Design Patterns Contracts in Manchester

Design Patterns
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 28 97
Rank change year-on-year -44 +69 -20
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 8 77 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.90% 5.43% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 6.24% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 54 7
10th Percentile - £436 -
25th Percentile £405 £511 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +47.06% -19.43%
75th Percentile £638 £850 £480
90th Percentile £728 - £607
North West median daily rate £410 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -31.70% +6.63% +7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year - +72.46% -37.55%

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 794 1,233 1,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.21% 86.89% 90.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 843 1,202
10th Percentile £300 £325 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 75 50
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.44 £16.53
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -25.71% +93.21%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.35 £73.70 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £24.19 £35.03
% change year-on-year +32.29% -30.94% +52.12%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in Manchester

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in Manchester

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in Manchester

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in Manchester

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Dremio
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Accumulo
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat