Design Patterns Contracts in London

Design Patterns
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 154 133
Rank change year-on-year -32 -21 -47
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 203 274 468
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.48% 1.69% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.90% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 181 337
10th Percentile £406 £425 £440
25th Percentile £463 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £630 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +0.72% -7.41%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £743
90th Percentile £850 £825 £871
England median daily rate £545 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -9.17% -3.23% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £51.00
25th Percentile - £38.25 -
Median hourly rate - £39.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -47.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile - £40.75 £86.56
90th Percentile - - £88.62
England median hourly rate £66.00 £67.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.90% +12.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,653 14,416 21,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.87% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,472 10,213 15,864
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 195 232
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.15 £18.63
25th Percentile £24.50 £22.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.90% -11.80% +12.59%
75th Percentile £49.63 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £71.88 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in London

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in London

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in London over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in London

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in London

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Central London -5 24 £660 +1.54% 23
South London +6 14 £533 -10.50% 1
West London +2 4 £552 +57.71% 5
East London +3 1 £550 +12.70% 6
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 14 (6.90%) Confluence
2 4 (1.97%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) Camunda
3 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.49%) CMS
3 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.48%) Sketch
2 1 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.48%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.48%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.48%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 55 (27.09%) AWS
2 48 (23.65%) Azure
3 25 (12.32%) GCP
4 15 (7.39%) GitHub
5 13 (6.40%) Serverless
6 9 (4.43%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.45%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.96%) Apigee
9 6 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (2.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.46%) Datadog
10 5 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.97%) Figma
11 4 (1.97%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.46%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.48%) DNS
3 1 (0.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.49%) HTTP
3 1 (0.49%) Internet
3 1 (0.49%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.36%) NoSQL
2 15 (7.39%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.40%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.96%) Data Vault
6 5 (2.46%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.97%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.97%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.97%) Redis
8 3 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.48%) Data Mart
8 3 (1.48%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.48%) KDB
8 3 (1.48%) Metadata
8 3 (1.48%) MySQL
8 3 (1.48%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.48%) Tableau
9 2 (0.99%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.99%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 33 (16.26%) JIRA
2 23 (11.33%) Git
3 13 (6.40%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.42%) Maven
5 9 (4.43%) Gradle
6 8 (3.94%) IntelliJ
6 8 (3.94%) JUnit
6 8 (3.94%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.96%) GitLab
8 5 (2.46%) Mockito
8 5 (2.46%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.97%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.48%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.48%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.48%) Postman
10 3 (1.48%) Subversion
11 2 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.99%) Selenium
General
1 87 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.17%) Finance
3 44 (21.67%) Front Office
4 43 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (12.32%) Banking
6 18 (8.87%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.93%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.97%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.49%) Automotive
11 1 (0.49%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.49%) Retail
11 1 (0.49%) Thai Language
11 1 (0.49%) Urdu Language
Job Titles
1 95 (46.80%) Developer
2 39 (19.21%) Architect
3 35 (17.24%) Senior
4 28 (13.79%) Java Developer
5 25 (12.32%) .NET Developer
5 25 (12.32%) C# Developer
6 22 (10.84%) C# .NET Developer
7 19 (9.36%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 17 (8.37%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
8 17 (8.37%) Real Time Developer
9 15 (7.39%) Lead
9 15 (7.39%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (6.40%) Senior Developer
11 11 (5.42%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.43%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (4.43%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.94%) Android Engineer
14 7 (3.45%) Android Developer
14 7 (3.45%) Data Engineer
14 7 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (25.12%) .NET
2 32 (15.76%) AngularJS
3 29 (14.29%) REST
4 24 (11.82%) Reactive Extensions
5 20 (9.85%) Spring
6 18 (8.87%) React
6 18 (8.87%) RESTful
7 14 (6.90%) .NET Framework
7 14 (6.90%) Node.js
8 11 (5.42%) Web Services
9 10 (4.93%) Spring Boot
10 9 (4.43%) .NET Core
10 9 (4.43%) HTML
10 9 (4.43%) Kafka
11 8 (3.94%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (3.94%) Middleware
12 7 (3.45%) Android SDK
12 7 (3.45%) ASP.NET
12 7 (3.45%) Express.js
13 6 (2.96%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.82%) Fixed Income
2 17 (8.37%) Algorithms
2 17 (8.37%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (7.88%) Cloud Native
4 15 (7.39%) Data Structures
5 13 (6.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (5.91%) Derivative
7 8 (3.94%) Product Ownership
8 7 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.45%) N-Tier
9 6 (2.96%) Equities
10 5 (2.46%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.46%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.46%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.97%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (1.97%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.97%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.48%) Educational Technology
12 3 (1.48%) IVR
12 3 (1.48%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.88%) Android
2 10 (4.93%) Linux
3 4 (1.97%) Unix
4 3 (1.48%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (46.31%) Agile
2 62 (30.54%) CI/CD
3 45 (22.17%) Microservices
4 43 (21.18%) Test Automation
5 41 (20.20%) OO
5 41 (20.20%) TDD
6 38 (18.72%) Software Engineering
7 36 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (16.75%) DevOps
9 33 (16.26%) Continuous Integration
10 30 (14.78%) Scrum
11 24 (11.82%) Architectural Patterns
11 24 (11.82%) Containerisation
12 23 (11.33%) Computer Science
13 22 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (10.84%) Electronic Trading
13 22 (10.84%) SDLC
14 21 (10.34%) Performance Optimisation
15 19 (9.36%) Event-Driven
15 19 (9.36%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 82 (40.39%) Java
2 48 (23.65%) C#
3 45 (22.17%) SQL
4 42 (20.69%) Python
5 37 (18.23%) JavaScript
6 27 (13.30%) TypeScript
7 21 (10.34%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.45%) C++
9 5 (2.46%) F#
9 5 (2.46%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.97%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.48%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.48%) PHP
11 3 (1.48%) Scala
12 2 (0.99%) Bash
12 2 (0.99%) Swift
13 1 (0.49%) Go
13 1 (0.49%) Groovy
13 1 (0.49%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (13.30%) Degree
2 26 (12.81%) Security Cleared
3 22 (10.84%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.43%) CISSP
6 6 (2.96%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.46%) CESG Certified Professional
7 5 (2.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 5 (2.46%) MCPD
7 5 (2.46%) MCSD
8 4 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.48%) CISM
9 3 (1.48%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.49%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.49%) ISSAP
10 1 (0.49%) MCP
10 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.94%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.48%) GRC
3 3 (1.48%) MiFID
3 3 (1.48%) QA
3 3 (1.48%) WCAG
4 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.99%) Section 508
5 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.49%) GDPR
5 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (18.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.37%) Terraform
3 5 (2.46%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.97%) Ansible
4 4 (1.97%) Grafana
4 4 (1.97%) Puppet
5 3 (1.48%) Istio
6 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.49%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 28 (13.79%) Oracle
2 22 (10.84%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.88%) Google
4 13 (6.40%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.45%) Splunk
6 6 (2.96%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.46%) Databricks
7 5 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.48%) Ariba
8 3 (1.48%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.48%) Portware
8 3 (1.48%) Qualys
9 2 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.99%) DevExpress
9 2 (0.99%) SAP
9 2 (0.99%) Sybase
9 2 (0.99%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.49%) Adobe
10 1 (0.49%) IBM
10 1 (0.49%) Reuters