Design Patterns Contracts in England

Design Patterns
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 191 157
Rank change year-on-year -17 -34 -37
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 307 456 791
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.27% 1.24% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.43% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 321 545
10th Percentile £400 £419 £408
25th Percentile £463 £499 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £620
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -1.21% -0.80%
75th Percentile £690 £780 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 21
10th Percentile £50.50 £55.05 £50.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £66.88 £70.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £80.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +10.34% +14.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £85.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £70.00 £73.75
% change year-on-year -25.00% -5.08% +16.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,111 31,883 44,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.53% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,456 20,901 31,367
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £674
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 929 2,239 1,579
10th Percentile £14.28 £12.91 £10.83
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.04 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% -2.14% +54.64%
75th Percentile £63.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.68 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.44% +1.39% +44.00%

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 8 May 2025.

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
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 8 May 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
London +6 201 £625 -3.85% 415
South East +50 38 £500 -13.04% 164
North of England -70 25 £493 -21.15% 136
Midlands +23 18 £513 -9.61% 50
West Midlands +19 14 £613 +32.49% 28
North West -67 14 £410 -31.73% 78
Yorkshire -1 11 £500 -26.14% 39
South West +40 10 £392 -25.33% 31
East of England +33 5 £450 - 43
East Midlands +9 4 £403 -42.83% 18
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 11 (3.58%) Confluence
2 8 (2.61%) Apache
2 8 (2.61%) CMS
3 4 (1.30%) Drupal
3 4 (1.30%) WordPress
4 3 (0.98%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.65%) JBoss
5 2 (0.65%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.65%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.33%) Actimize
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle TCA
2 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
2 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 84 (27.36%) Azure
2 73 (23.78%) AWS
3 32 (10.42%) GCP
4 23 (7.49%) GitHub
5 22 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.54%) Cloud Computing
7 16 (5.21%) SaaS
7 16 (5.21%) Serverless
8 11 (3.58%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.61%) PaaS
11 7 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.95%) IaaS
13 5 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.63%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.63%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.28%) Network Security
2 6 (1.95%) Firewall
3 5 (1.63%) SSL
4 4 (1.30%) DNS
4 4 (1.30%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.30%) Internet
4 4 (1.30%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.98%) 3G
5 3 (0.98%) 4G
5 3 (0.98%) 5G
5 3 (0.98%) BGP
5 3 (0.98%) DHCP
5 3 (0.98%) LAN
5 3 (0.98%) LTE
5 3 (0.98%) WAN
5 3 (0.98%) Wireless
6 2 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.65%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.65%) IPsec
6 2 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.82%) Relational Database
2 21 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (6.84%) SQL Server
3 18 (5.86%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.21%) MySQL
5 12 (3.91%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.26%) Redis
7 8 (2.61%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.63%) Data Mart
9 5 (1.63%) Data Vault
9 5 (1.63%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.63%) Tableau
10 4 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.30%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.98%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 62 (20.20%) Git
2 39 (12.70%) JIRA
3 36 (11.73%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.91%) Maven
5 9 (2.93%) Bitbucket
5 9 (2.93%) JUnit
6 8 (2.61%) Gradle
7 7 (2.28%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.28%) IntelliJ
7 7 (2.28%) Visual Studio
8 6 (1.95%) GitLab
8 6 (1.95%) GoogleTest
8 6 (1.95%) Mockito
8 6 (1.95%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (1.95%) TestRail
9 5 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.63%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.63%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (1.30%) Subversion
General
1 111 (36.16%) Social Skills
2 46 (14.98%) Finance
3 42 (13.68%) Front Office
4 41 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (12.05%) Banking
6 22 (7.17%) Public Sector
7 14 (4.56%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.61%) Back Office
8 8 (2.61%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.63%) Retail
10 4 (1.30%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.98%) Games
11 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.65%) Automotive
12 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Marketing
12 2 (0.65%) Military
13 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (42.35%) Developer
2 58 (18.89%) Architect
3 54 (17.59%) Senior
4 34 (11.07%) Lead
5 30 (9.77%) Java Developer
6 28 (9.12%) .NET Developer
6 28 (9.12%) Software Engineer
7 26 (8.47%) C# Developer
8 25 (8.14%) Senior Developer
9 23 (7.49%) C# .NET Developer
10 17 (5.54%) Security Architect
11 16 (5.21%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 15 (4.89%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
12 15 (4.89%) Real Time Developer
12 15 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (4.23%) Technical Leader
14 11 (3.58%) Data Engineer
14 11 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
15 10 (3.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (18.24%) .NET
2 43 (14.01%) AngularJS
3 40 (13.03%) CSS
3 40 (13.03%) HTML
4 27 (8.79%) RESTful
5 25 (8.14%) React
5 25 (8.14%) REST
5 25 (8.14%) Web Services
6 24 (7.82%) Node.js
7 22 (7.17%) Reactive Extensions
7 22 (7.17%) Spring
8 18 (5.86%) .NET Framework
8 18 (5.86%) HTML5
8 18 (5.86%) Spring Boot
9 15 (4.89%) Kafka
10 13 (4.23%) ASP.NET
10 13 (4.23%) Laravel
11 12 (3.91%) Vue
12 9 (2.93%) .NET Core
12 9 (2.93%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.19%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.86%) Fixed Income
3 16 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (4.89%) Algorithms
5 13 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (3.91%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.26%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.26%) N-Tier
7 10 (3.26%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.26%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.93%) Equities
9 8 (2.61%) Equity Derivative
10 7 (2.28%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.95%) Derivative
11 6 (1.95%) Legacy Code
12 5 (1.63%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.63%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.63%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.14%) Linux
2 14 (4.56%) Android
3 12 (3.91%) Unix
4 11 (3.58%) Windows
5 6 (1.95%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (1.63%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.65%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (47.23%) Agile
2 96 (31.27%) CI/CD
3 70 (22.80%) OO
4 65 (21.17%) Software Engineering
5 59 (19.22%) Microservices
5 59 (19.22%) TDD
6 58 (18.89%) DevOps
7 57 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (18.57%) Test Automation
8 43 (14.01%) Continuous Integration
9 36 (11.73%) Architectural Patterns
9 36 (11.73%) Clean Code
10 35 (11.40%) Scrum
11 33 (10.75%) SOLID
12 27 (8.79%) Full-Stack Development
13 26 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (8.47%) Event-Driven
14 25 (8.14%) Computer Science
14 25 (8.14%) MVC
14 25 (8.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 98 (31.92%) Java
2 78 (25.41%) SQL
3 75 (24.43%) JavaScript
4 73 (23.78%) C#
5 43 (14.01%) Python
6 34 (11.07%) TypeScript
7 26 (8.47%) Kotlin
8 19 (6.19%) PHP
9 14 (4.56%) PowerShell
10 12 (3.91%) C++
11 10 (3.26%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.61%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.63%) F#
13 5 (1.63%) Ruby
13 5 (1.63%) Scala
14 4 (1.30%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.98%) Bash
15 3 (0.98%) Groovy
15 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.65%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 34 (11.07%) Security Cleared
2 31 (10.10%) Degree
3 27 (8.79%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.56%) CISSP
5 11 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.63%) MCPD
7 5 (1.63%) MCSD
8 4 (1.30%) CISM
8 4 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.98%) CESG Certified Professional
9 3 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.65%) CCSP
10 2 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.56%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.61%) NIST
3 8 (2.61%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.28%) QA
5 4 (1.30%) GRC
6 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.65%) GDPR
6 2 (0.65%) MiFID
7 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.33%) HL7
7 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 37 (12.05%) Docker
2 8 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.65%) RACF
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.89%) Terraform
3 11 (3.58%) Grafana
4 10 (3.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.98%) CASB
7 2 (0.65%) Ansible
7 2 (0.65%) Packer
7 2 (0.65%) SCCM
8 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.33%) QRadar
8 1 (0.33%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 54 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.75%) Oracle
3 21 (6.84%) Google
4 7 (2.28%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.95%) Cisco
5 6 (1.95%) Databricks
5 6 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.63%) SAP
6 5 (1.63%) Virgin Media
7 4 (1.30%) Ariba
7 4 (1.30%) IBM
7 4 (1.30%) Qualys
7 4 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.30%) Splunk
7 4 (1.30%) Sybase
7 4 (1.30%) VMware
7 4 (1.30%) Zend
8 3 (0.98%) Adobe
8 3 (0.98%) Aruba
9 2 (0.65%) Temenos