Design Patterns Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Design Patterns
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 24 15
Rank change year-on-year -18 -9 -
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 13 5 19
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 4.35% 4.20% 14.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 4.35% 15.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 15
10th Percentile £358 £384 £485
25th Percentile £360 £424 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £490 £567
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% -13.58% -
75th Percentile £687 £520 £607
90th Percentile £709 £538 £614
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £450 £546
% change year-on-year -0.67% -17.58% -3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 287 115 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 95.99% 96.64% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 103 103
10th Percentile £329 £317 £365
25th Percentile £367 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £381 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.11% -23.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £579 £499 £582
90th Percentile £652 £600 £624
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £32.95 £21.84
% change year-on-year -30.65% +50.87% +1.23%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in Knutsford over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in Knutsford

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) JBoss
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
4 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 3 (23.08%) npm
4 3 (23.08%) Serverless
5 2 (15.38%) Apigee
5 2 (15.38%) Azure API Management
5 2 (15.38%) Kong
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Cypress.io
1 4 (30.77%) ESLint
2 2 (15.38%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Gradle
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) Mockito
3 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (30.77%) Publishing
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 6 (46.15%) Developer
3 4 (30.77%) React Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Payments Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Jest
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth
1 5 (38.46%) React Native
2 4 (30.77%) Flutter
2 4 (30.77%) React
2 4 (30.77%) Redux
2 4 (30.77%) REST
2 4 (30.77%) Zustand
3 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 2 (15.38%) JWT
3 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
3 2 (15.38%) OpenID
3 2 (15.38%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) LDAP
4 1 (7.69%) SAML
4 1 (7.69%) SOAP
4 1 (7.69%) Visualforce
4 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Mobile App
2 3 (23.08%) Blog
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Android
1 4 (30.77%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Microservices
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 4 (30.77%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) Open Source
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) Zero Trust
5 3 (23.08%) API Development
5 3 (23.08%) Architectural Design
5 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
5 3 (23.08%) Cross-Platform Development
5 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
5 3 (23.08%) Monorepo
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
2 4 (30.77%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) SOQL
4 1 (7.69%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (15.38%) CISSP
1 2 (15.38%) GIAC
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
1 4 (30.77%) WCAG
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Xamarin
2 2 (15.38%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce