Design Patterns Contracts in the Midlands

Design Patterns
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 119 133
Rank change year-on-year +23 +14 +25
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 15 14 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.78% 0.51% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.62% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 18
10th Percentile £447 £411 £433
25th Percentile £450 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £567 £519
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +9.30% -3.94%
75th Percentile £788 £744 £700
90th Percentile £800 £759 £738
England median daily rate £575 £619 £625
% change year-on-year -7.07% -1.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the Midlands

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the Midlands

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the Midlands

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the Midlands

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +19 13 £651 +40.65% 22
East Midlands +7 2 £511 -27.41% 15
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure API Management
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Plastic SCM
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Games
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Automotive
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Architect
2 8 (53.33%) Security Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Games Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
5 2 (13.33%) Applications Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Security Solutions Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Security Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.67%) IT Architect
6 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Axis
1 3 (20.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 2 (13.33%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) Laravel
3 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) OpenID
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) SAML
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) Visualforce
3 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (13.33%) Operational Technology
3 2 (13.33%) SCADA
4 1 (6.67%) CCTV
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Unix
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (26.67%) Data Management
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Application Security
5 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 3 (20.00%) Project Planning
5 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) SOA
5 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) C#
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (26.67%) Python
4 3 (20.00%) Ruby
5 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
6 1 (6.67%) Bash
6 1 (6.67%) PHP
6 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) CISSP
2 3 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (13.33%) CCSP
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.67%) CISM
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 3 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) GRC
3 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (13.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
1 2 (13.33%) TOWER Software
2 1 (6.67%) Ariba
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Qualys
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow