Design Patterns Contracts in the East of England

Design Patterns
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 96 107
Rank change year-on-year +22 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 17 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.37% 0.47% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 0.56% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile - £416 £311
25th Percentile - £422 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £338
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +40.74% -41.20%
75th Percentile £483 £538 £390
90th Percentile £529 £560 £448
England median daily rate £550 £577 £615
% change year-on-year -4.60% -6.26% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £63.63 £62.05 £59.50
25th Percentile £65.88 £62.13 £66.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £64.50 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% -9.47% +29.55%
75th Percentile - £67.13 £73.75
90th Percentile - £67.35 -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £67.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.90% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,099 1,417 1,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.34% 83.50% 87.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 563 995
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £373 £311 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 524 361
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.96 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.42 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the East of England

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the East of England

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the East of England

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Hertfordshire +22 10 - - 9
Norfolk - 5 £450 - 2
Bedfordshire -8 2 £530 +11.58% 1
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) npm
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) SaaS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) MongoDB
1 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Artifactory
1 9 (52.94%) GitLab
1 9 (52.94%) JIRA
1 9 (52.94%) Visual Studio
2 5 (29.41%) Git
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Development Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Software Development Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (82.35%) CSS
2 10 (58.82%) .NET
2 10 (58.82%) .NET Framework
3 9 (52.94%) AngularJS
3 9 (52.94%) HTML
3 9 (52.94%) Node.js
3 9 (52.94%) React
3 9 (52.94%) Svelte
3 9 (52.94%) Vue
4 5 (29.41%) Alpine.js
4 5 (29.41%) Laravel
4 5 (29.41%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Algorithms
1 9 (52.94%) Data Structures
1 9 (52.94%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Agile
1 15 (88.24%) CI/CD
2 14 (82.35%) Microservices
3 10 (58.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (52.94%) Computer Science
4 9 (52.94%) Containerisation
4 9 (52.94%) OOP
4 9 (52.94%) SDLC
4 9 (52.94%) Software Testing
4 9 (52.94%) TDD
5 8 (47.06%) DevOps
5 8 (47.06%) Software Engineering
6 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (29.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (5.88%) Data Modelling
8 1 (5.88%) Multithreading
8 1 (5.88%) People Management
8 1 (5.88%) Unit Testing
8 1 (5.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C#
1 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
1 9 (52.94%) TypeScript
2 7 (41.18%) C++
3 6 (35.29%) SQL
4 5 (29.41%) PHP
5 1 (5.88%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft