Design Patterns Contracts in Edinburgh

Design Patterns
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 58 60 84
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 +21
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 9 12 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.44% 1.47% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.67% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 24
10th Percentile - £510 £377
25th Percentile £406 £569 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £650 £420
Median % change year-on-year -29.81% +54.76% -22.58%
75th Percentile £552 £797 £506
90th Percentile £597 £830 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in Edinburgh

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in Edinburgh

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in Edinburgh

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (22.22%) MariaDB
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) Power Query
1 2 (22.22%) Redis
General
1 7 (77.78%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Service Design Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Node.js
1 4 (44.44%) React
1 4 (44.44%) REST
1 4 (44.44%) Spring
1 4 (44.44%) Spring Boot
2 2 (22.22%) ARM Templates
2 2 (22.22%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 2 (22.22%) YAML
3 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (22.22%) Low-Code
2 1 (11.11%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (44.44%) TDD
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Kanban
4 2 (22.22%) Log Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Release Management
5 1 (11.11%) Batch Management
5 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 1 (11.11%) Impact Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Bicep
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
1 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle