Design Patterns Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Design Patterns
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 57 70
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +44
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 23 26 36
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.03% 2.27% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 2.56% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 20
10th Percentile £313 £403 £513
25th Percentile £386 £411 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £495 £619
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -20.00% -11.61%
75th Percentile £584 £569 £625
90th Percentile £638 £750 £738
North West median daily rate £410 £495 £625
% change year-on-year -17.17% -20.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £66.88
25th Percentile - - £69.69
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £79.69
90th Percentile - - £81.38
North West median hourly rate - £85.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - +13.33% +67.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,015 1,014 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.66% 88.71% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 597 1,026
10th Percentile £300 £294 £285
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 48
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.00 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +64.56% -43.57%
75th Percentile £31.40 £45.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £74.28
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in Manchester

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in Manchester

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Serverless
3 8 (34.78%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (34.78%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (34.78%) GCP
4 7 (30.43%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (26.09%) Amazon EventBridge
5 6 (26.09%) Apigee
5 6 (26.09%) Datadog
5 6 (26.09%) GitHub
6 5 (21.74%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (21.74%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (21.74%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (21.74%) Azure
6 5 (21.74%) Loggly
6 5 (21.74%) Route 53
7 4 (17.39%) PaaS
7 4 (17.39%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) NoSQL
2 8 (34.78%) DynamoDB
2 8 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (21.74%) BigQuery
4 5 (21.74%) MySQL
4 5 (21.74%) RDBMS
4 5 (21.74%) Redis
4 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Git
2 9 (39.13%) Jenkins
3 6 (26.09%) SonarQube
4 5 (21.74%) Gradle
4 5 (21.74%) Maven
4 5 (21.74%) SonarLint
5 2 (8.70%) GitLab
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Public Sector
3 6 (26.09%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Architect
2 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Technical Architect
3 8 (34.78%) Java Architect
3 8 (34.78%) Java Technical Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Backend Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Java Mobile Developer
6 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (65.22%) Spring Boot
2 9 (39.13%) RESTful
2 9 (39.13%) Spring
3 6 (26.09%) Dropwizard
3 6 (26.09%) J2EE
3 6 (26.09%) JWT
3 6 (26.09%) Micronaut
4 5 (21.74%) Celery
4 5 (21.74%) OAuth
4 5 (21.74%) OAuth2
5 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
5 4 (17.39%) GraphQL
5 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
5 4 (17.39%) Kafka
5 4 (17.39%) React
6 2 (8.70%) Web Services
7 1 (4.35%) JPA
7 1 (4.35%) Node.js
7 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Native
1 6 (26.09%) N-Tier
2 5 (21.74%) Product Ownership
3 4 (17.39%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Microservices
2 14 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (56.52%) Event-Driven
4 11 (47.83%) API Design
4 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
4 11 (47.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 11 (47.83%) OOP
5 10 (43.48%) BDD
5 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
5 10 (43.48%) TDD
6 9 (39.13%) Clean Code
6 9 (39.13%) Mentoring
6 9 (39.13%) SDLC
7 8 (34.78%) TOGAF
8 7 (30.43%) Agile
8 7 (30.43%) Asynchronous Programming
8 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (30.43%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (26.09%) SOLID
9 6 (26.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Java
2 9 (39.13%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 10 (43.48%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Gigya
2 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Zscaler