Design Patterns Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Design Patterns
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 14 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.75% - 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% - 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -27.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £63.63 - £56.50
25th Percentile £65.88 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £69.50
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 £64.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.88% -0.77% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 470 423 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 92.16% 83.10% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 159 360
10th Percentile £194 £240 £273
25th Percentile £400 £313 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% -22.73% +2.33%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £688
90th Percentile £700 £628 £775
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 103 154
10th Percentile £16.45 £15.10 £17.73
25th Percentile £17.98 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.59 £19.81
% change year-on-year -23.87% +39.25% -5.67%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Design Patterns relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Design Patterns.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Design Patterns.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Stevenage - 9 - - 8
Watford - 5 £675 - 5
Design Patterns
East of England

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) npm
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Batch
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
1 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Artifactory
1 9 (64.29%) GitLab
1 9 (64.29%) JIRA
1 9 (64.29%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Software Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) .NET Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Development Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Perl Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) .NET
2 12 (85.71%) AngularJS
2 12 (85.71%) React
3 11 (78.57%) .NET Framework
4 9 (64.29%) CSS
4 9 (64.29%) HTML
4 9 (64.29%) Node.js
4 9 (64.29%) Svelte
4 9 (64.29%) Vue
5 4 (28.57%) .NET Core
6 2 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Algorithms
1 9 (64.29%) Data Structures
1 9 (64.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
2 13 (92.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (78.57%) DevOps
4 9 (64.29%) Computer Science
4 9 (64.29%) Containerisation
4 9 (64.29%) Microservices
4 9 (64.29%) OOP
4 9 (64.29%) SDLC
4 9 (64.29%) Software Testing
4 9 (64.29%) TDD
5 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.14%) API Integration
7 1 (7.14%) API Management
7 1 (7.14%) Architectural Design
7 1 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 9 (64.29%) C#
2 9 (64.29%) TypeScript
3 7 (50.00%) C++
4 2 (14.29%) Bicep
5 1 (7.14%) Perl
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle