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Banking
4 4 (16.67%) Front Office
5 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
6 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Back Office
7 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Architect
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Software Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) .NET Architect
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Automation Tester
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Payments Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) .NET
2 5 (20.83%) Node.js
3 4 (16.67%) GraphQL
4 3 (12.50%) REST
5 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
5 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (8.33%) Blazor
5 2 (8.33%) CSS
5 2 (8.33%) HTML
5 2 (8.33%) Spring
5 2 (8.33%) Vue
5 2 (8.33%) Web Services
6 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.17%) AWS CDK
6 1 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (4.17%) JSON
6 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (4.17%) RESTful
6 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (12.50%) Fixed Income
1 3 (12.50%) IVR
2 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.17%) Derivative
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 8 (33.33%) DevOps
2 8 (33.33%) OO
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Microservices
4 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (16.67%) Low Latency
5 4 (16.67%) OOP
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 3 (12.50%) Analytics
6 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 3 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 3 (12.50%) Multithreading
6 3 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (12.50%) SOA
6 3 (12.50%) SOLID
6 3 (12.50%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) C#
2 7 (29.17%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) Python
4 3 (12.50%) SQL
5 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (12.50%) CISSP
3 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GRC
1 1 (4.17%) MiFID
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) Istio
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Puppet
3 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Google
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Splunk
3 3 (12.50%) MuleSoft
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (8.33%) DevExpress
4 2 (8.33%) ION Trading
5 1 (4.17%) Ariba
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) IBM
5 1 (4.17%) Portware
5 1 (4.17%) Qualys
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow