Design Patterns Contracts in England

Design Patterns
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Design Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Patterns over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 160 122
Rank change year-on-year -35 -38 +10
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 449 808 1,632
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.21% 1.60% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.77% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 559 1,131
10th Percentile £419 £410 £450
25th Percentile £500 £511 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £780 £750 £748
90th Percentile £850 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £601 £620 £616
% change year-on-year -3.13% +0.73% +17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 21 22
10th Percentile £55.05 £50.00 £46.63
25th Percentile £66.88 £70.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £63.43
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +14.31% +12.26%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £65.53
90th Percentile - - £78.38
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £63.43
% change year-on-year -5.08% +16.28% +20.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Design Patterns is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in England

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in England

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in England

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in England

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Design Patterns in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Design Patterns in England

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
London -40 254 £650 - 132
North of England +83 125 £607 +10.28% 65
North West +88 106 £598 +19.50% 37
South East -12 26 £550 -3.00% 52
Yorkshire +7 17 £677 +23.09% 17
Midlands +8 15 £596 +14.89% 39
South West -4 9 £525 -12.50% 21
West Midlands +9 8 £463 -7.50% 20
East Midlands +21 6 £665 +23.63% 19
East of England -7 4 £450 +33.33% 12
North East - 2 £588 - 11
Design Patterns
UK

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (3.34%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.45%) Confluence
3 6 (1.34%) Apache
3 6 (1.34%) CMS
4 5 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (1.11%) SAS
5 4 (0.89%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.67%) IIS
6 3 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.67%) nginx
7 2 (0.45%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.34%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.45%) InVision
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.11%) Endur
2 5 (1.11%) Shopify
2 5 (1.11%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.22%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 99 (22.05%) AWS
2 93 (20.71%) Azure
3 32 (7.13%) Serverless
4 30 (6.68%) SaaS
5 29 (6.46%) npm
6 27 (6.01%) GCP
7 22 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (4.90%) IaaS
8 21 (4.68%) PaaS
9 14 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (2.45%) GitHub
11 10 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (2.23%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.34%) Figma
14 6 (1.34%) Kong
14 6 (1.34%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 43 (9.58%) Firewall
2 39 (8.69%) VPN
3 12 (2.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 11 (2.45%) DMZ
5 6 (1.34%) HTTP
6 5 (1.11%) Network Security
7 3 (0.67%) BGP
8 2 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.45%) DHCP
8 2 (0.45%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.45%) FTP
8 2 (0.45%) LAN
8 2 (0.45%) OSPF
8 2 (0.45%) PPP
8 2 (0.45%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.45%) WAN
8 2 (0.45%) Wireless
9 1 (0.22%) IPsec
9 1 (0.22%) Multicast
9 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (11.58%) Relational Database
2 41 (9.13%) SQL Server
3 37 (8.24%) NoSQL
4 34 (7.57%) MongoDB
5 22 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (4.01%) Big Data
6 18 (4.01%) RDBMS
7 13 (2.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 13 (2.90%) Redis
8 12 (2.67%) MySQL
9 9 (2.00%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.00%) Hadoop
9 9 (2.00%) HBase
10 8 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.78%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.56%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.56%) Metadata
12 6 (1.34%) OLAP
12 6 (1.34%) OLTP
12 6 (1.34%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 68 (15.14%) JIRA
2 53 (11.80%) Git
3 30 (6.68%) webpack
4 23 (5.12%) Jenkins
5 20 (4.45%) TeamCity
6 19 (4.23%) GitLab
7 13 (2.90%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.90%) Visual Studio
8 11 (2.45%) Maven
9 10 (2.23%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.11%) Checkstyle
10 5 (1.11%) Gradle
10 5 (1.11%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.11%) Mocha
10 5 (1.11%) Mockito
10 5 (1.11%) MSI
10 5 (1.11%) Pylint
10 5 (1.11%) Subversion
10 5 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (1.11%) WiX
General
1 143 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 95 (21.16%) Finance
3 82 (18.26%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (14.70%) Banking
5 51 (11.36%) Front Office
6 44 (9.80%) Public Sector
7 23 (5.12%) Investment Banking
8 17 (3.79%) Retail
9 16 (3.56%) Marketing
10 11 (2.45%) Legal
11 10 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.78%) Back Office
12 8 (1.78%) Law
13 6 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.34%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (1.11%) Games
14 5 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.67%) Electronics
15 3 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 178 (39.64%) Developer
2 128 (28.51%) Architect
3 78 (17.37%) Senior
4 50 (11.14%) Lead
5 47 (10.47%) Technical Architect
6 41 (9.13%) Software Engineer
7 36 (8.02%) Senior Developer
8 34 (7.57%) Technical Leader
9 31 (6.90%) Full Stack Developer
10 28 (6.24%) Lead Architect
11 27 (6.01%) C# Developer
11 27 (6.01%) Java Developer
12 25 (5.57%) React Developer
13 24 (5.35%) Cloud Architect
14 23 (5.12%) Security Architect
15 22 (4.90%) Angular Developer
16 21 (4.68%) .NET Developer
16 21 (4.68%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 21 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (4.45%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (18.26%) React
2 81 (18.04%) REST
3 80 (17.82%) .NET
4 73 (16.26%) Node.js
5 46 (10.24%) CSS
6 44 (9.80%) RESTful
7 40 (8.91%) HTML
7 40 (8.91%) Kafka
8 38 (8.46%) AngularJS
9 33 (7.35%) Web Services
10 31 (6.90%) ASP.NET
11 29 (6.46%) Spring
11 29 (6.46%) WebSockets
12 25 (5.57%) .NET Framework
13 22 (4.90%) RxJS
13 22 (4.90%) XML
14 21 (4.68%) Redux
15 20 (4.45%) JSON
16 17 (3.79%) .NET Core
16 17 (3.79%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.46%) Algorithms
2 37 (8.24%) Public Cloud
3 33 (7.35%) Data Structures
4 29 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (6.01%) Mobile App
5 27 (6.01%) Product Ownership
6 25 (5.57%) Management Information System
7 23 (5.12%) Fixed Income
8 19 (4.23%) Derivative
9 17 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (3.56%) IoT
11 14 (3.12%) Cloud Native
12 10 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (1.34%) Client/Server
15 6 (1.34%) CMDB
16 5 (1.11%) Web 2.0
16 5 (1.11%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.35%) Android
2 41 (9.13%) Windows
3 36 (8.02%) Apple iOS
4 29 (6.46%) Windows Server
5 26 (5.79%) Linux
6 14 (3.12%) Unix
7 4 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.22%) tvOS
8 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (51.22%) Agile
2 124 (27.62%) CI/CD
2 124 (27.62%) Software Engineering
3 114 (25.39%) DevOps
4 97 (21.60%) Microservices
5 84 (18.71%) OO
6 76 (16.93%) Architectural Patterns
6 76 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (12.47%) Continuous Integration
9 53 (11.80%) SDLC
10 49 (10.91%) TDD
11 47 (10.47%) Scrum
12 45 (10.02%) Electronic Trading
13 44 (9.80%) Security Architecture
14 43 (9.58%) Full Stack Development
14 43 (9.58%) Test Automation
15 42 (9.35%) Risk Management
16 40 (8.91%) SOLID
17 38 (8.46%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 120 (26.73%) C#
2 114 (25.39%) Java
3 111 (24.72%) JavaScript
4 96 (21.38%) SQL
5 64 (14.25%) Python
6 62 (13.81%) TypeScript
7 26 (5.79%) Scala
8 22 (4.90%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.90%) C++
10 8 (1.78%) Go
10 8 (1.78%) Perl
10 8 (1.78%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.56%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.56%) PHP
11 7 (1.56%) Ruby
11 7 (1.56%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.34%) Bash
13 5 (1.11%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.11%) Groovy
13 5 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (16.04%) Degree
2 45 (10.02%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.68%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.34%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.23%) CISSP
8 6 (1.34%) CISM
9 4 (0.89%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.89%) PMP
10 2 (0.45%) HND
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.22%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.22%) CEH
11 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.22%) GIAC
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.45%) QA
2 17 (3.79%) PCI DSS
3 14 (3.12%) NIST
4 8 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.78%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.34%) GDPR
6 4 (0.89%) MiFID
7 2 (0.45%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (7.80%) Docker
2 6 (1.34%) HDFS
3 5 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (10.91%) Terraform
2 28 (6.24%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.90%) Grafana
4 10 (2.23%) Ansible
5 8 (1.78%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.34%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.45%) Istio
8 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.22%) Argo
9 1 (0.22%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.22%) Oozie
9 1 (0.22%) Puppet
9 1 (0.22%) Rancher
9 1 (0.22%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 37 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.12%) Oracle
3 20 (4.45%) Google
4 16 (3.56%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.90%) Cisco
6 10 (2.23%) Blue Coat
6 10 (2.23%) CheckPoint
6 10 (2.23%) Fortinet
6 10 (2.23%) Juniper
6 10 (2.23%) SAP
6 10 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.00%) Databricks
8 7 (1.56%) Adobe
8 7 (1.56%) Apple
8 7 (1.56%) Avaloq
8 7 (1.56%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.11%) IBM
9 5 (1.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 5 (1.11%) Sitecore
9 5 (1.11%) TSYS